skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> am I wrong in the assessment of the economical situation and population decline in Ukraine

Yes you are. You showed (without evidence but let's assume) that $40bn of agricultural exports don't cover the $60 of Ukraine imports. Only 15% of people there work in agriculture. The other 85% of workers are just as capable of creating value for export.

> Am I wrong that all the industry in Ukraine was destroyed

Yes, and it is so obvious a lie that it strains credulity. Even just ignoring the well known mining/iron ore/iron/steel/pipe industry that has at least a dozen well known big companies. Plus of course Ukraine manufactures a lot of other things from cars to armament to confectionary.

And if it came to an export/currency collapse people would and could adapt and buy the local food/cars/trucks (even if they don't have the same quality or variety as foreign goods).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...
I wonder if covid was imported on a googlers private jet
Isn’t finding a relationship why most people date?

Sure some people are just looking for a fling but I’d be willing to bet money most people who date are looking for a relationship and eventually marriage.
Show HN: Mockupclips.com – Showcase your app/website in a tracked 4k stock video
New web application development trends in 2021
Sometimes people want to match with someone in the town they're visiting (or moving to) soon.

Other times, people in poorer countries are trying to match with people in richer countries. Think of Tinder as acting as a broker in a situation that sometimes people call "mail order bride."
Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm
They could probably crawl over from your neighbors yard. Not sure how far they travel. Or hitch a ride on mice?

Wow if tick killing meds exist for dogs maybe we could get deer on those. Problem solved?
Because of the disregard for the literature common in CS I loved this part:

> This is achieved through ...and some cool documents from the 50s.

A bit of anecdote: back when I was a research scientist (corporate lab) 30+ years ago I would in fact go downstairs to the library and read — I was still a kid with a lot to learn (and still am). When I came across (by chance or by someone’s suggestion) something useful to my work I’d photocopy the article and and try it out. I’d put a comment in the code with the reference.

My colleagues in my group would give me (undeserved) credit for my supposed brilliance even though I said in the code where the idea came from and would determinedly point to the very paper on my desk. This attitude seemed bizarre as the group itself was producing conference papers and even books.

(Obviously this was not a universal phenomenon as there were other people in the lab overall, and friends on the net, suggesting papers to read. But I’ve seen it a lot, from back then up to today)
Animal sales from Wuhan wet markets immediately prior to the Covid-19 pandemic
I applied to join Fosstodon based on your comment.
Terrorist thug society thinks everything belongs to them, fucking communist parasites as a culture.
The ceramic anecdote gets thrown around a lot, but it seems like a third approach - where theory is combined with practice and deliberate efforts are made to refine subsequent products after each build - would’ve produced a better quality result than the quantity group.

In fact, isn’t that what a group focused on quality would actually do rather than sit around theorizing? Did this actually happen?
Medallions sound like a truly bizarre and unfair system.

And if Uber operated exclusively in New York, we could accept they had a profitable-sounding business model: bypassing that system.

But given that Uber has expanded into many other cities and countries, 99% of which don't have medallions, it's pretty clear that merely bypassing the medallion system isn't their business model.
The article covers that but very pointedly doesn't bring up the angle. Just a note that suddenly there were dramatically lower projected sales the next year.

If you read closely they attribute this to medical objections without mentioning the reason you're stating. Your statement better aligns with my memory of the period.
On the contrary it has nothing to do with grammar, and I relate it to click-bait because it's so frequently done by such articles by BuzzFeed and the like; with much more prevalence than among things I actually want to read.

It is typically a signal that I don't want to read something, which makes it especially confusing on HN, which is generally a list of things I do want to read.
I wonder whether Padé approximants are well known by this kind of researcher. E.g. http://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~mignotte/IFT2425/Documents...
True mine just barely ran on a Mac lc3 with ram doubler installed. Somehow it tricked the computer into thinking it had 8 megs vs 4 and that that the game run. Though quite slowly as it couldn’t handle all the assets
Based on the map, this looks like a problem that will be solved with money. The tropical regions are less wealthy than the temperate regions, and probably as they become more wealthy, they will urbanize and improve farming techniques, both of which require less land, which nature is then able to re-capture.
I would have wished to see the error analysis section expanded a bit, or maybe seeing some sort of tests to validate the max error. In particular if the mathematical approximation function arctan* has max error of 1/10000 degrees then I'd naively expect that the float-based implementation to have worse error. Furthermore it's not obvious if additional error could be introduced by the division

float atan_input = (swap ? x : y) / (swap ? y : x);
And have to switch between three files back and forth?
For some reason, it reminds me of the passion flower: https://i.imgur.com/Efy2Iq4.png
> create a new counter app every day to support some specific, single usecase

sounds like the kind of thing that programming was invented to eliminate
No, just no.

AIDS killed 700,000 in 2020.[1]. That’s worldwide. It’s not even in the top 10.

Diarrheal diseases, entirely preventable with clean water supply, kill three times as many.[2]

Or heart disease which killed ten times as many.

[1] https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet
[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...
I think the idea of desktop apps being web apps repackaged is now so ingrained that some people have never experienced true desktop app performance.

As in, zero latency, or no observable latency. Instant performance. Honestly, it sickens me how spectacular advances in hardware translate into performance being worse than before.

Even the Office client apps are now web (React). And you can tell. Sluggish and glitchy.

As for the Spotify app, I have little love for it. Overengineered garbage where the simplest actions leave you searching. Internally, they have created this massively complex structure of squads and tribes each taking care of just one tiny part of the experience. This may explain why Spotify is so disconnected and makes no sense.

All of this engineering effort, I imagine there to be at least a few hundred working on it, ultimately add up to an experience less usable than bloody Windows Media Player from the 90s.
They should probably start introducing this to every country, especially those with very high cat fishing incidents. In that way, Tinder will slowly gain the trust of the users in the said country.
Building JS Resource Gantt Chart to Visualize Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Schedule
Fair price locally can generate more work for local people, wealth and redistribution.
Overall, more expensive clothing could also help reducing waste. Cheap fast-fashion fails to significantly improve my life (and, from post, negatively impacts lives).
Former HIV researcher here.

Right now, HIV is a manageable condition, but ONLY because of the availability of drugs which suppress the virus. The virus eventually learns how to get around the drugs, at which point the patient either switches drugs or dies in a few years.

Without drugs, HIV is (near) 100% fatal. And since it takes a few years to kill, infected people have plenty of time to pass it on. Which they do.

Also, the first HIV infection feels like a minor cold. Most people would not even know they were HIV positive (until their immune system collapsed), were it not for lab testing.

Then just apply some basic epidemiology to these facts, and you see that you have a disease which has the potential to infect (and thus kill) a sizeable percent of the population. As in double-digit percentages.
Most in congress didn’t think they would be impacted by AIDS.
We did not forget. We did experiments with gauze face masks. Here’s one from 1920:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362677/

I’m not aware of any recommendations to wear gauze face masks.
> too many whales

The more people will overfish, the more gray whales we should have around. And this whales can migrate.
Stop using Zoom, Hamburg’s data protection agency warns state government
It's funny to me that they will build/secure/protect a large amount of physical square footage to store physical evidence, and that's part of its budget. It would not surprise me that things are so screwy that buying hard drives and other backup type of purchases are not budgeted for and have to be made at the expendable type of requests.
The "small error" in this article isn't so small when people want exact results. Unfortunately, a high-degree polynomial is necessary if you want 24 bit precision across the input range for functions like this.

That said, I wonder if a rational approximation might not be so bad on modern machines...
The history of HIV research has had a lot of valiant work. We have had several vaccine attempts in the past, that have all been unsuccessful.

And despite President-level dismissal of HIV/AIDS at the time, significant resources were devoted to it in the 80s, such that even though we didn't make huge progress against HIV at the time, the research on HIV progressed the rest of the field.

And a lot of our anti-viral drugs have come out of HIV research as well.

A modern Project Warpspeed probably wouldn't be quite as successful as a Covid19 Warpspeed, because a lot of the first ideas have already been attempted. But with the new sorts of designs that mRNA vaccines allow, there's a lot more that's possible now.
For anyone else who isn't familiar with the Pig and Chicken story:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
That's a factoid that has been going around, but lost some information as you stated it. Large container ships produce tremendous amounts of NOx and SOx pollution compared to passenger cars, true, but CO2 is a different story. Still a lot probably but not anywhere near as much as 50MM cars per ship. Unfortunately I think some hear that factoid and take away from it that cars don't actually contribute to climate change that much, which is not true.
We don't have to stop eating meat. Reducing consumption goes a long way already.

Here's my story. I noticed that I was eating far more meat than I actually wanted to. It happened out of habit and because it was just there. That means I had been "mindlessly" buying meat while shopping instead of having a plan what to do with it. Once I stopped shopping like that, I found that I craved meat less often than I had expected. When I now do, I actually have meat and that without feeling bad at all. I consume far less meat than I used to, without actually missing anything. I consider that a success and one that is sustainable for me on top of that.
thanks for conflating two enormous, guranteed-NO items.. not

Please understand that cultures worldwide have profoundly different relationships to wooded areas, first

Secondly, markets and population economics vary drastically across geography

Thirdly, a discussion is a communications endeavor, no matter what the facts are.. the actual participants have to engage in some sensible fashion

reset, please
The core point of the OP article - and the data coming out of Israel - is that mass vaccination alone is less effective than expected at preventing the surge of transmission and infection by variants of concern.

The article you cited is in agreement with the literature I previously cited - as more people are infected the virus has more opportunity to mutate.

> The best strategy against escape variants available to us right now is to reduce transmission rates ... as much as possible with high vaccination rates

Your comment contradicts the mounting evidence we have available to us. Yes we need to use the vaccine tech we have at our disposal now - but in a highly targeted way, and supplemented by other viral elimination strategies that do not exert specific selective pressure on the virus.
The biggest issue with plastic stuff in the wild is that things get stuck in it, especially marine wildlife, and birds and some other animals getting digestive problems when tearing it apart and eating it.

On the flip side, most plastic packaging (mainly PE and PP) is non-toxic and biology doesn't really interact with it at all, even if you reduce it to microplastics. Yeah, that stuff is pretty much everywhere - but it's not really doing anything.
I believe, this is not related to apple, but rather to creator’s grim past
https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/RAM_Doubler

Better disk paging and compression
See the site guidelines:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

HN moderator dang has made clear that stories which are submitted but don't get traction can be resubmitted after a day or so. This particular item has seen ample discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315602

HN has an excellent search functionality, through Algolia. If you're interested in a specific topic, you can look to see if it's been discussed, whether recently or in the deep mists of time.

There's also the "front page" view which allows looking at the top stories of any given day, through history.
I use this to catch up on top items from the recent past frequently: https://news.ycombinator.com/front

Traction and front-page status are a highly-variable lottery at best. This particular story's landed at least three times in the past week, though it's been repeats of the original item each time.

I do try hard to encourage what I see as worthwhile and substantive discussions. This includes frequently submitting nominations for "second chance queue" stories. A few of those have spawned rich discussions.
E.g.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278789/ "in animal models, transmission can occur in <16 hours, and the minimum attachment time for transmission of infection has never been established"

or

https://www.lymedisease.org/tick-lyme-transmission-time/ "Study finds nymphal ticks can transmit Lyme within 12 hours"
The study is a follow-up study on primates that confirmed the exact same thing, only to be dismissed "because not in humans duuuuh"

Now we have human brain autopsies. Plenty of denial right in this thread.

And then people wonder why people don't trust physicians and do not vaccinate.
I'm not a particularly pessimistic person in general, but I don't know ...this tech, while cool, feels like the precursor to a worse future in general. Maybe I've seen too much sci-fi, but these robots look like optimizing for future soldiers, law enforcement etc. Given all the other Self-Driving / Facial Recognition / Loss of Privacy / Deepfake / "AI is bad at recognizing $situation"-type posts, and as all these techs converge I just feel melancholy, not optimistic. I feel like "AI Robot cops show implicit bias resulting in 3 deaths" or "Robot Cop shoots innocent person after facial recognition goes bad" or "Crowd Control Bots kill 55 in a peaceful protest" - type headlines are the future here.
You said currency, vast majority of marketing around cryptocurrencies market it as a store of value, not a currency. I'd very much like a decentralized currency.
Give it only to us, then mutate it to make it go airborne.
They are using gcc: https://github.com/clearlinux-pkgs/gcc
Thanks for sharing, I really like projects like this. And the website is really informative.

I find it less of a new language and more of a JS preprocessor, removing lots of the cruft and integrating XML-tags and CSS in a very neat way.

What I miss:

1) I feel the web is shifting to more type checking. TS, Elm, Kotlin.js... I personally also prefer more typesafety, especially if the project grows in LOC/team size.

2) Compared to JSX, Imba does a much better job in integrating adjacent technologies. Though I much prefer these to be integrated in an eDSL fashion. For example how Elm does HTML templating (in Elm) or Kotlinx.html[1].

Just taste i guess. Good luck with yr project!

[1]: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html
I’m sorry for your loss. I hope these trials go further to help more people in need.
I'm a bit confused since HIV works by disabling the immune system, and a vaccine works by priming the immune system.

So... if HIV has already damaged your immune system, can it take advantage of the vaccine?

Perhaps figuring out that is what the tests are for.
Yes. There is a demonstrable lack of need. Contact tracing has not worked and will not work for covid. As new variants emerge that spread faster, this will become even more true. The best measures against covid appear to be old fashioned common sense practices. Pay attention to yourself and if you’re sick stay home. Don’t cough, sneeze or breath on each other unnecessarily. Stand a bit further apart. Be outdoors more.
> DOM/UI speed of the project's JS toolkit generally has not been any meaningful impact in the projects I've worked on in the last several years

Maybe you're the exception among your peers or something, but I'd wager you're wrong. Benchmark or no benchmark, imba.io and the site for Scrimba are way snappy. In contrast, when I find myself having to derp around on a landing page or a UI made with React or contemporary frameworks, I can feel the bloat. Is it possible that being elbow deep in this stuff has dulled your senses?
Looks like the site miscategorized the Dell one as "ultracompact professional" when it isn't. I didn't double check that, sorry.

Here's another one:

https://geizhals.eu/?cmp=2285948&cmp=2511228
Indeed, as long as the health system is willing to pay for the medications.

That's not necessarily a given.

Even in EU countries (former HIV researcher, had MD colleagues in a country with budget issues).
If you want a really interesting read, which is great at showing how a methodical enquiry is carried out is here: https://www.theisrm.org/documents/Fennel%20(1988)%20Investig...

It might look long but is still really interesting to read, the simple questions that needed to be answered, the interviews and the conclusion.
Warming is by definition a change
Complete statistical solution of the „Three body problem“
I believe it. Lockdowns and covid suck, but living in the city is still better than the alternative.
I’d agree If I’m using css daily I might know what these mean, but I only edit css once in a while, so most of these properties are lost on me
What age bracket did you fall into at the time? I’ve found from talking to various people that dating apps like Tinder are great if you’re young but turn into a horror show after about 35.

I think there’s a winnowing effect as you age out of the app. So it may not be that they’re all bad or good but rather that you have to seek your audience elsewhere as you age out of the apps. I think this is probably true for anyone looking for a relationship.
I recommend marking the thread as spam then - that tends to disappear it altogether.
I’ve seen an odd use of language, mostly from U.S. Americans, where “intelligent” = “smart” = “knowledgable”. And conversely, assuming that knowing many things is what makes you smart. I suspect this is what happened there; they thought you “brilliant” because you knew many things – in their minds, there might not be a difference between the two concepts.
Not brilliant? Use of the written word to pass ideas down between generations is one of the most brilliant ideas in human history, and since nobody around you was doing it, the only explanation is that you independently invented the ethos of the scholar yourself.
large scale "boots on the ground" invasions are pretty hard to sell to the american public. they don't generally want to see american soldiers die without a good reason. retaliating against the people who harbored bin laden is already a pretty good reason, and liberating the subjects of an oppressive regime is icing on the cake. of course, it's hard to paint a regime as oppressive without also calling them "backwards". after all, if they were as advanced as us westerners, surely they would have a free democratic society already. /s
Atlas – Partners in Parkour
PineNote is “pine branded” Bigme B1 pro
Are there any other commercial companies, or is there someone who has used imba to develop their web apps except for OP?
I just settled on a uniform I was happy with: jeans and a plaid button-down every day. No mismatching and no decisions.
Agree completely. I would never ever want to go back to that interface look, but the existence of this project in the universe is cool. Nice work!
> It's because of components.

Replying to you because this is the shortest expression of this sentiment, expressed in many different comments:

No, it's not because of components. It's because of emulation of components by means of precompilation or JS execution. First-class components are available already, there's no reason to continue to emulate them, unless you need backward compatibility, or have another goal other than separating components.

It's also not about "components" in the meaning of "widgets" - reusable bits of content+view+behavior - because these can be trivially made with standard HTML + CSS + jQuery plugin. It was done since before the DHTML was a thing (hello <iframe>!).

Instead, it's all about web apps, how they achieve responsiveness, and the fact that the more the framework knows about the content (including how it should look in all its states), the easier it is to optimize it consistently. I get that, it's ok for web apps, and it gets better the more nice syntax you throw at the problem (up to a point, as usual), because once you have enough of syntax extensions to replicate the important features of HTML and CSS, you can go absolutely nuts on the actually generated code and nobody would care.

On the other hand, using web app frameworks to write web pages is bad - do you really need to optimize for responsiveness if almost everything you see on the page has exactly one (or two, with hover) state? The same is probably true for languages designed for web apps: using them to write web pages can be tedious and more trouble than it's worth.

TLDR: it's because ~components~ web apps.
Deconstruction of a $500k Google Chrome RCE vulnerability
I've had cui (mostly to share pictures). I thought it was good, but idk how field mouse would be. Cui (guinea pig for the uninitiated) has a decent amount of meat on it. Field mice are so tiny, a chicken wing has has to have more meat on it. I'm presuming that when they ate field mice 2000 years ago, they're eating the entire thing with all organs except for maybe the intestines.
> I don't know of any online game that doesn't track the official game state on the server.

A lot of titles are more or less serverless peer-to-peer.
There was a shot to prevent Lyme disease developed in the late 90s, but antivax threw a fit about it, and it was discontinued.

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.html
It's like the shows where people bid on abandoned storage units.
Sorry for semi-off-topic reply, but would be very interested in any other recommendations you may have, have been looking for high quality resources too.