skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you learn something, just write about it. Don't overthink it. Likely no-one will be reading your blog unless you have something super unique/interesting. If you have something really compelling (eg, solved some problem other people are hitting) it doesn't matter too much how good the English/blog structure is; as long as it has useful information, you are winning.
Of course this is just one in an interlocking series of "Epic Fails" that held up long enough and now will be forgotten in the face of the next major media panic fest. So it was, so shall it ever be...
“Overwhelmed” means “hospitals, doctors, nurses, and health care officials all over the world say they’re overwhelmed, and say that it’s due to COVID”. This is what I mean by “conspiratorial” - you need to assume that massive numbers of people in dozens of countries are colluding and lying to believe that medical systems aren’t struggling due to COVID.

The idea that COVID and the Hong Kong flu were comparable is, at this point, outdated. For instance, the most liberal estimate (per Wikipedia) of HKF deaths is around 100k in the US. Adjusting for population growth you’d see something like 175k dead (the US population was 200M at the time). The US is now at ~800,000 excess deaths since the start of the pandemic, and rising.
Axios takes a brief victory lap for not reporting the news. Congrats, I guess. Meanwhile the generation that lived through the “WMDs in Iraq” suddenly starts believing in raw intelligence reports.
I Phreak Alone
So my understanding is that cases are rising due to Delta (even amongst vaccinated), which correlates with every other report I've seen. However I couldn't see in this report, what percentage of reported deaths (14) were unvaccinated vs single/double jab recipients?

The takeaway seems to be that, when borders open in Australia for my case, I'm very likely to catch covid; I don't so much mind catching it as long as I don't end up in the ICU or dead over it though (and ditto for everyone else in the country of course).
There is a corporate- and government-approved standard for false dichotomies, but it works as a de-facto standard, not published.
How exactly does this work? I thought that the fed controlled interest rates. Under what circumstances could the interest rate rise independently of the fed?
I create Udemy courses about coding [1]. More than 1-2h a week, though. I made around 7k last year - over the moon.

[1] https://www.udemy.com/user/lachlan-miller-4/
If decades of training leave you unprepared to do a single job that someone is willing to pay you decent money to do, you should seriously evaluate the validity of what you have been studying.

Which totally matches up with the utter nonsense I hear every time I hear about what someone is researching in the academic humanities.
What is your preferred alternative to react for creating a data driven web application?
I might be missing it, but the data here seems to show just cases, not deaths. According to Singapore's Ministry of Health, hospitalizations and severe ICU cases continue to be disproportionately made up of unvaccinated individuals[1]. Similarly, the population that's dying is overwhelmingly unvaccinated[2].

[1]: https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19

[2]: https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-loc...
I'm not saying you should buy one. I'm saying I have one and it is by far the best deal of any car I have ever bought. I could sell it right now for 5k more than I paid for it.
> A profound inability to inspect websites because they are now transpiled via frameworks and emit something obtuse and only machine, not human readable

IMO, the setting where open source communities are likely to grow is the right place to share code. This is also the setting where code is most likely to be understood, as understanding a codebase is very hard. Sharing code is not just a matter of dumping original source code to the public, and I think the use case around ordinary users examining source code is very, very niche.

And how should compiled-language communities like Rust handle the issue of sharing code? Should they distribute the original source code with the expectation that their users shall compile on their end? Is that the right way to share code, or is that just dumping code to the public?
right, or encapsulate in some sort of braces ;-)
There used to be a huge problem with people stealing railroad infrastructure and taking it into recycling centers for the cash.

The way this was resolved was by heavily penalizing the purchase of railroad steel. Today, you take in a sizable amount of metal to a recycling center near you, they'll make you sign a bunch of forms that guarantee you are not trading in railroad steel. If you lie on these forms, you are a felon.

It seems that going after the recyclers could fix the problem here as well. If someone is taking in truckload of sawed up catalytic converters, they probably didn't source them through legal means.
The unreadability of XML is grossly exaggerated.
That information seems to be listed in this report[1]. The TL;DR, if I understand it correctly, is that a single vaccinated person appears to be dying every other day on average, versus approximately 5 vaccinated people every single day. So that's a tenfold difference.

[1]: https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-loc...
As a matter of principle I do +EV trades
I keep seeing this, but every power bill I've ever seen has a monthly connection fee. With solar panels, that connection fee is frequently higher than the consumed power charges.

Isn't that paying for the grid?
pitching the nose down certainly does one thing: it pushes air backwards, meaning the helicopter starts moving forwards. the air moving across the body of the helicopter, rather than down it, is what starts the wind vane effect.

if the pilot tipped the helicopter to the right after leaving the ground, and then continuously held the control stick in the direction of the movement of the helicopter, the body of the helicopter would begin to face the direction of travel unless the pilot actively countered that turn via the tail rotor.
In the first example:

Do people really represent software versions as floats?

3.10 being converted to 3.1 makes sense. Use a string instead.
With an abundance of evidence it would be trivial to try and convict him, no?

Why, then, didn't they bring him before a court? It would have been awkward of course, logistically, but judicially, so worth it.
Elixir's LiveView is similar in my eyes, and more "client-side" tools like Surface (akin to Storybook) are making their way into the Elixir ecosystem.
They have deaths further down the page (it's a very long page).
>Small cafes can’t compete with Starbucks

Why do you say this? I don't randomly change pharmacies for my prescriptions, so I can't think of a "mom and pop pharmacy" off hand, but non-Starbucks coffee shops are everywhere. This has been my experience everywhere I've been in eastern states in the US from Virginia to New York.

My perception is that Starbucks is primarily a place to get milkshakes, and their coffee is undrinkable, and their food is worse.

Most other coffee shops do much better in those two categories. Some are also chains, but many aren't.
My hope is that the goal is/will at some point be for the web “standard library” provided by the browser will some day be rich enough so that you won’t need frameworks and would only need very few libraries at all. I really want a batteries included standard browser library. Does anyone anywhere (WHATWG, W3C, etc.) share this goal?
In France, during the whole year 2020, people were told that the hospital infrastructure was overloaded because of COVID.

Actually, the final report shows that COVID patients represented 2% (!!!) of the total hospitalized... And only 5% (!?!?) of what they call "critical care"...

This report from the ATIH (Official agency) was published in october 2021.

The report: https://www.atih.sante.fr/sites/default/files/public/content...

From LCP (a kind of French C-SPAN):
https://twitter.com/LCP/status/1458163736175386624
Hectares
I've read "Chicken Hawk", and while the stories are great, one particular scene made me not happy. Thank you, though.
Also, that massively centralizes the Internet in a way that's not great. If one of those CDNs gets hacked or just goes down for an hour, it breaks every website that uses it.
Sure, if you're happy with a company pulling moves like this, by all means. Make an informed decision.
But my point is that you aren't necessarily reducing the amount of fuel used. Either you ship coal, and make steel there, or you keep the coal here and ship the finished steel off. Either way, the metal has to get to China.
If people don't park, and this is more than a minority use case, there probably shouldn't even be parking, because it's probably a massive waste of space.

None of what you've written sounds convenient, it sounds like a massive pain in the arse. If I do have to pay, I'd rather just stick some cash in a machine on the way out, paying for the time I used then and there and making it impossible to be fined or get stuck messing about with an app when something inevitably goes down.

Cashless systems for physical places should honestly be illegal, it would fix a lot of this scammy nonsense.
Cloudflare web workers crypto API
> all about developer experience and neglected user experience

I think this is a mix of good old cargo culting and how hot the dev market is. Small companies don't have the leverage to tell their engineers "no" when they do a bit of resume driven development.

React makes sense for many of sites at larger tech companies paying big salaries because many of them are delivering a richer "application" experience. Some engineers blindly follow what "better" (massive air quotes) companies are doing. Others who want to work at these companies want the skills that will make them more hireable and so choose React. Devs who are not in either of these other camps make a small enough group they don't generally get their way.
The other side of that is abuse: if no one can be stopped from posting, that means no one can stop spammers and other phishers, prevent things like revenge porn which are required in many jurisdictions (e.g. how would it go if you couldn’t ban Nazi content in Germany?).

Whether or not that system could even function, it doesn’t sound like something many people would choose to pay for. It seems like it would be Usenet except far more expensive and slowed by the inability to function asynchronously.
Yes. I have peer reviewed for JFP. I have never been paid for it.
Interesting idea, but it doesn't seem to work as I expected. E.g. plugging in "leaflet" package I do not get other map display libs, only some mostly unrelated plugins.
With updating old packages popularity and download count might be not best metrics, as some less popular or rarely updated projects might be still usable. Security should play important role in suggestions, especially finding insecure packages in provided package.json list, and providing alternatives that should be easy to replace - introducing some new packages might result in whole day of work to get it working with all parts of project.
Normal Javascript and 10,000 hours like when mastering anything else.

HTML, CSS and Javascript are already extremely high level and capable. Do some xlib programming some day if you want that to be obvious.
I think it is becoming clear that nearly everyone on the planet will catch it, eventually. Vaccinated rates of transmission are not as favorable as they were when the vaccines were brand new, but the impact on severity of symptoms still seems to be holding up (both from datasets like this and my own anecdotal witnessing among friends). So, it's "keep calm, get vaccinated, and carry on", I think.
> The belief that we’re different from other organisms may be an incurable human illusion.

Except some of us don’t share this belief, at least not as it is normally understood. Don’t get me wrong, I believe I am different from crows and monkeys and dolphins…

…I just believe these differences to be quantitative, not qualitative - and it is the qualitative differences most articles like this opine upon (souls, levels of self awareness absent in other creatures, etc.).

Given that I do not believe in souls, it is easy(ish) for me to consider qualitative differences and conclude that only arrogance would support my dismissing self awareness among crows and monkeys and dolphins.

They may have it. They may not. And if they do, it may be alien to ours, so different they don’t think we have it either.

I am very comfortable believing and asserting that the differences between us and them are merely quantitative, more or less muscle here, more or less specific brain function there, perhaps largely equivalent affective function.
Don't look at cases only but also at deaths.

We know now that the vaccines don't protect that well at preventing covid-19. Partly because they weren't developed for the delta variant that's currently most prevalent.

But we do know that it reduces both the length of the infection and the time an infected person is able to transfer the virus and more importantly it works very well at preventing severe cases and deaths.

The numbers I remember from Germany are that an unvaccinated person is 8 times more likely to land in ICU than a vaccinated person.
I agree, and I'm trying to do something about it with two no-build libraries:

https://htmx.org - an 11k library that pushes HTML forward as a hypermedia, making things like AJAX, SSE and CSS transitions available directly in HTML

https://hyperscript.org - a 20k library that replaces jquery/javascript with an inline, HyperTalk inspired syntax

Both can be included on a site without any build infrastructure, and are attempts at bringing the joy of hypermedia and the joy of scripting, respectively, back to the web.
All that JS needs to become

1. parsed

2. lexed

3. eval'ed and executed

Not cheaply, but expensively.
Indeed! Thank you for pointing that out. It looks like the death statistics match up with the MOH's, so at least there isn't anything hinky about the data itself.
... the people that made it and wrote the submission we are discussing? how is this even a question?
It's a good thing for those developers.

The fact Apple can afford to do this simply reminds us of the fact they can demand a 70-30 split (85-15 after 1 year) and deem themselves the exclusive payment provider. That's the controversial part, which is what this issue reduces to.

Whatever the "fair" revenue split is, once you accept it exists, it's a net positive for the developer that Apple is reinvesting to grow the pie.

If anyone's hurt by this, it's their smaller competitors who won't get the same love from Apple's ad arbitrage team.
This is the relevant quote. Population wide fatality rate for non vaccinated individuals is about 9x higher.

> Over the past 7 days, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who are critically ill in the ICU are at 0.5 and 5.4 per 100,000 population respectively. Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died are 0.1 and 0.9 per 100,000 population respectively. Among seniors aged 60 and above, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who are critically ill in the ICU are 1.9 and 48.0 respectively. The number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated seniors who died are 0.4 and 9.2 respectively.
"I'm curious if this is a normal experience after an acquisition?"

It's called incentive alignment. Why work so hard for someone else? They have all the upside of any more 60 hour weeks.
You can't comment out a large section of config easily. For me, this is a relatively common use case for config files, so I take the position that JSON should be used for serialization only.
Somewhat on topic, the impossible flying camera in Soy Cuba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjuLkJ4m-mc
Yeah, I think this past decade people really conflated the deep learning breakthroughs with imminent actual AI. In reality what was invented here was advanced pattern recognition, not anything close to actual reasoning.

I don't predict anything good in the economy once people realize this. A lot of "AI" projects out there seem to me like they will eventually require some reasoning that is impossible to implement.

Perhaps this new AI winter will cause a crash, and the powers will use their newfound pattern recognition tools to make sure things don't get out of hand.
Maybe – but I think this assumes that general consumers will forever be unsophisticated with respect to their privacy. That may be the case, but I think it's a bold to claim to make. In my mind, that claim goes against the current trend towards more privacy.

I also highly doubt that a manufacturer of smart products would pass a "we profit off your data" discount down to consumers. Better they pocket the additional profit and then market it as a convenience for the consumer, which I think is precisely what's happening right now.
There is no fair share to be paid
Reality often times runs counter to our expectations though, which is why I wondered if no brace methods have been shown to enable simpler to understand usage / understanding.
What does a blockchain add over simple PKI? The latter is far more efficient and it can run offline so you’d have the possibility of, say, a factory or farm giving something to a truck driver with limited or even no network connectivity — something like a Yubikey could do the crypto more securely with the power budget of a solar cell.
It's not software that's the problem, it's the hardware that still doesn't perform at the level that was expected when it was under development. This is because of the fact that the 3DXPoint / Optane cells have higher than planned errors rates which require a controller much like flash does to perform error correction and wear leveling. This makes it impossible to provide the same latency as DRAM (the original goal), and pushes power requirements for the DIMM form factor up since each DIMM has to have its own controller for the 3DXPoint memory. So now you have most of the problems of flash without cells that store multiple bits (as in TLC/QLC flash) or the 3d layering that flash vendors now use.

Suffice it to say that it was promising while it was under development, but Intel neglected to factor in just how much flash vendors would improve performance and reduce cost per bit.
I’ve done this a few times. Usually it works out but once I lost like $400 because I kept doubling up. Was it worth risking $400 to potentially win $20? I don’t think so. Freaking house always wins.
> You can’t sell yourself into slavery or sign away your freedom of religion or speech.

is this because of court rulings or explicit in law?
I’d agree with you except for the fact that it’s really hard to say that developer experience today is better than what it was before. Especially once you adjust for the fact that browsers are so much better and standardized.
I think it's much simpler -- it's about the focus on design over usefulness. I really don't care if the u/x looks like someone's weekend VB project as long as it does what I want in an obvious, discoverable way. Some of the worst things in web (and desktop) u/x seem to come from the design-side of the house and are more about some 1950's design ethic of what would look good in a magazine layout, rather than treating the computer as a tool that gets shit done. (Of course, some sites _are_ magazines, and they get a pass...)

I feel the same about iOS apps -- they are all adventure games.

And in-place editing on a phone? Just fill the whole freaking screen with a big editor window in a giant font where I can target the cursor with my fingers, and let me submit it to the field when I'm done.

And get off my lawn! :)
Sure, that is another option. But your code still looks confusing.

Personally I mostly use indent to read code, so requiring that the indent matches the semantic nesting makes it much easier for me to understand.
This is a crazy harsh opinion to have about a templating library and the general practice of designing systems that are hard to misuse.

The value of “guardrails” like type checking, borrow checking, and simple APIs is they allow you to turn your brain off when coding. I don’t write code because it’s an artistic expression of self, I write code because it’s a lowish stress job and I need to eat.

In my free time I get some joy out of writing clever code but by far 99% of the code I write I want to be boring.
I'm sorry but could you please explain? I've never heard React (or any software really) being described this way. How does React act as a scolding nanny? The language it's written in already too liberal. I can't even imagine what one could consider complicated about React (UI libraries in every language are at some level complicated).

On another note, most of these complaints, IMO, aren't even specific to React. We were barreling down this future during the days of jQuery.
This is exactly the patronization I'm talking about. I have nothing more to say, I wish you luck with your project.
Same thing happened to me at Currys in the UK. Argued with the dude for half an hour and he finally gave in.

And they wonder why Amazon is dominating retail. Definitely heard that food and parking are different.
Cumulative cases are still below 4.3%, so about 7% of the population hasn't had the opportunity to build up immunity through infection or vaccination yet. I guess they'll either hit the herd immunity threshold soon or we get to find out that 100% is still not enough.
Differences between countries may be partly attributable to differences in method of counting.

Certainly in 2020, Belgium counted “even suspected cases of COVID-19 in the national death toll, regardless of whether the deceased person was tested.”, while others counted only confirmed cases (can be very low if you don’t test much) or ignored deaths in nursing homes (https://www.dw.com/en/belgiums-coronavirus-overcounting-cont...)
It’s been a pain sometimes when I try and figure out why something isn’t working… but if you are at all technical I really recommend NoScript!
Im sorry, But the issues raise have more to do with a particular implemention -- that is outdated -- then YAML in general.

E.g. "on" should no longer be treated a true. Thats a 1.1 version archaism. And 3.10 is going to have the same issue in JSON.

No doubt YAML could still be improved and maybe we'll get there eventually. 2.0 is a long discussed goal, but the creators of YAML (who I have talked to extensively) are cautious, thoughtful and methodic and won't make that jump until they are sure of it.

Meanwhile 1.2 is a fairly good spec, and difficulties largely lie with implementors and users.
HCL anyone? It does everything right in my experience (nomad, using it as a format for my own apps)
Perhaps little cores on a desktop could be dedicated to realtime / low latency stuff. But the overhead of having them available, even just conceptually, seems high. We've had CPU pinning and NUMA partitioning and shit for a while. They're not widely needed so it not a problem they're hard to use well.

Of course being Intel there's likely to be extra layers of insanity to prevent any interesting potential in the idea from ever being realized meaningfully.
Why is the link to spotify?

The link should be to Lex Fridman's own site:

https://lexfridman.com/podcast/

Isn't Spotify in the process of getting user infromation from how people to listen to podcasts?
What evidence do you have that civilization is being 'destroyed'? Seems "extreme" no?

Nobody is saying "stop" the spread, it is obvious it isn't going to just stop. "slow" it is a more admirable goal.
Anyone who says something like "fuck the billionaires because they spend money on space instead of fixing our problems on earth" has instantly lost their respect in my eyes. It's an opinion that betrays laziness, jealousy, and a lack of understanding about how the world works. Anecdotally I have never met an engineer with these opinions, you usually see them in the activist types, the types that are likely to go vote for Bernie.