skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current variants of cv19 are surprisingly not killing many of us in the us who are vaccinated and boosted, even among older people. About 250 a day from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us#graph-d....

cv19 is at about the same death rate as a pretty bad influenza year (250*365 = 91k). I do think covid is serious, I'm the only person in my new software job that wears an n95 at work (2 people with covid in the last month in our small office). I'm actually considering quitting because I was promised we were going to be a remote first company and now the ceo doesn't want that.

I worry about long covid and the potential for new variants that are more deadly again. I have wondered why we have not had new deadly flu variants like 1918, is it just luck?
The full-face helmets provide much better protection, but they have the trade-offs of being more uncomfortable and hotter.

I'm not convinced that cycling is especially dangerous and my experience is that I've inevitably put my hands out when falling, so I think that gloves should be the first part of PPE recommended for cyclists. Luckily, I've never hit my helmet/head when coming off so I've found that a bike helmet is most useful for stopping low branches etc from hitting me. I'd recommend cycling/protective glasses too - very good for protecting against insects hitting your eyes.

I find it interesting that people seem to have a skewed attitude towards head protection and cycling. If head protection is that important, then why are helmets not recommended for car passengers, people showering, changing a lightbulb etc.?
no opponent.
not interesting to watch.
I don't think there's even going back to pre-pandemic supply chains solely because how the West's cancel culture effectively ended globalization when Russia invaded Ukraine.

There will be no global supply chain any more. Any country with a brain now knows they have to be completely independent of the West in every aspect. Sovereign assets must be within their borders. Currency reserves? Held at domestic banks as much as possible. Even within the West there needs to be some level of distrust because history shows that there are no perpetual alliances.

We are going to have several hundred supply chains that often don't interact, even if it would make economic sense for them to do so. This is tremendously inflationary and it's only just begun.
Wide Scope Narrow Scope
+-------------+-------------
Function | Short Name | Long Name
+-------------+-------------
Variable | Long Name | Short Name
+-------------+-------------

I can’t quite explain why this works

I'll take a shot...

The general principle uniting all 4 quadrants of the table is: "Use names just long enough to be clear, but not longer."

Here's an illuminating exception to the heuristics: The use of the very short global "DB" for database.

We are really trying to balance two competing goals:

1. Brevity -- Don't explain what I already know. You mention this in relation to a tight loop variable: "I bet you didn’t need me to explain dL stood for Drivers License. It might have even annoyed you if I had spelled it out."

2. Clarity -- Don't confuse me. Don't make me look something up to figure it out.

Maximize brevity while retaining clarity.

Clarity is related to frequency of use. This relates to your comment: "How come the jQuery constructor feels much more natural than the native version? document.querySelectorAll('#appContainer')". It is annoying because we use it all the time... we don't need or want a verbose description.

If the thing is used everywhere, and especially if it is a general convention, assume familiarity. Sure, someone might be confused by "DB" the first time they ever see it, but it will quickly become part of their lexicon and remain so through repeated exposure. However, the same cannot be said for "CGTAO" as a stand in for "cudaGetTextureAlignmentOffset". In that case, the long form is what I want.

We handle these principles effortlessly with our use of "he" vs "John" vs "John Smith" vs "the John Smith you went to highscool with" but for some reason have trouble with them when writing code.
It's a function of the number of customers and the checkout time, not the size of the store IMO.
Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Software Engineers (US/Remote)
That's fair. In my neck of the woods, cyclists are universally hated (or ignored), helmet or no.
In the grand scheme of things if you set a precedent that copyright ownership is highly conditional and subject to the will of people who seek to dismiss your ownership for their own purposes, that will disincentivize investment in producing software works.

Perhaps people such as yourself who wish to see modders able to do what they wish with Windows XP think there is no commercial gain in Windows XP for Microsoft. In a different world there could have been. No one can predict the life expectancy of a copy protected work. This unpredictability and mere potential for long term value is part of what incentivizes corporations to innovate and produce. Remove their unconditional long-term right over their work and you will disincentivize the advancement of the arts and sciences. You may disagree but it’s simply true given that copyright protection has only increased over the history of the US, not decreased.

> the rights from copyright are not "natural" rights so much as a negotiated deal with the rest of society.

All “rights” are negotiated deals with the rest of society. Rights aren’t set in stone, they are essentially abstract constructs. They must be collectively believed in.
I find those "Euro-carts" much more difficult to maneuver. In my experience it is difficult to to turn them without any fixed pivot point. They seem to just want to keep going in whatever direction they are going. Maybe I am just an idiot. Is there some sort of trick to controlling them?
So was Bangladesh (where I’m from). But because of natural bounty and resources, not technology or social organization. That’s why the Europeans were able to establish colonies in the first place. And even if restored to that level of wealth that would make them desperately poor by European standards today.
Had a friend vent about their parents cutting a phone call off cause the parents were 'having breakfast with friends' and they were about to be on again. on tv. friends == fox & friends.
The road damage is 95% heavy traffic, if I'm not mistaken - one 18-wheeler is equivalent to literally 10000 cars.

Whether personal vehicles are 2x as heavy, or 50% lighter, it will not impact your neighborhood roads significantly.
I totally overlooked how busy one 'quiet' road is because I viewed my current house on a Sunday. Big disappointment, nice garden but effectively it is unusable. Much good luck on your quest for quiet! I really sympathize.
I disagree.

When I lend 2022 dollars to the government, I give away a certain amount of buying power.

I don't know if I will get that buying power back when I get my 2032 dollars.

The government does not always have the capability to pay me back my buying power. It cannot create value at will. It can create money at will. But the more money it creates, the less value it has. So it cannot create value at will.
It is not the claim at all and still missing the point.
Israel is 1/10th of the population of Egypt and survived the Arab War where it was attacked by Egypt, Palestine, Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. And the Arabs received Soviet support. Also the US lost at Vietnam. The Soviets lost at Afghanistan and Russia is a shadow of what the Soviet Union was.

Total population means nothing as it ignores that Russia demographics is skewed towards old women and that a large share of the youngers are from ethnic minorities. Russia is struggling to replenish losses and haven't mass conscripted. And sheer numbers alone aren't enough to win a war. Equipment, training, moral, tactics and logistics are also important.
> "Liquid democracy is a voting paradigm that allows voters that are part of a social network to either vote directly or delegate their voting rights to one of their neighbors. The delegations are transitive in the sense, that a voter who decides to delegate, delegates both her own vote and the ones she has received through delegations. The additional flexibility of the paradigm allows to transfer voting power towards a subset of voters ideally containing the most expert voters on the question at hand. It is thus tempting to assume that liquid democracy can lead to more accurate decisions."

Well, first of all you have to ask if the 'decision to delegate' can be monetized or not. If American citizens could sell their vote directly to the highest bidder, then many likely would (most elections have relatively low turnout). How much would the average US citizen want in return? $100? $1000? $10? Would votes be purchasable only by other US citizens, or by corporate bodies, or by citizens of foreign nations?

Beyond that, this is already supposedly how representative democracy works. People ideally elect representatives, who go to Congress and sit on committees, where they make 'expert-assisted decisions' about budgets and projects. If the state wants to hire an expert to design a bridge, hopefully it's not the committee chair's lazy incompetent relative who gets the job, rather there's some kind of competitive merit-based assessment.

However, given the kind of people we have running Congress... this system doesn't seem to work that well. Geriatic insider traders who owe their positions to various corporate conglomerates (finance, energy, defense, pharmaceuticals, etc.) have ended up running all the committees, and the evidence that this is a failure can be easily seen by looking at America's crumbling domestic infrastructure.

P.S. 'Liquid democracy' is a rather meaningless choice of words. Should we be comparing it to 'gaseous democracy' or 'solid-state democracy'?
Ask HN: Turn an Excel file directly into an API server
I have an Excel file and I want to turn it directly into a server. It would provide GET and SET requests for a given (sheet name, row, column). The sheet has many formulas and the server would recalculate as needed after each SET command. Is there a way to do this?
edit: Googling reveals nbdime, has this been looked into? - https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Not OP but I can imagine easily the need for what he's asking.

You'll find a lot of algorithms for data and image processing saved as notebooks these days offered to you. Let's say you make some changes from the provided code and after a handful of changes something is not working right. You might want to diff from where you are back to a working version in hopes that differences that emerge might clue you into where to look for where the problem might be.

As an aside, I want to say Jupyter notebooks (moreso jupyterlab) is sort of a disruptive change to our coding workflows. We've had interpreters for a long time sure, but creating interactive graphs on-the-fly is a godsend, insights come to you in such a workflow that wouldn't otherwise. I hope this catches on, I actually want my shell terminal to become more Jupyter-like. Also, fun fact: did you know you could do real-time collaboration on Juypter notebooks? https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/rtc.html
10-15% degradation in 150-200k miles at a US average of 14k miles a year gives 10% degradation per 10 years, so you are off by a factor of 3. https://themotordigest.com/tesla-lifespan-how-many-miles-wil...
Overpaid in the same way publicly traded tech stocks and VC/PE valuations were grossly inflated. Salaries are going to come down just like valuations. As people generally won’t accept paycuts, it’ll come in the form of laying off 2 engineers and backfilling 1 of them at half the prior salary rate.

VC backed companies will start dropping like flies and the market will flood and salary requirements will drop fast.
There a lot of cultural bias against bicyclists already. While leaving the scene of an injury accident is a crime, murder is an extreme escalation.
> Additionally, I've never seen any research showing any kind of demographic relationship to severity of head injuries in bicycle accidents.

The effects of a helmet on overall safety when ridden at low speed on dedicated bike paths is very different from when ridden at high speeds in traffic with no bike lane.

Thus the the design of the city and streets (geography is perhaps not the perfect term for this) and the what/how of the local culture's bike riding behavior (perhaps demographics is a bad term for this, not sure of a better one.) have huge impacts on how much a helmet affects your safety simply because the risk profiles are very different.

The data is messy due to regional variability plus the difficulty of reliably removing the confounds mentioned above. I would never discourage someone from wearing and will actively encourage it when riding in bicycle hostile areas. At the same time, I think the push for helmet laws and helmet education is often a cop out to avoid talking about how we need to redesign cities to support safe bicycling. If we did the later, we would see much larger safety gains and the former would be much less necessary.
Race car drivers are at a lot higher risk of a collision, spin, vehicle fire, or rapid disassembly in general than general traffic. And in many forms of racing, they usually go significantly faster than general traffic too. Helmets, neck restraints, five point harnesses, and flame retardant suits all reduce risk of injuries, and would likely reduce risk in general traffic as well, but the risks seem low enough that the expense (including time to equip) of that additional equipment is too much to justify its general use. Although, if there were an easier intervention to help with neck injuries, it might likely be adopted.
This is interesting.

If anything, with this I've learned that companies like Framework have a huge advantage. If that space ever manages to create a 'fixable' phone a-la Framework laptop, it's gonna work on so many levels for so many different people and regulators.
This is fear-mongering. You cannot predict the future and the CDC tracks dozens of novel virus outbreaks each year that never go anywhere. It’s less transmissible, and responds to vaccines that we already have.
Can they? When one Googler commented:

> If Xiaomi needs this, I think it should be done in the device-specific sepolicies.

Another responded that:

> Xiaomi cannot remove policy in device specific policy.
I think this is probably the most useful wisdom for the average person:

> do not invest money you need within 5-10 years and do not make rash decisions; it is better to ride this train down and then hopefully back up than jump randomly.

Gaming the market successfully requires a ton of skill and knowledge, and even then you are not guaranteed success.

Most people are better off focusing on asset-class diversification (i.e. spreading money across many different kinds of asset classes - i.e. physical assets, securities, commodities, cash, etc) than playing just the stock market.

And even when playing the stock market, most people are better off focusing on "time-in-the-market" vs "timing the market".
Eh, not really. Having a plan to ride it out if things get bad is never a terrible idea. Personally you should have a rainy day fund that can sustain you and your family for 12 months. You should have the same as a business, but that fund should really be like 24 months instead of 12.
Living underground tackles the one issue that no green revolution is going to fix - space. Above ground space is fixed and the population will continue to rise. We can build upwards or downwards but upwards blocks light, which is also a fixed quantity.
I started with php and msql back in ... 1996. Then in 98 took a job and much was perl. This was a web agency, and there was one client running Oracle on a sparc (IIRC), and some folks were tested out 'asp' and using MSSQL 6.5 (again IIRC - 7 wasn't out until later). But for those of us using perl... we were forced in to flat files and/or dbm files for our data storage needs.

I tried to ask for msql or mysql, but were told 'no', that they were 'too heavy' for what we needed, so the folks doing perl were pushed back to the dark ages. We also weren't allowed to use 'shtml' - basic server side processing for things like 'include' to include common footers. Whenever we needed to make a footer change we had to write multiple search/replace scripts across dozens of client sites. The new 'asp' folks lauded this over us for a while with "look how advanced asp and Microsoft is - MS really gets the web". I showed what I'd been doing with PHP for 2-3 years at that point, with includes and more. But "well, that's not really powerful enough". Kept moving the goalposts.

tldr - there were many options for more advanced stuff than flat files back in the earliest web days, but often people were hamstrung by short sighted tech decisions made by people who were not responsible for actually delivering the work. has much changed in the past 25+ years? ;)
It is self-fulfilling in regards to your point though.

"Oh, that's not a useful system, because there are limits."

"Well, when you get near those limits the bank starts to work with you so those are still not roadblocks."

"Oh, well that's just because they prefer the rich to the poor."

No, you miss the point. At lower amounts, it's a non-issue because you're not hitting limits. At the point where you are hitting limits, it's facilitated to smooth those things. End result is that there should be few issues, regardless of amounts.
he loves his mum
Seems kinda centralized?
Regarding the extensions of the transmission grid the latest monitoring report (in German only) is available here: https://data.netzausbau.de/Vorhaben/Monitoring/Monitoringber...

About 25% is done or currently being build, about 50% is in the approval phase.
Yes. And carefully designed "extreme" air cooling solutions can outperform average water cooling solutions.

"Monolith" will for me always conjure up "2001: A Space Odyssey". I want to work out a wood monolith mini-ITX case design one can assemble from parts custom fabricated from drawer.com and ponoko.com, with an hdplex.com power supply, and all airflow pulled through an Noctua NH-C14S cpu cooler. With noise-isolated fans the width of the case, the entire case becomes a turbo charger for the cpu cooler.

(For compute servers I don't need separate graphics cards.)
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(This situation might not be familiar to US commenters, who can lock in an interest rate for their entire mortgage).
for ones who’s curious, I never liked my country and people because of

• corruption

• poverty

• litter and unjustified aggression with grumpiness all over the streets

• Ukrainians not caring about our own country in general, e.g. all government-sponsored workers doing shitty job and doing it way too long

• road rage and disrespect to driving rules and others on roads, e.g. someone on a pricier car usually doesn’t give a shit to someone driving a cheaper one

also I will never forgive government who, when I tried go to school for the second time, asked me to compensate all the money they paid for my first try. I dropped out the first time because I had no means to live and then they ask 20 year old to give them back $1.3k (really big money for a young Ukrainian) only because I wanted to get a degree. For context: both times my exam grades entitled me for free education. Where is support for ones who’s willing to get a degree? How was I supposed to pay this money? Parents stopped giving me money since I was 15, so that wasn’t an option. Anyway back then I was already working as a software engineer and managed to get a debt to pay this amount, then I dropped out for the second time. The law says that I must compensate money for this try too, but no one ever reached me about this so I never payed them back. You can call me infantile for being offended at government but that’s what I feel

my heart is completely with victims of this idiotic war, but it’s unfair to be blinded by the events and forget everything in my opinion

thanks everyone for you thoughts! That was really eye-opening. Starting from today I’m learning React and filtering what I say on interviews. Now your pieces of advice seems so obvious, I should definitely ask earlier. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend!

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Very well thought out. Demo at

https://remult-crm-demo.herokuapp.com/

Username: Velva

Password: password

Front end of the demo is functional but a little rough on my iPhone with Safari.
I typically use a fridge, so my vegetables do not spoil in a few days. I'm assuming you are talking about storing without a fridge because vegetables do not spoil after a few days in the fridge.
>> but data shows that more accidents and injuries occur with helmets than without.

It's total BS to try and combine accidents with injuries and I'm aware of no reputable study that claims both of your statements.
For many in tech metros their homes could decrease in value by 25% or more from their current values and the home would still be worth more than they paid for.

In any case they won’t want to sell for a mortgage that effectively costs the same over a 30 year loan with a higher interest rate.
I believe Amazon's retail business will remain on top, or highly competitive, for the foreseeable future.

AWS, in my not-quite-amateur opinion, will remain dominant in the industry. The best IAM of the big three, incredible availability and they aren't undercut on price by their kitchen sink adversaries.

Azure has Office and AD integrations, GCP has some ML advantages. But AWS is strong long term. They're peak IBM.
I love starting up my terminal with one of this every time. I ended up coding a simple python package for it, and adding a simple `obliquestrategies | lolcat` to my `~/.zshrc`

https://github.com/FdelMazo/obliquestrategies/
Excited to see more low-power, but still powerful, networking gear. I run OPNsense on an old Dell SFF, which is awesome since I can stick a few expansion cards and have 10G networking for <$200, but it draws 60W on average. Cutting that down would be great, but the reviewed device here is still 3-4x more expensive so its hard to justify the upgrade.

I had previously tried an ARM-based "Espressobin" which was only about $50 but had no 10G and little-to-no official support, couldn't even reliably boot into Linux.

Good signs for the future though!
Loved how short and to the point it was.
If you don’t have time to watch, the idea is it’s incredibly rare for two devs to come up with the same names for vars. To increase the odds of coming up with the same names for vars, you should agree on naming conventions (name molds) as a team. Sounds obvious, but great science is often confirmations or denials of the obvious.
To be fair, the person at The Verge couldn’t make it perfect because they didn’t remove all the adhesive around the screen, so already it’s Apple: 0, fools: 1.
Could you combine both techniques to run both the SIMD version on some chunks and the crc32 instruction on other chunks, in parallel? Of course this would only work if they execute on different ports.
Cyclists are protected by law, such that even if an accident is the fault of the cyclist, the car driver is still 50% liable. This in combination with the infrastructure, which separates cyclists and cars as much as possible, makes the Netherlands very safe for cyclists.

Note that younger children still usually wear a helmet, since they are more likely to have an accident on their own (i.e. falling over).
As others have said, portfolio diversification (i.e. spreading your money around between lots of different asset classes) is more important than playing the stock market well.

Most people cannot play the stock market well, and even those who make it their day-job often don't end up playing it well. The reality is that the stock market is just too random to game reliably.
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I agree, this seems to be bolstering my own point though.