skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. I recently helped a friend build a little bit of a backyard carpentry project and I was struck by the fact that I got the same creative satisfaction from building little pieces of software. With one big difference: that 2-day carpentry project cost around $1000 in materials. People wanting to create these kinds of things have to pay a big price. Whereas with code (and lots of free-tier cloud services etc) I can bang out endless ideas and useful projects for free.
No idea why more notetaking apps have not copied the 'bulleted list that you can expand and collapse' functionality.
The assumption that excess deaths can be attributed to any single cause is simply not based on data and/or science.

What is the age breakdown of these excess deaths? If the distribution doesn't mirror the age distribution of known COVID deaths, that's an immediate indicator that it's factoring in multiple sources.

Drug overdoses, attempted suicides and actual suicides are way up, for example. Drug abuse is way up. Child abuse is way up.

I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm simply saying that you can't know that you are right without a careful analysis of the data. It should be noted that the "excess deaths are way up" is also used as a tool of people claiming that the vaccines are killing people as well.

Again, I want to emphasize, I don't know the detailed data behind the excess deaths. COVID is certainly one factor, but what percentage does it constitute? I'm not claiming I know, but you are. That's the difference.

You are also ignoring the studies out of Israel (sample size of 2.5 million people), Qatar (sample size of 400K people), the recent CDC study in other replies to your comment, etc. It's a long list of studies that show that prior infection is a superior, more durable form of immunity to Delta than vaccine-only populations.

Additionally, it's rather absurd to use hospitalizations as a metric for the general population. I'm sure you are extremely aware that the bulk of unvaccinated people getting hospitalized are not young or healthy. "Some unvaccinated people" is also a statement ignoring the shocking prevalence of prior infection in seroprevalence studies, which isn't really shocking when considering a respiratory virus that has an R0 that has been at minimum 3 in the beginning with the original variant, and is now 6-7 with omicron.

The data has changed, but many people's opinions have remained fixed. I don't understand what motivates this, but it's become tiresome as it continues to drive policies that are intuitively foolish and violate centuries of immunological knowledge.
Yeah I totally know what you are talking about with it being too slow and unreliable. But it's also the primary reason I use airpods. They are the only device I know of that let me almost seamlessly switch between my macbook, iphone, ipad, and while running they connect direct to my watch. It's worth so much to me that I don't even consider any competitors.

And I will put up with a lot of quirkyness or waiting for connection to have that.
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I don't mean this to sound snarky, but I just can't think of a nice way to put it... it seems obvious, based on everything I've ready, they're building these things faster/cheaper and worse than many other cars, regardless of the engine. When you're assembling your cars with zip ties and wood, you're certainly going to be profitable.

https://drivetribe.com/p/tesla-is-jerry-rigging-its-cooling-...

So many things I've read about Tesla quality makes me think that they are just not well built vehicles. I know I didn't bother looking at them when I bought a new car last year.

(I have no skin in this game, just a thought from a pretty casual observer)
ESI, at least on fastly, are run in serialized fashion. On cloudflare workers, you can have up to 6 concurrent connections to try to do ESI as fast as the slowest request.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) doesn't allow medical insurers to set premiums based on vaccination status.
Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven is an apt exploration of the hubris that this worldview entails.
Manhattan (not to mention Staten Island, as well as Queens and Brooklyn which are geographically on Long Island) is also an island, just like Australia (and Tasmania.) Clearly they should have isolated themselves before covid took hold. ;-)
But those things I mentioned happen regardless of the hardware build quality. Hardware quality will avoid hardware issues, things like overheating or stability problems. The things I mentioned are software integration problems that are a natural consequence of the PC ecosystem being much more heterogeneous. It doesn't matter how good your hardware is.

There's just no way around the fact that when your ecosystem gives people much more choice and flexibility, it's going to be jankier than one which doesn't. It's just math. As you add dimensions to the problem space you reduce the fraction of the problem space you can test to ensure the user experience is good, and you rely on users to figure out how to reach a good point in that space, since you can't do it for them. If your dimensions are at least separable you might have a better chance (linear scaling instead of exponential), but modern systems are too complex to keep one issue from influencing others. It's a massive engineering problem.
"The negative estimates in the final period arguably suggest different behaviour and/or exposure patterns in the vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts causing underestimation of the VE. This was likely the result of Omicron spreading rapidly initially through single (super-spreading) events causing many infections among young, vaccinated individuals."

Yeah, I think it's more likely that this is the explanation. At least I'd need to be persuaded that the more unlikely explanation is the correct one.
That guide has 36 steps which include melting adhesive, using suction cups and using a pick to detach the display from the case.

On top of that there are a number of peripherals to remove before even getting to the battery. To me that seems extremely difficult.
I think many managers really don't understand the impact that computer performance has on developers.

For instance, some developers have a 40 minute build process. You'd imagine that if you spent a week making that 40 minute build process a 10 minute build process you could get that time back in a few weeks.

The first response you might get if you bring the issue up is that we only work on tickets that have a direct benefit to the customer. If you stop for a moment to be articulate about it you can say "the customer wants to get features more quickly" and "we can cut three months off the schedule by speeding up the build process."

That's an argument that people will listen to.

Say you get paid $100,000 a year. Something that makes you 10% more productive saves $10,000 a year. $2000 of hardware pays for itself in about two months!

You can go from "talk to the hand" to getting what you want if you can explain just what a good investment better hardware is for the business.
Obsidian looked so much better than Zim that I was compelled to try it, but I'd been using Zim for well over 15 years beforehand.

So Occams razor might just be "I'm more used to it;" though there might be an argument for Obsidian growing too slick too quickly? It's got a LOT going on and looks like its flashier and has more features, perhaps too many for me. Also, if mobile is at all important, you probably want Obsidian.
I'm glad the date range tool still exists, I use it now and then and it's generally good. What's bad is that it's not available on the mobile site. But what's ugly is how unreliable and cluttered the results are. For example:

"Dec 21, 2001 — House Democrats plan to vote Wednesday to impeach President Trump for his role in inciting the deadly Capitol attack as President-elect Joe Biden prepares ..."

https://www.google.com/search?q=president+Trump&biw=980&bih=... (be sure to switch to desktop mode if on mobile)
http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm has a neat set of pictures, history, and altimeter data from the Soviet Venera program. I find the pictures from the surface very eerie and awe-inspiring. These seemingly boring, peaceful looking pictures of rocky ground and clear sky come from a robot in a atmosphere of super-critical CO2, at 460 C, having just descended through clouds of sulfuric acid. Before this robot was melted, crushed, blown away or dissolved into oblivion it took a moment to send us a few pictures of the nearby landscape and tell us what color the sky was. Well done, brave and lonely explorer!
If consumers are buying them, it’s somewhat of a moot point. How long did legacy automakers make poor quality vehicles for and still had demand for them?

(own Teslas, all mostly well built, the newer the better)
Now that we've shown that we can do this (we = humankind), I wonder what's needed to scale up the JWST design by 10x or 100x or 1000x...
There have been side effects from the vaccine, including documented cases of really bad reactions [1],[2]. I’m double vaxxed, boosted, and got covid. But to say the shot is without risks is disingenuous.

That said, the risk of dying unvaccinated from COVID is much greater than the risks of vaccine. And it’s unclear if side effects from the shot are correlated to worse outcomes from COVID (e.g. It’s unknown if these people who were paralyzed definitely would have died when they contracted covid, so paralysis is a potentially better outcome).

[1] https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/every-day-that-i-work-...

[2] https://www.wkrn.com/news/nashville-woman-partially-paralyze...
That would put the total number of stereotypical commenters here to about 100 people.

The conjunction fallacy and all that.
I had to explain to both friends and romantic partners that it’s absolutely insane to penny-pinch on certain things.

Pepper, for example. I always buy a good pepper grinder with the best quality whole peppercorns in it. The difference it makes to a dish is just incredible. This costs something like 3 cents per meal instead of 1 cent.
"Hubble Hugger" is such an amazing nickname!
Love it. Text says price is for 10000 units, BOM price column header says 1000 units. Which is it?
My Firefox on specced out Intel MBP lags noticeably
> It means we allow writers to publish what they want and readers to decide for themselves what to read

I hope they stick to their guns. History suggests they won't.
I did not say that prior infection does not reduce severe outcome. It does but _it does not change the fact_ that the severe outcomes are much more rare among vaccinated people. This means that there are still too few people with prior infection, for this to be an important factor in policy making. It will be once the proportion of unvaccinated people in hospitals starts to resemble the proportion in the general population.
They have added some things to the airpods over software updates. But I assume they are pretty limited if they are already pushing the hardware to the absolute limit on release. A lot of the stuff they push over updates seem to be things they already planned to have but perhaps didn't have the firmware polished enough yet.
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TLS gives you protection against casual eavesdropping or tampering.

Of course, self-signed certs + TOFU theoretically allow a third party to insert itself as a MITM at the first connection. This needs a lot of tracking and preparation beforehand; no adversary of this caliber is going to be interested in Gemini content.
> rights ... not cover your health expenses

An issue in fact is being revealed in these times with organized mutual assistance, "covering each other's health expenses", as a burden. Because it can go off the limits of good sense. As in: if one were mandated to eating salad and exercising, and to only use the car under emergency to minimize the risk of crashes, then mutual assistance would be a "shoved service" instead of a welcome feature.

> people's rights to not be annoyed by you and not cover your health expenses

The principle of "not damaging others" ("do not smoke in my face") cannot be simply mixed with "not being a burden to society" in matters that show less trivial tradeoffs.
If by "unprotected" you mean "no green arrow", in what part of the LA area is it feasible to avoid unprotected lefts? They are all over the place in my neighborhood.

If by "unprotected" you mean a left from a stop sign onto a street that does not stop, then I agree. They can be almost impossible. Waze was especially notorious for them a few years ago.
Really depends. I started a small (consumer electronics) hardware startup. Bootstrapped and producing small quantities. There are ways to make it work.
I work with a lot of clinicians.

Normal flu seasons don't leave them with 1000 yard stares.
I think you massively under-estimate the banality of authoritarianism.

If an authoritarian movement takes over the US government, at least a majority of the Johns Hopkins CS faculty will continue taking grants from the NSF/DoD. Many of those grants will be more-or-less aligned with the objectives of that authoritarian movement. Non-authoritarian students will grind away on those projects.

Something similar would happen at FAANGM. No iCloud backups? NBD; lean on those companies to collect whatever data the state wants. You don't need super competent loyal technologists, because FAANGM and their employees will most of the time just do what you tell them. You don't need existing troves of data, because you can start collecting at any point and still get a huge amount of utility.

Could the authoritarian world be marginally better if big tech makes an about-face and stops collecting data? Sure. Is that difference enough to make any sort of significant difference in the lived experience of people or the trajectory of the authoritarian regime? Probably not.

I don't think you're wrong, per se, about the risks. But I don't think you have a compelling solution. And, anyways, there are much stronger arguments for reigning in data collection at big tech than the risk of impending authoritarianism.
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pretty much all those quotes are "very effective", which is not really quantitative enough to say that fauci and the media were "wrong".

Is it super important that they are technically wrong on something, anyway? Like, do you think Fauci is going to be cancelled because he said something wrong? I doubt that's going to occur based on his prior messaging.
That's only true if you're interacting with your customer in some weird, subservient way that has nothing to do with anything I've said at all.

The point you're trying to make isn't the novel insight I think you're trying to present it as. Of course you don't just build what your customer asks for blindly, of course you design with the future in mind, none of that is precluded whatsoever by iterating quickly to provide value and test what your customer needs.
- Interest rate is the cost of borrowing money; if the cost is high, people/businesses generally borrow less

- Borrowing money involves the creation of new money (fractional reserve banking); when you get a loan from a bank, they only have to have a certain portion of that backed by actual cash, the rest is created out of thin air. So you get your loan and spend it immediately. When enough people are borrowing, there is more money flying around; an economy can only produce so many "things" at once, so we have to compete over our purchases. This demand, fueled by borrowing, pushes prices up.
Hungary:
https://digi.hu/en/news/three-years-development-works-comple...
https://digi.hu/hirek/bemutatja-10-gbits-savszelessegu-lakos...
for 14 €, at the moment only in Budapest.
Well that is not true actually - they likely are filling up hospitals quite a bit. The big difference is that smoking, metabolic diseases, car accidents, etc etc are all relatively PREDICTABLE diseases year to year. Our medical system then sizes to be able to deal with these predictable rates of disease.
Inflammation, memory loss, swollen lymph, chest pains, feeling sicks for months, no energy, trouble breathing.

You thought the vaccines were risk free?
There are different kinds of hashes. You can, for example, assign numbers to your incoming IPs. The first one to come in gets 1, the second gets 2, and so on. Numbers zero out at midnight, correlation between them and real IPs are at the load balancer. Good luck bruteforcing these.
I was specifically commenting about economists who predicted that millions of drivers will be out of jobs in just a couple of years, and speculated what should be done about it, what will be the wider consequences etc. Basically uninformed and irresponsible blabbering under pretense of expertise.
The entire end-to-end source code (backend and frontend) is available at: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/zk-treasure-hunt?path=README.md%3... . It's a full-stack Glitch example, so you can browse all the code, and fork it and edit it.
"find" I follow him on twitter and it told me :D
What is sad then, is that the reliability of the other automakers has been so optimized for income that their cars fall apart just as fast.
I clicked this thinking it was referring to crypto
Just how exactly are you or anyone else prevented to run your business in mobile browser.
I don't use tiddlywiki but I have tried widdler https://github.com/qbit/widdler it's a WebDAV server that handles saving.
Would you care enlightening about the reference?

On duckduckgo I only found some references to The Muppets, a Springer article and a streaming playlist on archive.org
The pension diversification strategy that developers are using now
Developers are the most sought-after resource in IT, so large companies often offer them an option program along with their salary. This is when, after some time, the employee gets an opportunity to buy shares in the company at a fixed price, usually below the market price. This is generally very profitable. And so. A developer gets a job at such a company, they work off as long as they need to in order to obtain the highest possible conditions under the stock option program. As a rule, this is 1 year of cliff + 4 years of vesting. I'm not going to talk about cliff and vesting. To make a long story short, you have to work for 5 years. Immediately after that, the developer leaves for another company for the next option. Over a career of 20-25 years, the developer will get the most out of each company. So they diversify his retirement with stocks in the companies they worked for.
any such (public) company has fallen into the ”printing money from past heroic projects by former employees” phase and is slowly dying out
Interesting to see Model S/X production volumes dropping. I understand they want to sell more Model 3s, but I am wondering if this is a comment on demand for S/X?
There's a difference though between identifying variety from a random sample and knowing what you like. While non-experts often have trouble describing their preferences, they don't have trouble identifying them. A wine drinker with a few years of experience may not be able to tell you why they like Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz, and dislike Pinot Noir. But if you pour them a St. Laurent you shouldn't be surprised when they don't like it.
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True, there are plenty of accounts of Cadillac’s and Fords having pieces falling off cars as people were driving down the road.

My parents GM was a constant piece by of crap and would endlessly overheat and brake.
Account and identity management is naturally slightly non-trivial, once you consider things outside the happy path.
You give Texas as an example; but important for your example, its government disincentivized and removed the rights from companies, private property, and small local governments to require masks, vaccines, or reduction in capacities.
I would like a source, but still: no need to even ask me, as it's exactly the case I mention in the last paragraph.
Pretty sure at this point none of this affects anyone’s choices because people have chosen “sides” and dug in their heels.
Are you fishing with a boat? I’m interested to read your blog if you have one.
This might be a dumb series of questions but here it goes:

Didn't we get into a huge mess because of mortgage-backed securities just 15 years ago?

And you're telling me now instead of (i)banks owning them, the federal reserve owns them?

Does anyone know what the general "rating" of those securities is? Isn't this dangerous?

I know we trust our governments to handle things like nuclear weapons but this seems a bit more dangerous and opaque with far less oversight.

Should we be concerned?
That's not even the largest bias. Stack Overflow ranking is mostly defined by a software's popularity divided by the quality of its documentation. The quality of the software itself is far away in relevance.
Maybe we should have more zip ties and wood in this industry, then? It's frustrating you've formed such a strong opinion without having inspected an actual car, or investigated why people love these things so much.
They had almost 2 years to prepare for this.

Further, hasnt the "lack of workers" been exacerbated from vaccine mandates on workers?

So, you have a system that
cannot competently do its work prior to crisis
cannot plan with enough time and
*further chooses to shoot itself of
the foot by limiting their labor

None of these seem to indicate that those in charge care about taxpayers in the process.

What is the government scared of?
- incompetence?
- lack of planning?
- labor practices?

No. None of these. They are scared of doing something different because "no one got fired for buying ibm". Nothing scares them more than doing something different from what is coming from the top.
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Sqlite is also an outlier in the open source world in that it has an extremely decent funding model (basically premium support). This has enabled continued work on it for 20+ years by the same author and a small team of people he hired for this work. Just the sheer lifespan of the project makes sure it generates the buzz-over-time that TFA mentions as the lifeblood of software projects.
Zim is awesome and did everything I used to use Evernote for but run on mobile. The notes are kept in plain text, so there’s no lock in. I am glad to know that the author is out there and released the code for us, because that will be usable so long as the necessary Python version is usable (lol).

This might be a little odd but I get a very “homey” vibe from the program, like, there are parts that aren’t as polished and improvements are slow and steady over the years, but there’s something of personal touch that makes it charming to use.
They can shop at alternatives (if they exist in the specific town in Quebec), for now.

It's not really hyperbole, I think. The basic right is at the very least being threatened, if not explicitly violated (yet).
But the difference between preliminary design and final product is much smaller in software than in building, so the cost of making an actual working prototype during the early phases is much less.
The first one costs $10k? It seems a bit disingenuous. All the electronics and PCB manufacture is more expensive in single quantities, but I would be shocked if it wasn't still within 2x-3x of $15 (namely $30-$45).

The big initial expense, as far as I can tell, is the custom enclosure and keyboard. Maybe there's an interim design that doesn't require injection molded parts?