skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expand on what you mean by "normalized for population age distribution"? Setting aside the fact that the study I'm citing is far from naive, I'm not sure how you can math away the simple fact that an extraordinary number of people have died over the past year, well in excess of prior years.

The graph on this page, for example, is quite stark (US only): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
The "why don't they just pay everyone SV salaries everywhere" argument is obviously from people who never ran businesses and are just disguisedly wishing they made more money

While probably true, this kind of argument goes both ways.

Recent events have proved, if there was any doubt left, that a lot of people can work perfectly well from home and greatly value doing so, and that both desire and performance are highly dependent on the individual. Some businesses are going to have to get used to the idea that some of the good people they'd like to hire simply won't be willing to make long, inconvenient journeys to work every day any more or to live in expensive locations to avoid them. If they decide not to offer those people competitive compensation by national standards, they may increasingly find that others will, having themselves located any centralised facilities in more economic areas.

Pricing too much by location for highly remote-capable staff is a short-sighted policy anyway. It is surely a matter of time before environmental concerns put pressure on governments to discourage unnecessary travel. That probably means higher costs for travellers one way or another, which is only going to widen the gap in favour of remote working.
Layotto: Combine Service Mesh,Multi-Runtime and FaaS into One Sidecar
Chacha20.sh
> Blockchains like Ethereum are currently far more transparent than the state-sponsor US monetary system. I hope to live in a society where economic experiments can be executed, new lessons learned, and transparency maintained. If stablecoins are persecuted, the need for cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs will allow these systems to continue with far less transparency.

This is the part that excites me about Ethereum, and also scares me when I hear talk of "regulation" for the space. By definition, a lot of the projects on Ethereum are a LOT more transparent than the traditional finance world. I can interact with something like DAI, and see exactly what backs it at every second of every day. I have an idea of what would happen if certain assets that backed it dropped too quickly.

With most of the traditional finance world, it's all very grey and hidden. I'm told that there is regulation "protecting me", but in a lot of cases that regulation doesn't really accomplish its goal and instead acts as a moat.
Agree with this.

State should be investing heavily in solar for everyone.

The future of firefighting should be heavily invested in.

Have there been YC proposals for novel firefighting tech?

If not then why not? Obviously a field ripe for disruption.
That's it! Thank you very much.

I searched around on Wikipedia for it and couldn't find it. I might recommend some edits when I have the time.
Techies think we’re on cusp of virtual world called ‘metaverse’. I’m skeptical
Of course you do. You could also not raise a fuss in the first place and just move somewhere that isn't 2 hours away from your place of work, like the majority of society does. Or argue that the policy shouldn't apply to you because you're still paying the same state tax and it makes no difference for the company in terms of taxation logistics. Or move teams to one with a more reasonable boss. Or say nothing and do the change-jobs-and-come-back-later-at-L(x+1) thing. Etc. It's not black and white.
Shouldn't they increase pay because the from home workers costing them less (no office, self paid electricity and cleaning etc.)?
People emit little CO2 by themselves. Your choice of a Prius vs a Camry isn’t by and large as important as the food you eat. Just by being alive you are consuming about 10kW if you live in the US, the majority of which is the fact that the food you eat is grown on mega farms. Between agricultural machinery, fertilizer, and transportation of that food from the farms to your grocery store, that’s the major part of your energy consumption. Per capita energy consumption is a surprisingly strong indicator of quality of life. Third world countries often top out at less than 1kW for example.

So in a world where everyone is trying to get to a high quality of life and only about 1B out of 8B have it, and in a world where for 7B to get to that quality of life we need to increase their energy consumption by a factor of 5-10, we are in a constant increase of total human energy consumption. Combined with population growth, we are nowhere near peak human CO2 output. In other words if you can make a device that can remove 20x of the CO2 we are currently putting out, then yes we could use that tech, assuming we don’t come up with some more quality of life ideas that push the energy budget further up the scale of course. But anything less than that won’t be enough as there is an accelerating growth in CO2 emissions with more or less no end in sight.
The spread is quite wide. I got my first kid at 45 and now almost 50 working 75% to take care of two kids the rest of the time.

The flip side is that I have never been so focused during working hours as now. I’m getting quite much more done in six hours than I used to get done in eight or nine.
Fair. Cooling towers in commercial HVAC use evaporative cooling. Residential cooling doesn't, but still has to exchange heat to a system above the load it common transfers. I think it may be worse in these situations, but I am not sure.
> But the only kind of application that would even theoretically benefit of running on the Blockchain is a finance application

People have lots of theories of what other kinds of applications benefit from running on a blockchain. These are at various stages of being proven out. One that seems promising is attributing ownership to digital assets. But there are other theories too. This is all very new and speculative and it might all go nowhere, but it definitely isn't accurate that only financial applications would theoretically benefit.
>> The "why don't they just pay everyone SV salaries everywhere" argument is obviously from people who never ran businesses and are just disguisedly wishing they made more money: saving money on salaries is done for the same reason companies do tax-related shenanigans.

Salaries like anything are market based prices. Why are salaries different in SV over MidWest, is same reason a BigMac in SV costs more than in the MidWest..

WFH opens up the pool of employee's to a much larger scale, the more people that can do the same job the lower the wage for that job will be

People however do not want to look at labor as marketable good like a widget, they want to view labor as something else, its not.
It made it easy to pay for things from sites that didn't support debit cards and other European-only payment methods. And while bank transfers have been free for years, doing so online or on your phone hasn't necessarily been easy - or even possible - if you're talking about a few years back.
Currently 1Password's UX is just awful.

- On macOS, half the time auto fill doesn't work. Saving a password is very inconsistent.

- When you auto generate a password, the least resistance UI workflow is to first save and fill it - but then when you create the account it is saved again, making it a duplicate.

- The "move to trash" button is obscurely hidden somehow (used to be much better).

- And don't get me started on the Windows client - on my fast gaming PC it takes forever just to unlock the vault.

I've cancelled my subscription and won't renew once it runs out.
Except by doing so you're creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt where none need exist. It's even worse too because you not flying makes no difference. You not getting a vaccine means a transmission vector and potentially premature death for others.
Like I commented the other day, they are losing me as a customer because of that - and because of "improving" the vault format so that it no longer syncs with iOS via iCloud.

This is going to cause all sorts of grief when we are forced to upgrade the iOS app to align with 8 and lose the ability to sync via that. I wouldn't mind paying for a Family license if I didn't have to use their sync service - I just don't trust it (marketing-wise, reliability-wise and security-wise, since it's designed purely as a retention factor) and would vastly prefer sticking to pure iCloud syncing.
It does seem like Sweden is quite a bit easier to start up a business, cost-wise and regulation-wise, than the rest of Scandinavia.

I looked into starting a company in Denmark and was quickly put off.

The regulation is still pretty high compared to the US though. Especially once you plan to start employing people. Not that that'd a bad thing.
Not bad, but I use https://peacemakr.io because it's open-source https://github.com/peacemakr-io and actually solves the same problems with much less hastle and overhead.
If 1% of people have access to cars it’s pretty close to “no cars”.
It seems conclusive that cloth masks reduce the number of virus particles being inhaled and exhaled, and so theoretically they should work. See Fig 3.A here.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083

I understand we also want RCTs to show that they actually reduce infections in practice. But, I will note a few things here.

It's almost impossible to study via RCT whether their usage protects other people from infection, which is one of the goals of masks. The best we can do is go with our knowledge that it does block aerosols from being exhaled and use common sense to then assume that this means that it also will protect others from getting infected.

Also, it could be the case that while it may not prevent infection, it reduces the severity of the infection due to a much lower viral load being inhaled. This is a difficult question to study.

In all, we need to see larger studies done in locations where there's more cases. That one RCT in Denmark isn't enough.
Yes, I could've tweeted that. What's your point? Are you convinced my comment was an attempt at deep thought? I guess on twitter it might've been considered as such?
Technically, you have the right not to vote in Australia, but you must still show up and collect a ballot paper. You can leave it blank, or scribble anything on it.
This is a thoughtful response, I don’t understand why it’s being downvoted.
Negotiation is a tricky thing. You don't want to limit your options too early because that might prevent good outcomes. But at some point, if the other guy is being silly and you know you have viable alternative roles as your BATNA, cutting to the chase just saves everyone time and makes sure they understand that something is a deal-breaker.
Like the idea, but the website is broken:

* Help Video doesnt play

* When I click on the example, nothing happens

Using Chrome

Im a bit hesitant trying out a new site with basic functionality broken-- will my customers see the same problems?
> several employers other than Google have policies to adjust pay based on location

For example, the federal government. There's a set pay scale for the country, with "locality pay" added in a number of cities/regions.

A few years ago, I know civilians who were working for the Navy in Washington, DC and their jobs were moved to Norfolk, VA. Their jobs did not change; but, due to locality pay, it was a 10% pay cut. (Yes, a number of people left and did not move.)
Agreed. Also surprised to see how short the suggested times on pull-down list are. Many of them might make sense to set on a specific conversation, but are insanely short as a default for all conversations. I don't have my phone on me 24/7, and thus would never even see messages from a sender who used more than half of those options.
Why are there no request proposals from YC for new or novel firefighting tech?

Are wildfires not an engineering problem?

California is YC's backyard. PG and friends all have their lives in Nor Cal where most of these recent fires have been taking place.

I am perplexed by the silence of YC and other bay area stars like Google, Apple and the bay area tech giants that seem oddly silent on the matter.

Would it take Google or Apple's campus burning down before they took the threat seriously?
GitHub Codespaces is generally available
I'm not quite as far along as you, but this deeply resonates with my experience. Great writeup, thank you.
Fires are unconcerned with property lines.
Resolving at least what is in my post is much easier than working through the IPCC's reports:

It's simple, really simple, just as in my post:

Observational data: The main observational data used to argue the dangerous effects of CO2 is just the 800,000 years of ice core data. But just looking at that data, as I explained in fine detail, that data does not support the claimed effects of CO2.

Models. Again as I explained carefully, so far the climate models have been proven wrong by reality and, in particular, have no predictive value and, thus, are not good science.

Net, there is nothing credible in data or models that says human sources of CO2 will cause significant warming.

In particular, the IPCC has no data or models that do better.

If you want to make an argument for being alarmed, I can do better than the IPCC: We don't really know what CO2 will do. In particular we have no data or models that are credible and say that we are safe.

I have shown, in just one simple post, that the alarmists don't have credible evidence. But I have not shown that we are safe.

Now the next real question is, what to do when we don't have any credible evidence that we are safe or not.
I think one 20% of the total development time was spent on the javascript client. The client is not very complex. It pretty much makes DOM manipulation API's usable for the backend only
I don't understand your point, despite your italics. Apple circulated a memo inside their company, even if it's written by someone else. Why would you say they did that? Because they don't agree with it, at least a bit? Generally we see really harsh crackdown on internal communication that doesn't represent a company's, or at least a division's view on something. _But sure._
Rubia loira mostra todo o mamilo esquerdo no sexy TikTok
So your point is that a federal agency got more data and updated its guidance inline with that data? That's what they're meant to do...
There is as much evidence that this fire was started by arson as there is it was started by a laser beam from Xenu, i.e. none. On the other hand, we have this solid first-hand information about a fire that started between a tree and a power line. Why the need to have alternate theories without supporting evidence?

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21011683/pge-dixie-fi...
Raspbery Pi is not really capable of being a serious time server out of the box (astronomical jitter) though it is fun to play with. I imagine that it would be possible to greatly improve it with some creative bare-metal or RTOS implementation, but in Linux the Pi is really just too unpredictable to do the job well. That is not to say that it's useless though; a Pi running Stratum 1 with GPS time is still going to be heaps better than anything you can get from a Stratum 2 server syncing over the public internet.

For serious DIY players, BeagleBone hardware has both hardware timestamping on ethernet and hard realtime IO capabilities through the PRU interface (used for PPS signal from your GPSDO). It makes a ridiculously superior (orders of magnitude) time server compared to Rpi.
Signal associates users to their phone numbers. Does this mean if they are subpoenaed by the government they can give the list of their users ?
> which would mess with the vertical-blanking signal in a way that wasn't particularly noticeable on playback, but would mess with VHS recording

On a related note, one of the copy protection systems I put on some Sinclair Spectrum cassette games involved changing the baud rate part way through loading.

It was over 35 years ago so the details are hazy, but I had a custom "master maker" to play the audio[1] and at a specific byte count would change the frequency. The mastering and duplication machines coped with it fine and the loader was written to expect it, but it threw out most home tape to tape systems for reasons I can't exactly remember.

[1] These were usually recorded directly from the Spectrum onto 2 inch reel to reel tapes in a studio, that was then used as the master at the duplicators.
It has a touchscreen which windows supports. Won't it feel like a surface in tablet mode?
>The problem is that they want all society to become their users.

That's not a problem. Even if all society became Instagram users, Instagram couldn't act as the moral arbiters of all society, they can still only moderate their own users on their own platform.

Substitute that with any platform, including Facebook and its billions of followers. Facebook isn't society. Facebook hasn't replaced or supplanted governments, doesn't control the media, doesn't burn books or dissidents, doesn't censor any of the countless alternative means of communication that exist. No matter how big Facebook gets, Facebook can only control Facebook.
Maybe a particularly bad example? New Balance has a line of shoes made in the USA and made elsewhere, with about a 2x price difference ($185 for USA, $70 to $100 for non-US).
Do anyone know any existing effort on converting these scanned image to text corpus ( probably a new OCR model needed to be developed on these old text ) ? I think it would be more usable if they are in text form in terms of search and research purpose.
Highly recommend trying BitWarden! I'm a paying user of it myself. It also has export of data and full self-hosted options as well. The browser plugins work amazingly well. The phone app is...i would say 75-80%. I've had trouble sometimes getting it to popup the "auto-fill" but otherwise it works very slick (supporting biometric unlock too).
90% of Americans don't have easy access to EV chargers
https://archive.is/slxOM
Have you tried not sitting so much? Consider a standing desk and giving your butt a break sometimes.
Despite the fact that Rand Paul is being an absolute dunce about this, I agree. It is wrong to ban skepticism, and I see this as an overreaction, but not necessarily in a malicious sense. Because the stakes for humanity are pretty high and any time that happens, you're gonna get overreactions.

In sociopolitical subjects, links between humans are indirect and often can be strained and straw-grasping. With subjects like these, it is easy to find loads of research supporting both sides...because it's extremely hard to prove cause and effect in sociological scenarios. Examples: minimum wage and employment rates, drug use and crime rates, tax rates and tax-induced emigration, government spending and poverty, gun ownership and violence.

Epidemiology is not like that. Research methods are mature. Humans physiology is more uniform than human psychology. Cause and effect relationships can be strongly identified via experimental means. Peer review actually works reasonably and is generally not politicized.

And yet despite the maturity of the field and the strength of the research, we still have politicians saying that vaccines cause autism, that covid is no worse than a seasonal flu, and that masks don't work. So I'm gonna hold my pitchforks when people overreact to bad interpretations to peer reviewed science.
Those pylons are really short, why aren't the lines way above the trees?
Was your colleague an international student? If not, it seems like you should read my comment again :)

And of course I'm generalizing! I have no doubt there are exceptions, but the fact remains that it is largely true.
But if they were treated like real banks, one stable coin would be even less backed by real cash than right now.
Show HN: FolderStatsApp – analyse your disk usage with treemap visualisation
The most disturbing part about this is that their support team has been misleading people on Twitter all morning, not truthfully answering straightforward questions about whether the app is Electron:

https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1425429965747720200

https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1425470169133031435

https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1425476888072495111
> The GP said "where other parties recall a verbal conversation differently than me", and what's the benefit there? You have two differing views of a conversation, you can say "oh well I meant X" and move on.

I recognize that two people may interpret a conversation differently. The ground truth of what was said has value, though.

If I know what was said I can work to tailor future my interactions with that party in an effort to prevent misunderstandings. I will certainly also try to suss-out if the other party has a pattern of apparently choosing to recollect conversations differently for their own ends (or maybe just has memory issues). It's going to color my interaction with that person. I don't "blame" them but I'm also not going to ignore information that could help me in future interactions. I'm not going to speak about it (because I think that would be in poor taste) but I'm certainly going to use that information to my benefit too.

If I find out that, though reviewing old communication, that my recollection is faulty I'm going to make things right, make amends as necessary. I'm also going to try to prevent it from happening in the future, too. I genuinely don't want to be a person who choose to recollect conversations differently for my own ends. That's impolite and not something I would ever want to do.
Swift might be the most important of the newest languages. Of course there's a new language every day, but swift has a significant user base and is still under 10.
Hello HN,

I've created npm module for cushion treemap rendering [1]. Treemaps is most compact way to visualize huge tree structures such as file sytem.

[1] https://treemap.yatsyk.com/
I am seeing more and more people glossing over fundamental concepts with wishy-washy analogy. I think those are a form of violation of the software engineering profession's spirit, where the rule should be that preciseness is paid the uttermost attention and carefulness.

I say this not because I somehow attach certain prestige to software engineering. But actually software engineering, because it works on top of a precise (in the practical sense) foundation (the modern computing chips and machine architecture), preciseness becomes something that can be achieved from the ground up for the entirety of the software. In other words, preciseness is the most valuable virtue of the profession. Forsaking it is like a human refuses to communicate with verbal and writing languages (in comparative sense, of cuz one can decide to express themselves in many forms).
HN is full of disgruntled haters. There are lots of DAOs that discuss crypto. I recently joined the FWB DAO https://www.fwb.help/ which has a pretty vibrant community. The one caveat is that you need to prove you own 75 FWB tokens to gain access (subject to change based on a seasonal community vote). The benefit is that it keeps spammers out. Generally the discussions and community members have been pretty high quality.
Revolutionising Homeless Donations
Unify uses tech to connect donors directly to the homeless community. I'd love to hear your thoughts and objections from our fundraising campaign!
That last link is the distilled essence of Twitter to me. A white woman from America telling a black person that he doesn't understand what a black person's perspective would be on the topic of racial slurs and how they [mis]translate across languages.