skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a trashy article!

> “This allowed the Census Bureau to enumerate half a million people which they would have otherwise missed"

1) They found 500K unaccounted people (makes you wonder if any of them pay any tax, since they didn't know about them)

2) Maybe (129K) moved in at some point or another, but the whole article doesn't have anything about substantial on those people.

We know who high-profile taxpayers who left NYC are and we can estimate how much they paid in tax (using some average or anecdotal value for one percenters).

As to these 629K inhabitants, we don't even know if they contribute more than they suck out of the system (I suspect they don't).

If city revenue declines, city budgets declines. Having more people sucking on the city teat doesn't help. In fact I would say I'm suspicious they rounded up those 629K people just so that they can apply for more federal help or some shit like that.
> but it would be a stretch

I'd say it's condescending -- and even insulting -- to everyone involved. Ideas shouldn't be censored during a brainstorming session but this is something else
Network glitches will have a one-sided effect: they will make you slower, but never faster. Trimming out the top 25% slowest measurements, or even just using the minimum, can be more effective. Those are common when profiling programs for exactly that reason - the median execution time for a loop might be influenced by OS weirdness like some background job, but the minimum will hopefully really just measure the loop.

Anyway - probably not a big deal, probably mostly academic, although modal behavior would be really interesting.
Congress depends on the blood supply more than average, but the risk to the blood supply was largely ignored because AIDS was supposed to be a homosexual/drug user disease in their minds.
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Why does something have to be full-on existential threat to humanity to qualify for research/development/treatment?
That’s what they said, but I want to know their vaccination records.
I'm selfhosting miniflux (from a raspberry pi) and am just using the web interface. It has been working great from computer, phone and tablet.
what if you could extend that academic "prime" by 30 years or longer?
> strange to me how nobody questions why beavers only make damns a certain size, birds only make nests and don't go beyond that in complexity.

Probably because beavers and birds have made dams and nests the same way for the past 100 years, whereas humans in the same time have developed a bunch of tools and can specialize and distribute the fruits of their expertise without requiring others to be experts themselves.

Perhaps it's not true that on average we know more e.g. math now than we did 100 years ago, because there are so many more people. I believe we are nonetheless much better at teaching and learning now.

It's more than possible that all of this growth will be our downfall, and that that will regulate our growth, however.
More on this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
> ...strange to me how nobody questions why beavers only make damns a certain size, birds only make nests and don't go beyond that in complexity.

Isn't most of this kind of just a matter of fitness, same as why birds become flightless on islands where there are no predators which demand flight to escape from? Basically, building anything more than a minimally-viable nest or a dam requires using energy that could be invested elsewhere to greater evolutionary advantage.

Humans have gone beyond because for as long as we can remember, we've always had vast, vast surpluses of energy, initially through the cooking of meat and agriculture, then via animal labour, and then finally via fossil fuels.
> In America and world both, AIDS is small fries for death cause.

The critical distinction is outcomes: until relatively recently, the only outcome of an HIV infection was eventual death from AIDS. This is still the default outcome in most of the world.

Plenty of things kill more people than AIDS, but most of them have substantially less severe individual outcomes: many people survive them, or the social/political solutions are substantially more tenable (healthier eating, access to potable water). And that's even before we consider how AIDS research has advanced the field of medical virology as a whole.
Thanks for sharing your story! My cofounder Anada and I can both relate, as we're both immigrants to the US as well.

Something we want to stress with this product is that we want BoldVoice to live up to it's name -- helping non native English speakers feel bolder and more comfortable when speaking English and be more clearly understood.
Fosstodon, despite the name, is run by people who don't actually use free software. It's pretty funny.
The shift to EVs drives down the cost of batteries and scales up manufacturing capacity. Nuclear is never getting built, takes too long and isn’t cost effective against storage and renewables. There is more than enough unused space worldwide for solar, wind, and batteries without impacting more productive land uses.
My primary issue with public choice theory is omission of information asymmetry. How are consumers supposed to choose options which are not presented?

See also the power of the default option.
Ok cool, I'm actually thinking about starting up a community for creators. Think you would be interested in joining? Your perspective would be great to have
I thought children were brought by storks, what is the link with sex?
Nigeria’s inflation rate declines to 17.38% in July, food price increases slow
+ is a "verb"
/ is an "adverb" -- it modifies the functionality of whatever verb it is applied to.

Almost all verbs can be binary or unary, sometimes with surprising (to me, a newbie) consequences. I have no idea how it gets handled underneath the hood.
Please can you say a bit more? I keep reading about quic as an sctp replacement? Apart from the 'whole thing encrypted' thing I'm wondering what differences there are.
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of Mithril.js)

I looked at this a few years ago and IIRC, it refers to a very specific optimization for recycling DOM nodes in very specific cases. Recycling basically just means reusing pre-existing DOM subtrees instead of naively creating new ones. To my knowledge, Inferno.js and Mithril.js implemented a similar optimization but eventually dropped it because it was difficult to compute when the optimization could be applied and it wasn't worth the complexity (when using virtual dom anyways; my understanding is that imba doesn't do virtual dom)

I recall Imba always had quite nice perf numbers. Recycling DOM nodes did indeed give huge performance increases in synthetic proofs of concepts I did for Mithril.js. A good real world example where it's supposed to shine is tabular data: typically you'd key your rows to get good array diff performance, but this means paginating recreates the entire table from scratch every time. Recycling means reusing the existing DOM instead of re-incurring document.createElement call overheads for the entire table. Of course, in practice it's quite a bit more difficult to deal with edge cases (e.g. DOM state such as element focus)

The two things that I thought were problematic with Imba were a) lack of typing (which has since been addressed) and b) compiled output readability (i.e. it looks nothing like source code). It looks very nice otherwise, and it has come a long way since 7 years ago.
Reversing LZ91 from Commander Keen
I was under the impression that, if a modern-ish civilization existed in the near-geological-past, we'd be able to tell by a complete lack low-energy easy-to-acquire resources. Like, anything easy to dig up, would have been, dug up, made into machines, and then dispersed as low density material ( where-ever it ended up as the society decayed )
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Phase 1 is just a safety trial. Imagine how many years it will take to make a statistically sound conclusion of the efficacy rate?
> I have no idea why the original submitter chose to edit the title like that

Not only that; editing the title is against HN submission guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Losing data is common and should not be a big deal for a County sized office, muchless a Texas based one, yet somehow here we are.

Don't overestimate Dallas. I can't speak to what the heck we're doing with actual tax revenue, but the city services and infrastructure are terrible. I actually don't have many complaints about the police, but it's not like my information is rooted in research and statistics. I've just lived downtown for a while and seen quite a few interactions between homeless and police and they seem unusually good at de-escalation and not just rushing in and beating people up as seems common in other big cities.

But ... our infrastructure is terrible. A quarter-inch of rain and over half the street lights in the city stop working. Any bit of wind knocks out power lines constantly, and it's pretty windy. Partly because they're all above ground, partly because the poles are old and falling over, partly because the city doesn't trim trees nor force property owners to do it, so branches are constantly overhanging and destroying things.

We had a somewhat notorious incident a few years ago where someone managed to set off all the tornado alarms citywide for a full day. They managed to do this because the control system was just radio. Not encrypted, not authenticated. Just direct the right channel at the right receiver and you could set off all of the city's tornado alarms.

City infrastructure here is an absolute mess, and if they cut costs on everything else by buying crap and not performing any maintenance, it doesn't surprise me one bit they do exactly the same thing with IT infrastructure.
I've often wondered about this. My suspicion is that there is a limit to the complexity of mental models that humans can fluently manipulate and I think we're starting to bump into it in some cases.

I think we will eventually need a paradigm shift from science being built around human grokable models (e=mc^2) to external human manipulatable models (ie, large scale machine derived models that we can't actually grok but can use for analysis and engineering). I think we're already starting to see this - there are already mathematical proofs that are so large and complex (in the GB range) that they had to be found by automation and only other automation can verify them.
What if this is just not possible?
No not really. Very few builds will let you win the game easily. Situational awareness is required. Relatively few enemies in the game are just melee brutes. Most of them occupy some niche that requires you to think. They can confuse your character, or lock all the doors, or summon, or irresistibly cut your health in half, etc. An exceptionally fortunate character, say, a kung fu octopode transmutated into statue form and wearing 8 magical rings of power can probably karate chop their way through 99.9% of the game without much of a worry, but may still lose in a 1:1 slug fest with certain lords of hell.

There are easier builds and there are harder builds, but if you aren't good, you will lose. Case in point, the bug described here effectively doubled damage output and win rates were still pretty low.
They should ban driving too if that's the justification.
I'm more inclined to pay attention to the skeptics because they're the only ones saying anything. Their opponents are just saying "obey".
The standard service provider contract you mention (in the US) is "postpaid": you pay at the end of the month for the usage you had during that month. This is credit: you use the service, then pay after for what you used. That's opposed to "prepaid" service, where you buy "minutes" or "data" before use, and must manually buy more if you run out.
Beyond mother-to-child transmission, and some negligent medical malpractice in let's say a blood transfusion, how do you even get HIV, in the developed world?

I can understand high rates of infection in the most illiterate places of the world, but is it too much to ask certain demographics to not have sex with random strangers in some toilet of some gas station or bath house?
Not sure if you’re not in the Bay Area, but for a counter point many (maybe most?) of friends I know have had large payoffs (though not always with options, sometimes RSUs) - it does require some risk taking (holding onto them longer, not just immediately liquidating them, sometimes exercising options and floating that cost/tax until exit).

These payoffs range between 500k and $20M for people I know well with more clustered in the 500k-2M range. Higher level people I don’t know super well easily clear 50M+, this isn’t just one company exit event either *.

Equity should not be underrated.

* FB, Snap, Google (RSUs), Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Tesla etc.
It's also, perhaps ironically a "disinformation" piece in itself, like so much supposed introspection on the left, they are quick to point out and label right wing conspiracy theories and perceived attempts to deceive, but they completely ignore their own including the biggest ones, like Russian Collusion.

It also has a built-in presumption that Brexit and Trump's election were somehow break downs of the Democratic system, even if it takes the "disinfo" angle to task somewhat. Those are only breakdowns from one then-minority viewpoint, but the minority is constantly claiming they have an absolute monopoly on what is real and true when they dismiss populism out of hand. Hint: They don't.
I haven't yet done this but based on some research it seems to me like the core of any collaborative app today (that wants to avoid Firebase and the other hosted platforms like Replicache seems to be) is easiest served by picking some CRDT library.

There are a couple of open-source CRDT libraries that provide both clients and servers (yjs [0] and automerge [1] are two big ones for JavaScript I'm aware of).

My basic assumption is that as long as you put all your relevant data into one of these data structures and have the CRDT library hook into a server for storing the data, you're basically done.

This may be a simplistic view of the problem though. For example I've heard people mention that CRDTs can be space inefficient so you may want/have to do periodic compaction.

[0] https://github.com/yjs/yjs

[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge
If You’re a Data Scientist Trying to Level Up, Go Read Case Studies
I am much happier with this system, but I don't really see how this would help Google.. Early web advertising used basic page topic based targeting, but clearly more targeted ads make more money, so what monetary benefit does this provide Google?
The issue with humoring the quackish side of chronic lyme is that you swiftly get into supposed treatments that are, in fact, quackery or can be actively harmful to patients (such as extremely long antibiotic treatments). So you risk both wasting money and harming people by humoring stuff you know is nonsense.
I think this really gets to the crux of my original point: What is "average" (average for our industry, average for the country as a whole?) and retire "where" (I assure you, if you make an average US salary and want to retire early in the US, you have to have front-loaded a lot of financial sacrifices and been extremely lucky)
Very interesting. Does Mexico have anything akin to US Federal Deposit Insurance? Does Levo?
Or you know, just don't make it in the first place.

If all low quality fast fashion were $20 instead of $7 across the board people would still gorge themselves on it.

They're not buying stuff for the need to have clothes, they're buying things for the experiences of buying it and the novelty of something new.
Let's just hope they don't remove the RSS feed for YouTube.
Whats your email plz (put it in your profile)
Thanks, appreciate it! If you have any feedback or thoughts to the pronunciation analysis feel free to send them to founders@boldvoice.com!
> it'd take awhile to perfect

Some of us can't wait. That's why I, for one, continue to advocate for developers to make their applications accessible with the currently available tools. It's also why I'm trying, with my AccessKit [1] project (which admittedly is taking time to get off the ground), to make it easier for GUI toolkits to implement the current baroque platform accessibility APIs.

I'm also reluctant to concede that we're doomed to reconstruct UI content and semantics probabilistically from pixels, when that information is already there somewhere in the app. But it may be the best long-term solution to the social problem of trying to get everyone to implement accessibility.

[1]: https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
Even inside DCs I thought everything was Web services upon Web services.
Announcing Amber, Encrypted Secrets Management
The thing I'm looking for, and didn't see it immediately on the example page, is how easily you can use JavaScript libraries. I'm sure you can, but is it like Svelte, where you can just use them almost as-is, or like React and Vue, where you need to wrap them inside special wrapper libraries that expose them as React hooks or whatever.

Svelte is so great because you can use libraries as is. React is great (if you like it) in that it has a huge number of converted libraries and a huge community that is quick to convert new libraries.

Anyone know what the story is for Imba in this light? It looks great at first glance.
I don't have any plans to use Replicache, but I went and looked at the pricing and I was kind of struck by your comment. Looking at it, it seems pretty fair to me? Especially under 10k MAC's. It seems like a flat rate / month is pretty nice too. Plus, it's free for all non-commercial use.

Am I wildly off base here? Is it just that middle tier jump to over 10k that is a no go?

Again, I don't have a horse in this race or even my own startup, just trying to understand if my own judgement is way off.
3. can be achieved without a global menu. Menus just have to be registered with a global API.
There's also the minor issue that probably our two best physical theories, quantum dynamics and general relativity, are incompatible.

So they can't both be right.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/04/relativity-quan...
Show HN: AdzeJS – Modern Multi-Environment Logging Library
there are so many configurations with different "information leakage" profiles / preferences: from self-hosting to mass instances, from pseudonymous accounts to verified / public identities etc. One of the strong points of the fediverse would be to enable and organize that multitude of options under uniform protocols that do not force anybody to particular architectures...
Official documentation can be found here:
https://adzejs.com

Hey everyone, I recently released version 1.1 of Adze, a library that solves a lot of the pain points of handling logs in multiple environments and logging with modular systems like micro-frontends.

As you may already be aware there are a number of other good JS libraries out there to assist with logging. The focus of Adze is to provide a convenient and clean API, provide first-class TypeScript support, and to empower you to take command of your logs rather than pigeon-hole you into a specific way of handling them.

Here is a list of the features that Adze provides:

- First-class TypeScript support

- Multi-environment support for the Browser and Node

- Wraps and extends the entire standard API

- A fluent, chainable API

- Log Listeners for capturing log data

- Log annotation namespaces, labels, and other meta data

- Attractive styling (EMOJI'S INCLUDED and consistent across major browsers)

- Everything is configurable

- Enables completely custom log levels

- A global log store for recalling logs and overriding configuration (supports micro-frontends and modules)

- Support for Mapped Diagnostic Context

- Convenient unit testing environment controls

- Advanced Log Filtering

- and more...
L4 Autonomous Truck Driving will not be so simple for TuSimple Holdings Inc
It doesn't change the fact that homosexuals have much much higher incidents of HIV/AIDs.
Why not put an ML system in with some basic safeguards, like the direction changeover duration and that each direction has to be green for at least x within period y. Sure it would suck at first but then it would get smart pretty quick when a long street has all their lights controlled by that model.
Sounds like there will be a sustained demand for wood products in the future. Maybe we can cut down some trees, and plant new ones in their stead, then repeat as necessary as the market demands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_farm
Sorry, but you are just straight up wrong. Even if reforestation percentage has increased in recent years, the derivative of forest is still negative, and the reforestation is new growth, which as I mentioned is not as ecologically useful.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS
If by "liquid U" you mean pronouncing /ju/, then no, GAE pronounces it "redooce" and "stoodent", not "redyooce" and "styoodent." From the article:

> yod-dropping after alveolar consonants (with new pronounced /nu/, not /nju/)
Insert obligatory reference to Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent here.
I much rather have my browser tabs there as I need to switch them much more often than accessing the menu.
I distinctly recall using a vendor's demo in a no-nonsense show-me-the-money kind of industry, about 4 years back. It was something that would definitely have been built as a "web app" at most shops I've known since, oh, 2012 or 2013.

It was remarkably responsive, fast, and light. Everyone who used it commented on how snappy it was.

It was PHP, doing full-page reloads on damn near every interaction, with minimal Javascript.
Sorry to hear you had that experience. At least it’s a lesson learned, in fact you probably learned many while doing all that. If I may ask, which industry was it?
To summarize: we know how to smash two particles together, but not much about what they are made of. Replace particles with stones and bones. 10000 years of science progress and we are still smashing things. With the occasional lab accident like discovering that mold kills bacteria.
Atlas robot does parkour
As others have mentioned, it's being used when writing components. Why does it work so well for components though, since you could just as well still separate the CSS? I think it's because of code co-location. Everything that describes how a component looks and functions lives in one file only. That's also why inline styles and utility libraries are palatable now, it's easier to reason about if it's described directly on the element, and you don't need to remember to update all usages of the inline style since it's a re-used component. It's even one step less indirection than using class names in that context, which is handy.

I also think most people are quite bad at organizing CSS, so I'm personally thankful for this change even though I love a well organized simple CSS/HTML site. It means less projects I inherit are rabbit warrens of legacy CSS to unravel.
I often donate my running shoes to the street.

After 700km they're no longer good for running. But they're perfectly fine for walking around and as general footwear. Better shape than a lot of what I've seen folks living in the streets wear.

Someone always takes them within 3 hours of putting them out.
The way the robots moved in the movie "I, Robot" actually feels a lot like this. Impressive and scary.
Silly one that I discovered: my t-shirts all developed a hole in the center of the stomach area first, before any other damage. It appears to be from rubbing between the seat belt of the car and the zipper/button area of my pants. So I've started pulling the shirt out of that spot after I put the seat belt on. Too early to tell how much of a difference it's made.