skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data do not agree with you.

55% of housing units are owned by their occupant in California[1]. That statistic is trending up.

There are estimated to be 13.3 million housing units in California[2]. This means 7.3 million of those units are owned by their occupant(s). The adult population (>=18yo) of California is estimated to be 24.9 million[3]. So if we assume all 7.3 million owner occupied housing units have a single owner-occupant, this would mean that approximately 29% of adult Californians own their residence. This, of course, is an underestimate because many homes are owned by more than one occupant (i.e. families).

Thus, at a minimum, 1/3rd of Californians are "attaining equity through labor". Are you telling me all of these people are the moneyed, flying-over-everything capital class?

Please fact check your defeatist attitude and consider widening your gaze as to the opportunities available to you. There is no free lunch. Sacrifices and compromises must be made to achieve your goals.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAHOWN

[2] https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data/interactive...

[3] https://censusreporter.org/profiles/04000US06-california/
Great in theory but if you are managing a system now, you would rather spend money on things you need now, you aren't going to keep it in the bank for some future day when the escalator needs replacing.

I suspect that equipment is depreciated in TfL accounts but the people 50 years ago wouldn't know how much this replacement would have cost so who knows.
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No, the point is that you could probably extinguish HIV with a very low vaccination rate - if the vaccination rate in the at-risk population is high enough.

"Anybody taking the vaccine" (not "everybody") will actually not eradicate the virus, but rather protect those who take the vaccine. Much like now with Covid.
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> In USA it's pretty difficult to get a NFP (501c3) created around just code.

Yeah, I know, and that does suck. It's varied a bit over time with various IRS administrations, though, so maybe it'll get better.

(I am a lawyer, but I don't have an active practice since I became a programmer, so I'm not someone who can help. But good luck!)
Actually the immune system does fight HIV during the acute infection stage after a person is first exposed, and antibodies are generated. The immune response to HIV is what does most of the damage to the immune system, since a typical immune response to virus infection involves the destruction of infected cells. HIV infects certain immune cells, which will either self-destruct when the infection is detected or will be destroyed by other immune cells.
Because sometimes you want to tackle things that are bigger than you can do alone, or that are well outside of your personal wheelhouse (say, UX for an infra person or vice versa), and you want someone with more 'skin' in the game than a contractor.

At least, that's why I've hired as a solo founder...
That's a misinterpretation of the statistics. The most vulnerable population has a much higher vaccination rate than the population as a whole, with well over 90% of Israelis over 70 vaccinated. People over 70 have a much higher chance of being hospitalized, so to only see 60% of hospitalizations be of vaccinated people shows how effective the vaccine still is at preventing serious disease.
Isn't it all the same really - people want to hear narratives that confirm their bias. Internet/modern communications makes it easy for media and politicians to both pick up on that and reach out to the right group of people with the targeted misinformation.

People are too much in love with their beliefs - critical thinking problem.
> This implies freedom to remember you say bigoted things and proactively avoid you.

Certainly. Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences, as they say.
At least in Belgium (where there are several generics available besides the 'brand' Truvada), my out of pocket cost is 5 euro for a month's supply.

If you take PrEP periodically (2+1+1) that will even last you a lot longer (depending on the frequency of course).
I am very glad PrEP exists, and already optimistic about its impact in reducing transmissions. But if we can replace this with a one-shot vaccine, that would be groundbreaking.
Statue of limitations might apply.
> that is absolutely crazy.

Which bit?

> they found one Covid case since Feb
or
> one Covid case prompted the lockdown

They've gone into lockdown because the man "is deemed to have been infectious since Aug. 12" and "visited a crowded pub on Saturday night [Aug 14th]" and "the probability of it being delta". I should imagine they don't want a superspreader event coming from that when they've been C19-free since February...
can't believe. what about the Amazon forest decimation threads we've had here?
How to Thrive as an Average Programmer
This really hit me this morning, and the timing couldn't be better. We took on a CompSci intern from an Ivy League for the summer. Tomorrow's his last day. When he first came on, I was really trepidatious; I couldn't put my finger on why, but this blog post sums it up perfectly. We're doing important work, but it's not "hard puzzles". It's "hard" work, but we work with boring technology and solve boring technical problems ~ I was worried about how this go over with the intern from the Ivy Leagues. Day one we're tearing down hardware with vice grips because the guy with the hex-drivers is out and splicing wires. Tomorrow's his last day, and he seemed to really enjoy it, but I think he enjoyed it because it was not "just another hard puzzle" - he was given "ultra-vague end goal", had to "prioritize many different sub-problems", and "probably don’t even know what all the dimensions are, let alone which are the most important". Much different from all of his academia... I'm glad he enjoyed it, and I feel good having provided a valuable experience for a talented budding CompSci engineer.
This article parodies the mid-century American (which they are framing as a prototypical cosmopolitan white), however, they fail to acknowledge that this was typical of the medium everywhere.

It was typical in mid-century Cuba, France, Japan, Brazil, etc. It wasn’t a uniquely American quality.

It was the product of the times and the technology —just as today the problem with disinformation and information control is everywhere and not just in America.
Disagree that we are reaching a technical plateau at all. Maybe in some parts of particle and AMO physics, but cosmology continues to advance and we are continuing to learn a lot.
Have you blogged or documented your journey somewhere? I love reading solopreneur success stories like this!
Nearly every app?! What apps do you actually use? I’ve only ever seen the prompt a few times, and always for pretty obvious reasons (UniFi, Prompt, VLC, etc.)
I think you're shortselling the critics. See the quote from the article in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210290
And yet, deforestation rates have declined significantly over the past several decades globally despite added several billion people, while Europe and the US have been reforesting.

From the article:

"As we explore in more detail in our related article, countries tend to follow a predictable development in forest cover, a U-shaped curve.5 They lose forests as populations grow and demand for agricultural land and fuel increases, but eventually they reach the so-called ‘forest transition point’ where they begin to regrow more forests than they lose."
It might help if we had literature fleshing out some ideas of how alternatives could work. Ie how we could become a species more in harmony with a large biosphere - ala Jim Henson’s Dark Crystal. Though it’d have to be a human way of life.
These things were cute for about 10 minutes (in the year 2000) and then you gotta wonder why you spent all that money.
I believe Unity has just recently (I.e. since October 2020) taken steps to help mitigate this microstutter, unless I am misunderstanding you.

https://blog.unity.com/technology/fixing-time-deltatime-in-u...
"we are nearing a technological plateau"

Well, using that analogy, I would say, it took us indeed great efforts to reach it, but now we have vast land to colonize - meaning applying all that groundbreaking research into everything. There are so many more technologies avaiable, than just what you can buy on the market.

Sci-Fi is very possible.

edit: oh and about FTL:

I know I do not really understand quantum physics and co. but I think I understand, that no one really understands it yet - so I do not expect FTL in my lifetime, but I would not rule it out.
People will give high resolution photo of their national id to some shady American media group?
What about "The open source Git project" is it that says this isn't posted by it?
It can be reduced though, by training a model of the enemy player behaviour to more accurately predict and extra-polate on the others behaviour. (Not just assume linear continued behaviour). Of course, this means things like dissapearing shots, if the opponent didn't fire.
> They found one, ONE Covid case

Since February, yes, because their lockdowns and controls worked to get the country free of it. Why would they change a clearly winning formula?
? Animals contain millions of similarly complex processes within them, that is what makes them 'complex' compared to a simple virus.
At the end of the day, software always exceeds the ability of the hardware to run it. That's the cyclical nature of our business. Just for myself, I'd rather write to the easiest software methodology and wait a bit for compilers/transpilers/interpreters, etc to be fast enough that it doesn't matter what I write.

In other words, one can't really optimize for the top level (ease of use) and the bottom level (speed) at the same time.

Turing demonstrated that there are only two differences between any computers that have ever existed: how fast they are, and how difficult they are to program.
You are confusing HIV infection and AIDS. The former is the virus, the latter is the end-stage disease.

It takes the virus years to reach the viral loads necessary to damage the immune system to a noticeable degree. Sure, HIV has some tricks before that point, but patients are generally not immunocompromised until AIDS enters the picture.
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Try learning J in a day. It...won't go well -- but in a good way. :-) As you say, for many languages the paradigm is some variation of C, and the concepts are largely interchangeable. Then you approach something like J, where (trivial example)

+/%#

returns the average of a list by composing three functions: + sums; % divides; # counts; with a modifier / that distributes + throughout the list; and you begin to realize you're not in Kansas anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

I don't think the "right" set of primitives is as obvious as you say. Obviously branching and loops are foundational to many languages, but even those are optional given the right design, and they can be implemented in very different ways.
Much shorter time frames than that are still powerful, especially for something like a virus.
Fundamentally, I do not think it is tenable for a mating system to offer participants unlimited choice (or the appearance of). Also, pictures drastically reduce the number of dimensions in which you can be attracted to someone. For example, in real life, you may become attracted to someone due to their voice, or other properties, or simply repeatedly seeing them.

The other problem is that it lays bare your “value” in each interaction, and it could be damaging to one’s ego. Flirting in real life gives both parties a chance to escalate with plausible deniability.

The best system I have seen though is when matchmakers who roughly know both people, and can vouch for both parties’ trustworthiness do the matchmaking. They will have the ability to objectively put two similarly “valued” people together, and possibly not only along one metric (e.g. looks).

Of course, this gets more and more rare as the size of one’s social networks gets smaller or has fewer overlaps.
At some point, somebody needs to be exposed to HIV with an unproven vaccine. Current design is just "give it to enough people to show they get HIV statistically lower than their origin populations.
Tall socks and trousers sure, but of course they'll get wherever. The only time I had one of them little suckers I only found out the next day... under my wristwatch!
The article author's role in the media, up to this point, was to perform the same function as what he terms "Big Disinfo", but in a pettier, vigilante fashion (i.e. pursuing "cancellations"). I suppose, in the view of the article, it boils down to the question of who owns that turf.
Biblical prophecy finds way to legislators in battle over ID plan
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/...

RFID: Sign of the (End) Times?
https://www.wired.com/2006/06/rfid-sign-of-the-end-times/

On social media, vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/16/covid-v...
My LC3 had 8MB so it ran okay. It slowed down when you get some large battle of like 20+ ships.

What REALLY slowed it down is when my brother, friends, and I daisy chained 4 ADB keyboards so that we could all control different parts of the ship (weapons, targeting, navigation, fleet).
So far I've managed to keep the state in my side-project in sync with Websockets and Redux, Replicache sounds like the kind of solution I'd love to use, but boy the pricing makes it impossible to even consider.
For sex, anything is possible.
We implemented all that manually, more or less in swift (and sqlite), then react+redux, and on the back end - postgres and python+flask. Works flawlessly so far. We do have the same setup more or less, with listeners triggering UI updates and push messages signalling the clients to fetch data from the server. Then, on the server, we have two dbs -> one where we store each update or create message, in a postgres-based queue, and another one, in a normalised format which we use for login (it's way faster than replaying all messages from the queue).
There are complexities when you move beyond one or two tables, though - like maintaining relations, ensuring things get done in the correct order, that they get merged (we merge all attributes of each item - e.g. one client can change color, and the if another changes the text content of the item these will get merged), etc.

We gave up on the websocket part and implemented basic polling, because they were not supported by App Engine at the time (things might have moved on since then, which is a couple of years ago). Yet, for a note/todo/habit tracking app, it simply doesn't need to be real-time from our experience.

Have a play at https://www.mindpad.io/app/. You can see how it works if you open up the web app in two incognito tabs, or on an iPhone and the web.
Come on, at this point I've seen this "engineering approximation" memed so many times, even on Instagram ;)

What is more interesting to me is that this can be one of rationales behind using radians.

And that tan(x)~x also holds for small angles, greatly easing estimations of distance to objects of known size (cf. mil-dot reticle).
I know where you're coming from. I believe it is the appropriate attitude in discussing misinformation with, for example, covid.

BUT I really did do my own research with respect to Lyme, reading deeply into the peer-reviewed literature, and I came to the conclusion that the "scientific consensus" was formed by people too lazy or misguided to read it themselves.

For example, the consensus was that Lyme couldn't persist in humans after antibiotic treatment. But it DOES persist in other animals including primates. They could easily discover that because they could euthanize those other animals to see if it was there in their tissues, and it was. They couldn't do that with humans. The conclusion is OBVIOUSLY not that it can't happen in humans, but rather that we haven't proved it could. The "scientific consensus" got those outcomes confused, and assumed it couldn't.

But consider this quote from the OP article: "In May, her research team published their strongest evidence to date of persistent Lyme symptoms. In a unique finding, they discovered Lyme bacteria in the tissues of a deceased 69-year-old woman who contracted the disease, was treated multiple times with antibiotics, and still couldn’t clear the infection from her body.”

I was impressed by related evidence a couple years ago, such as an examination of the brains of people who had died of Alzheimer's. I don't remember the exact number, but something like 25% of those brains contained Lyme spirochetes. Note that there is a theory gaining traction recently that Alzheimer's is caused by the brain's attempts to manage active infections.

There is much, much more to say, and a LOT of research that goes in the opposite direction of what you're assuming in your post.

An anecdote: researchers tested hundreds of FDA-approved drugs in test tubes to see which ones worked best at killing Lyme spirochetes. Disulfiram won. My wife, who had lost her career as a retinal surgeon and researcher due to a chronic illness we thought might be chronic Lyme, took disulfiram under the care of her doctor who had treated Lyme patients for decades, and who was one of the first to try disulfiram in patients.

After the treatment, her illness disappeared. Our older son also had the same illness, which led to him taking a year off from school because he just couldn't function. He had been taking antibiotics for a couple years. At one point we stopped the antibiotics, and he felt great for a week, worse the next week, and in week 3 he was all the way back to being pretty nonfunctional with the symptoms attributed to "chronic Lyme". He, too, took disulfiram and was cured.

Note that we had long spent summers on Little Deer Isle, Maine, known for its deer and deer ticks.
That discussion is the one Kevin Samuels is leading in the Black community where these problems are even more magnified
Your brain is wired to upvote and share apocalyptic news more than positive news.
This is exactly what the article was talking about. People predicting the decline of NYC based on these statements, while it turns out that NYC actually gained a ton of residents.

Also, the idea that the subway is unusable to the citizens of NYC is utterly divorced from reality. There are issues, of course, but New Yorkers depend heavily on the subway for their transit.
Hey! So did I! I had hard that one of the members had become sick or something along those lines and figured they were pivoting to an NPO!
I guess we're many, many orders of magnitude more complex.

I just think it's wrong to call tiny 'simple' life, just because we are so insanely complex.
Those of us who just went through the "Brood X" cicada emergence are now going through a glut of something called "oak mites", which apparently feed on the cicada eggs, but also just get everywhere. They are kind of like chiggers, burrowing under the skin, and are too small to see with the naked eye. The "bites" are particularly itchy and can also cause red splotching that may appear ring-like sometimes. I had a minor freak-out the first time I saw a splotch on my 3-yr-old's back, but it didn't spread and the blotchiness actually went away rather quickly. Luckily, these welts don't seem to last as long as mosquito bites.

Also, a tick-bite splotch doesn't always have to be ring-shaped.
The Git project has had at least one full time paid employee (Junio), for over 10 years. In my mind, it's not acceptable that what I'm asking hasn't been done yet. Also, shell is about the worst possible language you could use for a large project. If you want to see for yourself, look at the code for git-bisect. Global state spread across like 5 random shell scripts.
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I published the tool to makes it easy to create animated GIFs of Slack custom emoji.
It makes Slack more lively, so please try using it.
Thanks!! Super helpful, we haven't considered this
I can see how in the short term it's a positive service - they can now keep their lights on, their water running, etc.

But as a long-term proposition, a permanent adjustment to the status quo, it just feeds into an exploitative system in the same way that loan sharks do. You're filling a gap that should be filled with higher wages, and reducing wages from the most-vulnerable to do so.
Maybe not the perfect example of good governance, but certainly not single party rule.
But you don't know common compiler/interpreter pitfalls, tooling, frameworks... so in the end you still need a long time to get familiar with it for productive work.

Sure, you know the vocabulary, but it will still take time to learn the rest.
Yeah the number of generations is more important than the number of years.
> If they crossed using land bridge from NE Indian Subcontinent during Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) then it's likely 26,500 years and 19–20,000 years ago(According to Wiki)

The 50K date I quoted is based on genetic studies - the Andamanese separated from the AASI (and the Aborigines) about 50K years ago. That's in line with the arrival of the Aborigines in Australia, so its possible the Andamanese are a remnant of the same expansion. I suspect the Andamanese arrived to the islands very early on, rather than a LGM arrival date, since unlike the high levels seen in Aborigines, the Andamanese have no Denisovan ancestry at all. Considering the high levels of Denisovan ancestry that radiates outwards from the former Sundaland, I'm not sure the proto-Andamanese could have hung out in Burma for 20K before crossing the LCM landbridge without picking up some Denisovan DNA. Of course, this is simply conjecture at this point.

> * Newer linguistic studies claims to have found proto-Dravidian languages in Indus Valley Civilization*

For what its worth, I found the paper unconvincing. I've read prior works (notably Krishnamurthy, cited in the paper), and unlike those papers, the argument here is based on a single root word. Besides, even if the root word originated in the IVC (quite possible), it doesn't rule out that it was a loan word into proto-Dravidian as well from a non-Dravidian IVC - just like in Akkadian. I am less familiar with proto-Dravidian and more with proto-Indo-European (PIE), and at least with PIE there's been considerable scholarship suggesting significant loan words into it from proto-Altic & proto-Caucasian. PIE when it formed was already a messy mishmash, with Hittite & Tocarian probably splitting off even before PIE formed. With the proto-Dravidian scholarship, I sense the desire to treat it as a monolith. Proto-Dravidian likely had just as much loan into it as out. IVC words could have survived as loan words into proto-Dravidian, without the IVC itself being proto-Dravidian.
With big data, everyone is the list. It still matters where you rank on it, but instead of just the top10 being fairly accurate, the top8b is fairly accurate.
I've developed a command called viddy. I am trying to make a modern watch command and implement some unique features like time machine.

I would appreciate your feedback.

## Features

* Basic features of original watch command.

* Time machine mode.

* See output in pager.

* Vim like keybindings.

* Search text.

* Suspend and restart execution.

* Run command in precise intervals forcibly.
I believe it uses a CRDT hosted by a third party service.
For what it's worth, my wife has ~something~. She hasn't gotten a consistent diagnosis--Fibromyalgia, etc. She tested positive for Lyme at some point. All we know is that she's sore and tired all the time and has mysterious allergic reactions to things, all the things that get chucked into the garbage can of vague diagnoses around which swarm cranks, grifters, and quacks. I appreciated the sensitivity and nuance of this article.