skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You absolutely can use the arithmetic mean for percents and the result that B rises 10% in an average year is correct. The counterintuitive part is that the typical 10-year period is not the same as a sequence of 10 average years. Instead, some years will have higher growth than average and others lower. In the example, the split is exactly 50-50, so the typical annualized growth rate is given by the geometric mean.

The reason typical growth is relevant is because the question asks about the probability that B is higher, not how much higher it would be on average.
I was hopeful for a bit, then I saw some stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JurplDfPi3U and realized nothing has changed. It's the same old shit: reporters being willfully ignorant, business people misleading the public, and on and on. Wake me up when you have plans for a full-scale, fully-functional fusion plant that can actually be built in an economically feasible way. Until then, I don't care.
> “It’s convincing,” says Peter Bellwood, an archaeologist at ...

Why are they asking an archeologist to comment on a linguistic theory?
> The rest though are completely certain to help given how aerosols work

There's a lot in your comment that is past the available evidence.

Your comment started with the assertion that immunity "pretty clearly wanes post-infection". This isn't clear at all, and in fact, the majority of studies show a robust effect, especially with regard to mortality, but also for simple infection. The minority of studies that show a decline have generally shown minor declines, been extreme outliers, or have focused on meaningless metrics, like "antibody titers":

https://nitter.net/mugecevik/status/1430218372348878860?lang...

Then you talk about "N95 vs. surgical"...there are no studies to support your assertion, outside of pre-pandemic studies of flu in hospitals. Same for the comment about "brace on a surgical mask works well too". Plausible? Sure. Demonstrated amongst a real-world population? No.

Opening windows..."even a crack helps". Well, maybe. Ventilation is certainly more important than masks in general, but what level of ventilation? Is it really true that "even a crack" helps? Not really any data here. Mechanistically plausible, but lots of things are mechanistically plausible and make no difference.

"HEPA filter in your home." Absolutely no evidence of this. Again, mechanistic plausibility isn't the end of the story. There's such a vast array of things called "HEPA filters" that I couldn't begin to tell someone if their particular filter makes any difference at all.

In general, you're leaping from mechanistic theories and/or weak data to strong conclusions. I don't even disagree with most of them in principle, but I wouldn't draw the conclusions you have.
The Music of Fibonacci and Prime Numbers
Hmm, oddly enough, I've found Debian stable to be the most stable OS for my uses. That said, I do more writing and email than I do programming, so perhaps library dependencies aren't such a big deal for me. If I can run tex-live, emacs, pandoc, along with GNU standard utilities, email client, web, and music, I'm good.
PE is untimed and no one is looking over my shoulder. Plus there's a right answer---no hidden test suite.
Hasselblad was the opposite of Leica, big format vs small format
By cheap money you mean the rich have become so obscenely wealthy they can afford to spunk their money on moonshot ideas like interfering in elections or building rockets.
A hell of a lot of people and business don't trust GCP from what I garnered reading online forums, blogs and articles.

Too many services terminated or changed too often.

I've also read in the past their service and sales was diabolical.

Their market share reflects their reputation is my guess.

On a side note, in my region people go azure or aws or use one of local hosting service providers. GCP doesn't even get a mention.
If we define that Earth is not moving, factually you can't be incorrect, that Sun is orbitting Earth.
Right, the line of thinking is there a material that has the advantages of glass (reusable) without the disadvantages(heavy, easy to break, questionable integrity) and without the disadvantages (environmental pollution).

Sounds like aluminum would fill this niche to me, although that’s energy intensive to produce.
It is applicable here as many of the conspiracies are time constrained, but by the time the event doesn't occur the person susceptible to believing that stuff is already being led on to the next variant without even noticing what happened with the last thing

Doing a callback without offering any opinion or arguments helps them introspect about how incongruent their world is with reality.

“<person that died while with covid> was still doing research?”

“The last president didn’t get reinstated?”

“I like hooking up with antivaxxers because you only have to pay child support for 5 years instead of 18. the mom/baby will still be doing research(tm)”
> The biggest increases in expenditures are

Purchased services (janitorial, professional development, etc.) Staff costs, including teachers, administrators, and specialists, are up only slightly per student (down as a share of total) over time, as are supplies.
How Michigan grew its startup ecosystem
Here in Canada in my small province there had been a "can ban" for many decades. The ban was mainly to protect the jobs of local bottling plants although the reason was spun that it was to be green.

Then in May 2008 the ban ended. Up until then it was only glass even 750ml pop which seemed massive. Pepsi had twisted spiral 750ml bottles that seemed to weigh 10kg each.

When the can ban ended the 355ml pop bottles were replaced with plastic pop bottles but the plastic were 590ml. The 750ml glass disappeared and were replaced with 2 litre p[plastic bottles.

At my old work we had a pop machine in the lunch room it had glass bottles. It was obviously designed to have plastic bottles or cans. When the bottle fell it sounds like someone dropped a bag of hammers from two floor above you.

I observed how my co-workers who were used to drinking 355ml of pop now bought 590ml bottles of pop. The lunchroom fridge was stuffed with half drunk plastic bottles. Over the next few weeks there were fewer and fewer half bottles. Then eventually just a few half drunk 590ml pop bottles in the fridge. People unknowingly had trained themselves to drink nearly double the amount of pop.

I wish I had recorded it in more detail. It was a fascinating human behaviour event to observe.
But the available data shows between 56% and 80% have a passport. We certainly can't conclude "most people in the EU don't have passports" from that data set.
I'd hazard that the usage rate of RNDIS on iPhones is rather low, though.

And you may be right for certain contexts, but ubiquity counts for a lot.

"Gosh this bus is making a lot of stops, let me just whip out this USB-C/Lightning to Ethernet adapter and plug into my battery powered switch to access this content on my Raspi file sever" is something I've only said a few times, followed by "why didn't I make this thing ad hoc?" or "why'd I make this service internal only again?".

I do however have Wifi6 APs at home and get better than USB HiSpeed data rates from my 10GbE network. The whole network cost around $500, which is probably near what people spend on replacing crappier all-in-one consumer gear over a similar lifecycle. It seems unrealistic that anyone would be required to spend remotely close to that much to make a reliable video call, though.
It seems kind of crazy that for that amount, you could hire excellent full-time private tutors at a 4:1 student to teacher ratio. I know a number of parents who felt that their kids got a much better educational experience through COVID "pods" thanks to the drastically smaller class size, but they had to pay for it out of pocket. But since it appears to cost the same amount, why not offer that as a publicly funded option?
Does it matter that a blog post about an advanced Haskell topic isn't understandable by people who don't know basic Haskell? You wouldn't fault a calculus textbook for being incomprehensible to someone who doesn't know algebra. How is this any different than that?
> It’s Party over Planet.

This is a cartoonish take, bordering on Dada-esque invented reality.

Sure, Californians voted for Newsom because of his name… not because John Cox thinks gay people are equivalent to people that engage in bestiality, doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state, and has equally horrendous views on climate change as his opponent.

What are your thoughts on the Illuminati? Adrenochrome? Seth Rich?
Long-Term Effects of Alcohol
YouTube's Surprises
Sure, that's intrinsic when combining encryption with compression - but it shouldn't be a reason not to make compression optional!
>This article strikes me as a bit of orientalism used to pimp a personal finance blog, but I guess it strikes a chord with some folks.

Take a shot every time anything Japan-related is front-page'd to HN. Your liver will be unhappy.
Last summer Twitter alerted me to wild fire evacuations for my area (in Western Washington) hours before traditional channels reached me.
A friend of mine applied to Amazon, and they told him he should do the first ~100 problems of Project Euler to prep for the interview. As someone who is not at all advanced in math, I found this to be fairly discouraging. I feel like I’m a reasonably strong programmer without advanced math knowledge, and not sure why it would be necessary for a general dev job.
May as well accelerate the demolition.
Don't worry, the USA will soon have TM at the top of it with an "Owned by China" so we won't even need to do it. We'll just be forced to!
Yes, that's the usual ideals of universities. The difference is that usually it comes along with not being allowed to make extremely hateful or racist or sexist comments. There's a certain part of american society that has lost their ability to see this distinction and thinks that they should be able to attack other people, say they are not legitimate humans. They think, wrongly in my view, that they aren't free if they can't attack people in this way.
Agree on all counts, though if I'm being pedantic...

> J.S. Bach also had less influence on popular music than the Beatles did, even in his own time, during which he wasn't particularly popular.

J.S. Bach is probably the single greatest influence on tonal, Western music, period, and thus an argument can be made that he had much more influence on pop music than The Beatles alone because without him, you don't have The Beatles. You can draw a straight line from him to literally everyone that came after him.
Utah tech startup, Weave, just went public
Consumer-purchasable FPGAs can emulate systems up to the SNES, and soon PS1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1GgF6X-7A). https://www.retrorgb.com/mister.html one requires a DE10-Nano ($176.50) and needs a $60 128MB RAM module for most consoles.
Support Python 3.10 pattern matching syntax · Issue #2242 · psf/black
Taiwan was, and is to a lesser degree these days, also highly patronistic in terms of you needing to know people to get that kind of government support. That kind of corruption was why the locals were protesting and organizing against the KMT in 1947 and still echoes today in a wide investment gap between northern and southern Taiwan.

Morris Chang may be a great guy but he was directly recruited by an authoritarian government that was still operating under martial law, and that absolutely was not an option available to most Taiwanese.
Where I live we had glass beverage bottles until 2008 it was common to see wear marks on the bottles. Both for beer and pop bottles it was obvious they weren't new some even had chips.
What does it tell us about the topic? That rhetorical comments are inbound?
Back in the 00's, I toured as a sound engineer. Behringer turned up in all manner of touring racks.
Binding?
Because those fields are incredibly interlinked, and people from archaeology/anthropology often study other fields in conjunction as well?
Cash.js – An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers
That is fun!

I keep thinking I have a core intuition for a solution, and then corner cases ruin it!
> From there on, literally NOTHING worked in my development workflow.

Sounds like all the hardware worked, but a few proprietary programs didn't? Hard to blame Linux for that.

Unity is terrible on Linux, which is a shame because it's an engine that all my buddies want to use for game jams.
I sincerely hope that we'll never know Satoshi Nakamoto true identity. It's been so freeing for the Bitcoin community to not have this sort of real figure, but mostly an idea of one. It doesn't tweet, it doesn't have good and/or bad takes. It doesn't have a face you could like or dislike. To me, and many others, it's neutral.
Sure but all of them are weird. Rust is something you can pick up in an afternoon if you have expeirience in C++-like languages.
Yeah there was no one even remotely credible up against him. If some insane radio host is the best anyone can come up with, I'll take the possibly shady professional politician any day. Whatever his other issues, Newsom isn't a nutjob and increasing the dysfunction of local government even more by electing a nutjob isn't going to help anyone.

Literally the worst thing I've ever heard about Newsom is that he used to date Kimberly Gilfoyle, an actual complete and total nutjob. Newsom's competition in the election were the kind of people who think Gilfoyle is a totally normal and sane human being and enjoyed her speech at the GOP convention last year.
Or they use public transport: Kid me in Germany had a daily 30 minute public bus commute from primary school to day care, and about a similar commute back from there to home.

Secondary school was a 30 minute subway commute to it, and back from it, 5 times a week.

Not much has changed about that in the decades since; To this day one of the most crowded times in German public transport is right after school ends at 1 PM.
This isn't a court of law. And legal definitions aren't super relevant in day to day conversation. You could say any country isn't "normal" compared to the rest of the world, and then find some "true" way of defending it. That doesn't make it nice though.
The Icelandverse [video]
They are rare because the law led to indoor growing and selection of hybrids for flower times.

Genetically they are more rare, because of the mass proliferation of hybrid breeding.
Or tact.
I've been on a buying spree this last month, picking up Minolta rokkor lenses for video use. They are some cheap and well made. Leica even borrowed their design for their 24mm.
I trialed restic, kopia and borg and ended up with kopia, backing up to backblaze + opportunistic external hdd. Costs me cents a month for tb+ between all our devices. Agreed on the kopia UI (and logo, was only thinking that the other day!), it's pretty basic .. but to be honest it's all you need. I use it on my family's machines as well, including wife and parents (same bblaze, dif HDDs), and it means they can pretty much manage it without me. I liked restic and probably would have ended up with it if there was a decent oss/stock UI. Borg was significantly slower on my machine for backup and restore.
How I would articulate it is that an artist worth their beans doesn't care whether or not their work offends thirteen-year-olds, no matter if they have a slight preference that it does, or that it not.
So, you just mentioned two different brands for features that a single laptop display has.
That house isn't designed to withstand a lahar, or the glass doors wouldn't be at ground level. And there's plenty of houses that can easily withstand heavy rainfall...but again, a door that close to ground level isn't a great design.

I'm not really sure what kind of disaster this is good for - sure, the metal can probably survives, but as I said before, it sure doesn't look ready to protect the inside.
I think you're simply reading too much into his imprecise usage of grammatical tense.

"Our local high school" probably refers to when he was in high school himself decades ago, being born in 1953, that would put those years right around the time period when children of Manhattan Project physicists have demonstrated their academic talent.

Given the fact that Los Alamos High School is not academically renowned in the current day, but was so half a century back, this is the only context in which his series of statements make any sense.
User feedback tools to become a customer-centric business
Who had an incentive to do something like this?
Is this still an issue when fusion power is available?
If you don't consider Swift style Automatic Reference Counting a GC, then there is another option.
However it just for the stuff you need it for. It's not all encompassing. It's not mandatory part of the language.
I listened to this "shootout" video only two days ago. The different ones tested here all have their quirks. (I've been playing with Dexed as it has all the original features and is free). https://youtu.be/vMvGk_fcIo8
so of course you have to figure out how to pay them for something else during the day. Why don't hire them to be workers in the school (sometimes called para-professionals).

If the schools can't hire enough bus drivers then they simply have to pay more money or not offer busing. The schools don't have tons of money just sitting around, so the next step is more taxes.
Fun fact: in the UK they call it marhs!
A couple of tweets [0] from one of the founders and past CEO

[0] https://twitter.com/brandonrodman/status/1459273398153093126
Yep, as late as earlier this year there's a ton of stuff inside the DHS that still requires IE and flash.
You're entirely right, just a brain fart on my part that those are different keys. Not sure why you're downvoted.
- Because they are twelve and they heard about some social rule that you shouldn't mention Nazis or Hitler, and show swastikas.

- Because their IQ is low.
What about a home carbonator and cola syrup?
Writing a check for a balance that isn’t in your account (step 2) is called “kiting” and is a relatively minor fraud. In general, one should avoid doing it regardless of overdraft fees.
That only natural for people that are not interested in technology or programming itself. People that are interested in new technology and keep learning new things will become more successful as IC and have more opportunities. If you are lucky, and you start with something that is popular long term like Java, you can find decades of stable employment in big corporations. If you are unlucky and start with PHP/Perl you either switch stack or you will stuck in low paying jobs maintaining legacy apps. Programming is less forgiving than other industries, as there are more fundamental changes over years. On the other side, huge demand make it easy to find and change job. You could make AWS certificate and some JS/Python/go training, update LinkedIn profile and wait for offers to flood in. In less than 1 month effort you could rebrand yourself and find jobs in new stack.

There is good satire of the stone to Bronze Age transition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHGafC7zOUE
I hate it. We used to have open standard, decentralized communication protocols with FOSS clients and servers, and now we have proprietary clients all talking to someone else's centralized server.
Yes that was my point
It's not out of date, it's retro.
I read about a study where people were given soup to eat, in various quantities, and some were given bowls rigged to be bottomless. In general, they ate until the bowls were empty - except for the bottomless bowls, where they'd eat far more than any of the other groups.

I'm drawing on a 15-20 year old memory, so that's IIRC.
Also facilities, materials (which teachers often buy out of pocket right now) and other services like lunch and busing.

Students with disabilities and other problems also need to be taken care of, and often this costs significantly more. One way private schools save money is by simply kicking these kids out.

School is mostly a daycare, and only a little about education.
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
This is also not entirely true. If you have kids going to school turn the vaccine statement paper over. In many states you just sign it.

It is very odd how this misinformation is _vehemently_ stated as fact.
The idea that you could add millions of workers from third-world nations (per capita PPP GDP for Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras are 8,500, 4,490, and 2,200, respectively, compared to 63,000 in the US) without creating downward pressure on wages just doesn’t pass the sniff test.
One of my favorite things about restic is not about the software, it's the community. People in the forums and bug reports are respectful and decent, and it's fantastic to see.
Cool paper!
I disagree. Firstly, it’s widely agreed upon that Go has quite a lot lower learning curve than just about any other language. Your senior engineer anecdotes sound like outliers.

With respect to Java and C#, I addressed a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181361

Even where those languages have nominally improved, it is often so difficult in practice that virtually no one bothers to use the improvements. For example, while Java and .Net technically can do AOT, static compilation, virtually no one does, instead preferring to put up with runtime dependencies (including the runtime itself at a minimum). It’s ticking a box so on paper they compare better to Go (or Rust) but the practical experiences remain leagues apart.
Larry Elder is not crazy, and would be best called a centrist Liberal.

What makes you say otherwise?
You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle lately—indeed, to post almost exclusively about one hot flamewar topic (this one). That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against, because it's not in the intended spirit of the site (curiosity), and indeed it destroys that spirit.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended? I don't want to ban you but we don't allow single-purpose accounts or ideological battle accounts here and that is unfortunately what yours has turned into.
"that usually it comes along with not being allowed to make extremely hateful or racist or sexist comments"

Unless that hatred, racism and sexism is targeted at white males. Then it's "punching up" (even though those doing it are usually far better off than those targeted) and is perfectly ok!

Both the left and the right reject "illegitimate humans." They just define legitimacy differently.
Don't patent drive innovation though? Companies must find alternatives to compete instead of copying everything from the industry leader. Other than that I agree that patents are ridiculous.
There’s no guarantee the detail will be stable frame-to-frame. You’d almost surely get textures stuttering and winking in and out of existence.
> In the US, where they will sue you for looking wrong

This is not true, and is clearly meant as a jab

> In the rest of the world where people are normal

Once again, a jab. Also "snarky" and "sneering", which are both mentioned in the HN commenting guidelines.

If you rewrite the comment in question, removing the first couple of sentences, it is a great comment. The jabs are just unnecessary hyperbole.

> Considering that if the glass is already fragile it will either crack during cleaning or while being transported. If the bottle can handle being clinking on the bands while being filled up, I am sure it can stand being on the fragile hands of some folks
Here is an example of how to change the email address associated with a OpenPGP identity on a key server:

* https://coderwall.com/p/tx_1-g/gpg-change-email-for-key-in-p...

If you want to invalidate the identity entirely you just upload the revocation certificate.
I think the USG could definitely do at least the design side of a M1 like series of chips that cover 80-90% of their needs but yeah idk how we could make the US industry competitive again when Intel has dropped the ball so hard.