skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but for whatever reason, death rates in Sweden before any measures were introduced by any Nordic country were already much higher than in the other Nordic countries. So it's not a fair comparison of measures versus measures. Any conclusion on that basis is invalid. Sweden's excess mortality in 2020 was one of the lowest in Europe.

An overall comparison with Scotland as a country which took drastic measures shows that it fared very badly with much greater excess death together with the many long-lasting knock-on effects of lockdown. Death rates as of Nov 2021 as % of the population are 0.216 (Scotland) versus 0.147 (Sweden).
> This post is a fairly comprehensive discussion of how I use Notion (a free personal knowledge management app)

Is this a paid article? Notion is not free it has a very limited free tier. The paragraph is misleading.

BTW, looking for a practical wiki... the old good wikis have a lot of issues (e.g. DokuWiki is almost abandoned, it does not work with Python 3 and even the Python 2 version has wrong setup instructions). Thinking about returning to Swiki in Squeak, is there a more modern version in Pharo? MediaWiki is ugly, too complex for people outside tech. Any idea?
Netflix’s whole catalog feels like it was written by a bot. All the scifi is grimdark dystopia.
Ok well this ycombinator post you linked confirmed my suspicions that the challenge is targeted based on location/network address.

> "ISTR that only works from the USA."
This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing.

I was in elementary school and was obsessed with the 'Log on to'
dropdown box on Windows login screens, and how you could use the same credentials on any PC.

Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain.

I went and asked the IT guy for advice on doing a multi forest configuration and I think it blew his mind. Why did I want multi forest? Guess I was preoccupied with whether or not I could, and didn't stop to think if I should. : )
I think the problem is that some big corporations are allowed to avoid paying tax, essentially getting huge competitive advantage over SMEs.
The anomalous capital they were able to amass further enables them to corrupt governments to ensure regulatory capture and that any investigations in their tax affairs get dropped.
In general: https://hub.docker.com/r/tianon/qemu
It’s Twitter.
"Demands diversity", really? You think people won't use FB's products as much if they don't hire enough older people?
> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored.

This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is simply no such thing. There are professional services being sold at a premium whose value proposition is to make sense of AWS billing and reign it in. With AWS, your company simply sets a budget with a significant slack and hope for the best.

> Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do.

Not true. Dropbox is memorable because it was depicted as a poster child of AWS, which ultimately found out it was not worth it at all. And Dropbox is not alone.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/movi...

https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching...
From the heavy equipment operators I watch, a lot of them have an extreme dislike for DEF and the regen cycles that all modern diesels over 25hp (iirc) require.
If you want basics and details, the art of computer programming is a good candidate.

Unfortunately, it isn’t done yet (1), and the completed parts have are very basic and have parts that are a bit dated (multi-tape sorting, for example)

(1) and likely never will be. Knuth is turning 84 in two months, and isn’t even halfway writing it, after almost 60 years
Trader Joe's pulls the same thing with the house brand. House Brand, undercoat, whatevers. If you want Capitalism to work, then everything need to be a market. For markets to be efficient we need protocols and interfaces. For this to work we need to disambiguate to the root, the post office should probably deliver milk and potatoes.
Totally agree with this and have made the same point many times. The chance to reset the culture, operating model, politics and suppliers is the really big opportunity for big companies adopting cloud.
>That is an option for Netflix. If they made their own platform they could offer a more competitive price.

It may be an option for Netflix. It may be an option for Facebook. But it's not an option for 99.999% of app makers and it would be bad for consumers. Very bad. Imagine you had to buy one device per service you're using. I don't want to buy a Netflix device to watch Netflix movies. This is just bonkers.

>It seems useful to me. It's the basis of what makes this game interesting.

No. It's more than just useless. It is a great demonstration of how every ideology becomes insanity if you take it to its extremes.
I've been reading HN pretty religiously for years and I've only saved one or two comments. Hell, I've only even saved a few dozen links. How many people here find the comments valuable enough to save and meticulously categorize them?

Also, "knowledge assimilation stack"? Surely there is a less pretentious name for this.
There is no such thing as Facebook employees.

* Why the downvotes?
Why Women Don't Invest in Crypto
How is the compatibility with everyday applications?
Covid is not seasonal and it does not have a seasonality.
The Art of computer programming by Donald Knuth.
For personal use Notion’s free tier is not very limited at all.
Which is why I say it can also be vague. “Oppose and overcome cancel culture”, well what precisely are you suggesting? How do you recommend that “cancel culture” be opposed? I presume you’re making a recommendation beyond expressing a general resistance to it, right?
I’ve seen multiple dev shops migrate from monolith to “microservices” without changing their data store, and the sad state that results is basically what this article is presenting as a positive. It’s anything but. It is incredibly difficult to reason about an application ecosystem using a shared data store. You’re basically just pushing all the complexity mentioned about microservices in the article into the database itself, except with fewer barriers. Any schema change now has to be verified against multiple (often an unknown number of) owners. Versioning is a much less fun problem in an RDBMS than in an HTTP application. Blurry data boundaries eventually cause enough confusion and poor decisions that you may as well be back to running a monolith since you end up having to scale all your pieces together anyway.
Yeah yeah EAP and watercooler conversations. Here's some things that would actually make my life and mental health as developer at a large game company better:

- Eliminate crunch time due to management's bad planning

- If crunch time is "unavoidable," apologize and pay me for it. 1.5x for every hour over 40 would go a long way towards making me not resent the blundering middle managers that got us into the "we have to release yesterday" situation

- Know what's important; when everything is "top priority," nothing is, and your developers have no idea what they should work on next

- Weekly team meetings are for positive reinforcement, not "things are looking fine but we gotta keep pushing." That kind of "motivation" is extremely heavy on the mind

- Remind us that sick days are for both physical and mental health and encourage us to use them if we need them
The article linked without the www subdomain and the don’t have a cert or redirect on non-www.

This should work:
https://www.kingswaymusiclibrary.com/
pc versions of gta have had iconic music removed in updates and as of a few days ago you can't even purchase them anymore.

emulate and enjoy the games at 4k upscaled running at 60fps with everything the original had. it's the best way to enjoy these older titles.

even shadow of the colossus for ps2 upscaled is better than the ps4 remaster - the "tone" has changed in the remaster. check out some youtube videos.
The headline is a little misleading. “Approval” is not really possible as these are unregulated devices. This is just a group of experts providing guidance on their use.
It's a 2014 model, it can definitely run Macos 11. But as it has been unused for the past few years, it hasn't been upgraded and it's quite funny how utterly unusable it became: very few websites work at all (certificates problem), it's impossible to install any current application because even Firefox LTS requires 10.13 or so, and it's impossible to upgrade without using another Mac to download the update tool. That's not very user-friendly if you ask me :)
Why on earth would anyone stand out? The virus is the same everywhere and people are the same everywhere.
U.S. sets goal to drive down cost of removing CO2 from atmosphere
Do you have an IMSI Catcher [0] detection app on your phone?
I used to have the same issue (EU country), using Metro. One single stop which was above ground and near International conference centre. Evertime I went through that staion my phone would lock up. Needed Hard hard reboot (remove battery), Until I removed the IMSI catcher detection software. After that I used in flight mode using that metro line.

Edit: rooted / android / HTC phone.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
Remember: vaccine passports are only a temporary measure until we've got the virus under control.

Oh, and you're going to need a booster jab every six months, but stop asking questions.
Came here to post exactly that. Almost all their own stuff is extremely formulaic. Even when it's well made, it's exceedingly bland.
The old ones are about as open source as you can get haha.

I can see everything on my Mom and Dad’s old Massey Ferguson tractors and every single part is available online from a plethora of vendors since there really aren’t that many parts.
I hear this amazement and fascination with REPL's that people have and I don't understand.

In a REPL, you're given a buffer to enter text into, and it evaluates it as you submit this buffer.

This is fine if you live in an age before graphical editors, but today we have tools with a better REPL-like experience.

In VS Code, I can use extensions to show realtime values next to every line of my program, and indicators of whether a branch/code path was ever hit.

This allows me to use an entire file as a visual REPL with instant feedback.

Using an actual REPL sucks compared to being able to regularly edit a file in your editor and get all of this + more without being handicapped to a terminal buffer.

Notebooks are also a worse experience for the same reason. You need to manually trigger "cells", which return a single value/visualization, or add a bunch of print statements.

JavaScript:

https://quokkajs.com/

Python:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xirider....

Scala:

https://scalameta.org/metals/docs/editors/vscode/#worksheets

You can find something like this for most languages, either in VS Code or Jetbrains IDE's
This! I see so many people who seem to have forgotten that companies exist only to serve the people. When society is run to protect companies over the well being of the people, thay have lost their reason to exist in the first place.

On the flip side, I see numerous posts and comments on HN that blame companies for not behaving more ethical. This is complete nonsense to me; you can't expect companies to autoregulate when they are designed to follow only 2 things: laws and market.
Since as we know now we have little control over what the market wants, the real control is through regulation.

But the US has done a very poor job at selecting their politician leadership for a long time now.... that's where people who wants to do something needs to look at..
Chesterton’s Fence

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
DynamoDB is a horrible KV
I think the people complaining about cloud have never had to work in a large enterprise with an internal IT department managing a physical datacenter. Even at Google people complain about that side of things.
Yes, according to https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/10/some-75-of-hospital-co... which links to official RIVM the majority is not vaccinated. It's indeed worth it.
>sometimes marketing can be correct, and sometimes it can be a bunch of BS. I don't know which is the case here but my hunch would be that if it were correct then old iron wouldn't be worth more than new to the people who would be best suited to know if it were BS or not.

I don't know if the auctions bidding wars are driven up by homeowners managing their small homestead farm or by bigger commercial operations. Homeowners don't need to compete so buying 30-year old tractors is an easier decision.

I agree that using old tech can be an counterintuitive cost-saving strategy -- like FedEx deliberately using a fleet of very old planes that are gas guzzlers instead of buying the latest jets that are more fuel-efficient. Maybe some big commercial farms deliberately buy used low-tech tractors. When I drive around, all the big operations seem to use the newest tractors. They seem to always trade up instead of down. But maybe the latest John Deere "lock in" and repair costs will make them reverse that buying pattern.
This makes me feel better about my Dibalo 1 fanpage. I thought I was being too esoteric or niche. This takes the cake!
About as sophisticated as a mad libs
Conveniently ignoring all the things the government and the auto industry has done to minimize traffic accidents...
Oracle is doing just fine. And if I had to trade places with Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Ellison, well, I’d say it’s not even close, but that implies there’s a metric at all.
Plausible. Do you know how fast such doors can close?
Cht.sh: Cheat sheet for Unix commands inside the command line
Stand up from your desk and take a walk in nature, not kidding.
Spinel – high-performance GPU-accelerated vector graphics for Vulkan 1.1 GPUs
So much work to structure and insert information to stay at the whim and custody of some company. What are you going to do if Notion goes under? Do you have a safe, complete, up to date backup? Can you utilize your backup without severe penalty or discomfort? Do you you have a no private data policy, or are you absolutely sure only people you authorize has access to it (i.e. encrypted with keys that verifiably never leave your machines)?
Property taxes in Michigan are unexpectedly high, and car insurance costs are VERY high. I believe Michigan is the most expensive or second most expensive state to have car insurance in. That's before you live in Detroit. If you live in Detroit, your car insurance will probably increase by anywhere from 75% to 100% from what you were paying in the suburbs. Your property tax in Detroit will also be very high as well as they basically max out the state allotted county property tax.

Housing prices overall are lower than other states outside of places like Ann Arbor. If you like the idea of living in a college town like Ann Arbor, be prepared to shell out.
It’s surprising how many people think about lockdowns as some kind of a 1h drill.

Kids, and many people for that matter, cannot just stay in lockdown for months like domestic cats without triggering mental health issues.
A best practice on how to define your Subjects in JavaScript objects
I'd personally omit them, assuming they are subject to the same crazy CPU throttling that Lightsail VPS servers come with. Too much work to predict when you can actually use it, e.g.: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/proactively-monitoring-...

(Look at where the top of the "sustainable zone" is...5%? Like 1/20th of a vCPU?)
That's an interesting take. Most everyone I know find Google's chat changes utter shit, and have found alternatives. Personally, I dumped it and joined a Slack community of the one person I talked with most on it.

Besides being a complete disaster, UI-wise, it freezes up and ceases working constantly in the web UI. The remaining people I know who stay on Google's chat... I simply cannot talk to anymore. I send them email or use an alternative chat service they're on.

You might consider a different example of how you feel Google is keeping up with the times.
Well, non tangible token makes a lot of sense.
RHEL 8.5 delivers key container improvements
You did answer then.

Everyone, and their immediate family.

That's quite communist, don't you find?
Ah, so a vague and non actionable request that people not listen to the “mobs”. I’ll grant that that’s compatible with free speech, but it’s also not exactly an actionable suggestion.

As an aside, I really hate it when people call twitter “angry mobs”. It trivializes the actual horror of what an actual angry mob can do.
Ask HN: Recommend Resources for Starting a Business
I’m considering starting a software business in ~1 year. I’d either offer consulting services or develop a niche piece of software to sell.

Can anyone recommend good resources (forum, books, classes, etc.) to get started?

In particular, I’d really like to understand the tax implications of doing this. I’ll need to spend $10-30K on various hardware/software to get started. I have questions like… My wife would continue to work, so would spending some of our savings on starting a business reduce our joint taxable income?

I’m clueless right now. If anyone could just point me in a reasonable direction that would be really helpful.

Thanks!
> I’m honestly surprised people still exist who support lockdowns.

18 months of relentless one-sided fear porn will do that to a mind.

I highly recommend Laura Dodsworth's recent book A State of Fear for more on this. It's about the UK but I'm sure a similar story could be told about most Western countries.
Well yes, if you deliberately chose to compare Sweden with only those countries that have better statistics, Sweden will indeed prove to have the worst statistics. Truling shocking how that works out.

Here is the same graph of excess mortality with all 27 EU states included: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Note how Sweden has the is the sixth lowest of all the countries in the graph.
Some of the most interesting pursuits in my “youthful” computing experience was looking into how to make things work that were meant for large-scape deployment work for personal use. I had a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop (circa 2003, RIP 1 year after due to bad soldering on the mainboard) which came with a Smart Card reader. At one point in time, the holy grail would have been making it work for password-less login on Windows XP.
Not sure downvoted, it's a genuine question, I'm interested
The US is making its biggest investment in broadband internet ever
> NASA has the right mindset to pursue it on other planets, on earth our housing issues first come from archaic design and permitting processes.

I strongly suspect that in space the design and permitting will be arduous in ways that make the worst on Earth seem like a libertarian paradise by comparison.

I’m not certain, but I get the impression the bigger cost for most of us on Hacker News is the competition caused by desire to live near other people. If location stopped mattering, this 6 bedroom detached house with a pool

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/69740740

wouldn’t cost less than half as much as this studio flat

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/960-Market-St-210-San-Fra...

This does not mean that 3D printing houses will never be a big thing: I’m looking forward to “An Englishman’s house is his castle” being more than just a cliché, and it may help with the infrastructure projects needed to make cities bigger which would allow land supply to grow to meet demand, but I don’t expect buildings made this way to make western cities cheaper — if it’s cheaper than labour, then even though it will displace workers, the price difference only goes into raising land prices
I wish there was an easy way to mux display usage to containers sor hat things like these wouldn't need to run an RDP server for you to access the and we could have `--display window=640x480` or `--monitor /dev/....`.
most of the comments in this comments section are written by Keaton Patti to stimulate discussion. Including this one
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29209291
The metaverse bet you shrug off but adding emoji reactions impresses you? Google is in “accumulate capital to deploy the next technological shift” mode, Facebook is trying to make that shift a reality (Waymo excepted).
What you say makes sense when we think of geographic locality. But is that really what should guide the pandemic response?

Sweden is much more like UK, the Netherlands and Germany than it is like Norway or Finland when we look at things like urbanisation, demographic diversity and immigration. In part because much more of the population is centralized to a few areas. The organization of public health care, especially that of old people's homes, is completely different between those countries.

If we look at the regional differences, you'd see that the areas of Sweden which demographically is similar to Norway indeed followed the pandemic outbreak of Norway very closely, with a very low incidence for the longest time, and then scattered outbreaks with increasing magnitude.

During those first crucial months, the pandemic outbreak in Sweden almost exlusively took place in the two most populous and urbanized areas. The rest of the country was pretty much spared. With the differently implemented lockdown in place, it was interesting to compare incidence in smaller geographic areas separated by the border but otherwise much more similar than the countries are. It is quite clear that any correlation can not be substantiated by data.
(comment is a little off-topic, feel free to downvote)

I'm curious how ReactOS stacks up to Windows 2000.
Back when I was in high school I learned all leetcode algorithms from doing programming competitions. One of the books I used was: http://acm.cs.buap.mx/downloads/Programming_Challenges.pdf

What really put me to the next level is this amazing free training program which I still recommend anyone who wants to nail the interviews. It teaches each algorithm and data structure and gives you appropriate challenging exercises so you really understand them: https://train.usaco.org/
Standards must be followed and testing can add a great deal of safety. And for an individual contributor, there could be potential liability if standards weren't followed. Even so, I think in terms of social value per line of code, you'd feel much better spending your time on a project like this.

We should understand that the alternative is very imprecise: poking yourself and trying to time the right delivery of insulin doses, based on your current blood sugar, exercise levels, meals, etc. It's a guessing game with diabetics, so this is a giant leap forward in making them healthier, even if the tech wasn't 100% perfect.

My dad had been lethargic as he ages, the doctors just told him that the level he was maintaining his blood sugar at was much lower than he should be at for his age. They also gave him an in-arm blood sugar reader. The difference from these small changes has been enormous. He seems more alert and healthier than he has in the last couple of years and he keeps more on top of the sugar levels with the new reader. My point here is that people risk their own lives trying to manage their own blood sugar, and even the smallest tech add, like a device that suggests the right insulin dose can be life altering. Diabetics who fail to manage their blood sugar properly can lose limbs and go blind. Given the choice of going it alone or using a technology used by many others, I know what I'd choose.