skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but we have to think about the future. Modern humans have a horrible ability to plan for the future. It's all about instant gratification. Once I had kids I never really cared much about my on mortality anymore. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. Maybe not this virus but humans will have to deal with a virus eventually where we're going to have to make a trade off.

Again though this would have been similar to Hong Kong flu if it hit 40 years ago. Humans basically killed themselves, especially in the US. We were on a collision course with something like this for the last 30 years.

People said we didn't do enough sooner or we didn't see this coming. Na, it had been coming for decades.
Lack of TCO is a JVM problem. All JVM languages are incapable for this reason. It's a very hard problem to fix apparently, I remember even asking one of the Sun JVM developers at a talk at my university and he said one of the issues was the Java security model and stack ownership IIRC. This was a long time ago though so I may be incorrect. The problem remains hard though.
ES6 used to require tail call elimination, and it was even shipped by Safari and Chrome back in 2016.

Were it not for Firefox and Edge teams who torpedoed that feature, it would be a part of the major language of today.

Maybe it still will be.
However, taxi/Uber/Lyfts are, y'know, moving people around while they circle the city. Commuters clog up the roads with that whole commuting thing, and those car parks are valuable real estate that could be used for anything else.
>the cultural animosity for cars has prevented effective expansions of the transit infrastructure

I'm not sure I understand this point? For one, if anything there's a clear preference for cars as the default mode of transportation.
Another classic work from Kropotkin is Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It's more anthropology than economics, but it is an absolutely fundamental work for anarchism.
Never used a Shuffle, but the original iPod Nano was absolutely beautiful. Just a bit too easily scratched and maybe too small.
That study is flawed in many ways. And one thing to point out, if you do take the study at face value, cloth mask do virtually nothing, only surgical masks did something ( AKA the intervention group).

The study was not blind, so the intervention group (those that wore surgical masks and showed the large efficacy increase) we're paid money to be part of the group. The non-intervention groups (cloth and control) did not receive any monetary compensation.

Recording of masking was done via people observing mask wearing, which also could potentially mess with the data ( as this was not blind).

Reporting of covid symptoms was entirely based on the population manually reporting it, there was no random testing to see variances in covid.

Only around 30 to 40% of cases were actually verified via a test.

The education that came with the intervention group may have caused the older population to stop going out as much, which impacted the result.

My take is that the study proved you could pay people to mask, but it's efficacy result is dubious.

CATO has a meta analysis about mask studies that is interesting (pre print still): https://www.cato.org/working-paper/evidence-community-cloth-...
Because no matter what their subscription price is it’s only reflective of the development work required to add features on top of Chromium, not of building a web browser. As such it’s not sustainable.

If it ever became a competitive issue Google could very easily close source Chrome. Then suddenly all these Chromium-based subscription browsers would be on the hook for all browser development, security updates included. And that would be enormously expensive. So their prices would have to go up. Would their business still be sustainable? It’s questionable at the very least.
Pic's creamy peanut butter: https://picspb.com/products/creamy-pb

I don't even care for peanut butter and this just hits. Super smooth, not too sweet - i eat it by the spoonful. I literally did not think there was any difference between different peanut butter brands until I had Pic's.
Because if you like functional programming, then avoiding loops and imperative code is desirable. Some of us hate seeing `for` and `while` because they also imply mutation of variables. Recursion is beautiful.
No, the opposite actually. Cloudflare’s offering is still better, and AWS failed to come up with a good response to it. Make no mistake, if you are a company of any significance this discount is weak.
I got the predecessor of these (ATH-M50) in high school and I still use them 15 years later. Have a bit of peeling where the headband touches my head, but working perfectly otherwise.
What is the non-pure part of layer unix and why this spirit is great. Not mentioned in the article.
I almost listed this as mine. The design is still really good for the cost. Ease of use / cleaning / disposing of grounds is a smart design. I accept that the seal will wear, I actually think not over-engineering the seal and making it triple the price adds to the design.
This is probably a savvy move in that it's basically a huge price break for small and mid-size enterprises (my CF bill could drop from like $3K to near zero). The big players with those $10K, $100K, or whatever per month won't get a significant cut here. But I'm also guessing that those small and mid-size customers are exactly Cloudflare's main sales funnel. Their entire existence is based on giving inexpensive power tools that can be configured instantly. Anyone spending >$10K/mo on egress is more likely already set on AWS as a strategic vendor, have a multi-year lock-in deal and are more likely using the pro-level tooling you can get in Cloudfront. They are far less likely to unwind a giant pile of infrastructure for small cost savings anyway.
The original iPod, the very first one with the wheel that actually turned.

I don't think I've ever known a product I loved more. I got so much pleasure from it that it made me want to learn more about product design.

I thought the later static touch-wheel wasn't as good, and firewire was such a great way to load it with music, fast charging and super fast data transfer.

I've never been as happy with anything "cloud based" - something is always broken somewhere.
You'd be surprised how strong the longshorman's union is. It's a cesspool of nepotism and corruption(at least in San Diego, where I used to be close to a family of them and got to hear the dirt). It would take a major economic catastrophe(no, not like the current one) to displace them, and you can bet there will be violence in return.
Yes, please do! And go ahead and use that energy to power your every day needs: lighting, cooking, heating and entertainment. Now tell me which of those categories Bitcoin falls under. Solar energy may be virtually infinite, but solar panels are not. If you really care about being eco-friendly, then you better put them to good use.
i agree, this is without a doubt the number one thing that julia needs.

nearly every dynamic language has trended towards this in the last 7-8 years. it's probably had the most profound effect in modern Javascript (typescript) and python. It's incredible how different production javascript and production python are compared to say, 2014 javascript or 2014 python.

JET.jl is a interesting project to do some error analysis through abstract interpretation:
https://aviatesk.github.io/JET.jl/dev/jetanalysis/

more so than the goals of JET itself, the abstract interpretation framework it exposes should allow for TypeScript-like gradual typing.

This is important, imho, if Julia is ever to go out of a niche area because most of the rest of the world has already moved on to see the benefit that the improvement in application reliability that static analysis allows.
Start having 1:1 zoom calls.
Contrary to the comments here, the article has some solid suggestions and isn’t an attack on remote work:

> We asked early career workers what resources they wished they could have had during those early pandemic months, and the responses were full of helpful ideas for any company. Most important, they wanted a clearly delineated mentor who — crucially — was not also their supervisor or in charge of evaluating their performance. One person suggested a dual mentor program that paired new employees with a co-worker in a similar position in the company who could offer advice on more quotidian concerns, as well as a more senior employee who could provide longer-term career advice.

And

> People wanted opportunities to sit in on calls with senior members of different teams — the equivalent of silently sitting in on an in-person meeting — if only to get a better sense of what others’ jobs entailed. They wanted access to email templates for specific kinds of intra-office and out-of-office outreach. They wanted to know what time was normal to reply to emails. In short, they wanted to be told what they were supposed to be doing at work and how to do it successfully. Even those who admitted that such guidance could quickly become stifling agreed that it was better than flailing around with vague expectations and zero guidance.
Do you have a photo / link? My searches haven’t turned up anything.
There's no such thing, the Shuffle and Mini were separate models.

The Shuffle was the size of a USB drive, used solid state storage, and had no screen, the Mini was the one with the first touch Click Wheel and metallic colour choices, and used a 4GB spinning hard drive.
Why would Uber/Lyft cars be driving around looking for fares like taxis? They are going strictly by the app, so it’s not like they can’t park when the app isn’t giving them any rides, and usually they are just going from one ride to the next as they are scheduled back to back.
Or I read it as "We want to make life as easy for our userbase as possible, so we will put more work on ourselves to make our users lives easier" which is an attitude I very much appreciate.
I'd love it if they added a price filter option! If I want a clear plastic tube I don't always know whether I'll get a cheaper price with acrylic, UV-resistant acrylic, static dissipative acrylic, ultra-strength polycarbonate, high-temperature polycarbonate, etc... It can take a lot of clicking to find the cheapest option!
I personally have an interview that essentially tests if you can produce well-organized code for a challenging algorithm that is persented as-is (the steps to the algorithm are provided, so no cleverness is necessary, you are dinged in my interview for using cleverness if it introduces errors). But, I do not control hiring for all people I have to work with.
Public transit is working great in Taipei and masks have been mandatory for almost two years.
There's also research into using neutrinos as probes to detect things in the earth (oil, mineral deposits, etc). Different materials have different neutron absorption rate. Obviously this is pretty hard to pull off and expensive, but possible.
Can you buy the layouts as NFTs?
Oh, I did not read the thread closely enough. The muslim country travel ban, yes, there are many examples. China, not that I know of.
100% this. I love that in python I can handle most all problems reasonably well. I don't need perfect, I need a good, versatile language that I know how to code. Even if Julia is better in some things, the switching cost of learning the language, libraries, nuances, the massively fewer online resources, just is not there.
West Coast is closer to Asia, but also look at how many ports you have available on the east coast vs the west. You also have the Mississippi and gulf region ports. A lot of the west coast is either rugged coastline, environmentally protected, or isolated from infrastructure so the goods coming from Asia have fewer options.
I, too, deplore the senseless waste of jellybeans, contaminated by the interior of used cars and thereby forever beyond my gnashing teeth. Shame on them!
People don't appreciate how much of an impact C++ had on C#. People consider it a Java clone, but the first version had many features to support a large segment of C++ (COM) developers that Microsoft wanted to move to .NET. This brought a visible performance hubbub at the time which was often instigated by the folks more comfortable with C++, manual memory management, etc.
GBA SP would be great except for the lack of headphone jack. What a bizarre omission.
> Step 1: all the tech companies should stop using Windows

Their complaint is a lack of open standards and interoperability create unnecessary barriers to stopping using Windows so your solution is that they should stop using Windows..
Yeah, thought so too, very good GIS and web execution.
People wear masks to save other human beings' lives. How is that dehumanizing?
Do you have absolute control over the hiring of every person you work with? Not all of us do.
Radix UI
The worst is : company failing or you getting laid off.

This downside protection is a crappy deal.
I pronounce it gah-noo or G.N.U. arbitrarily, but I assumed it was just like “sequel” and S.Q.L. where everyone just pronounces it both ways.
AWS is a luxury product and the outbound charge is the delivery fee. You will also find that the delivery fee for a Louis Vuitton bag is more than for a pizza.
Maybe I'm too easy to please, but every day since I unboxed my Kobo Forma I've been impressed with it. The backlight is adjustable down to barely noticeable for night reading with the lights off, and in bright light the e-ink looks great. The weight in the "spine" is perfect, and the rest of the unit feels near weightless. The battery lasts weeks. And the device has performed flawlessly for over a year now, which is honestly more than I expected for a somewhat niche electronics product. I use it for queued blog posts via Pocket, or some light fiction before bed or during lunch break.
I don’t disagree that is why I used the term risk-adjusted
In masks + covid context it feels like "unethical" is used as a thought terminating cliche.

* The pandemic is affecting 8,000,000,000 people all around the world. A large size RCT enrolls X0,000 participants. For example, the Pfizer covid mRNA vaccine clinical trial had 21,728 placebo participants. For every RCT participant, the RCT results are going to inform the course of action for hundreds of thousands of people. This is to say that such RCTs are extremely valuable given the high infectiousness of the virus.

* The risk to the participants is at worst a moderate increase in the chance of being infected with covid. The covid fatality risk to a healthy adult is small. In the US there have been about 50,000 deaths with covid in <50yo age group. An RCT with 20,000 <50yo people on the placebo arm may see about 3 covid deaths assuming all the placebo participants are going to be infected. Realistically, only a fraction of participants are going to actually be infected with covid, thus there is a good chance every single one of the RCT participants will continue their lives just fine, especially if the study designers are careful to not include people with serious comorbidities.

* Vaccines are available to reduce the death risk by another order of magnitude if deemed necessary. Alas, while the vaccines have strong effects in preventing serious covid, they only have a middling effect on preventing infections [edit: after a few months]. The mask/no mask infection effect remains measurable.

* Covid is endemic. Everyone is at risk to to be infected with covid sooner or later. Wearing a mask may decrease the daily risk by a moderate margin, unfortunately integrated over many days the infection probability approaches 1. The RCT is merely speeding the risk by a moderate margin for the placebo arm participants.

* There is a large pool of potential volunteers that don't (want to) wear masks anyways. Adults have the right to volunteer for risky activities, including activities that may result in death.
The address translation, either with segments or with pages, is the essential function of a MMU and by far its most complex feature.

Adding flags for additional features piggy-backed over the address translation, e.g. memory protection, is the easy part of a MMU.

80286 added memory protection, which is essential for a multi-user operating system, like UNIX. That is why it was the first Intel CPU to which UNIX was ported, but any computer with address space extension must have a MMU.

8088/8086 was indeed unusual in having a MMU without memory protection, because it was intended only for personal computers, while the previous computers expensive enough to need address space extension were all intended for multi-user applications, so all included memory protection in the MMUs.
It's not too hard to get a replacement rubber seal, and easy to swap in the new part.

They say it will last longer if you don't store it with the seal compressed in the tube, but I always leave it like that and it still lasts years.
Alcuin's Sequence
I believe this has been more eloquently described as: “ignorance is bliss.”
Yes, a clear preference among the population. Yet the folks in power seem antagonistic to cars. Look at how the population of the area has grown and yet the freeway network is about the same as it was when I was a kid.

There are still many places in the region with only a single major north-south freeway. You can add all the lanes you want, but a single accident can take your 7 lanes of traffic out of commission. We need more transportation corridors to provide redundancy.
I own a car and use public transportation. Having to wear a mask has never come even close to factoring into which I take. Having to deal with all the traffic and terrible drivers though? That factors in heavily.
You're mostly right, but most government orgs care about desktops, Intel/AMD care about desktops, IBM should care about desktops if they could get a foot in the door.

Amazon should be interested in providing a great remote desktop solution. IMO that is a huge untapped market, especially in BYOD orgs: sure, bring your crap device, but you RDP in for anything you need business-wise that needs to be secure.
Public transit doesn't work if cars still have priority. A bus with 50 people in it should have a higher priority than 20 people in cars. Have dedicated bus lanes for moving vehicles, not just decidated places to pull over at stops. Change traffic light patterns so that they preferentially give buses the right of way, so that 50 people in a bus aren't waiting on 3 people in cars on the cross street.

Once you make public transit be the most convenient, people will take public transit. At the point, public transit expands, typically with more frequent buses/trains on a route. And that makes it even more convenient, because you no longer need to plan ahead to catch the hourly bus.

And where does this leave drivers? Even better than they were at the start. Every bus on the road means that 50 fewer cars on the road. That reduces traffic congestion far more than any amount of counter-productive road expansions that ignore induced demand.
Tea and Consent (Video, 2015)
select * from foo
where case
when :filter_on_a and not :filter_on_b then a=:a
when :filter_on_b and not :filter_on_a then b=:b
when :filter_on_a and :filter_on_b then a=:a and b=:b
else true
end

Should preserve all your semantics. I can't remember if Python DBAPI handles named parameters, so let's pretend it does and the colon-prefixed parameters are in the right syntax.

cur.execute("above query", filter_on_a=bool(a), filter_on_b=bool(b), a=a, b=b)

Whether the more complex SQL is worth it really depends on your use case.
well there is innovation, what was scarce years ago became less scarce through creative thinking, we have not arrived at the end of a thought yet, things evolve and what we call scarce today is not even a tip of the resources the future will see. the more minds we have working on something the more we realize of previous definition of scarcity was just in thought and not in product
Because we're currently in the "do it all on the client side" phase of the eternal "do it on the front end" <-> "do it on the back end" ouroboros.
Amazon seems to be efficient. Maybe they should open a port.
Mine's from June 10th 1987 - they may have been on the same pallet.
If you've only spilled coffee in it once you must live a charmed life!
The iPad, too. I spend hours with it every day—mostly reading and watching videos—and I rarely have to think about it as a device. It just lets me get absorbed in whatever I’m looking at.

I don’t use it much myself, as I’m not an artist, but the iPad app ProCreate seems to be a masterpiece of good design, too.
God i love my pebble so much, oldest piece of tech I've kept, but the most reliable. Good if you can get your hands on one but I have a feeling they're going the way of the radiant cobtrol toaster in that their prices are set to go up
Of course. Most deaths prevented by strong safety laws.
Agreed. It's real tempting to answer, "indoor plumbing". It's really nice to flip a lever and get clean, safe water. It's real good not to need to stroll to the outhouse, too.
On the other hand the vaccines could be causing more stress on the virus as they generally aren't very good. I'm saying this as someone who had the virus then the vaccine.
Haven't written MS that way for a while but it starts to feel like it is time for it again.
I know a lot of the new light rail is, but it depends on the area. IIRC when it gets near downtown(at least in Rainier Valley/International District) it's on grade. Down by the airport it's up in the air. Same with the new extension down to Sea-Tac Mall(or whatever the hell they call it now).
Sometimes I swear I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't mind wearing a mask. When you say dehumanizing though - what exactly do you mean by that? Genuinely curious.
afaik Cloudflare prioritizes its paying customers over those on the free tier e.g. when there are limited resources at a POP. It's not clear whether Cloudfront will do the same -- does anyone know?
> Grew up in the PNW but thankfully moved away 25 years ago before most of the growth.

Seattle has always been a boom (and bust town). I grew up their 20 years ago, and my dad lived in Seattle after his tour ended in Vietnam. The same things we complain about today, we were complaining about them in the 90s and dad was complaining about them in the late 60s.

The boom city nature of Seattle means that it goes through periods of lots of growth quickly enough.

> people will continue to choose single passenger vehicles and not supplying the infrastructure for them means they are even less efficient while they sit in traffic.

Building more freeways usually just attracts more demand. We will never build enough roads to satisfy single driver occupancy demand. The only way to win this is by moving people around more efficiently. If Transit can’t work in Seattle, the city is simply doomed and it’s growth will implode (another bust…it’s not like we haven’t had a few of those before).
There is still some time in-between rides where there are no passengers in the car. If riders had a car, that dead-weight car would not be on the road.
Well said. Any of the measures we have only delay the inevitable. They may have worked at the start to eradicate it but they didn't. Now it's pretty much guaranteed we will all get covid, and probably multiple times. Any of the tools we have now will not prevent that, just delay it.

I'm not recommending dropping them altogether but we'll need to find a balance. To go from crisis mode into discussing long-term strategy.
Apparently nowhere near the 8000%. After https://www.profitableventure.com/income-soda-retailers-marg...:

> Restaurants and bars have around a 70% profit margin on a bottle of soda and soft drink, while retailers typically have between 30–50%.
It is fairly baffling why you'd choose RSA with 512 bit keys; as noted elsewhere I assume this is about the size of the signature. However, a PKCS#1 signature for a 512 bit RSA key is 64 bytes, which is the same size as an ECDSA signature for, say, a NIST P-256 key and you're giving up an enormous amount of security by choosing RSA even vs entirely mainstream stuff like ECDSA.