skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much evidence that any of these interventions would have prevented that: https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/state-vs-state

The major underlying factor behind the deaths (apart from just old age) is obesity, secondly probably air pollution, but these factors are ignored.
Every year, ~647,000 Americans die from heart disease alone. Even if the COVID death numbers aren't over-inflated, I guarantee you that if I were to time-travel to 2019 and ask you if you think that it would be worth precipitating a global supply chain disruption, missed schooling and medical appointments for children around the globe, both first and third world, and the greatest erosion in civil liberties in Western society since at least WW2 (since we've already eclipsed 9/11 in loss of liberty, shockingly)...all over 4 million and change deaths globally, you would think that was crazy
To say nothing about the costs of globally increased hunger, unrest, depression, deaths of despair, neglected+abused children, and on and on - that billions of people in the world will continue to pay for years to come in order to try to save at most a couple million lives of people with mostly significant pre-existing conditions and of advanced years that were mostly "on their way out".

Why not forget about the future and younger generation - they don't matter - we need to save the people that are going to die soon anyway at _all costs_! \s
Commercial paper is usually very short dated (definitely less than a year, average maturity appears to be only 2 months [1]), so if rates move up by a percentage point, the present value of the paper should drop less than 1%, maybe less than 0.2% (if it is very short dated). That's pretty close to their capital though!

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/cp/maturity.htm
Care less, stop comparing yourself.

And read this: https://stepsandleaps.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/feynmans-brea...
Government spending on social issues is not socialism. Socialism is when workers own their means of production.
It is just a hype cycle, yes.

Propose some use cases for it, preferably ones that involve lots of people throwing money at the people you're pitching to.

Then do the other end - pick a market segmentation and explain why they are going to feel dumb, fat and poor for not jumping in.

4 iterations later, it becomes apparent it has replaced first person shooters, is good for trying on clothes and sex with robots, and is the favored environment for low-end interviews.
Not really: there were billionaires back then as well (the first billionaire was Rockefeller in 1916.) By the CPI, $1 in 1920 would be about $14 in 2021. Nominal (non-real) GDP was around $900 nominal per capita. So a millionaire then would be have one thousand times the per capita GDP. Per capita GDP in 2020 was $63k, so as a multiple of per-capita GDP a millionaire would have $63 million. So a 1920s millionaire is the equivalent of somewhere between $14M and $63M today.
This is true of any password manager.
The only caution I will give to this rule is: "Estimate the likelihood of the person making this decision leaving the company."

I have been burnt by two people padding their resumes before jumping out of the company. This caused me to rethink the "Two and Done" rule at higher management levels.
Please fix Go Battle League
>It's just hyperactive short videos, isn't it?

It's not.

There is a fledgling neurodivergent community (people with ADHD, ASD, etc) who openly talk about what the symptoms look like from the perspective of people who experience them, how to cope with them, and how all of this fits into the larger picture of our existence in this world.

A lot of people have never been diagnosed because their symptoms don't manifest themselves in a "typical" way. DSM is written from the perspective of "describe how your teenage son makes life inconvenient for you" when it comes to ADHD/ASD, not "which everyday experience are awfully hard for you".

Due to the abysmal state of healthcare access in the US, including mental healthcare, and persistent stigmatization of mental healthcare, self-diagnosis is now effectively the first (and the most important) step towards getting an official diagnosis and care (or simply taking advantage of all the available resources).

On top of that, normalizing the discourse surrounding mental health disorders and neurotypes, and showing how ADHD, ASD, OCD, BPD, anxiety, depression, etc. feel to the person who experiences it has an enormous impact on adults who have been struggling all their lives without ever realizing why.

Realizing both that most people don't face the same challenges (i.e. that it's easy for them to do things that are challenging to you!), and finding that you are not alone, and finding out how to deal with it, and finding a supportive community - all of that is life-changing.

In fewer words, imagine having a shrimp allergy, but living in a society that does not recognize allergies and shames people who don't eat shrimp as "weak".

So you eat shrimp every day, feel awful because your body can't handle it, and then feel guilty for not being "strong" enough. "You are just not trying hard enough!", the society tells you.

Imagine discovering a community of people who have shrimp allergies. Learning that it's a thing. Learning that you don't have to eat the same things most people do, that there's a better way to experience food. Learning that if you can't avoid it, antihistamines exist that you can take to make the experience far more bearable. Learning that really, a shrimp allergy doesn't make you worthless as a person.

That's what the neurodivergent TikTok is currently doing.

My guess is that it just shows hyperactive short meaningless videos to you because either it doesn't have enough input from you to train the algorithm - or maybe that's what you like watching on of the platform. Perhaps your community isn't on TikTok yet.

But as one of the people ostensibly "harmed" by TikTok, I find it offensive that someone would so boldly speak on my behalf when my experience has been the exact opposite.

Hope this helps.
I'm acknowledging that people don't often stick up for people they dislike. Is that a controversial or surprising assertion?
It’s not Netflix, but content rights I suspect.
> What's happened since then?

And to 3D TVs?

https://www.techradar.com/news/4k-tvs-should-have-saved-3d-h...
has anyone had good experiences with the Turris Omnia?
Have you watched the video? He's not making a nuanced argument about mask mandates being undermined by people using ineffective masks.
No, most people probably value it for the same reasons any other silly tulip-mania arises: They see the market value rise and rise, other people seem to value it, it's "the hot new thing", and "it's so cool tech, very advanced".

But the ones who got the ball rolling -- a (rather weird IMO) intersection between tech nerds and "currency skeptics" / "anti-fiaters" certainly saw (or convinced themselves that they saw) that as its UVP.

Sad, really: If only they'd latched on to South Pacific seashells or something, anything else, instead... Heck, what's wrong with leaves, eh? Crypto-"currencies" are a typical Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B scheme.
It's misinformation because of the implication it carries.

The vaccines are 95% effective, yet someone who has not yet seen the studies showing their 95% efficacy would be told "The vaccine won't stop you from getting COVID" will understand the statement as meaning that they're worthless.

It is absolutely misinformation, and no playing coy and claiming "But it's only 95%, not 100%, so the statement is still true!" is going to change that. It's nothing more than a technically correct "WELL ACKSHUALLY", except in the case of COVID, it's not just a distraction, but a dangerous statement that is literally costing lives.
Does anyone know more about the mental state that inspires people to commit arson?

Drug dealing or murder often have selfish or monetary gains; but what is gained from burning the wildlands? Is it a power thing?

Calling all armchair psychologists
and probably some private ones too.
I noticed advertisement on their desktop client.
I'm quite not sure I understand the point here. Sure, by putting the hardware in outer space you make it harder to access, and if you boost it away from the solar system you can guarantee it would be cost prohibitive to catch up to it - but the physical security of monetary systems is rarely the problem.

The main problem that any currency faces is why should anyone place any trust in it? Why does it provide a reliable record of wealth transfer? If it's a probe that Elon Musk has sent off, then you're asking me to trust Elon and his company. Will the hardware function correctly? Will the software? Is it free of accidental exploits or deliberate back doors? How much wealth am I prepared to wager on this?

For all Bitcoin's flaws, it does have a robust trust infrastructure. You trust the processing-majority of miners, who have only become the majority because they have made a significant investment in the fidelity of the system. Their wealth (at least in theory) is tied to upholding an honest transaction record.

Would Elon or SpaceX lose money if it turned out their interplanetary server was defective? Sure, but they'd only lose the cost of producing the probe and boosting it into space. If it costs $10 billion to do so, and Elon makes $11 billion from it before a flaw is discovered, then from a financial standpoint it's a still a success.

Ideally a currency should be backed by a number of independent actors, whose stake scales with the currency's value.
As a small ISP I feel the same. If they block one of our IPs the we have to find someone who knows someone who knows someone at Netflix (Amazon, etc) to actually get something done about it.

BUT, we launched with IPv6 support, which pretty much negates this whole issue for us when it comes to Netflix.
Don't forget to seed
Thanks for sharing your feedback. There is an audio guide that helps you to understand how much time left, similar to what we do.

We closely follow the guideline of the game publisher. SenpAI doesn't aim the tournament's, we would like to make coaching accessable and affordable for the all gamers who would like to improve. Similar to getting a coaching session from a good player.
I agree but the issue is no such study exists. Which is why I told them straight-up that their claim is not in good faith. Masks have never been shown to stop community transmission of respiratory viruses.

In fact if we back up for a bit and look at the immunology and population dynamics involved it's not even clear that we should want to slow the spread of SARS-2 or other respiratory viruses in the general population. We literally did a "stop, drop, and roll" of almost the entire global economy, got vaccines out in record time, and what do you know, SARS-2 is still ripping through the population just like it was always destined to.

We're fighting against quicksand.
Interesting way to think about it. I’ve noticed that often people underestimate themselves, sure, but they also grossly over estimate everybody else.
Battle of the Serverless API Routers: ALB vs. API Gateway – Feature Comparison
And you can cancel and subscribe at a moments notice, unlike cable contracts and having to use cable boxes and equipment rental fees. And you can watch whenever, wherever you want.

Sounds like a great improvement to me. You also do not have to pay for 2 to 5 streaming services. You can choose 1, or 2, or however many you want.
I previously worked at a company on the team that managed the monorepo and the build system for the code within it. Our checkouts were 4.5GBS full. We had discussed performing yearly rollups, likely around Christmas for the current version. This would essentially be take a full checkout and `rm -rf .git && git init && git add --all` starting out with a new genesis commit. We'd keep the old "branches" in a separate archive only repository on our github and force push this new main copy to the working repository. And then provide guides and support for engineers to utilize the new rolled up repo and port any of their existing WIP.

The concerns were long lived branches that had WIP and I think also just misunderstandings about what was going to happen. We never did it.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28148409

EDIT: And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28147525
Putting more flat screens atop the real world has lost it's luster for me.

I'm very much a fan of ubiquotous (& pervasive) computing, still as much of a torch for it as ever. But these days I tend to think more ambient, non-visual modalities & connecting the network fo devices is more interesting. Efforts like Web of Things standards (a web standard for exposing devices) and WebThings (a unrealted semantic-web powered iot engine spun out from Mozilla) talk to creating awareness & control over the seas of devices about us (& afar too). Systems like Eddystone/PhysicalWeb/Bluetooth-beacons provide ambient awareness of local systems & endpoints, and one day I hope people & interests too (that want to be so locally digitally available). These, to me, along with good interoperabile standards (like ActivityPub), feel like the seeds for a Rainbows End scenario, where comment trees hang in the world, where everything is annotateable.

But I tend to think these connective mediums are well served by the screens we put & pull from our pockets, served by watches & vibrations and bluetooth headsets.

I don't know what the metaverse might be. But back when ubicomp was younger, I remember being absolutely floored by Steve Mann piping his worn camera sensors over analog TV signal to an SGI box, processing it, and beaming it back to his immersive display. He was reprocessing reality, not simply overlaying digital atop it. I doubt there was all that much really going on on the SGI, but it filled me with the ideas of a world which was visually editable. And I think that's where we've seen little progress.

Some of the hololens & magic leap demos were very compelling... 5 years ago. First Person Shooter type things played in the living room. And there are a steady march of really good phone based demos of virtual objects dropped into a similar camera-view of the world. But really, we need to get much better at having digital systems ingesting the world about us, and we need to start unleashing human creativity that people can redraw & reimagine the physical world. We need procedural toolkits galore to re-simulate environments. An augmentative metaverse needs filters, well beyond what a photo filter is, requiring both that input of the world, and the flexible programmatic world-shaders we can orchestrate & lean on to rewrite the world, before it gets to our eyes.
I'm not sure the GPUs could be reused for some other purpose that generates as much value. Perhaps another alt-coin is the best way to redeploy this resources

> I'm pretty sure proof of work was supposed to be dead years ago. The current state is more than promised.

That's a fair point
I absolutely hate that it moved to subscription and have since migrated completely to Apple iCloud Keychain since it now supports OTP 2FA.
Yes, Electron has a bad wrap. In the early days it was a horrific ram hog and even today it still can be for certain poorly optimized apps. But any company today that spends a little time optimizing their application ends up reasonably performant and using reasonable system resources.

At the end of the day, It's a lot of investment to build an app native for macos, linux and windows. Plus the web. Plus CLI. Plus multiple native mobile platforms. If you can trade 75% of that out for a single "platform", then you can focus all your engineers on the same thing. More features, sooner, and available for everyone - no more 2nd class platforms.

Almost of the core applications that drive basically everything in my life, including Brave, 1Password, Inkdrop, VS Code, Email, Office Suite, Slack, Discord... are either directly in browser (Ex Gmail & Outlook.com), Electron or some similar "browser in a box" type solutions. Yes, I am unusual in that I work on Mac, Windows and Linux machines on a regular basis. However it's amazing that all my apps work the same everywhere I go.

You know what else is awesome about that? I can recommend those apps to everyone, regardless of what platform you're on. No more "Just use X? Oh you're on a mac... uh... sorry no idea". Ask me for help? Cool, works the same everywhere so I can help you.
YouTube doesn't have any responsibility (especially legal) to the public discourse.

It's weird that people have decided that privately owned companies should be required to do things they don't want to do, in the name of freedom.
> Another problem is that in tech 20 year old knowledge is worth way less

This is a widely held position, which sort of makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I'd argue that it's not true. Most of what I know now that is really valuable isn't related to the technology of today or 1986. It's related to how to work, how to design systems, how to decompose problems, how to scale, etc. etc.
The USPS had a plan in place to do just that. The Trump White House stopped it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/09/18/usps-covid-...

Could argue the Trump administration is directly responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans through that act alone.
> The money going to shareholders isn't really coming from the workers though, it's coming from stock price appreciation. They could cut their dividends and give that to employees instead, but they don't have large dividends to begin with.

Money is conserved: the profits go somewhere, even if to retained earnings that the corporation spends; some amount could be given to the workers to spend. Again, how is that more inflationary?

Also, spending is inflationary only in certain conditions, such as when demand is constrained. Not all spending is inflationary.
Back when this all started I posted a list of the different mask ratings (I started by wearing p100 everywhere)...

and got downvoted into oblivion. No meta comment, just the facts on mask ratings.

Says a lot about hn.
A lie is a lie is a lie.

Being misleading is what Randy does and Randy doesn't really have anything else.
He may not have a bachelor's but he does have an MD, which is a higher degree and one that confers some expertise on medical matters last time I checked.

> asking a random computer science graduate to tell you how to fix your Windows domain

A random computer science graduate who does a bit of research should be able to tell you everything you need to know about your Windows domain. Certainly, they'd be better suited than asking an accountant.
Thanks for your feedback. We would love to get your feedback when we integrate to Rocket League. Hope you will master the game with the help of SenpAI.
Hey—congrats on the launch! I'm a big Valorant player (peaked Immortal 3 a few seasons back) and I've also used/talked to the people at visor.gg and pursuit.gg when they were around.

Totally understand the concerns here around being at the whim of the publisher, and previous companies have been blindsided by changes in how companies like Blizzard decide what is and isn't allowed on their platforms. Interestingly, YC has had a few of these companies go through similar experiences but I think they still think there's something to be built in this space.

For what it's worth, I think this is a good idea that's going to run into similar issues, regardless of what safeguards are put in place to avoid stepping on the publishers' toes. I'm sure there are some learnings from talking to Ivan or James from the last two YC companies that tried to do this. Also happy to share some more of my thoughts :)
Ambri secures $144M for liquid metal battery commercialization
I agree :) As always, I'm replying to their absurd comment in the hopes of enlightening a more neutral bystander. I have no illusions of being able to change their mind. They seem perfectly content to make unsourced claims that go counter to everything that's ever been discovered about immunology and virology without even the slightest hint of regret.
That's what I understood but recently there has bee some questioning of where data has been captured
Any mask works because it reminds you not to touch your face
We already cut Netflix from our budget. Torrenting is faster and easier than dealing with Netflix's shitty interface that keeps trying to serve up old shows I've already seen or clearly don't want to see.

The amount of stuff I want to watch and isn't on Netflix is very large too, probably about half or more of what I watch is not available on Netflix here but is elsewhere in the world.

All that tells me is Netflix is part of the mafiaa.
You have assumed negative intent and damned it in the same sentence. You should conclude by agreeing with and patting yourself on the head.
type inference is a beautiful thing and I hope Typescript adds it someday
Is this because Betamax recorders and/or tapes had the same sort of 29:59 limit that some cameras have today (e.g. cheaper Canons)?
This reminds me of my favorite joke about impostor syndrome.

A young grad student is suffering from a bout of impostor syndrome.

One day, the student (after weeks of mustering up the required courage) walks into their professor's office.

"Professor, may I ask you a question?" says the grad student.

"Of course" says the professor, barely looking up from their papers.

"What do you think about impostor syndrome? I...hear that most grad students have it at some point."

"Balderdash! I can tell you the vast majority of students here do not have impostor syndrome!" says the professor.

"Really?"

"Of course. For it to be impostor syndrome, they'd actually have to be good"
I created an Epic in Jura the other day, and there was a field for “Created Customer Value”, that would accept a value less than 100 trillion. So now we’ve got a 99 trillion customer value feature. Bam!
The App Store is an important part of the platform - what 3rd party dev can and can't do, and how I as a user interact with them. My experience as a user it better because of the rules Apple forces app developers to follow.
Totally agree, YouTube is in the wrong here. They are no arbitrator of truth or facts, leave that to the courts and allow 'real free speech' in online platforms.
Not one time in history have the people shutting down conversation and debate been on the right side of history. Ever. If you're right you don't fear opposing ideas.
I've seen that as FANGMAN - adding NVidia to the mix.

I never considered it before,
but the image of a man with fangs that slowly sucks the life out of you also might fit, depending on your PoV.
Yes, in times like this, other's apparent power to read minds is simply amazing. What I would give to have such ability!
As someone not very knowledgeable within these areas, will it continue being that now after Brexit?
>How would this happen at meaningful scale without drawing a response like "CRT" is drawing now

What do you mean?