skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that happened, those were more than outweighed by deaths in rural places and others where it wasn't registered as covid deaths. So if anything it's an undercount. Otherwise why would there suddenly be so many excess deaths during the pandemic beyond the ones labeled as due to covid?

> In May 2021, following an analysis by the IHME that the true count of fatalities due to COVID-19 in United States was above 900,000, Anthony Fauci said that he had "no doubt" there was undercounting of COVID-19 deaths.[3] A study published in The Lancet in September 2020 also pointed to significant undercounting.[54][55] Undercounting has been reported from Virginia[56] and California.[57] A 2021 scandal involving New York authorities during the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo involved undercounting or an alleged cover-up of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes in 2020.[58][

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercounting_of_COVID-19_pand...
That's not a reason but a hypothesis.
This is a hyperbolic argument.

We're more productive than any time in human history
I think there's one other aspect here that needs to be considered, which is what happens when undocumented features appear, as with the Polkadot fiasco, among others, where bugs in the shared walletsplus some thirs party actions used by many led to $hundreds of millions being completely inaccessible to all (ineptness, or malice, it is not clear).

The contracts were verifiable and correct enough, it seems, but some of the infrastructure turned out to be faulty, leading to a platform that was not trustworthy.
At the time, there were at least claims that, well, even absent government edicts, people did adjust behaviors to a certain degree. It's unfortunate but, at this point, it's starting to look like there are so many confounding variables--and so many people dug in on political positions--that it's going to be hard to say, even with the advantage of hindsight, what optimal courses of action should have looked like. Vaccinations were almost certainly helpful on net but not a silver bullet. Other mitigations were probably more or less helpful at various stages of the pandemic but likewise were probably not as helpful as proponents said they were and some were probably on net harmful.
That may have made sense before fiat currency, but I literally can't think of what could be simpler than print more money*

The real problem is economics isn't a science, it is more akin to reading pig entrails or sheep's bones than anything that is scientific.

* I know it's not actually printing money, it's changing the reserve rate, playing with interest rates etc.
A history of people putting radios in hats
We did this with notational programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbOyBqLORU

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3526113.3545619
Alright, maybe I'm misreading it. Can you show me where it says that closing the schools caused 230,000 deaths? My reading was that those deaths are blamed on a combination of factors, few of which I'd think were due to voluntary lockdowns.

The main ones appear to be a reduction in health services, with cause unstated. That's probably largely due to people being pulled into dealing with the pandemic itself and not enough resources to go around? And then it also raises "The region also suffered increased levels of unemployment, poverty and food insecurity due to the pandemic, further undermining public health, the report said"
Both can and are part of the problem.
Interesting. I'm in the same boat I never actually pressed allow, but somehow I never actually thought about disabling it either. I'm going to do that on my moms laptop as well when I get the chance.
Perhaps 15years ago I would think this makes sense given the 80's, 90's boom but now this surprises me, I guess a lot of the early intake have retired early.
Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects
Maybe they did, and it was fine at the time, and then things became messy?
Governments create inflation by generating (aka 'printing', but nowadays it's ofc all digital) money. The more money they print, the more income is generated to finance government spending.

> Western governments all seem to target 2% annual inflation

2% is seen as a sweet spot: it still allows governments to print extra money but the inflation rate is not so high that it would lead to an inflation spiral that would run out of control.
The 2% inflation target is for price inflation (the cost of a basket of goods), not monetary inflation (the amount of money). Only monetary inflation is needed to support a growing population, so this does not explain having a target of price inflation.
I've interviewed a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs and founders recently and I have found that the top categories in which most people are stuck include some of the following:

Idea Validation - how do you know if the idea you are pursuing is worth considering?

MVP - how soon and how "ready" should your MVP be for a "launch"?

UI/UX - those whose forte is not UI/UX often have a lot of questions about how good their product's UI/UX is for a first launch.

No-code - Many non-technical founders are diving into development and have questions about the best no-code tools available and so on.

What else would you add to the list?
I've worked at several companies now, sometimes in a management role. In my experience it's always a shitshow filled with people making things up as they go.

One key difference is culture. Some cultures punish candid honesty which leads to reasonable people resorting to politics and blame games.

Not sure how to spot this when you're applying, but good culture seems to be correlated with competent and respected technical people in upper-management and lots of devs/engineers with a long tenure.
The workplace is an inherently biased and unbalanced environment for a worker, and anyone about you is a potential threat. The company can afford to have you gone, you usually can't afford to be gone. So, when asked by a representative of said company's authority and power over you if everything is fine, you are very likely to say it's all good, even if it isn't, especially if you live in a country where being fired is easy. Your decisions as a manager can have me fired if you have a bad impression of me, or if something you repeat to your superiors itches them the wrong way.

In the same way, as a new developer, the impressions of more senior ones are a massive factor in whether or not you stay for more than 6 months. Not recognizing this inherent power imbalance is foolish.

As the other comment said, if you're managing someone, then _cut that shit quick_. Developer works super fast and finishes 1 week worth of work in a day ? Don't give them more work. What was assigned initially is done. Prevent them from giving more. But to avoid boring them, encourage them to take on more personal tasks, some general cleanups that they might have wanted, that is less of a duty to the employer and more of a pleasant head scratcher to them.
Agree completely. Just simply a money issue. Apple likes to retain full control of its device almost like its a console. This enables maximum profit.
Meh it's a bit more complex than that, once you remove people coming from third world country and people coming for the top 1% jobs you're not left with many people
How do you prove they are finite?

Were they finit 2000 years ago as well?
False. The most annoying thing about vim is that I can’t type properly in web input boxes, email clients, rich text editors… I want vim in all the places.
> I just want to create, be creative and be a team leader

Being a team leader isn't great if you are vulnerable to stress. I've never led a team but from how I see it their job is generally higher stress. You need to be technically hands on which isn't easy, and on top of that deal with any unexpected issues that arise, and yeah ... manage the people on your team. I honestly don't really know why everyone wants the job. Yeah it looks nice on a resume I guess..anyway I digress.
Its the executive levels that perhaps get the good life but than you really leave development.
I've been working with Neo4j daily for the past 3+ years and at first I was surprised by the comparison until I discovered memgraph works in-memory in contrast of Neo4j which works on disk. As others commenters have already said, I'd make it clear in your page to make it fair.
It uses what's sometimes referred to as WTF-16. It's UTF-16 but with no actual guarantee that its well formed(i.e. invalid surrogate pairs).
Sorry, not my area of expertise. I wasn't aware of the caveats brought up in your other post.
Well.. That's an understatement.
France sent its first postquantum encrypted diplomatic cable to embassy in theUS
> You seem to be arguing that only apple has the ability to protect your device.

Erm. They make the hardware, so any bugs they put in there are what they are.

I don't see any reason to let more people put bugs in there.
I guess after 1. e4 e5 2. Qf3 black can safely play Qf6
It does simplify things in places. One thing that isn't covered is that a code point is not necessarily a letter or vice versa. E.g. a single letter/symbol/emoji/whatever can be made up of multiple code points. So it isn't quite true that one "platonic" letter is one code point (it may or may not be).
They didn't send information faster than light.
I built some tooling around the CDC data. I am interested in input on how to better visualize it: https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/
I found this indie game that I LOVED the artwork of a while ago: https://adamstrange.itch.io/viva-mortis

Seeing Knight Lore, it very clearly must have been the inspiration for Viva Mortis. How cool. Thanks for sharing.
> Your non-technical family members and friends will likely fall for these at some point. For their sake, disable them.

As the famous proverb says "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". The best way to "fix" phishing attacks and malware is by making people more "technical". The only way to eliminate these phenomena is by educating people about what a Push Notification really is and that you simply don't have to click it.

The Web needs to be a competitive platform for apps next to the closed and "gated" App Stores. I think that we should not dumb down web browsers to simple page viewers.
Buy them up now. Lobby lobby lobby. Get the licenses re-instated. $$$
And you just explained why inflation is expected. It’s a byproduct of interest/cost of capital. If there was some completely free capital available, there would be no inflation. But it would have to be available to everyone and would have to be risk free; so not possible.
There isn't really a strong theoretical reason.

A few I've seen:

(1) it seems to be difficult for central banks to implement negative nominal interest rates (cash can go under the matrress), and so a positive inflation target will allow a government a bit more scope to cut interest rates during a recession without running into a 'zero lower bound'.

(2) 0% nominal pay rises seem to be a focal point in wage negotiations, and so positive inflation will allow nominal wages to fall in a recession.

There are other arguments I have seem, but all seem quite weak. I don't think there is some definitive justification for 2% vs 5% vs. 0% that can be derived from first principals.

Milton Friedman actually pointed out some theoretical benefits of negative inflation [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_rule
Steve jobs: you are holding it wrong.
> Ultimately the goal is price stability.

I take it you're not living in the EU?
Inflation is much easier to sell from a PR perspective. New taxes typically lead to lots of protests and are politically difficult, while inflation has no such problems.

In addition inflation benefits entities with lots of debt, such as homeowners and governments. Since homeowners are often a significant voter block in most democracies and governments are, well, governments, it is easy to see why appeasing both those groups would be appealing to politicians.
If you had a machine that printed $10 bills, would you line your pockets?
To be fair, most people using an iPhone don't download music onto their phones but instead just use Spotify/Apple Music/whatever other music service is hot at the moment. It still sucks, but this is a fairly specific usecase imo.
Feynman downplays his own talent and appetite for work (though he did occasionally talk about the latter), and it's natural to discount anecdotes like this because of that reality. But I don't think that changes the lesson; it means don't take the wrong lesson.
And paradoxically, the much-maligned conspicuous consumption attributed to Western-style capitalism - buying things you don’t need - actually seems like a result of heavy-handed government policies such as lowered interest rates.
Not true: there are many tools that allows directly running any binary, like nix-autobahn [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Lassulus/nix-autobahn
Well, it's 2GB of RAM, and 23GB of disk.

It's quite low, but the real costs are on datacenter space and connectivity anyway, I have no idea what their cost structure looks like.

I would expect any real user to switch into renting servers as soon as small VPSs aren't enough. (But yes, the fact that there is a market of large VPSs tells people don't to that. I don't think I will ever understand this, as I don't understand most people usage of AWS.)
While everyone waits for GPT-4, OpenAI is still fixing its predecessor
I don’t work in this industry and I never plan to. I haven’t done anything illegal and AFAIK, their work is in a legal grey area as well. I’m not seeing the issue.
I upload anything with Steve Jobs. So: Here you go!
This probably predates primates and it's just a standard social animal trait that's useful so is kept around. Think dogs, wolves, ants, whatever.
The usual justification is that wages are "sticky" - that people really don't like it when their employer decreases their wage, taking it as a comment on their worth, leading to a bad work environment, etc. So when a business finds that their product isn't selling as well at the moment, they can't easily avoid bankruptcy by just cutting their employees' wages. Similarly, when a worker is becoming less productive with age, cutting their wage to make employing them still profitable is hard to do.

Solution: Just have everyone's real wage go down 2% a year, unless the employer specifically raises the wage to compensate for inflation. Supposedly, people are too dumb to realize that not raising their wage when there is inflation is the same as decreasing their wage when there is no inflation. Maybe they are that dumb - I haven't looked at the data.
Hmm, "exchange is at least as hard as consensus". Guess you need to run your game on a blockchain? :)
Lovely Composer – Fantasy game console music editor
Could get very meta if you had a chess engine that knows how to play human chess!
Thank you so much for your work on Trystero! It’s one of the most amazing projects I’ve ever found. I’ve used it to great success on multiple projects and I’m a big fan. I don’t understand how Trystero doesn’t have thousands of GitHub stars by now.

I wish more people would pay attention to Trystero because it enables so many interesting use cases. It’s the foundation of https://chitchatter.im/ and I recently wrote about the potential of this library: https://dev.to/jeremyckahn/taking-the-power-back-with-web-me...
GPT-Chat is frankly better than an average MBA grad
Back of the Envelope Calculations at Twitter 2.0
Let's understand how we can do back of the envelope calculations, and view Twitter's engineering challenges from the eyes of its decision makers.
Yet we work as much, if not more, both in term of hours per week and total years of work.

Productivity for the sake of productivity is the same as moving money for the sake of moving money. It would be nice if it translated to real world improvement in quality of life, which the average westerner hasn't experienced since at least the 70s.
Great work here, while I suck at games, it's great to see how Go can be used to build browser based applications.
It's inexact, but not contrived at all. If you've ever worked in online advertising, you'll know to treat apple users as a distinct segmentat without worrying to much about why exactly.

There's a reason Google pays Apple so 15 billion pa for search defaults. Adwords would be deeply hurt if Apple decided to withhold its users.
> You do it by checking that foo() actually works and provide the correct result.

But you're testing a tiny subset of possible scenarios of behaviour of the function. If you can anticipate all possible input types and value ranges, maybe unit tests are enough, but that's not realistic in a dynamic language/program where complex values are non-deterministically generated at runtime - based on user input, db, file, etc.
omg, there should at least be an adult in the room, even if the rates they set have to reflect the markets to some extent.

If the markets set the rate directly we'd have more wild swings than an olde time musical.
I love GIMP. I don't care for photoshop.
It is a bit tangential, but I appreciate your response.

>You're assuming "markets" aren't at least as technocratic, open to manipulation, or just straightforwardly political.

Where "experts" fail in the market, they are subject to competition. The conditions where they fail upwards are generally related to non-market political largess.

>When the UK sold most of its critical infrastructure - using exactly the same arguments you're using...

>privatized energy price gouging

There's a large gulf between neoliberalism and laissez-faire. I do appreciate that the two are often conflated and that the distinction isn't always clear as they are often maligned together in popular discourse.

>the reality wasn't a rational and perfectly organised free market utopia

Utopia is a high bar to achieve. I'm just suggesting that having centrally planned interest rates is akin to price fixing. Overall a market rate of interest would be less bad IMHO.

Rail infrastructure is a difficult issue, but the Japanese seem to have a successful private system. Maybe another commentor who is more familiar with Japan can elaborate on that.
Push notifications are a detriment to society. All notifications are always blocked and my browser is blocked by my OS.

I always “poll” data mentally, I find this to be crucial to me maintaining control over my devices and not allowing them to control me.
Drop CTRL
About 1 in 10 die each year in the US as a result of medical malpractice. The oft-cited 2016 John Hopkins study has it at ~250k (of 2.7m all-cause).

For 2016 that's 1 in 1300 people in the US, a first world nation with world class medical infrastructure.

I wonder what's the worldwide figure? And what % of it overlaps with that 1 in 400?
As others have mentioned, that is accounted for in the rules.

My immediate first reaction was also that it would be interesting to have a variant that is the same except you are allowed to checkmate, except then I realized the recursive nature of how board positions are evaluated makes that problematic. For instance, if there's a mate in 2, the first move of the mate in two is now certainly the "best move". Creeping up on a checkmate without ever making the "best move" until the very last one might actually be harder than the win condition based on strangling the opponent described in the current rules.
Agreed!

I've heard it said that the best parodies are almost as good as the things they parody (and a sign that the comedians in question both love and understand the thing they are making a parody of). It could be argued that this chess variant is a really good "parody" in that sense, but encoded in the rules of the game itself.
I use WhatsApp and the Android Messages web versions, probably i am a special case due to my bad eyes I prefer my KDE accessibility features and typing on a real keyboard over a smartphone.
I expect there’s also been a degree of grandfathering of the root certs from a time where there was a lot less scrutiny.
Fair point, but it's not only that, there are many differences, it's mostly impossible to put 2 different systems in a fair config state, it's more about how different systems operate with certain configs / in certain environments. E.g. apparently Neo4j limits the number of concurrent execution threads in the community edition, which means it's not possible to fully stress the system... stuff like that :)
This actually goes the other way, inflation adds an arbitrary friction incouraging people to take too many 'trips to the bank' to deposit cash in savings assets to avoid the costs of inflation and so is welfare reducing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_leather_cost
That would be great but they would then expect you to go home 40 minutes later than normal
"Convincing people to buy homes" is literally an example of misallocation of capital, in the sense that monetary policy is meant to be an intervention in a free market.
That has always been my practice anyway, whether my job is remote or in-office. Work is work, personal is personal; separate devices for separate purposes. I don't bring my work hardware home unless I plan to spend the next day working from home.

People often seem to get themselves in trouble when they fail to distinguish between work time and personal time. There's no way to get stressed out by late night emails when you don't check your work email at night, and there's no temptation to check your work email at night when the machine with the credentials is back in the office where it belongs.
Amazon don't give a damn. They thrive on the appearance of community involvement, even if it's mostly spammers and bots.

You can get the fakespot browser extension for yourself but don't bet on Amazon changing anything. It's part of their business model.
I feel like I'm missing the bead.

What does it mean to "make all software programmable" -- meaning make Wasm work with all languages? Is this really feasible?

Maybe I'm simply getting old and don't understand recent jargon shifts.
Interesting to think how you would go about defeating this.

Even though you could modify an engine to evaluate each of it's moves against the selected "top engine" move to avoid them, there is no clear route to success since there's going to be a lot of overlap between human and computer for more obvious moves... So you'd need some kind of tunable difficulty threshold above which it avoids the best solution.

Even then, your difficulty setting is a gamble on whether your opponent will call your bluff.

In the opposite case, because of the same overlap, false positives are going to be a combination of frustrating and flattering.

I find this is the case in most of the online FPS I have played, the knowledge that cheating is possible combined with the disbelief of the ceiling on human ability makes a huge number of people think you are cheating even if your ability is merely above average. There are also confusing overlaps between cheating behaviour and pros on FPS when trying to evaluate replays e.g wallhackers (especially pro wallhackers) and pros sometimes look very similar, because the pros are attempting to track through the walls in their mind... if they get lucky, a replay makes them look super suspicious and hard to distinguish in a single case. There are going to be a ton of games like this where the cheating behaviour are close or identical to the top pros.
Uppercase only ASCII chars of course! 0 and 1 should be sufficient as digits.
I think the 'challenge and win' concept is too strict.

Just make the move disallowed. You'll need the computer to be paying attention at all times, but nonetheless it would be more enjoyable to play.