skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it's drastically more likely that someone over 65 would have died over the course of the pandemic (which is approaching several years at this point) than someone between 18-65. Years lost from elderly deaths may be "substantial" but it's an act of wilful ignorance to pretend that it isn't a lot smaller than years of life lost from a 20 year old dying.
This is a good post for beginners. Fortunately or unfortunately coding interviews have become much tougher. This resource [1] has helped some.
[1]: https://hackernoon.com/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-intervi...
IIRC, he got it before the vaccines were available. I'll check the next time I chat with my friend.

>>Even 2 points is too much given the asymmetric payoff at the margin.

YUP!! It feels like for someone close to 100, 5 points lower would be a loss putting them suddenly below a huge group they were ahead of, and for someone close to 140, 5 points lower would be a huge step down in overall capability, even though the group they are suddenly below is not that large. Either way, both the studies about the CV-19 clotting issues and mini-strokes, and that it is now known to infect, thrive in, and kill central nervos system cells is really scary.

Just the fact that one of the first things to go is the sense of smell - that's one of the oldest and most core neural pathways, leading right into the brain core. And the phnomena of patients recovering their sense of smell for a while and then it going off so that every smell/taste is like gasoline or rotting pork so they lose 30Lbs in 3 months is horrifying enough, but when I consider what it's likely doing to the brain (neuroscience was my minor in college), that just gives me the creeps. I'll take plague instead, thanks, at least it's just ordinary misery.

Edit: Here's a new interesting point -
"Long covid with neuro symptoms:

Not real enough to be factored in to disease prevention plans

Real enough for drug trials"

https://twitter.com/DFisman/status/1477732646130106368
With good nonfiction books, it isn’t filler but detail, but you rarely find these on best seller lists. There is a spectrum between pop bs and academic treatise and the sales numbers trend towards the former.

I think I’ve observed the problem getting worse over the years where there is more popular garbage which gets far more attention. People have sort of learned how to optimize and market this kind of book for a broad audience.

It would be nice if there were a marker for pamphlets or books the length of chapters, which is what many things really should be.
Yes, I understand the idea, the point I'm making is that the runtime is a monolith, it can't be split because each piece has necessary and irreducible connections to the other pieces.
Close as in proximate, not as in intimate. And as I said, it’s a cruel twist.
try "python.org random"
I'm not sure how your comment is relevant to the above thread, but I like it and I would like to add on to it.

There was a study done looking at the impact of wolves, deer, hunters, and traffic accidents. What they found was that the smell of wolves scared off deer - thus reducing deer related traffic accidents; wolves were more effective at this than hunters killing deer.

This is a round about way of corroborating your fact, but from a different point of view.
>"Just to fuck with consumers trying to make an educated choice."

No, the retailer-specific model numbers are requested or required by the retailers, who either want a slightly different featureset, or just want to avoid people doing price-matching. The manufacturers don't really like it.
I use zotero and I really want to like it, but it's not that good. The tagging functionality seems like an afterthought, the bibtex support is only reasonable with betterbibtex and even with it I have issues. For example journal abbreviations don't work consistently, every start up I get told that the betterbibtex styles have changed and I need to restart zotero... File management is also only bearable with zutilo, and I still get issues with sync and somehow some file locations getting messed up.

The whole note taking experience is also quite soso.

I really wish there was a good bib manager around. I don't want to go into a proprietary silo (ruling out mendeley endnote etc.). Jabref is in many ways better then zotero when one uses bibtex, but unfortunately some parts of the UX are not my thing. The best app I have used was docear, the concept of a Mindmapping app together with a bib manager was great however it is unfortunately not maintened any longer.
Unsupervised Brain Models
> Also, sci-hub exists.

Try adding one of those papers to Mendeley. Or, for that matter, get it by request from the author. Legal and often fast. Add that. See what Mendeley does with the CiteRef.DOI and CiteRef.URI fields...
Gotta remember the byte patternsearch using grep (and replacement using printf/dd). Clever use of Unix tools.
Automated AC drain line cleaning with ESP8266 Tasmota
Google with its hundreds of billions in revenue should be able to solve the problem, right?

Not when compared to the trillions of dollars of e commerce revenue that is the reward for getting to the top of Google results - even if you don't deserve it.
I agree, but parent was responding to a more general comment of "Why is anyone using two-digit years anywhere at all?".
When I first started writing asm code, it was accepted to write self-modifying code (programmatically create new code, then jmp to it.) Then I discovered and was told it was a bad idea. So that's how I view Lisp macros - creating code on the fly and executing it.

When I was studying this issue, I came across femtolisp, which is a standalone Lisp by the author of Julia, Jeff Bezanson. Julia has metaprogramming so I wanted to look at it.

In this video [1] Professor Steve G. Johnson explains metaprogramming (around 10 min mark) and says "most of the time, don't do metaprogramming." He points out in the base Julia there are 36,798 methods, but only 138 macros and 14 generated functions (.04% of the code), so I have the impression it is still frowned upon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgXWpvQEHE
My partner and I left our 2000-sqft Seattle townhouse a few months ago to live on a 44-foot sailboat, which we are converting from a diesel motor to electric. Much the same idea, only more so! The space is cozy but sufficient.
I don’t see how it’s possible to not incentivise that. Houses have a huge amount of real value and would be expensive even without the land scarcity.

If you are spending a lot of money on an asset, it always has to include some analysis on investment because you always have the option to not buy and put that money on a productive investment instead.
Brave Search is actually quite good, and better than DDG in my opinion. And it's their own index, not piggybacking on Bing or Google.
Mesa Open-Source GPU Drivers Enjoyed Near-Record Growth in 2021
"Most people should never use [macros]" is not a very good take-away. This is silly and overly paternalistic, like most programmers are children who shouldn't enjoy an extraordinarily expressive programming tool because it's "dangerous to readability". I feel as though people imagine more macro horror stories than they've actually ever experienced. I've experienced just one horror story in an optional-use open-source numerical library. And so I just didn't use it because I couldn't figure out how to extend it for my needs.

Many macros—just like programs as a whole—are bad and unhelpful. But this has little to do with macros, and more to do with programmer technique. It's not intrinsically difficult to write a useful macro, but it does presuppose that the programmer has a useful syntactic idea.

The Lisp family of languages so so broad and loose. It's hard to say anything generally about them anymore. But if you narrow down to Common Lisp, there's still a treasure trove of unique features. Common Lisp and Clojure seem to be the only two lisps where you've achieved broad community agreement on tooling, ecosystem, and general library design. They're also two languages where you can get paid to write them. Can't say the same about Scheme.

Lastly, as a personal anecdote, I don't think I've stubbed my toe on anything in Common Lisp. It's a very safe language with a lot of language features. I have stubbed my toe with CALL/CC though and memory leaks.
> storied moral worlds of Lewis’s fiction, including The Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy.

I wonder if they deal with the impossibly bad word building of Narnia? I mean, Lev Grossman's entire "Magicians" trilogy gently mocks Narnia's rubbish worldbuilding.

Beyond the illogical worldbuildig, Narnia has some problems with some characters, too. Susan isn't treated at all well, as Laura Weymouth points out in The Light Between Worlds (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34842042-the-light-betwe...). Come to think of it, Lewis doesn't tell us much about how any of the children who go to Narnia deal with being back in the Real World, a topic so obvious that even the Narnia movies deal with it a little.
For my entire life I've tried to become a programmer, went as far as studying CS for three years, never managed to get a diploma as I ran into some financial and health issues... you mention

> I know no one actually wants to hear that. But I think that's the actual root cause of this stuff and you won't fix it if you don't address those issues.

I think the real issue, is, the world is much bigger than the first world countries. I would love to have a diploma, to get a "real" job as a programmer for some random company, to add that "value" to the internet, to design useful software for actual people, etc. etc. But I was born in Eastern Europe..

I tried freelancing a few times through gac, rac, and scriptlance which later got "globalized" (all acquired and killed by freelancer.com, yay capitalism).. and I just can't compete with indians on that site, way too many of them, somehow quoting 5% of the price promising double or triple of what I can do somehow...

So I tried looking for that "Real" job, except I was born ugly as hell with broken teeth, so nobody would even take me seriously. Even one of my professors in uni told me once: "See.. if you could do less drugs and study more, I bet you could get an A, it's a B- for now..".. I never even tried drugs, but apparently I'm so ugly half my profs thought I was drugged. As far as I can tell, It's just nepotism right and left, people only hiring other pretty-looking-people-alike for both normal and startup-like jobs where I come from. Zero chance for me.

So on the brink of giving up on everything, I took a construction job for 6 months, which allowed me to save enough money for a plane ticked and my first month of rent in UK. Now I'm a Reach Truck driver in a warehouse.. making >triple the salary I could make as a programmer in my home country, but slowly destroying my back and knees every d day.

Funnily enough, I've met quite a few programmers, lawyers, accountants, pharmacists and even a surgeon through my warehouse jobs in the last two years. Quite smart people, a few broken teeth here and there, a couple disfigured faces, husbands, kids, sick family, plenty stuff...

The internet is just bullshit, just like most of this society. Making money, jobs, starvation, HA! I don't even know what I'm trying anymore or why I still keep reading on this site.

Sorry for the rambling, your message just resonated somehow for me so I felt I should say something. Good luck to you!
I don't think anyone has said, "fentanyl is worse for 18-44, therefore COVID is no big deal".

My intent was to make a general statement about anchoring as a technique. But in any case, you're incorrect: my own father has made this sort of remark about opioids, and I've seen it pop up in message boards, and with other (not necessarily opioid) comparisons by folks who resist masks/social distancing/vaccination.
> it would acknowledge class

Somewhat recently I stumbled upon a commentary about how sometimes Russians are perceived by Amercians as almost snobby by the way they talk. As I understood it's just the result of Received Pronunciation and a pretty formal English by the book, without an actual, "live" language.
I find it pretty egregious that tech companies in particular consider a way to fight misinformation to be to make it difficult to find. Where's the trust in people to critically assess evidence? We seem too afraid they'll pick the wrong "truth". What does that say about our lack of respect for their ability to make decisions? Will us behaving this way possibly change their minds? Stupid, irrational people have always existed and will always exist. Better to at least try to train them to critically assess what they read - which will reduce total stupidity in the world - than to block them from reading such material which only makes them think there's a conspiracy. And, what better way to make high quality allies than to have them critically assess both sides and decide to pick yours? And, maybe we might even change our own mind having had a more complete body of information to draw upon - better for everything.

Blocking access to information seems optimally bad for truth.
Didn’t sctb step down?
The OP missed out the key word "series" from the actual blog. In this context 2.3k refers to 2300. Hopefully @dang can revise the title slightly or maybe just point to the actual patch - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YdIfz+LMewetSaEB@gmail.com/T/#u
Clients, editors, etc. Internal clients might be an editorial department within a holding company that works across agencies, for example. I know I am getting downvoted, but it’s a reality that these systems have caused issues for companies like mine and have not been widely used in professional publishing, mostly due to interoperability issues.
Having used Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote I ended up on Endnote. I like their metadata scraping, their Word plugin and that many journals offer a pre-configured reference template. But yes as a DBMS it lacks alot in the filter/grouping features and date fields don't convert format intelligently.
That’s exactly what it is, which is why the rate is higher than an actual variable rate mortgage (where rates can go up too).
High-quality commercial satellite photos are a thing now. Is there decent evidence that Russia is building up the sort of supply & logistics tail needed to support a major invasion? Or just a bunch of shorter-range and token actions - which still would give Moscow "Regional 900 lbs. Gorilla" bragging rights, but at <5% of the cost.

Maybe western powers are talking big about sanctions & such to make it even cheaper for Moscow to feel big. (Vs. actual military action, which tends to kill a lot of people even when "nothing goes wrong".)

And maybe The Guardian does have a passably sophisticated understanding of the situation. But I don't see much evidence of that.
or a pinetab, although I'm not sure how polished the software is at this point

https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/
Before people start complaining about leetcode and how it doesnt exemplify skills:

its a proxy for a combination of:

intelligence and how hard you are willing to study

the computer science knowledge shown is just a bonus

EDIT:

One last thing to throw in, its pretty clear that theres a correlation between the top software companies and how hard their leetcode interviews are. You can claim all you want it doesnt work, but facebook and google have very hard leetcode interviews and are known for the best software
Are we talking about Mendeley or the general Elsevier paywalls? Seems like you are complaining about several issues at once: Mendeley's restricted features, Elsevier's paywall (that can be relevant even for non Mendeley users) and JoeRoganization, by which I guess you mean that his guests don't always confirm mainstream expert consensus (The Science).
> And I note it is quite easy to figure out how many people you would expect to die from complications other than Covid---as a first order approximation it will be the same as in 2019 (unless you happen to know of a significant change other than COVID).

Correct, you could record the number of deaths due to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. and subtract depressions in these death categories from Covid deaths. Subtract away reductions in non-covid deaths from the Covid death toll to account for the people that would have died absent Covid.

My point is the linked NYT article didn't do this correction and it's wrong to write that they did.
I'm never bored when I'm outside and moving and with people, I could spend my whole life this way and get inside just to rest and I'm pretty sure I'd be perfectly fine, I think its so much different to be "bored" in real life than it is to be bored locked to cyberspace and screens. Maybe there's a distinction to be made between boredom and alienation? Because These are two very different things to me. I'm not so sure about your hunter-gatherer societies take really. Man has not been alienated forever, or is by default, or is condemned to being, this just isnt true. A lot of this stuff are modernity issues and modernity could very well have developed differently, even though technology would keep on its course just as it has always done.

Politics itself if implemented well, uncorrupted, could very much take care of it. The problem to me is political institutions and other human institutions became too weak and lost to capitalism so now that money has the final say in everything we became paralyzed because we can't imagine things being an inch different, which to me just doesn't make sense.

I mean why the f*ck would unhealthy stuff be impossible to control? Why can't food be healthier? Tech be healthier? Work be healthier? Why can't ignorance be fought and won? There are fallacies buried deep in the arguments people use defending that this specific configuration of stuff we have now is inevitable. All I know is History is deffo not done yet, things do change, one way or another, sooner or later.
That makes more sense. One would think the only response to such a big change would be to insist it be made into many smaller requests.
If by 'share' you mean a small minority dominate and obfuscate the input of everyone else, then sure.
Glad to hear that the software engineer selection method is determined by this very rigorous process of character assessment. No wonder why big corporations produce such amazing teams.
Very handy! Thank-you.
I would also add heaps/priority queues to this list. They don't come up as often as HashTables/LinkedLists but come up often enough.

If you wanna be thorough (esp if you are applying at companies known for harder interviews) I would add practicing backtracking problems where you are doing a full exhaustive search of the problem space as well (often O(k^n) or O(n!) complexity). Yes these are often mostly just DFS + Recursion but they have subtlety to them that requires practice for most people. They tend to be tricky to get right in an interview setting without practice as due to the really bad time complexity of most problems of this type they almost never come up in production for most people so they're not even on the radar of most engineers.
You struck a good balance here -- well put! :)
> Working from home can remove a lot of the accountability that keeps addicts in check.

COVID countermeasures reduced the number of safe recreational activities, and was a horrible for mental health overall. Additionally, America offers very little support for mental health distress, so I imagine this triple threat has been devastating to drug addicts. I'm only guessing as a teetotaler who got addicted to video games and Twitter in that time (and I used to scoff at Twitter-addicts since I had a small, curated list of accounts I followed)

[edit]A fourth factor - drug overdoses (and other "less serious" medical issues) also got less medical care because it was being hogged by respiratory patients.
I'm not suggesting that these are the only factors to discuss: far from it.

These are just what I believe to be valid concepts that I don't think will get any serious attention elsewhere. Just throwing them out there for others.
Joke's on them. I don't buy things that have only a single review; too easily gamed. I look for products that have a lot of positive reviews. Obscure models probably have worse support too. Unless you really know what you're looking for, something that lots of people enjoy using is generally the safest choice.
Funny, I was just complaining about the exact same phenomenon (complaining with a fix!) a few days ago: https://twitter.com/FeinbergVlad/status/1475148590423023619
Congratulations to the guys! But you have to feel bad for the Germans, for whom GnuPG (no disrespect!) is a serious upgrade.
I would say try a session with a few different therapists and see how it goes. There are online professionals, but I have mixed feeling about that. People lay down for a reason, sitting in front of a monitor is not the same.

The very fact that you have to present your life in an understandable structure already helps. Actually, that's a funny story. I was so frustrated that my sessions were useless because I could not describe my problems, that I started rehearsing my sessions. What should I say; what is important; what is not important and should be skipped; what is the best order to tell things. After a few months it was not necessary. So the first useful skill I have got is communicating in a clear manner. Especially communicating about feelings. People usually have no idea how to describe what they feel and jet get angry or something.
That trick won't work. An extension cord is only seen as such as long as it is not permanently attached to a structure, and definitely not when it powers a fixed structure. In other words, it needs to be temporary and to be disconnected when not in use. As soon as you connect it permanently affix it or bury it you are violating the electrical code.

Otherwise this would act as a giant loophole around the electrical code, you could simply use a high current plug to connect your distribution panel and call it a day.

https://plasticinehouse.com/can-i-use-an-extension-cord-to-p...
Fair enough, but not every client is going to want to use the same operating systems, processors, be allowed to install third party software, etc. This might work in a strictly academic setting with few stakeholders, but in professional publishing, interoperability makes these systems unpopular. Downvoting that won’t change reality. I guess there is not much interest in feedback or possible routes to improvement.
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I find myself being surprised by people more often than disappointed.
Dallas homicide numbers dropped by 13% in 2021. How?
This was pretty much it. (I am the author)

People do low-commitment exploration of new tech all the time, perhaps offhandedly download some new language compiler to see what all the fuss is about. Even a modestly negative experience can easily tip the scales for them to lose interest and go do something else.
Been a while since I read it, but I seem to remember a false sense of confidence (caused by belief in a normal distribution) being a major theme.

Regardless, we should be skeptical of the assumption that we're dealing with a normal distribution.
you should probably step back and take a breather.

youre emotionally involved in a matter with your kid(s) - as one should be - but thats not the way to have a public discourse.
I think that the artificial restrictions designed to make money are kind of the point. The digital realm is being constrained as if it were physical. These systems are being built on blockchain which is supposed to bring trustlessness and decentralized authority. Instead, virtual land is turning into land grabs the same way physical land does. The players profiting may be different, but the game is the same.