skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> economically active populations

I've seen this thrown about and have to take this with a grain of salt because even the infirmed/elderly/retired are still part of the economy. They consume food and resources, albeit they aren't out buying durable goods and new cars, but they are paying rent/mortgage in their retirement communities, eating food, buying CPGs* (some of which fully rely on an older population).

I'll take the example of my two relatives that died from COVID, neither had underlying conditions: One was a 65 yo former airline mechanic on the verge of retirement with a McMansion in Houston area, he spent a lot of money keeping up that lifestyle, and when he passed my aunt moved back to a small town, and downsized, considerably shrinking her spending. They had planned to spend the next 10 years in an RV that is no longer going to happen. The other is my 46 yo cousin with 4 kids and was a seven figure earner in sales living in Kansas City area. Again, huge amount of spend and now his wife is getting by with a massively reduced house and budget.

* Did the hard candy industry take a nose-dive? Should I be shorting Werther's Original stock?
Don't worry, you're not paranoid, you're just not missing relevant knowledge, or a mouthbreather.
I second this (most excellent) recommendation and suggest, in particular, the band "Windhand".

For example, Windhand's song "Three Sisters":

https://youtu.be/0FkhnGdwDcw
I know what struct-of-arrays is, but I am still wondering how struct-of-arrays relates to BTree. Are you imagining a BTree[key] and BTree[value]? How are associations maintained if the btrees sort independently?
That's a very good, and deep, point, and I agree that there is something important there. However, algorithmic complexity is still only defined relative to an arbitrary reference computer. If my reference computer happens to, in hardware, XOR its inputs and outputs with the bitstring 10010001111110101000, then (in terms of bits that end up represented on the drive), that will be the one that has the lowest algorithmic complexity, although the algorithm might think that it's outputting all 0's.
Is it that weird editor they tend to put on our distro these days were we end up having a lot of i x r R :s/foo/bar :w and :q embedded in the text and that we need to close quickly in fear of adding syntax error before doing an EDITOR=vi ?
3/4 of the million US deaths attributed to COVID-19 were age ~64 and above.

Only 1 in 20 deaths attributed to COVID-19 were between 0 and ~49.

Abstract models of "productivity" vs age peak close to where the covid death hockey stick turns upwards.

The 50-60 age bracket is where the big losses are, losing 100k-200k people near their prime and 5-15 years of remaining economic contributions. Younger populations saw much fewer losses, older populations mostly left the workforce.
Ask HN: How do HN pros keep track of responses to their comments?
I have been lurking HN for years, sometimes submitting articles yet very rarely engaging in comments. What stops me from commenting, and from reacting to other people's comments, is the fact that the chances of starting a conversation are so low (i.e. the person I am replying to may never know I wrote something, and if they somehow do reply I'm probably not going to see it unless I explicitly go back to check).

Is there anything I'm missing?
But what's the alternative? You want any random idiot to have a voice? I'd assume there are more un-educated idiots than educated ones - your personal issue is not getting the credential to prove your worth.
I haven't been writing code professionally really long but one thing I notice is "It" ... even the same "It" can be dramatically different wherever you go and not everyone seems to be entirely aware of that or able to adapt.

You get folks who maybe have worked a few places, or a lot of places that all operate with the same bureaucracy / processes and they seem unaware that it could possibly be different anywhere else.

Some folks I know work at a very large corp. Their development cycle is very heavy with processes, albeit seems very reasonable / works for them. Folks writing up what some feature should do for 100 different possibles, folks reviewing it in some way ... on and on. Maybe someone finally writes code and everyone reviews it. Testing, testing, testing. I'm not judging it, it's just ... a lot.

I work at a place with 3 devs, and only one other really does what I do. I get a vague idea of a feature requested, I talk to the customer, I go write it. Show some folks, maybe I change things, maybe not. I roll it out. Done. Feature is out there in production, live, sometimes in just a few hours (and I watch our error reporting system to see if it blows up or not).

It's a completely different mindset / process. I've worked with folks who worked at very large corp and they weren't doing anything differently than I do, but in my more informal / not a lot of review environment they struggle. They're good, they're not bad, they just are so used to so many eyeballs / not used to talking to customers (and distilling what they say) / they're used to so much confirmation that they freeze up in a way. They can do "It" it's just "It" in a new context is hard.

Granted I might struggle in a more formal environment, I don't know I haven't tried it.

But the same "It" is not the same "It" everywhere.
There is a recession/depression coming this summer, and it will be here before it is announced because that is how economics works. Prepare now. Sell at the high if you own a house and do not want to live in it for the next 20 years.
So what money do they use?
And the reason Go keeps a toe-hold in the ecosystem is that file-handling is simple for most people, most of the time.

Rust is expressing the full complexity of a twisty maze of corner-cases built up from decades of filesystem features being slapped on with no care for each others' existence. Go just says "Sure, but you won't need most of that most of the time; here's a subset that usually works." So it solves most people's problem most of the time with far less words (with the trade-off that if you get burned, you get burned).
I'm not so sure that China is simply bluffing. The recent lockdowns in Shanghai is very peculiar. It does not appear to be aimed at reducing transmission, rather it looks like mobilization during war time. I'm inclined to think that its a sort of a civilian war exercise in case the mainland faces retaliatory strikes but for what?

Xi like Putin is on the edge of the cliff. When strongman fear an uprising, they create external conflicts to mobilize the crowd. For Putin, it was 3 decades of stealing from the Russian state and people with covid decimating it's economy. Similarly for Xi, it is the continued economic growth that legitimizes its power and with the deflation of its real estate industry, zero covid strategy touted by xi, that in turn created an economic fall out, it's do or die for Xi before the 20th party congress in a 4 months or so.

I fear that Taiwan will suddenly find itself in a situation like Ukraine except I do not think the US and its allies will allow China to gain unchecked access to the Pacific ocean by taking Taiwan and its semiconductor production that US military depends on.
Thermometers is a way to measure temperature, it isn't its theoretical definition. Temperature is defined as energy required per change in entropy. There is no other reasonable way to define temperature, since at its core it measures which way energy flows when two macro systems are connected. Temperature tends to go up as you add energy to things, but not always, for example temperature doesn't go up when you melt ice, it starts and ends at 0 degrees C.

> How do you calculate the number of microstates for the sample of gas before and after? How do you think these numbers are related?

If you added energy to the gas by heating it, lets say you doubled the energy, then you now have twice as many energy packets to distribute between the particles. This adds a lot more microstates that wasn't available before, and none of the old microstates are now possible since all old microstates had a total energy level half of what each new microstate has. You can calculate the change in states yourself, it is just discrete normal probability theory. Note that the base rate isn't interesting, you care about the change of the logarithm of number of states.
This company has held back e-ink technology via patents. They refuse to talk to small/independent vendors, and try to squash anybody ordering components from abroad. Now, why does that matter? Cause the Chinese had 'full color eink' for years.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002467730675.html?algo_e...

And there's eink phones AND tablets both. Reasonably priced. Yet we see none of that kind of innovation here... I guess we might in 5-7 years. If it's profitable.
r/oilpen is mostly Yocan bots, any hearing aid related subreddit etc
I find it humorous that this article is neighboring the ‘japan to dump nuclear waste in the pacific’ article on HN.

Seems like there is a step missing…
jQuery should be its own era. The impact of that framework cannot be understated.
EU energy groups prepare to meet Vladimir Putin’s terms for Russian gas
Off-topic, but HN needs review of flagging abuse. Maybe assign flagging privileges only to those with X reputation, and revocation if on review the privilege is abused?

It seems that flagging is as much "I don't like this" as "this is not appropriate".

Likewise downvoting. Maybe instead display both downvotes and upvotes, so people can see if a comment is found controversial?
Board game boards and cards with changeable contents.
> I am not a nurse, but I can easily imagine how someone could make the errors she did in an overworked and high-stress environment.

There are so, so many differences between the two meds, I don't see how confusing them would be possible short of gross negligence (for context, I am a paramedic, and often administer medications (including both of the meds involved here) in a high stress environment).

Vecuronium (the paralyzing drug) is a powder in the vial and you need to first inject saline it into the vial, shake it up, and then draw out the "reconstituted" med. This is very unusual (there are only a handful of medications in common use that require this, and Midazolam, the intended med, is _definitely_ not one of them). The reconstitution process means she would have had to look at the top of the vial several times, and warning on the tops of vials are, again, very uncommon. Also uncommon is the red cap on the vial.

I have made errors before while caring for patients, and I will likely make them again. I am very aware of the fact that we all can make mistakes, but the number of mistakes that needed to be made here far exceeds the standard of what is reasonable, and is well into the territory of "gross negligence", in my opinion.
Boeing had originally proposed a new small aircraft (with carbon fiber), but the airlines did not want this as it would have higher operations costs to have two different types of aircraft, so Boeing had to come up with a new 737, and the MAX was it.
I can only assume you're shorting the market right now so you can cash in on the incredibly accurate crystal ball you apparently have in your possession?
The latter is a much stronger argument than the former (no idea why people get so worked up about character counts), but even then, "shit" is really strong considering how often one experiences exception traces when using an application written in Python or Java or some other exception-based language. Point being, we should probably evaluate error handling schemes based on results rather than ideology (even though I tend to agree with some of that ideology).
Bubbling is what my guts do when they're unhappy. Not a great programming term.
It’s not the same as async objects. There are differences between different score systems. But have a look at Elang and Akka for example.

But I’m actor systems the actors maybe more stateful that you typical object and be location transparent. Communication between actors does require knowledge of if another actor is in process or remote.

Also the actor supervising model is a completely different way of recovering from errors than in OO systems.
Even your source shows that ~17M homes have been built since 2008. I mean, it's a drop off from previous decades, but it's hyperbole to say no homes have been built.
I actually thought about this for a while, but I ended up not thinking that it'd work, because (among some other things which you also touched on)

> To disincentivise users spamming true but useless proofs such as "1+1=2" and "2+2=4", the system would have to penalise proofs based on the data volume of their novel component

I believe that this stated goal of defining a metric that decides which theorems are "interesting" is a lot more difficult than finding proofs for theorems.

I think at some point proving things will to a large part be automatic, and mathematicians will mostly concern themselves with finding interesting theorems, definitions, and axioms, rather than wasting time on proving-labor.

But what do I know.
Huh, I had sort of found the opposite, that the Go community I had interacted with was more aggro and prone to offense. I'm forming this opinion from the reddit and the discord though, so if there is another community you favor I'd genuinely love to hear about it.
This is not Github copilot? What was it?
A two year old rant that everyone saw the first time about a language which has subsequently changed significantly is not in any sense "hacker news." It is "old hacker opinions."
> I think in the USA this is particularly problematic because there's a huge different between moving from a country to another and moving from one state to another.

What's this problematic difference, exactly? Every American citizen is subject to taxes whether he moves to Iowa or Istanbul.
Good post. You talk about MAD, but one interesting dynamic is that with conventional warfare, the US and its allies have un-paralleled capabilities but one check on that is that if they were to project this power onto a foreign territory like Russia/China there is a disadvantage in that the US would be unlikely to launch nuclear weapons on locale's where troops could be harmed by them thereby creating a dis-incentive to invade.
Onyx is planning on shipping another 25" monitor next month, that's about 15% cheaper:

https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro

The problem is that it states "Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS operating systems" are supported. The Dasung specifically states that they support Linux, so that's probably the one that I'll order anyway despite the price.
Even without governments being overthrown, government agencies get deeply reorganized fairly often; often for reasons of politics rather than efficiency, but nevertheless.
I'd probably have to start over if I did switch because Filenet and Neoxam are obscure.

Ah. Yeah, good point. That's unfortunate. I guess that's the danger of getting locked into a tech stack that isn't widely popular. Wish I had something useful to suggest for you beyond this. :-(
Not really? I personally care a lot about being aligned with the company. And so does the company, they want employees aligned with their views. The company I work for is really into green energy. If I up and say "Hey I don't care about that, F the environment, big oil FTW" I'm sure I'll be on the short list out.

And especially for software developers it's not as if they don't have an abundance of options.
Yeah, cash out and leverage to bigger investments. Rinse and repeat.
Can we hold the rushed and botched safety trials that “prove” that the vaccine is safe and effective to the same standards as this article is being held to?
>And? Do you think Americans are willing to give up everything they have and start warring with each other? Because a civil war will mean exactly that. You think inflation is bad, civil war would crater the economy like no modern-American has ever experienced.

I dont see civil war as an inevitability. Civil unrest seems inevitable. Then again not exactly much of a prediction there given ongoing civil unrest.

Also I don't believe civil war is rational as you project it to be.

Imagine republicans take over in midterms. Speaker of the house becomes Trump. They then impeach and remove biden and harris making Trump president again. What happens?

Imagine democrats clean sweep the election and they were boarding up windows again. Blue wave... what happens?
Monoliths can be great or a disaster, as can total services setups. We took a monolith built by a small team into scores of services across 4 teams of 150 engineers, even implementing some of them in Scala (this was 2012ish). On the internal tools side, we created a gem and later a bower package (so vintage) that was a bootstrap-derived design system that worked across almost all 30 internal tools apps & services. I know other teams did the same (at least consumer and merchant), but I didn't work on those projects so I can't speak to them.

I've seen great ruby/rails code and I've seen abysmal ruby/rails code. A lot comes down to who wrote it and if they ever refactored the smelly parts.

After 20+ years, I often see that no one likes to refactor the smelly stuff until they're forced to, and we often end up working with a cool racketball of code covered in 2' of duct tape patches.

Go is the new hotness, as was Rails at one point, and in the near future it will be something else. There's a strong neophillic bent to most developers. It's a lot more fun to work in something that's new and evolving and solving crazy problems than something that is stable.

These are all tools in the tool kit. Use what lets you ship.
Wake me for Windows 12! Harrumph.
>Under the new Russian mechanism, European companies would continue to pay Gazprombank for their imports in euros — ensuring they did not breach the sanctions regime. The Russian bank, which is not under EU sanctions, would then, at their request, convert euro-denominated deposits into roubles in a second account opened in their name, for onward payment to Russia.

breeched contracts: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-13/eu-warns-...

asked Commission to clarify EU guidance: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/eu-nation...

that guidance: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/business_econo...
Show HN: QueryClips, Data sharing for savvy developers
I was unhappy with the fact that I couldn't bring my own database to Heroku Dataclips (which I otherwise love). I don't want a super complex feature set with a ton of confusing bells and whistles.

So I built QueryClips with the aim of getting the basics, done well.

Coupon code SOFTLAUNCH during checkout will get you a month free.

https://www.queryclips.com
It's pretty clearly automation gone wrong. I didn't specify if it's a matter of neglect or abuse.
Russians are shrewd negotiators and they are showing Europe who’s boss.
Every medication does not have a bright red cap with a bold warning printed on the top (that you have to look at at least twice while reconstituting and then drawing up the med). The warnings on a vial of Vecuronium go well beyond the typical "This medication may case XYZ side effect", and for very good reason.
I don't gamble.

I'll come back to this in October to say I told you so.

On housing:

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/04/27/mortgage-volume-gets-crush...
While I may not agree with the actions, I agree that these machines must be taken out of service. When an voting process has components that cannot be validated, the voters can only rely on trust. Why should they accept that?
This is effectively what I'd like to do. I guess I'm almost just looking for a nice UI/frontend to help make it.
What about companies that sell you on "If you come on, you will do it", and then you get there and it turns out you won't be doing "it" at all?
The trials were not botched, and we have an absolutely enormous amount of information about the safety of the vaccines now from many different studies.
I hit the threads button from time to time. I don't get involved in long discussions---life is too short.
> Could that also be because people are living paycheck to paycheck and not buying things like houses and cars anymore?

No. New car sales are currently bottlenecked by supply chain issues, not demand. Housing sale demand is dropping, but still very solid compared to inventory.

At some point, this supply restriction becomes inflationary. If you can buy a new car and resell it a month later for more than you paid, the MSRP is below demand.

Since consumers react poorly to price increases, this is also coupled by reduction in quality or service.
> the fanbase usually acts as a cult pretending that issues are features

JavaScript kind of went through the same thing a few years ago. While everybody else was complaining about Callback Hell, the JS guys were insisting it wasn't a problem. Then they added promises, and later async/await. And lo and behold, what wasn't a problem eventually got fixed.

For a while you would constantly find folks on forums saying, "yeah JavaScript used to be shit, but with ES* it's now perfect." This went on for years.

I think the cultish "we like it this way" is just basic human programming. We do it with items we purchase, political parties we've joined, cities we live in, programming languages, everything.
Well, one reason is that a lot of people casually assume that the baseline level of radiation in the natural environment is 0.0000000...., but it's not.

Uranium has been extracted from seawater before. It's not economically practical, but it can be done, because seawater has uranium in it already. Tritium is also already in there.

Issues of concentration at the point where it is put into the ocean can be an issue, but once dispersed this won't turn the pristine, 0.0000000...% radioactive ocean into a radioactive hellscape, it represents an impercetible percentage increase of what is already there. That doesn't mean we shouldn't think about the implications, but "thinking about the implications" shouldn't start from incorrect understandings of the nature of the current world.

Earth is an amazing environment. It does an incredible job of giving us a low-radiation environment, compared to most of the rest of the universe which ranges from "dangerous" to "radioactive wasteland". But it's not perfect and we are not at a flat 0 even here.
The difference is what the language makes easy to do and how it signals to you you're about to do something dangerous.

If you call `.unwrap()`, that's a big yellow flag that you're going to be taking the gloves off and maybe touching something radioactive. Go has the maybe-radioactive thing sitting right there; safely touching it and unsafely touching it look exactly the same.

I generally enjoy using Go, but this is one of the pieces of the language design that I was surprised Go went with; we've known as an industry for decades that including bare null / nil / undefined / whatever we want to call it without type-system assistance is leaving a bare third rail lying around.
We've been over this, I don't think anyone is claiming that it's impossible to write buggy smart contracts.

But it's not the case that you need to trust the creator, since you can verify it yourself. If you don't understand the code, maybe you can find someone you trust that does. Or just trust that _someone_ hopefully finds any flaws. It's a much better situation than having to blindly trust its correctness.

I wouldn't personally use a smart contract for anything of significant value, but they're not useless just because the transactions are irreversible.
Gerrymandering will never stop grinding on me. Districts should be drawn to make races artificially competitive so leaders need to be responsive to their constituents, not the opposite.
Don't think it's a tech or language stack-related problem. You can easily find akin situation in any other stacks.
Ancient human playground found inside sloth footprints
Yes, I was disappointed to see that.
The Butlerian Jihad starts with you
No-code, no thought? Substrates for simple programming for all