So I'm an app developer, native iOS and Android. It's my passion, enough that I've decided to work in server side and data engineering instead of app dev in my day job after being a mobile dev for 7+ years. I watch all the WWDC sessions and I deeply care and believe that the mobile computing platform is the core future of computing. My only question as an App developer is why!? Why would I write apps for Linux while iOS and Android exist.
Not the Parent but the orignal numbers come form the CDC but I'm not sure where the graph is from. Here are links to the last two years of data, embedded in a comment I made on HN recently:
From the CDC: In 2019, a total of 2,854,838 resident deaths were registered in the United States—15,633 more deaths than in 2018.
In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States (Table). The age-adjusted rate was 828.7 deaths per 100,000 population, an increase of 15.9% from 715.2 in 2019.
Is VSCode's Jupyter extension much better than PyCharm's? Just curious, I prefer PyCharm over VSCode for normal python dev work. By a lot but I get it's personal preference, so I'm curious.
I use PyCharm's Juypter plugin and it's seemed far better for me. I work in Python everyday but I'm more on the data engineering and app security/architecture side of things than straight up Data Science. I don't use notebook's as often as I'd like but I live in PyCharm.
I'll live where ever I want to thanks. I have ZERO desire to life close to anything and I can you do a great job at home. If you can't that's on you not me.
I hated my Surface Pro when I had, granted this was 3 years ago. It had terrible battery life, windows was horrible with the touchscreen, very few apps responded to touch events at all let alone correctly. All together one of the worst laptops/tablets I've ever used. I have an M1 macbook air and it's the best laptop I've ever used, same with my iPad Pro. Apple has really nailed the Arm device/os combo IMO.
I understand how both work and I LOVE both push button starting modern cars and computing appliances. I'd rather have an iPad and all the extra time it saves me to learn new things than fuddle with a desktop PC. Just like owning a Tesla will save me time vs owning/repairing an older car.
I honestly think there is a case for removing this post as misinformation. At least adding a note or something. In general I'd expect the level of conversation to be higher on HN than this. 0.2% is a ridiculous and dangerously bad bit of misinformation that continues to be put out.
From the CDC:
In 2019, a total of 2,854,838 resident deaths were registered in the United States—15,633 more deaths than in 2018.
In 2020, approximately 3,358,814 deaths occurred in the United States (Table). The age-adjusted rate was 828.7 deaths per 100,000 population, an increase of 15.9% from 715.2 in 2019.
Assuming the rates stayed the same or roughly so from year to year, it appears that not many of them would have died sans COVID19. Certainly well over 5000. If there is a trend, none of the data I looked at on the CDC site supported this, raw deaths have been rising in the last 5 years but death's per 100,000 have held. So if it's a small increase per 100,000 is "normal" given those trends 16% is still well outside the normal, so it's likely something like 300,000 or there about. I sure someone here could do the math to verify that but I don't feel like it. :)
7 people out of 7 million dose's. That's why they stopped. My wife and I got the J&J shot on Saturday so I'm directly at risk and I'd take it everytime even if the risk was 10 times what it currently is. I've already seen a bunch of anit-vaxers referring to this in new articles this morning. So let's see, 1 in a million chance that the vaccine will make you sick (only 1 person has died so far, which is terrible but it's 1 out of 7 million) vs a worldwide pandemic that has killed millions. All these anti-vaxers talking about living in fear of a virus that has 98% survival rate are AFRAID of a vaccine that has a 99.999998% ( 7/7,000,000 == 0.000001) survival rate, oh and is 100% effective at stopping you from dying. Literally no one that has received the vaccine has died from COVID19. The fact that modern society can be SO smart some times and yet so incredibly idiotic is so frustrating to me.
Right..... The only thing I've been an activist about is climate change. I do my best to support the communities that you ignore as SJW's but prefer to let them have their own voice. The funny thing is you don't just kinda prove my point, you 100% without question prove mine. You don't don't care about their suffering so anyone that protests that is clearly just doing it for attention. The reality is that you are so selfish that you can't see others suffering and honestly that's disgusting.
How can you say they have zero skin in the game after watching video after video after video of Black people being murdered. After an elected president brags about sexual assault. After Asian hate crimes are occurring all over the country. After LGBT+ people are assaulted and or murdered. Political activists in America have reached a generational level. Minorities in America have been mistreated and repressed for hundreds of years and they need and deserve it to be fixed. Not to mention that a whole generation of TV personalities and politicians have spent AT LEAST the last 20years demonizing anyone who protests for Civil rights or climate change. To say this is an extremely privileged POV is a massive understatement IMO.
When you have a two party system and no one outside of their narrow policy definitions can be elected (not as it's illegal but as in not one can overcome the completely biased system) you vote for a representative is a de-facto vote for policies. If you vote R it's an anti-aboration, gun rights, anti-immigrant vote. If you vote D it's a gun control, immigration, climate change vote. Sure you can say we vote for reps but in reality you have the choice of R or D and nothing you say or do really changes the policies that you are voting for.
I have done this, I moved to Southern Maine from Ohio. A large reason was the political environment. The problem is that most people aren't satisfied with live and let live. You can see this in the flooding of courts with conservative judges, the rise of the Trump style party, and the constant fight over covid. When you have two diametrically opposed groups with shared power you have to have you need a common based and view point or the whole thing falls apart. I believe that we have reached the point of no return and the USA is broken. I don't believe it can be fixed at this point.
Portland Or and Northern New England (North of Boston, NH, Vermont, Southern Maine) might just be part of the Boston hub but if it's separate is seeing a ton of startup's.
I'd also recommend Old Fort Niagra and the US Niagra on Lake Erie/Ontario. Also read about Oliver Hazard Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie. I believe it's still the largest recorded fresh water naval battle in history and quite a great story. Also if you are visiting the Constitution in Boston I'd highly recommend the Boston Tea Party Museum and Ships. It's a slightly earlier period obviously but it was a fantastic experience IMO and walking the working ships there was great.
Like you the Age of sail and especially the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 are interests of mine. My interest started after reading the Aubrey/Maturin series which I can't possibly recommend highly enough. I agree with you walking the decks or walls of the forts is irreplaceable if you are in to the history.
I loved working with the Beam VM and Elixir. I just wish it had a stronger presence in the Data/ML/AI fields. As scalable and trivially parallizable as Elixir is with a fast SciPy/NumPy/Pandas type of eco-system and you'd have a fantastic environment for data heavy apps IMO.
Or maybe because native apps are a better experience, nearly every time. True multi-threading, native code performance, latest UI implementation, more and better hardware access/performance, etc.... I can keep going but the point is that the web really is the lowest common denominator. That isn't bad but it also isn't how you build the best experience.
I've been in that situation 3 times, I choose React Native and Flutter each once. I was forced to use Ionic. I would NEVER use Ionic again, terrible experience and very difficult to get decent quality/performance. I like Flutter's technology much more. I like that it is natively compiled. I dislike that it has it's own UI toolkit. React Native with TypeScript is a highly productive environment but I LOATHED the developer experience and any code that had performance goals was way harder to be successful with, not impossible but the threading model that RN imposes (it doesn't really thread at all) was hard to make the UI snappy and crisp as it should be. I've played with Xamarin also since I was a .net dev for 10+ years (I'm old in the industry 25 years now) and the developer experience was actually pretty good but the compile times and the UI performance were not. Though that was not a production level app and I might have been able to make it work.
tldr; If I HAD to do cross platform I'd use the following logic to choice one:
If I have a team of react JS/TS devs: React Native
else if I have a .net team: Xaramin
else: Flutter
Then I'd apply for a job writing native apps in Swift/Kotlin and run away ;)
Are you a native mobile developer? I am (was I'm moving to ML/AI/Data engineering) and I don't think flutter is in any way easier or nicer than the native toolchains for mobile. Both Swift and Kotlin are better languages than Dart IMO, the IDE and tooling is far superior for both also. Flutter is faster but once to deploy a substandard quality of app for sure but matching the quality of a native app? That takes just as long in Flutter as building a native app in each tool chain. I've built apps in React Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Swift/Kotlin. I'd reach of Swift/Kotlin for developer experience, performance, and quality of app EVERY time.
$1300 is pricy but not as bad as it seems when you consider that it comes with the controller and FPV goggles. I really wish there was a decent competitor to DJI in the commercial drone space. FPV does at least have a fairly diverse market with a ton of DIY options.
Food has two types of cost, market value and ecosystem cost. It always has been this case. It's the very reason that crop rotation was discovered. By improving the ecosystem that you farm in (in this case soil but Tree windbreaks also count etc...) you increase the productivity. The issue is that most ways to improve productivity are terribly short term. Think slash/burn.
So yes food is cheaper than ever to buy but we are burning through environmental capital at dangerous and irresponsible rate IMO. The cost of food will stay cheap until it's too late and the land stops producing at the current level.
Sure and I agree with that but that doesn't mean that armageddon isn't coming either. For example Climate Change and the Covid19 pandemic, both are examples of very real problems with the potential to severally harm/kill large numbers but both are dismissed with that attitude. I'm not sayin that the sky is falling in either case, though with Climate Change I can't imagine not thinking that, but if we continue to ignore them it's very likely that we will make human kinds worst nightmares come true.
Have three graphics tablets, while they are FAR superior for art work they are not at all better for rotation. In fact I use blender on Mac and regularly use the trackpad to zoom and rotate because it's far more precise. Similar for 2D drawing, my favorite 2D environment is the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. I still rotate with two finger gestures.
If you haven't looked at them before take a look at 3D mice. Commonly used in 3D modeling and CAD drafting they are the best at interacting with items in 3D space but I wouldn't actually like one for text/flat image interaction. Mapping 3D movements to a flat plane is less intuitive than it may seem if you haven't done it. Most the 3D professionals I know use a touchpad or regular mouse for 99% of the non-3D usage.