skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see 5 cherry picked examples without considerations of many factors. All of this ignoring the clear trend we see in current deaths with Delta.

Just two basic things the charts don't consider:

1. If people followed mask mandates in states (e.g. Alabama vs Florida)

2. Population density and disease spread models (e.g. comparing Montana and Idaho felt like a reach, California vs Nevada doesn't consider spread in major cities vs how many major cities there are in each)

We absolutely should study this later, but some of these restrictions were little to no cost. Let's not lump them all together. Wearing a mask indoors vs if your kid can go to school or not are two very different value equations that may merit different answers of "if a restriction is worth it"
Submarines can't transmit on VLF bands. They can only receive from land based transmitters.
I'm still traumatised, thrilled, damaged and very excited by this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP0mVv0OsCA which you described as "I once played this for my friend and she forced me to turn it off because her heart was racing like she was having a panic attack"
Yes, however a weird side effect of the environmental laws in the US (and California in particular) is that you can use the state to incur so much cost to the builder to show that it would be clean, creates a huge sunk cost you have to pay back before your manufacturing plant is making any money.

It doesn't make a lot of sense, and sadly there is no equivalent of "recovering court costs" from the people who exploited the law to shut you down.
Furthermore, I would question the idea that having over 20 contributors (or a shitload of contributors) somehow makes a program more secure or trustworthy.

Intuitively, I feel it would be exactly the opposite.

Likewise, the more the code, the less the trust.
An amazing cold-war piece of informational propaganda.
Thanks to Fran Blanche for sharing it.
Should be called room cooler.
If you follow through to the referenced article, they show a map of CA with extremely high variability between counties. Moreover, the county boundaries themselves are quite broad geographically. For example, it shows Contra Costa as having 5+ gun deaths per 100k, but do you think that's Walnut Creek and Pleasanton's contribution? Or Concord's? Similar questions could be asked about Alameda or Los Angeles counties.
Anything news related is mostly corporate now when searching. Either it's a mainstream news channel for serious news or one of the checkmarked talk shows for satire.
Since corporations are legally people with rights of free speech, like individuals have...then they should be taxed like the average person is, on revenue.

If a corporation is responsible for the death of a person, the CEO, CFO, COO, and members of the board should serve prison time.

If the corporation is a repeat offender, then the corporation should suffer the death penalty. The assets liquidated a public auction. Also Corp Officers and board members go to jail and are forbidden from ever holding such position again.

I look forward to your down votes.
Wanna know how to spot an HN user in the wild? Mention Youtube and wait to see if they launch into dramatics. Grown adults getting mad at a tool for doing its job.

If you ask me, it's the same story with just about every single digital service; recommendations are never perfect, merely useful. What's more, the stakes are just so low, literally spare time. The level of vitriol feels, to me, disproportionate -- crowding out more interesting discussions.
Pigs in Clover (2005)
I wish this was at least quantified. If they want $100 for "Ad-supported Windows", what would they charge for a system without (basically LTSB but intentionally sold as a quantity of one consumer product, I guess)

I've always assumed the "let's profile and sell the data" was a either a bubble waiting to pop in the face of something GDPR-alike, or a tail-wag-the-dog scenario where they're gradually killing $100-per-sale products for 30-cents-per-user-per-month of new revenue. Would be fascinating for both consumers and investors to see what dollar figures they're using.
An acoustic pickup is a tacit part of the modulate/demodulate pair.
Zeronet may help for content that need to be updated
I think you, personally, have no right to complain because you know what "reserve" means in this context. Every single car rental company does this. If another consumer is misled because they honestly interpreted "reserve" literally, they might have a claim. But you and I would not.
Nobody was ever informed about, or got to weight up and decide, what the costs and benefits to the covid response are, and what should be done.

Because they were censored and bullied and silenced, and a campaign of fearmongering and coercion has been instituted.

Only "experts" who are hopelessly entangled with the pharmaceutical industry and gain of function research into coronaviruses have been permitted to speak. Experts who have frequently been wrong, backtracked, and even lied.

And people wonder why there is a significant skepticism. Replace covid with WMD and pharma with military, and the same playbook was used to coerce nations into going to war against Iraq.
> Recommendations drive a significant amount of the overall viewership on YouTube, even more than channel subscriptions or search.

I wish I could organize my youtube subscriptions better. Right now everything lands in a flat feed of videos and all the stuff I feel like watching now is buried deep within 50 music uploads.

I got myself into this situation by subscribing to hundreds of channels but I also don't want to pick favourites and unsubscribe from the rest, simply being able to put channels into categories would be perfect.
Armstrong Limit
* Pebble: Shipped January 2013

* Android Wear OS: Released June 2014

* Pebble Time (color): February 24, 2015

* Apple Watch 1: April 24, 2015

I wouldn't say they "invented" the category.
31C at midnight. I don't think you're gonna eliminate anything.
> She opened up her laptop, *fired up* Excel...

"fired up" in this context needs a place in the CS Hall of Fame
From the video: "Eventually, the entire mouse population perished". I find that part pretty hard to believe unless there was some additional external factor. A population crash is one thing. But mouse society apparently collapsed to the point where every individual died?
The navigation is not in control of the driving. At all. It is only suggesting a route.
FWIW they've said in their press releases they have been profitable since 2017
That's because you can't assess how much better an Apple Watch is than any of those defunct joke-competitors. Others can, though, like those who actually buy smartwatches.
They have explicitly opted to embrace unrestrained capital-seeking's amorality:

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagg...

I don't really expect the market to care much about this one way or the other, but I do.

(Their competition, Microsoft/GitHub, famously embraces government/military custom, even supplying services to those operating concentration camps.)

This seems to establish a norm for the industry; one of the many reasons I am not a participant.
His tone isn't "you are all idiots". His tone is "you all don't care about real progress, just selfish politics".
The exasperation comes from total breakdown of the internal story "we are all here to make the company better". Whilst at the same time people keep repeating that line.
yup. https://rivian.com/
Free will never made any sense to me as soon I started to think about such things. Events are either deterministic or random. None of that involves freedom of choice.
That fits more with numbers I've seen from several countries (UK, Israel, and I think Germany).

I was referring to the US in my last comment, it's the only one I'd seen so far that was so skewed to >95%.
You don’t think Tailscale has things listening on the open internet? When you use their control plane you are just outsourcing doing this to someone else (who is probably better at it than you but it’s still someone else). Lack of “feature parity” is a strange term for something that completely replicates a third party service but requires self-hosting.
The politicians in your country also heavily indebted the country further just to buy said vaccines even though ~26% took it and the rest firmly reject it. You would think said politicians would stop with this bs and try tackle actual issues, maybe create more Emergency Rooms or improve the poor state of hospitals.
Because you are never "the only one". Truly contrarian opinions would sound like madness to us.
Earthships
This has always been how Twitter operated.

It is in no way a result of last years debate, as the mentioned tweet did in fact break their rules.

While the author meant it as a jest, it nonetheless was actually encouraging self harm.
I never thought that the various governments would be the scariest part of a pandemic but it’s pretty obvious now in hindsight.
> “We want to be able to upgrade, advance [and] develop our capabilities ourselves, and as sovereign countries inside the partnership, each partner has that goal,” Commodore Moreton explained.

Is this flexibility really a worthy goal? I feel like it would be better for these countries to reduce the number of variables and work to scalably and cheaply build many of them. It doesn’t have to be one plane for every mission necessarily, but the ability to customize for each nation feels like a distraction rather than a feature.
Yes. Almost every single app framework has a shiny hello-world-todo-app pitcher that takes 5 minutes to write.

Still, every time, two weeks later when writing your real app, you'll inevitably hit that nasty reactive-router-fluxcapacitor-synchronization dead end inherent limitation (or bug) in the framework, which is world famous and has had an open issue on github for 2 years, where the only workaround is to do things in a much worse way instead, inflicting more pain than the benefit given by the framework.

What I'm trying to say is that when choosing a framework, i don't want to see a hello world as example. I want to know how well it will scale for future development.
Not to mention that it won't do anything about humidity. Even when it's not that hot, high humidity feels awful. Also not good for the house and the items inside.
> it nonetheless was actually encouraging self harm.

Uh, no it wasn't.
i have created script which monitor government websites. for apps i bought all types of devices to test.
One past thread:

DOS Subsystem for Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24555689 - Sept 2020 (180 comments)
Snap actually has a lot of benefits. Developers get a streamed way
of publishing Linux apps. Users get an easier access to apps, and
the benefit of sandboxing.

Case: at work recently I needed to use Microsoft Teams for a
business meeting. With snap, I only needed to do `snap install teams`,
and voila, I could start a web meeting with my customer.

Without snap, I would have to install Teams from Microsoft's apt repo.
I think this is pretty inferior to snap, because 1) It's harder to
manage, 2) implicitly grants a root access on my machine to Microsoft,
and 3) can break my system with package conflicts.
I respectfully disagree. Buildbot is saying they think institutional investors are betting on many of them performing well.
Yes, a colleague owns one. Renault moved production to Busan, Korea for obvious reasons: the Asian market us just better for these vehicles.

https://europe.autonews.com/blogs/renault-twizy-gets-new-lif...
Thank you for setting this straight.
Recently I discovered a YouTube channel relieving videos a matter of seconds apart consistently for months which appears to script video generation from stackoverflow articles.

Is there any hope of this meaningless content generation ever going to stop? I would l o v e for stackoverflow to litigate against some of these bodies, purely to stem the flow.
So, did someone cared to replicate the experiments?

And could Calhouns interpretations in his writings and the culturally pessimistic doomsayings the 1970s loved to spawn be confirmed?
This is the same reason too many nitrates is a bad thing. Nitrates can react with other substances to form carcinogenic nitrosamines.
Generally yes. If you have domestic defense contractors they can participate in various fitting and retrofitting programs without having to back engineer some of the SWaP[1] specs for the stuff the US defense contractors are making for the F35.

I also suspect it would help if you have air war doctrine differences with the US (like guns vs missiles as an example).

[1] Space, Weight, and Power. It defines the envelope within which the avionics and other gear have to operate.
Thanks for sharing! How did you direct yourself away from seizing? Was there one moment where they stopped completely, or was it a gradual improvement?

I heard an anecdote about how the actor Danny Glover willed himself out of having seizures. Looking it up, epilepsy.com says they stopped "for reasons unknown", which seems interesting. I can see a community of people who haven't managed to escape from a negative bucket not wanting to believe it's possible.

I've also heard of research into brain implants that disrupt seizures before they start, which sounds similar to what you're saying (but more invasive).

My uncle has suffered from (trauma-related) epilepsy for a long time. He's been to lots of specialists but nothing has worked. I wonder if there's anything he can do mentally to grab onto the edges of the experience and divert it. IMO, when it comes to medicine, people can be too willing to trust the experts, and give up their own agency/internal feedback in the process.
I agree!

And for the record: I don’t believe it’s possible, or desirable, to go back to the hunter-gatherer era.

As Trevor Horn would have it:

“We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far”
Yes. A good lifecycle model should include a disposal phase and associated questions. E.g what resources can be repurposed when we stop using X?
He was from Canada and never became a U.S. citizen, but to my knowledge, he lived and worked primarily in the U.S. for his entire adult life.
If they do it with humans I want to participate.
So the choices are:

1. A western company that has to abide to Russian's unlawful and immoral requests time to time

2. A Russian company, which either belongs to the state, or is fully controlled by the state, or has absolutely 0 power against the state.

You choose 2?

Another way of looking at it for me is this:

If, one day, Iran and US governments allow Google to operate in Iran, that'd be a step forward. It's true that Google _may_ have to bow to Iran's regime from time to time. It's also true that Google may _want_ to help Iran's regime from time to time (due to whatever interest) but their interest is not 100% aligned. It's only sometimes aligned.

That, next to all the benefits of Google operating in Iran, would definitely make me choose 1.
What do you call it?
Lots of good comments, but I think the under-appreciated aspect is having a source of motivation. From my experience there are broadly 3 for sport stuff: (1) you enjoy the activity itself, (2) other people - either social aspects or impressing people, or even peer pressure, (3) intrinsic "gamification" (increasing weights/distances/difficulty/... feels like leveling in WoW).

They feed off each other... e.g. you start going on hikes with friends because it's fun and then eventually realize that you want to hike some tall peak (objective chasing) that requires some boring conditioning or runs.

I think (3) rarely works for a beginner - didn't work for me, and you also mention giving up running and weights, both are pretty good for number chasing. So, you can find something you already enjoy doing, or find something to do with friends... if you hang out with people and occasionally do X, you will do X, and then do it more, etc. Another option is to join a running/swimming/training group or make friends with some people who already do stuff. Most people love beginners with positive attitude because they get to instruct and look impressive :) Another option is getting a personal trainer for some time, not just for the knowledge but for the peer pressure.

For an example, I used to do 0 of any kind of exercise, then accidentally made friends with some people who rock climbed. At some point I started occasionally going to the gym with them (social); then I moved and gave up climbing completely (nothing!). Then, I joined a beginner climbing group (forced social)... compared to my friends, who took care of everything for me, people were well, mostly beginners, so after a couple disappointing trips I actually became motivated to improve a bit in order to create better experiences for myself (intrinsic activity?). Then after a while I noticed that people (ok, mostly girls ;)) are impressed by my amazing upper-beginner climbing and that caused me to improve more (different kind of social). That really broadened where I can do and what I can do and so I started enjoying climbing itself much more. Eventually, the training and grade chasing also became a reward in itself. Many climbers tend to be woodsy people who frown at this kind of stuff, but after some soul searching I decided to consciously embrace it... it really helps with motivation. E.g. climbing hangboard is the most boring and lonely exercise imaginable, it's much more boring than even barbell; but I am motivated to do it because I need finger strength so I could send(complete) my goal route that would be my first "5.12b" or whatever... it's like playing videogames :)
Submitted title was "Scientists created the whitest paint. It could eliminate aircons". We've since changed it.
Both of those can be solved in a month with unlimited migration.

But then you get the "standards of living in this city have gone to shit" problem :D
> no, but i author and maintain some pretty popular projects and now work for a company that does pay, and also has a massive github and OSS footprint.

Would you say that you (and your projects) and employer are to some degree locked in now? Are either you or your employer likely to move away from hosting your projects on GitHub?
I replied. Check the other comments
My love: nitrocellulose lacquer over shellac over oil. Pops the grain like magic.
No-bullshit tenets for faster decision-making
> During field tests, the BaSO4 film stays more than 4.5 °C below ambient temperature or achieves an average cooling power of 117 W/m2.

That's pretty good for a roof in direct sunlight but it's not going to eliminate AC.
What does P-four-nines (p99.99) mean?
Rust also has panics as a separate feature from errors-as-values, same as Go…
What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
Let people do as they please, not everybody has to live with that “team player” mentality you describe.
Previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266924
It's the exact opposite
With the either functional approach you just move the error around, and when you can't deal with it anymore you don't even have the stacktrace to know what damn piece of code created the error in the first place
Many college-educated Chinese join the CCP since it’s essentially a requirement to move to senior roles in many organizations there. Exceptions exist, but I doubt there’s a single Chinese venture firm/unicorn that doesn’t have LPs or angels who are CCP members or have backdoor deals with the CCP itself.

I’ve found actual loyalty to the CCP to be varying. The more urban (especially the coastal urbanites from Shanghai and Beijing) and educated they are, the more likely in my experience that they’re only paying lip service to the CCP. They’ll even enthusiastically criticize the regime behind closed doors if they trust you - but I’m certain there’s also plenty of true believers. Take that as you will.
Evernote, Headspace (mindfulness app), Irccloud, YNAB, Voi (electric scooter subscription), Spotify, Netflix. And two newspapers.
"By the Embassy" is the critical point there though. Did your Korean friends?
I actually think Norm is an under appreciated impressionist.

Bob Uecker: https://youtu.be/eiooeRAdcjU

Quentin Tarantino: https://youtu.be/0imUF8EmDIQ

His Burt Reynolds impression, one of his most famous, was a good example of a good impression: close enough to show a resemblance but with a weird caricature twist. Most of Norm's impression were like this. His Johnny Carson was also not half bad.
> I went from searching for the hardest problem I can solve to searching for the simplest problem that will have the most impact.

This is a fantastic framework to pursue when, for instance, joining a new organization. You can quickly have an outsized impact just by looking for common pain points. As a corollary, it’s very useful to spend lots of time using your own product and talking to the users!
Negative comments in this thread and HN in general are exhausting. I very much wish this crowd were more optimistic and inspirational.
It's funny that they call "smart" doing what an app tells you what to do.
Lions, tigers at National Zoo in D.C. test positive for the coronavirus
Tiny usability improvement for small networks: “freeze” mode where the current set of peer public keys is frozen and no new peers can be added. Tie this to a (G)UI on each node to accept new peers anyway with user interaction using Signal style key visualisation, and you’re cooking with gas. Probably not worth it though, virtually nobody with three devices total and the time to do this manually really needs it.
I had to do view page source to see the HTML code. Very nicely written.
Repent! Repent! Repent!
It can't run only with client assets/JS, it needs a backend as well. With ElectronJs, you can use Nodejs as the backend

There is no official limit number of requests, but discussion from some forums, each TLD has a limit of 300-1000 queries each day.

In any case, you hit the limit, it will open up again. Unlike online services, they haven't been back since
I think in fairness that when "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is merely a euphemism for "we didn't bother indexing the things you might actually be looking for", a degree of scepticism isn't unwarranted.

(Source: I looked up several Irish politicians because I run an all-text website containing every single word that they say in parliament. I got nothing of use, or even of interest, for anything.)
So they don't actually know what direction to take aircraft in and decided on stealth.

Seems reasonable, all else being equal, the party that is detected last has a higher chance of winning.

What happens when a new detection method is developed that makes these planes not stealthy? Don't you then just have 4-5th gen craft that cost 2-10x as much?

Guess it takes a real war to discover the actual winner of modern warfare.
Just get nukes, no one will attack you then.
I think that the most fascinating fact about this upcoming IPO is that, to the best of my knowledge, GitLab is the first remote-only (i.e., no-headquarters) company in the world filing for an IPO. In any case (meaning even if I'm wrong that they are the first), I wish them luck and welcome the competition.

It's interesting to see that GitLab has adopted dual-class common stock structure, though I'm certainly not surprised. Some people and organizations (including some investment firms and stock exchanges) are not fans of multi-class equity structures, but I'm not sure that this fact would have any significant negative impact on GitLab's IPO. At least, these popular 10:1 or slightly less popular 20:1 voting schemes are not as aggressive as Palantir's three-class stock structure, where Class F (just three founders - out of five!) would hold practically 50% of the total voting power.

One strange thing that I've noticed while browsing through this S-1 document, though, is the lack of mention of GitLab's co-founder (Dmitriy Zaporozhets) in the stockholders table (p. 148). I would expect him to hold about the same ownership of the Class B shares as the other co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij holds, but definitely more than 5%, which requires a disclosure there. I'm not sure how to interpret the absence of his name.