skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another data point, albeit with small numbers (25 people under 18 in England for the 'first year of the pandemic'.)

Deaths in children and young people (CYP) following SARS-CoV-2 infection are rare. Quantifying the risk of mortality is challenging because of high relative prevalence of asymptomatic and non-specific disease manifestations. Therefore, it is important to differentiate between CYP who have died of SARS-CoV-2 and those who have died of an alternative disease process but coincidentally tested positive.

Figure 1 is a flow chart that is pretty illuminating for their methodology. Basically, they took all 3100 under-18 deaths for the time period, then looked at the 61 covid-positive cases and reviewed the files. If Covid wasn't listed as cause of death, they go further in-depth to check for cases where Covid 'clearly' contributed to death. If the case makes it past that check, they rely on 3-person panels of 'consultants' for a majority conclusion, repeated until one is reached for each case. If the panel doesn't conclude that Covid 'clearly', 'probably', or 'possibly' contributed, they remove that death from the Covid total.

The net effect is that they cut 61 under-18 deaths-while-Covid down to 25 deaths that were at least possibly exacerbated by Covid, giving 99.995% survival rate among Covid-positive under-18s in England.
I wondered why I was able to read the article, and then I realized that I have this extension installed on Firefox called Bypass Paywalls. I'd recommend trying that.
it shouldn't be illegal just $3.99 a minute...
Anecdotally, I have a pair of Sony WF1000-XM3, bought them at full retail for ~£280, at the time they launched, my daily commute in London was unbearable. The second I hit a slightly busy station concourse it was skip-central, or the right ear would disconnect for minutes on end.

Couple of years later, Sony has updated them half a dozen or so times, and I rarely ever get skips or jumps now. I have them always set to emphasise quality over connection, and they have worked perfect. You can buy them new on the likes of Amazon for ~£120 now, which is a bargain.

Sony just(?) released the XM4 which have a slightly better form factor and better codecs, so I'm considering them next.
Is a Scolopacidae. This means that can't feed in the air and makes the voyage even more impressive. We have two similar species in Europe.
APFS has CoW semantics, so I would assume it uses the APFS filesystem features.
1. Stopping the music because its disconnected is literally non functional, its cool you can change your shirt without having to take out your head phones for 5 seconds but I just want mine to work while im going for a walk.

2. I have big hands buttons on the ear pod just knock it out of my ear.

3. I can take my bag off my sholder without taking out my wired headphones.

When I try to take my shirt off with wireless headphones they just get knocked out of my ear and im on the locker room floor looking for them.

Bluetooth doesn't have the range to do this without dropping in and out, at least in my house.

The big takeaway is that even the best wireless headphones on the market are less reliable than the cheapest wired.
The underlying reason for the bubble isn't gone. If it crashes it will bounce back up. To be fair, China's real estate sector is dying slowly as we speak.
Global PPP uses USD purchasing power in the US as the baseline.
Guide to GitOps (2018)
Birthrates among poor people are way down:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/562541/birth-rate-by-pov...

There may be some effect of the very poorest people having children for the purposes of benefits, but the vast majority of women will have fewer kids once they get access to birth control and financial independence.
It's like that here in Germany. It's a little more complicated but in the end mom and dad can split up to 14 months of paid parental leave time where no one can take more than 12 months.

Now the pay does not replace a full salary of course. It is a percentage of your pay up to a maximum of 1800€.

I know many dads (myself included) that have used this program.
Debt forgiveness does exist. You can declare bankruptcy.
You state "let real estate developers build housing. Full Stop."

Using your car example, if we allowed auto-makers to do anything they wanted, FULL STOP, well...fuel standards would be much lower and we'd have even more work to do on carbon emissions. Furthermore, when you look at most of the massive cars built today, the majority of trips will have on average maybe 1.2-1.5 people in it. Most people choose their cars selfishly, with little regard for local emissions, asthma, emphysema, or the broader climate.

Should automakers be making these huge cars, unregulated and unfettered? Wouldn't it be better for the untold billions of people not yet living, if we put into place guidelines and rules to limit the inefficiency of laissez-faire vehicle production?

Now, let's think of housing. Does it make sense in San Fran to build more single-family homes, when the footprint of where houses can be built is so limited? Or, does it make sense to have 3-5 family units, allowing less-rich or less fortunate individuals to still buy in to the market? Will the developers that you're "just letting" do whatever they want build these more useful domiciles? Or will they build luxury homes for the rich with higher profits based on higher prices?

I think individuals owning pieces of the city is a luxury. It makes more sense to me to have 3-5 family units, or small condo or townhouse buildings. Will those be built by the laissez-faire free market? The outlook is not good.
For anyone that has used Bartib, how does it stack up against Task Warrior, STUP, and Timewarrior?
I'm sure the bird started the trip with a full stomach, so that it had the fuel not only to power itself but also to repair itself in flight.
Just tried running it on my (terribly inconsistent and laggy) directv/att satellite internet, and the process crashed with NSInvalidArgumentException. https://gist.github.com/judge2020/ff0279a51ed59a56aa184867c0... (14" MBP base model)
> But I honestly believe most of these people simply can't program.
What is even more interesting is that these people come mainly for senior development jobs (I don't interview junior developers)

But how do you explain people who don’t know how to program being able to advance to senior roles?

Maybe they are able to program but completely depend on IDEs or having reference code to look at in their daily work.

Maybe they are in roles that are mostly managerial but not technical.

Maybe, again, there’s massive resume lying going on.

If something rotten is going on in the heart of our industry, it merits study.
Doesn't really matter. What matters is that in Japan supply and demand are equal. You could achieve the same outcome in the US with more supply.
While you claim to oppose the postmodern idea that there is no truth, you’ve ceded the premise to the postmodernists by framing truth in their terms of objectivity and subjectivity. The success of the postmodernists was precisely to discredit all “subjective” truths by way of distinguishing them from “objective” truths, which no common person can deny.

A stronger position is one that does not require the truth to be objective or material to in turn be universal and self-evident. Abstract truths, such as e^(i*pi) = -1 have no material basis and cannot be materially proven yet remain true and universal. The simultaneously purely abstract and non-arbitrary nature of mathematics is an obvious chink in the armor of the postmodernists’ worldview, so it is no surprise they have gone so far as to now discredit the universality of math by arguing that 2+2=5 https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1289001355437379589?s... (this is a Harvard phd student)
Increasing land use rights on a property can only increase the value of that property.

However, increasing land use rights on a neighboring property can decrease the value of the original property. For example, a neighbor might want to use their property to establish a brothel.

Nimbys want to control property that they don’t own. Seems like theft to me!
It's been my experience that if you read enough content online, you will realize that it's mostly people rediscovering old debates, and chiming in with what they think is new and insightful perspective which it usually isn't.
Wow this is indeed a wormhole, instantly crashing my browser on opening the site (osx 10.15.7, latest firefox)
I think sneaker aficionados would say that there really are designs that are better than others. That's even leaving aside functionality and just considering aesthetics. To those of us outside the sneaker-head community, sneaker fashion looks like a lot of noise and kind of silly. But I'd expect if one really got into sneaker fashion one could learn to appreciate the different colors or fabric patterns or whatever else drives their interest. And then one could say that some particular design really is better than another.

Same for tattoos or car modifications. Yes, there's a lot of signaling within your social strata, but if you're in that strata it's valid to say that some tattoos are better than others.

Also it's okay not be in the loop. Not everyone has to have an opinion on why Leonardo Da Vinci is a better artist than Botticelli.
What a sad and silly reply to an idea that conflicts with your own expressed biases. In essence saying: "I have my own emotionally charged ideological leanings, and because I see that this guy apparently has different ones, then none of his possible arguments matter. I've habituated my mind to shut down rational consideration when presented with contrary notions."... Amusingly, many on the left supposedly pride themselves on being more "rational" than conservatives.
So UK maternity leave is shared. Its a year with 6 months "pay"

How its taken is up to the parents. The people that I know who've taken it have split it fairly evenly. (I know I know sample size.)

I did not take any, as I was not eligible at the time.

As someone who does a lot of recruiting, I don't think "hmm I'm going to have to pay this woman for mat leave" because frankly that's bollocks, who knows who's going to be here for six months, 1 year or 8?

From a purely business point of view, the women that have come back from maternity are normally bargains. They don't ask for more pay, they are flexible and are loyal, assuming we have made the correct allowances for being parents.

also being a parent in tech allows people to deal much better with the toddler tantrums/playground fights that seem to be common in this industry.
Sorry but it's zoning's fault haha.

> Zoning issues/lack of supply would imply that there are lots of homeless people without a roof over their head.

The price of housing only matters to people who don't already have homes they own. 65% of Americans own homes, so that cuts down your working set dramatically.

There are a lot of homeless people, yes - 0.2% of the population - but lack of affordable housing tends to be roughly equivalent to "perma-renting" as renting has a lower barrier to entry.

To buy a home you have to come up with a lump sum of money to make a down payment. If you can't do that, you're forced to rent or split accommodation or live with your parents. Lack of affordable housing doesn't mean homelessness. There's a lot of elasticity there.

> Investors have too much access to property. It's a system of greed that benefits those who entered the market early (typically boomers).

Investors buy property to rent because home ownership is unaffordable. Blackrock buying up property is a symptom of the market, not a cause. They don't see houses becoming cheaper because they don't see zoning reform on the horizon, so they believe there will be long-standing demand for their rental units.

If housing were to become affordable, due to a large increase in supply, these investors would get bowled over twice - once due to lower real property value and once more due to lack of demand for rental units as folks buy instead.

Even foreigners parking capital abroad, more supply makes that (a) a bad idea and (b) kind of irrelevant. I'm not saying that shouldn't be tackled too, but once again, zoning would solve the problem.
(July 2021)
Yes, it will probably take years before we all settle on standardized ways of doing these things. But in theory, they are possible now.

Yes, the initial tx and the final tx will provide data for forensic analysis.

Yes, the initial and final tx need some time to settle (something like an hour) and cost some money (something like a few dollars at current rates).
With the Shimano 8 and 11 speed hubs you can tell that some gears have a poor efficiency, it's really noticeable!

Apparently the Pinion and Rohloff fare better: https://bikeshed.johnhoogstrate.nl/bicycle/drivetrain/shiman...
What if software companies didn't run the country?
macOS has had a "hidden" WiFi diagnostic tool for years. It produces real-time-ish graphs of (IIRC) three different signal strength metrics, and it also dumps the data to a file on the desktop as it's doing so. By holding down the "Option" key and clicking the WiFi icon in the menu bar, the dropdown menu will display additional information about the wireless interface, and it will also include an entry that reads "Wireless Diagnostics..." or similar.
>The key difference seems to be not the fraud prevention systems, but the desire to help those in need

The key difference is the complete lack of regulation and data policies. The potential for malevolence in a country the size of Togo is limited, but I'd rather not have the same processes in my own country.
This appears to be the link to the article:

https://www.gwern.net/Notes#urban-area-cost-of-living-as-big...
He was dying as he wrote this (Pieter Hintjens died from cancer in 2016). I’m happy to see his blog here again, but I suspect what he was going through at the time influenced his writing.
Another issue with Fast.com is that sometimes it'll choose an OpenConnect box, which is inherently a box at a super close ISP datacenter meant for achieving gigabit speed without the ISP incurring upstream transit costs.
Making the Intel 4004 fully homomorphic
1) An integration with Metabase Cloud is on our roadmap for Q1! We'd love to integrate with Lightdash, but they don't have a public API just yet[1].

2) Several of our customers use us to alert on schema changes in Postgres, specifically so they can get ahead of application database changes that will end up in the warehouse, so you're definitely not alone! Here's a link on how to connect postgres: https://docs.metaplane.dev/docs/postgres

That's an excellent stack and one we kept front and center when building out Metaplane, so definitely let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions here!

[1]: https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash/issues/632
By clicking the Google Calendar logo on the right sidebar? Or by clicking the Google Apps '3x3 white dot menu' icon in the top right?

I tend to use the latter because the former only pops out a small version in Gmail, the latter is a shortcut to open the full site in a new tab.

Related - In Outlook.com's interface a similar function exists for the calendar there - BUT it opens the shortcut in the same tab, taking you out of your inbox, instead of opening a new tab. It's frustrating to learn the 2 behaviours for the same type of shortcut. Who wants to close their inbox when opening their calendar?
Probably not your next car, or the car after that. From what I gather, this is a "maybe" kind of thing, 10 years out. And even with that, auto manufacturers can and will drag their feet like they have other regulation (back seat child detection)

https://www.thedrive.com/news/43086/new-cars-will-have-to-de...

"The text later on in this section of the bill alludes to this possibility, stating that if 10 years have passed and this mandate hasn't been implemented, the Secretary of Transportation is gonna have to explain why and provide some possible steps forward."
People conceptualize cars as an extension of themselves, their own private pod that they control entirely, but as automation technology improves I think they're going to have to start thinking of it more like boarding a train or an airplane. Increasingly, we'll have tech to make decisions for drivers that are much better than the decisions they make for themselves (even before we get to full automation). This includes stuff like breaking for obstacles, but it might also include things like speed governors or GPS-enabled traffic-law enforcement.

I don't see any way around it. Once you have the tech to prevent an automobile from exceeding the speed limit in a school zone it's obscene to manufacture cars that respond only to the input of the driver's foot on the accelerator, with no other considerations. At some point, "I have decided to drive 130 mph down a residential street, because that's what I've decided to do in this exact moment and I have a right to be in control of my own car" just isn't good enough. You have all these other inputs and, what, you're just going to ignore them?
Yes, because lottery is random and unrelated to skill, unlike starting a buissness.

So there surely is no guarantee for anything, as your assumptions about some market for example might be wrong - but again, making right assumptions is related to being smart.

Picking the right numbers is related to chance and unless you believe in magic, you cannot influence your chances.
Ok, sure. I’m on board with that. Except businesses will probably have to pay higher taxes to support such a scheme.
Businesses are the wealth drivers of our economy (as we’re so often told).
Money either comes from taxes on them, or on taxes on the people that they pay. It doesn’t really matter. It’s all the same money.
Reality as Representation? E. Cassirer and A. Kojève on Quantum Indeterminism
You comment only makes sense if you assume that they are poor of their own fault rather than due to a history of severe exploitation and other uncontrollable factors; and if you assume that the strategy can't be considered independently.
Smalltalk started to be generally available (outside research labs) in the mid-80s.

I think it started to be widely available with Squeak in the 90s -- at least, that was when I picked it up. I'd been interested before but couldn't really afford it.
I don't think this attitude is helpful - it's going to leak out in your interactions and poison relationships.

You do need to consider the context and background of a person before you can properly understand or trust their opinions and advice. For example, a physicist may be ignorant of how car engines actually work; a mechanic may be ignorant of some of the underlying physics. You really need to get to know people and build a long term relationship to understand if their opinions on a topic are useful and informed.

I don't think there is a simple rule to working with other people - you just need to build a wide body of experiences yourself, and beware of relationships that grow too quickly or where the other person appears to have a hidden agenda.
You can't move bitcoin off proof of work. You can fork it, and the fork can become more dominant, but the fork won't be bitcoin. Similarly for changing the 21M coin limit. Bitcoin is an idea, not a democracy.
> Maybe you should not live somewhere so expensive ..

What should e.g. waiters / waitresses do then? Drive to work for hours every day so they can serve coffee to those who can afford to live where they need to work?

You make it sound simple but it is not.
It's not jsut maximalists, every day people will tell you that the richest people invariably create cartels and it ends up badly. This time is not different
Planes are that low twice every flight.
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is accounting for both absolute exchange rates and differential purchasing power across different countries

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/09/how-america...
If you are going to bring China and India to the conversation, you have to talk about the amazing range of high quality smartphones for $150
Real Estate prices are beyond saving at this point, prices skyrocketed slowly up until now.
> Those changes are fine and should be decided by those affected, not some set of interlopers

Those "interlopers" are people's sons and daughters who want to live where they grew up, growing families that need more space, the retired on a fixed income, the working poor struggling to stay housed, those who spend hours commuting, etc. All of these people are your neighbors, not the enemy.

> who just want to basically steal the value that has been created and maintained over decades or centuries.

That depends on your definition of "value". Do you mean the well-being of everyone in the community? or the market price of your house?

For many people jobs, amenities, and culture make for desirable neighborhoods. Single family single use zoning doesn't contribute to any of that.
I personally subscribe to the advice given in The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck: You only get to choose your struggles in life. Happiness is the transient feeling in having dealt with a problem. You'll never run out of problems to deal with, therefore, the one thing to care about is what problems you end up engaging with (i.e. "give a f*ck about").

To that end, the ten items presented in the article are decent pointers towards "good" problems you might want to have (and which "bad" problems you'd want to avoid). It's part framing and part steering your life circumstances.
One of the most interesting things in this experiment was the speedy trial imo. We now have an agreed way to change/improve consensus rules. It's very difficult to get a handful of people to agree on something, let alone all the different participants in this global/borderless system.
Ignore at your own potential peril..

BTCers don't care, apparently

https://coingeek.com/could-taproot-privacy-features-make-btc...
I don't care about Bamaze, please stop telling me about Bamaze. Jesus. Journalist writing needs some kind of a reboot.
That is a straw man argument if I ever heard one. The author is claiming the system won’t work
I skimmed this but it seems pretty heavy motivated reasoning.

> However, despite being extremely energy intensive, per unit power consumed, Bitcoin mining is probably one of the most environmentally friendly activities in the world. This is due to the unique flexibility with respect to where the power is required. This means miners often choose renewable power due to the low stable costs or miners are able to use otherwise wasted or stranded energy. This is a fact often claimed by Bitcoin proponents and it is probably true. Per unit power consumed Bitcoin is likely to be exceptionally environmentally friendly.

Ok, but what's actually happening? We can pontificate about how bitcoin mining could be hypothetically switched over to entirely renewable power because it is geography and time independent, but what's the cold hard reality?

What % of energy used in bitcoin mining is from coal or other fossil fuels?

What's the delta amount of fossil fuels burned compared to bitcoin not existing? How does that compare to other ways of sending money digitally?

Any defence of bitcoin on environmental grounds that dodges that question is flaky at best.
If someone is well-off enough to be in a position to choose, renting is essentially paying a premium for freedom of movement. Used smartly, this can be an avenue to dramatically increase earnings over time because in today’s economy switching jobs is one of the faster ways to increase wages. While previous generations may not have had that problem, I think it changes the own/rent calculus for younger people.
Its the other way around. The things we eat don't have a flavour. Flavour is created by our minds. Thus we evolved to find these things delicious, not the other way around - and this way also no surprise that there are tasty things all around us.