skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what I was thinking, one way to get a estimate of this number would be to compare per capita infections and deaths with a country with somewhat similar demographics that had no real lockdown measures to see roughly how many lives were saved. The Netherlands comes to mind.

Another way to do it would he to compare only the under 65 per capita infection rate in a similar country (could also be Netherlands) that had no lockdown and use the mortality rate for that demographic in the first country (which would be Canada in this case) and determine roughly how many lives were saved.
Waste storage is a political problem, not an engineering problem.

It's similar to climate change in that we need to educate the public better so we can make progress.
Are we? I mean, where else are excess savings going to go? It's clear that every time stocks start to seriously pull back that the Fed just pumps out more money. At some point it seems like yes, stocks are overvalued, but I'd rather put money into something with productive capacity, as opposed to something like cash which more and more seems like it will just lose value faster.
Sean Parker?
I should also mention, Abbey gate, the one that was being used as a rat line... suddenly getting a lot of attention, and then getting nailed with a SBIED. Do people think that's a coincidence? This game is played for keeps.
That's not NP complete. There are two major differences:

1) it fits exactly.

2) you are told there is an answer

NP complete defines a generalization of a problem. Just because a general problem is hard doesn't mean every set of numbers is the same difficulty.

The problem of course is they are overthinking it using an adult brain. Just think stupid: add toys until you go over, then remove some. Start from largest to smallest. Etc.
Why don’t we judge each action on its individual merits instead? Why can’t we simply say “yup, this site is a problem, nothing of value lost here” without worrying about whether they’re going to block speech about whether 2 or 3 teaspoons of yeast is the right amount to put in a loaf of bread, or whether my candidate for school board is better than yours?

Let me be super clear here: nobody is entitled to use other people’s stuff to make trouble or potentially harm society. Not your mother’s house; not Facebook’s messenger. If anyone gets to use anyone else’s stuff, it is at the owner’s pleasure and under their conditions.
> Afghanistan does not have a stable leadership at all

Because your country invaded their country.
Plenty of second-hand windows pcs and monitors get thrown away daily by businesses, a flyer dropped online, the newspaper or the local shop would probably get you one for nothing
Why is this on Hacker News?

Commies deserve only one thing - death.
"voting rights" - more like "election stealing rights"
Bezos slavery battalion . . . .
Handing over what will undoubtedly become a kill list to our sworn enemy is beyond anything i could have ever imagined.
I disagree with this at a very fundamental level. I'm not sure how to express my disagreement.

I'll pick a seemingly random point:

> Pick a language that most programmers consider weird but whose median user is smart, and then focus on the differences between this language and the intersection of popular languages.

This heuristic used to apply to Python, but it no longer does. (Partly thanks to the the "Python Paradox" essay I suppose; most people now think learning Python will give you a nice career path).

All this heuristic says is that this language has some novelty that attracts people who are interested in novelty. People who are interested in novelty in the field of computers tend to be smart people, but they are not reprsentative of the "population of smart people working with computers"; they are just a small slice of it.

I might even go so far as to say, it's a slice of people who are just interested in things but not particularly interested in making finished products.

Most of the people who work with or on various linux distributions also fall in this category: they are smart, but they are not interested in building a solid working desktop environment as much as they are interested in just playing around with things for fun.

For them, their subject of interest is like a puzzle game that they spend their time exploring. There's no specific end goal. No specific product to be built. Nothin to be delivered to end users.

That's also the appeal of weird languages: the novelty itself.

This might be a matter of definitions, but to me a good language is one that allows you to deliver a solid reliable end product.

Maybe something you write in 5 lines of lisp will take 30 lines in Go. But this is not an issue at all.

The mental energy it takes to write the 30 lines of Go is probably lower than the mental energy is takes to write those 5 lines of lisp.
The clarity presupposes that 'cumulative covid deaths / million' is the ultimate measure of a society's worth and achievement. We are incredibly focused on this one metric, to the expense of literally everything else.
It's probably not the worst possible scenario, but it certainly is among them.

I think it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think of things that could get added on to the current scenario to make it even worse.
How could it have gone worse?
It is a good metric, but it comes off a bit callously, and if you're going to get into the weeds there you might need to consider that one persons years are not used as well as others by many metrics, so how do you calculate that? Income per year on average? Children reared? Discretionary spending as a judge to how well someone enjoyed their life?

I'd say stopping at number of deaths is a better metric.
Who cares how much wealth they have as the new government, you're not importing black hawk helicopters, missiles, thermal weapons from first world nations or even Russia/China and equivalents easily. Just because there are weapons markets doesnt mean you're getting access to high tech stuff. And even if they do eventually, why make it easy for them. The point is every amount matters and this screams of incompetence when all you needed to do was at least strap some C4 to the big stuff. On top of this, them parading around in US gear makes us look like even bigger clowns.

Aside from the gear, the loss of life is a glaring failure.
Yes. The worst, most damaging sort of retreat is a disorderly retreat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rout

The US forced itself into a disorderly retreat, where our troops are trapped in a small urban airport surrounded by the enemy. The perimeter is barely defensible, and the approaches are controlled by the Taliban, who are only marginally in control of their own fighters, let alone worse actors like ISIS. The entire airport is within mortar range, and most if not all of the landing air space is within RPG range.

The strangest and most damaging move we made was to give up Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul. Bagram was home to the US military for twenty years, and as such it was already set up to facilitate any sort of withdrawal on any desired timeline. It had a defensible perimeter, and enough space to shuttle and buffer the people we needed to get out of the country. We abandoned it before even starting the withdrawal, for no good reason that I can discern.

As a result, we and our European allies may now be forced to abandon hundred or thousands of our citizens, and tens or hundreds of thousands of our Afgan allies who are now prey to the Taliban. And as another commenter pointed out, both the US and the British handed the Taliban detailed lists of these Afghan allies, which may help ensure their slaughter.

Biden and the military leadership put the military into a position where there are no good options. Maybe not deliberately, but the incompetence is stunning in the truest sense of the word.

Note that Trump did a similar thing in Syria in 2019, and may very well have done worse if he was still President. The biggest difference is probably that he wouldn't have allowed as many of our Afghan allies into the US, as his immigration advisor Stephen Miller helpfully pointed out last week. And he certainly would have blamed the Afghans for their own plight; this again is what Trump did in 2019, saying that our Syrian Kurdish allies didn't deserve our help because they didn't help us on D-Day in World War Two, whatever that means. Beyond idiotic.

So that's what the US has to offer recently in terms of foreign policy. Two vain, incompetent presidents helping to set up the next Middle East crisis.
> Well, this is what is revealed by a quick Google search:

Sure, it might be. I'm not the one making claims challenging anything's validity, though, so it's not on me to provide any evidence for or against anything.

If you're going to make a post after a _single accident_ saying something isn't safe enough, you should be expected to define how you came to that conclusion.

In this case, though, it's just a general dislike for Tesla.

edit

I'll also add, your post is obviously anti-Tesla as well. From Tesla's website:

> In the 1st quarter, we registered one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.05 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 978 thousand miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles.

Which can be corroborated here:

> https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/SASStoredProcess/guest
I don't think you’re wrong in pointing out that the internet is likely more homogenous the further back in time we go. It’s a hard thing to be wrong about with respect to any scene. But I don't think I agree that it means that we must bend on principles of freedom of expression, digital civil liberties, and anti-censorship and anti-central control. And if definitely doesn't mean the internet wasn't possibly still the most diverse place on the planet even shortly after its inception. Now that the internet has taken the world stage, we must continually fight and push for the society we want to build, for what’s right, really. We must educate and in certain ways indoctrinate. Otherwise we risk losing our values to the swaths of normies—especially now that other cultures are vying for their own version of comfortable.
Unless you think machine learning by is going to put statisticians out of work, R will stick around. It also has a lot of libraries useful to scientists.
I fear it's going to be like 90's Russian hyperinflation (ending with default). Ain't gonna be pretty if that happens, for anyone in the US or abroad. There's also nothing the Fed can do about it once it starts in earnest.
Thanks! Much better!

Sounds like good news. Let’s hope it works out…
Yeah he holds a British citizenship and has studied in the UK is really not clear why he is delivering food in Leipzig of all places.
I saw a fascinating video on YouTube a few years ago by Tim Hunkin (of Secret Life of Machines), where he uses his home-made Cibachrome camera to shoot ultra-large format film. By ultra-large, I mean poster-sized, and the camera is made out of old road signs. He develops the film positive right in the camera, and within a few minutes he has a very large photograph. Cibachrome was last produced in 2011, and this was Tim's sendoff.

https://youtu.be/5AOlPuTQt-M

Here's the Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfochrome
> for better or worse the risk of 'random' luck the system failed means Tesla stats should be 10x or better than human driver.

Based on what?

> A marginal improvement is not going to cut it.

A 3% improvement is over 100k people not injured. I don't agree at all with your stance.
Your links give the fatality rate for confirmed cases, which is basically useless. For the most part only people with significant symptoms bother to get tested and counted as cases, which skews the fatality rate artificially high. What matters is the actual fatality rate over all infections. The CDC documented their estimation methods on their site if you want to get into the details.
A prison is a jail. While I would like to say deaths are less likely in say a city or county jail, the data is not differentiating. County "jails" are included in most prison data. One of the links is literally about "jails", so the pedantry is not useful.
Windows is one thing, but I heard that Warcraft 1 or 2 had a patch to fix a crash that occurred after the game ran for three weeks. The mystery, to me, is how the hell did someone discover the problem.
It is true, California, namely SF, has the highest density of homeless people I have ever seen. Climate, as the author points out is a huge factor, but it is really a confluence of climate, housing costs, and lenient policies toward vagrancy.

A. It is possible to be homeless in much of California’s coastal cities and towns and not die of exposure. In DC and NY you could easily die of heat stroke in the summer, hypothermia in the winter, or a hurricane or tropical storm if living in a tent or on the sidewalk, so eventually everyone needs to find shelter.

B. Housing is so incredibly expensive on the west coast that you can effectively be working a full-time job and still not be able to afford basic housing. This is not really true of anywhere on the east coast. Sure, cities like DC and NY are expensive, but you don’t have to go too far from the city center to find moderately priced housing. In other east coast cities on the east coast homes and rent can be downright cheap and you could live with a roof over your head, albeit not well, working full time at minimum wage.

C. SF is very lenient and tolerant of homelessness. NY and almost every east coast city, is much less so. Police will clear streets and not allow encampments or people to loiter or sleep in certain areas. These street clearing policies certainly do not solve homelessness, but it does reduce visibility of homelessness. During my last visit to SF homeless people were pretty much everywhere, in every neighborhood and every park.
"Excess savings" are going to panic and go to "the mattress" at some point, when it becomes clear "excess savings" are invested into a de-facto Ponzi scheme which has no bearing on the real world at all. See e.g. 2008 or 2001 before that.
I believe that increasing trend in overdose deaths was accounted for in the excess mortality calculation used in the article.
As I understand it, this is correct.
> Its not the act of pulling out, its the execution that frankly could not have gone worse.

Everyone who says this us deluded about the depth of failure that led to the withdrawal and the constraints that placed on the execution of the withdrawal. We couldn't make the Afghan government forces not collapse instantly, nor could we (productively, at least) reinvade to replace them and provide the capacity to operate more broadly during the withdrawal.
For people who read lot of DFW’s stuff, did you find The Pale King to be as good as the rest of his work, is it with reading?
What a completely different user experience.
> Show me someone who's produced remarkable output and hasn't done shitty things.

Paul Graham?
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I actually knew the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution guy (Greg Fossedal) fairly well at the time and had a fairly long history with him. I don't think I ever got him to understand open source principles and he was always rather rooted in academic principles. In that vein, Linux definitely was bootstrapped from Minix but, at least arguably, there's never been a lot of formal acknowledgement of Minix' contribution to Linux. Even if everything was entirely legit from a license perspective.

ADDED: In other words, Greg always most objected to the lack of citation more than anything else--which is very important in an academic context.
Mods, please fix "smart" quotes
As an intermediate Linux user I’ve found shell to be both wondrously powerful as well as frustratingly difficult to write.

You can do so much. And the model of chaining known, stable programs together is elegant.

But it feels hard to write and maintain good code with. Even in this barchart program there’s a string of awk within this code.

So it got me wondering: is there any high quality text editor or IDE support for shell scripts? Perhaps one that even understands or looks at the inputs and outputs to other programs and understands hen you’re writing awk or sed or whatnot inside it?

And what about the concept of a higher level ergonomic language that compiles to a shell script?
Dumb question: why do all tumours have this in common? Do they all develop it independently? Or: Is it something that healthy cells would also do, were they to be put into the same acidic conditions? Or something else?
Peak parenting right here.

Tell me about a time when you over-engineered a solution to your child’s homework or school project!
> Retaining information in an organised way that scales is a huge unsolved problem.

How so? Libraries and archives have been around for a long time, and seem to work pretty well.
I would be okay paying a one-off fee for lifetime access.

I would never pay a recurring fee. Subscription services sap a little mental energy from the subscriber for as long as they are active (and occasionally after they are supposed to have gone inactive)
For those looking for a no-censorship-ever-of-any-kind alternative, consider Status:

https://status.im/get/

If you don't need or want a crypto wallet or dapp browser, then simply don't use those parts of the app.

Relevant specs:

https://specs.status.im/

https://rfc.vac.dev/

Relevant repos:

https://github.com/status-im/status-react

https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop

There are trade-offs, for sure: since there's (deliberately) no integration with contact lists (address books) of the OS or other apps, your social circle probably isn't using the app already, or in any case isn't discoverable.

The public chats facility has turned out to be too spam-prone for "well known" / advertised chats, e.g. #status. However, if you create a public chat that has some unguessable component (e.g. #myfriends-a9e72ab5) and you share it with friends (even lots) in a reasonably private context, then the chances of it being spammed or randomly joined are quite low. Note that public chats, while "public", are still E2EE, using a chat's name as the basis for a symmetric key.

1-to-1 and private group chats are highly secure; the latter have a max size, and depending on their size and your device, sending messages can be a little slow.

Creating a robust alternative to the existing public chats facility has involved a lot of work: the forthcoming Communities feature provides a discord-like facility whereby founders/admins of communities can take advantage of various mechanisms for moderation and governing membership. The Communities feature can already be enabled in advanced preferences of both mobile and desktop apps, but note it's a WIP.

The moderation mechanisms for Communities don't undermine the no-censorship principle of Status because:

(1) Any user can create a community.

(2) A community's rules are managed by those with a stake in the community: there's no override by Status-the-org nor anyone else.

(3) The underlying nodes of the network form a decentralized p2p network, i.e. there's no central actor/authority that controls the flow of messages.

Re: (3), running a Status node should be simple and incentivized.

The "incentivized" aspect is a challenging problem and not solved yet. Long story short, engineering an incentivized decentralized messaging network (it's not a blockchain!) is harder than incentivizing a blockchain network.

That being said, the "simple" aspect isn't too difficult to solve, sneak peek:

https://github.com/status-im/status-node

Finally, with pertinent laws and regulations in flux across the globe, there could come a day when binaries aren't readily available (from app stores, GitHub, etc.), but thankfully there's always `git clone` and `make`.

Disclosure: I'm a core contributor at Status.
Children are the audience for freshmen orientation.

Isn't the idea that, by the time you are being given a commencement speech, you are an adult? Isn't that kinda the point of this speech? "Society says you've finished school and you're an adult now, but it's not gonna be that easy".
That's an almost impossibly broad question to answer.

In the context of this conversation? Moderation is evil because it is destructive, repressive, exploitable for the cause of tyranny (eg silencing dissent) and is the opposite of that which is good (freedom of expression, freedom of thought, free flow of information).

Like any other violence, there are times when it's warrented but it's always a balance. The greater good is to keep the forum open, so it's necessary to remove illegal materials. And that's an easy call when what is illegal is child pornography; but what about when what is illegal is a political message or even just a series of seemingly random numbers?

Sometimes it's the lesser evil (child porn is always the greater evil) and sometimes moderation is the greater evil (repressing political messages or being used in the service of propping up totalitarian regimes).

I apologize if this doesn't make things clearer for you. As I said at the beginning; the nature of evil is a broad question that has been wrestled by philosophers for millennia.
Sort desc first then it is pretty easy and can be stored as a bitmask.
The reason so many people hate maths is because maths is taught so poorly: https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

>The reason was that the books were so lousy. They were false. They were hurried. They would try to be rigorous, but they would use examples (like automobiles in the street for "sets") which were almost OK, but in which there were always some subtleties. The definitions weren't accurate. Everything was a little bit ambiguous – they weren't smart enough to understand what was meant by "rigor." They were faking it. They were teaching something they didn't understand, and which was, in fact, useless, at that time, for the child.

>[...] That's the way everything was: Everything was written by somebody who didn't know what the hell he was talking about, so it was a little bit wrong, always! And how we are going to teach well by using books written by people who don't quite understand what they're talking about, I cannot understand. I don't know why, but the books are lousy; UNIVERSALLY LOUSY!
The two best things I love:

* Sucking cock

* Talking about covid.
John Stamos Posts Photo from Hospital Bed, Assures Fans He's 'All Good'
You're absolutely right, thankfully we have countries that didn't really do lockdowns aside from closing borders like Sweden and Netherlands, countries with similar demographics as far as genetics and comorbidity, so we can get an estimation of that number if we like.
No I don't, bash is already installed on every system I've had to use, I don't have to waste time figuring out how to install it.

Given a fresh system I can get a non-interactive installation started in 40 seconds flat. If Ansible wants to be competent they need to strive to beat that metric.
I really like this address but your comment made me reflect that what I like most is probably DFWs delivery and style rather than the content of his message, which I don’t find to be especially profound. But also, he was a writer and a often depressed one so when you invite that kind of person what you might get is really well delivered performance by someone who knows how to sound wise and not cliched- and in that respect I think he succeeded. Though of course it is true that after the relatively meaningful period of college (for many) the absolute mudanity of the adult world is
like a slap in the face.
Something like the opposite also seems to exist.
During the floods in Germany, some people ignored the warnings, claiming that nothing really bad had ever happened before.