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Show HN: Covid ICU Bed Tracking – In Production on 130 ICUs
This sounds about right to me intuitively. I've read a ton of ML/AI papers in the area, and the vast majority don't get past the "maybe this is an interesting idea, hard to know until it's tested properly". Easy to recall interesting ones, hard to remember good one off the top of my head.

This is fine; of course the standards for "is this publishable" are vastly lower than "is this clinically applicable", but it unfortunate how often the lay science press fails to make this distinction.

The other thing is that raw performance numbers, even if properly validated, are only a small part of the story. We've had ML techniques that did better nominal sense/spec than average clinicians for very specific tasks for 20+ years now, but the workflow impact, liability, etc. combined has sometimes limited the implementation, and even if you do roll it out the actual impact can be minimal.
> and found diatom DNA dating back to 1.4 million years.

Okay, so you're 1/45th of the way there.
Or both, overlay the scatterplot with an interpolation? ggplot is amazing at that.
The problem with this line of thinking is that not every program is going to be used enough to make learning the shortcuts or command-line switches worthwhile.

That said, each (gui) program should have relatively similar key-bindings.
Effectively free money offered.... who knew they'd run out!?!!?
Ask HN: Is it possible to bootstrap into a software company from a normal one?
Hi HN fellows, I ask because this is precisely what I'm trying to accomplish.

We started an online travel agency business, highly focused on the niche we're experts in (Cruises) and have been doing great on growth, customer acquisition, customer service, etc... -from a regular business POV- but are obviously not a startup. we're doing OK.

But since we do not have a website (yet), I don't think we can consider ourselves a product, we've mainly grown our Facebook footprint (+5000 fb group), where all the interactions between our customers and travel agents happen.

I want to build out a website on that premise, which is run as a marketplace for cruise travel. But how do you go from business/market-fit to shipping an online marketplace and becoming a product who can achieve product/market fit.

My question would be, if this is a possible endeavour or path to follow in your own experience, or if you know someone or some company who has attained this successfully.

Also how would you go about it? MVP's are easy to reason about conceptually, but much harder to deliver than one might think. I guess mis-directed perfectionism is making it really hard for me to ship something, anything really, for this new level we want to acquire.

PS: So sorry for any misuse of Shakespeare's language, english ain't my mother tongue.

And also thanks to anyone who might want to help us out with their knowledge, experiences or tips!
> the most desperate for work

> they need to put food on the table and have few other options.

how does that make any sense? how are people being taken advantage of when they "have few other options", are "desperate for work", and "need to put food on the table"? amazon should pay less and make the job easier? then theyd just be another of the bad options.

so, your argument is amazon simply has an obligation to pay workers more (after theyre already a good option) because... why?
That seems kind of backwards unless they've got very heavy testing - the last thing you want in a pandemic is travellers!
That sounds like a great project, one I heartily recommend to people wanting to get their feet wet.

First, the basic principles of how to write an efficient prefix sum are the same as before. Definitely read [1]. Also see [2] for an exploration into how much subgroups help over threadgroup shared memory. In fact, [2] has much of the answer you seek, as it's already written in Vulkan and GLSL (compiling to SPIR-V), though it does miss a direct performance comparison to CUB.

Second, doing this depends on WebGPU exposing threadgroup shared memory and subgroups operations. I'm not sure where the standard and implementations are on this; there are significant challenges. For example, subgroup shuffle is not available in DX12, though subgroup reduce operations such as WavePrefixSum are. So in general an implementation will need to do runtime detection of capabilities and choose a most-optimum kernel based on that.

In theory, it should be possible to achieve comparable performance. But it's likely that WebGPU implementations haven't really been tuned for performance yet, while CUB has seen a ton of work. So, as always, the thing to do is implement and measure.

[1]: https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-vi-gpu-co...

[2]: https://cachemiss.xyz/blog/parallel-reduce-and-scan-on-the-G...
> Ubuntu got worse at 18.04. Logging in on desktop now requires "swiping up" with the mouse to get the password box.

Have you tried pressing a key?
Selling illegal drugs enables one to make huge profits not available to legal commerce.

I've always been in favor of the legalization of marijuana. I voted for it. But my point that taking advantage of the high profits from trafficking in illegal things is not a valid argument for the economic viability of communes.

For a commune to have standing as a viable way to live, it:

1. needs to be voluntary

2. needs to have its residents be there long term, i.e. 5 years or more

3. needs a legitimate source of income (not subsisting on crime)

4. needs to generate enough income to be self-sustaining (not relying on external income to make up the slack, such as donations, retirement pay or government welfare payments)

5. not rely on theft of resources, such as squatting on land not paid for

If you have evidence for communes that fit these criteria, I'd like to see it.
Company I work for the president of the company said he applied the first day and since have been approved.
You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's not what the site is for, and we ban accounts that do this, because it destroys the curious conversation that the site is for. We've warned and asked you about this several times already, and you've continued to do it.

Some political overlap is inevitable [1], but political battle will soon take the site over if we allow it to, so we don't allow it to. The reference to fire in the word 'flamewar' is not by accident. These things consume and destroy an internet forum the way that fire does.

It isn't that the issues you're posting about aren't important. On the contrary, they're more important than most of what gets discussed here, like someone's basketball hoop side project, for example, currently on the front page [2].

The issue is the kind of site Hacker News is trying to be. We're trying to be a site for intellectual curiosity [3]. That means a place where smaller, more obscure, more delicate topics get a chance to flourish. It's not possible to be both that and a forum where people bash their enemies about current affairs.

If you want further explanation about how we handle this on HN and why, I've written about it extensively—see [1] and [4]. In the meantime, you're contributing (unintentionally, I realize) to destroying this place for its intended purpose, and we need you to stop doing that.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22898653

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

p.s. I flagged your comment for a different reason: the first sentence breaks the site guideline against name-calling: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Other of your recent comments have been devolving into the flamewar style also. That tends to be what happens when people use the site primarily to fight political battles.
No. My points were simply:

1) it was not "an attack" at all but an experiment that confirmed the theory's validity in the limits of the Universe previously unreachable to humans.

2) The "replacement" didn't happen before with Newton's formulas: under the limits under which it was known that Newton's formulas worked before Einstein's it is still known that Newton's formulas work. The basic formulas still being taught about special relativity are actually Lorentz transformations, decades older than Einstein's work and still actively used under the limits where they still work etc. There isn't any "refutation" there it's about having most of the Universe explainable by the formulas we use. The new discoveries aren't "replacements" but "filling the blanks" which remain, and one more area is now confirmed not to be a blank at all.
Home.

Ironically, the KitchenAid I'd always coveted has proved all but wholly unnecessary for breadmaking, though the milling attachmnent is among the options available.

And, FWIW, I'm experimenting broadly with grains and augmentations.

Today's batch was 1000g flour (50% AP, 25% spelt, 20% WW (last of the bag), 5% einkorn), 25g salt, 80% hydration, 200g walnut pieces, 100g mixed whole spelt & eincorn grains (boiled. in salted water). OMFGood.

I've started a straight bleached white flour batch, basically to see what the worst possible flour might be.

Basically: experiment, see what happens.
Hi HN, for a bit of background, the initial prototype got built in 3 days (met the doctors on Sunday, rolled out wed. night). We've since built out a pretty autonomous piece of software that can allow doctors to add each other and easily build out coverage over a country. We've spread quickly to 130 ICU wards in France which covers >2000 COVID+ ICU beds, and are hoping ICUBAM can be potentially useful to other countries with an overstrained ICU system.
I really hope (but doubt) that this crisis will finally annihilate this terrible line of thought we've been crippled by (it feels like especially in the last four years).

It's not political to accurately describe the sheer ineptitude and corruption. It's not political to call the staggering, unacceptable lack of leadership, candor, and morality out for what it is.

It's not apolitical to turn a blind eye to it in search of profit.
My bad, I misunderstood that it was owned by a non-profit, it seems it is only managed by them.
Won't this clog drains and after few rainy days create permanent mud?
It's not a pipe dream. It's just that it needs to happen in a different way. We need to massively increase number of isolation rooms, icu beds etc. (just like China did building that hospital in 10 days), massively increase number of clinicians (take every one in their last year of nursing school and med school and get them in the hospital, not making decisions but carrying out basic tasks; use a draft if you have to, just like Italy did), and massively increase testing capacity (~4x from today's capacity in US), and massively increase ventilators, add ubiquitous temperature checking (to enter any building other than your house, you need to confirm temp) and then just open up the economy and let it rip. With enough testing and enough surge healthcare capacity, we can do this.
Are you using a VPN? I've never seen a foreign language wiki article show up, and I've been using DDG for a couple of years.
Looks like a few people are starting to create their own budgeting apps. I've seen Lunch Money in the space for multi-currency support. I'm also building an app, using Flutter and some backend server/database, haven't decided yet. Main features I'm thinking about:

- Open source, self hostable with a paid hostable subscription option that syncs to different devices. Unfortunately one time payments don't really cut it for sustained development.

- Native performing clients for web, mobile, and desktop (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux are all supported by Flutter, but the app will not necessarily have native UI though). This can be done through Flutter which compiles ahead of time without running on a JS VM like Electron or React Native. Hopefully you should get good performance.

- On the feature side of things, rolling daily/weekly/monthly budgets, with the envelope system where you allocate a budget per day/week/month and try not to go over it. If you do, you'll have to pull from another budget. Also gonna have a way to budget for some event in the future, and split up that amount into timeperiod based increments. For example, if you estimate you want to take a 6k vacation in a year, the app would help you budget 500 a month.

- Undecided on whether it should be manual transaction entry only or whether it should integrate with banks, Venmo, and the like. Some people like one, and not the other.

- Analysis over timescales and categories. Especially annoying in Mint to mark a merchant like "AMZN" into "Amazon" and not have it propagate across all findings of the word "AMZN".

- Similar to analysis, have forecasting as to what I might spend in the future. This can be from recurring transactions, pattern recognition and the like.

- Have good splits. Other apps don't let you split money easily, if from Venmo or whatnot. If I split dinner with a friend, I don't want to see that I've spent all of it in my food budget, only that I actually spent half and my friend recompensated me.

What else would you want?
Could you not just use git log and pipe to grep or egrep? Heck, I’ve even piped git log to a file and then I can use my favorite text editor (VS Code) and use all kinds of fancy regexes.
> In many regions

Then move. It's not hard. I've moved for better work five times in my life with nothing but what fit in two suitcases four of those five times. This includes moving from one country to another twice. In two of these five cases I knew nobody where I was moving to, In one I knew exactly one person and in two I knew just a single family. Both my parents did the same when they came to the US. They came alone and knew nobody in the US when they moved here.
Whether or not you think our model is broken, price controls of goods you want more of is a terrible policy.

If you want someone to open up a factory churning out PPE, which might only be needed for a few months, you need to let them charge a huge premium.
any ideas on how I can pinpoint where my target audience is?
A tool for making “9-patch” borders
I think the main point of the article is to debunk the claim that coronavirus is flu-like in the way it mutates.
> This won't work because defective implementations will just claim that their intended purpose is to do [whatever emergent behaviour that implementation produces], or to generate the fastest code possible regardless of whether that code bears any relation to what the programmer asked for.

I would have no qualm with the way clang and gcc process various constructs if they were to explicitly state that its maintainers make no effort to make their optimizer suitable for any tasks involving the receipt of untrustworthy input. Instead, however, they claim that their optimizers are suitable for general-purpose use, despite the fact that their behavior isn't reliably suitable for many common purposes.

> This is actually completely unneeded, even for optimisation.

Consider the following function:

unsigned long long test(unsigned long long x, int mode)
{
do
x = slow_function_no_side_effects();
while(x > 1);
if (mode)
return 1;
else
return x;
}

Suppose the function is passed a value of "x" which would get caught in a cycle that never hits zero or one, but "mode" is 1. If the code is processed by performing every individual step in order, the function would never return. The rule in C11 is designed to avoid requiring that generated code compute the value of x when its only possible effect on the program's execution would be to prevent the execution of code that doesn't depend on its value.

Suppose the most important requirement that function test() must meet is that it must never return 1 unless mode is 1, or the iteration on x would yield 1 before it yields zero; returning 1 in any other cases would cause the computer's speaker to start playing Barney's "I love you" song, and while looping endlessly would be irksome, it would be less bad than Barney's singing. If a compiler determines that slow_function_no_side_effects() will never return an even number, should it be entitled to generate code that will return 1 when mode is zero, without regard for whether the loop actually completes?

I would think it reasonable for a compiler to defer/skip the computation of x in cases where mode is 1, or for a compiler that can tell that "x" will never be an even number to generate code that, after ensuring that the loop will actually terminate, would unconditionally return 1. Requiring that the programmer write extra code to ensure that the function not return 1 in cases where mode is zero but the loop doesn't terminate would defeat the purpose of "optimization".
How very convenient that you can blacklist companies like Uber with a simple click of a checkbox.
And you can see some of its biases in the results, yeah. Look at the thick book's spine on the right, and compare the box around the title - "our result" has pretty significant staircasing instead of being a slightly-off-vertical line.
Most of large cardinal axioms.
Privacy Not Included
I don't have any opinions here but for added context and interest, the two unions involved released statements:

NY Mag Union statement on the cuts: https://twitter.com/NYMagUnion/status/1251218401688772608

Vox media union on the cuts: https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1251174537120616454

> While we appreciate Vox Media talking to us in good faith, we don’t agree with the company’s decision to furlough employees — especially after hundreds of us told the company we were willing to take wider pay cuts to save all jobs.

> We won a guarantee of no layoffs, no additional furloughs, and no additional pay cuts through July 31, along with enhanced severance for any layoffs that occur in August-December. The company also agreed to reduce the number of furloughs.
> The Decline of Usability

Featuring a 600px wide container for text.
They show ads at the top of every search I've ever done there. At least when I'm not using an ad blocker.
In the long term, I don't think much has changed. The question is whether AirBnB can survive until people revert to normal travel behavior. In the short term there is little to no travel, and in the medium term there will be social distancing for a long time and less travel than before.
At least on the ancient DNA projects I've worked on, the main obstacles have been a) deamination, b) fragmentation, and c) environmental contamination. Maybe radiation enters the picture at Jurassic timescales, but the DNA would become completely degraded and worthless tens millions of years before that. Unless they somehow managed to find a dinosaur frozen at about 0K, I'm extremely skeptical of these claims.
Is your stuff for a system operator or single generator?
I have lived in a country with universal healthcare. Never have I had more government intervention into my life than living in the US. Never have I been so worried about my civil rights being infringed than in the US. Never have I felt more controlled by large corporations in daily life.

What does this have to do with immigration? The US already has a restrictive (and arcane) immigration system. You've just thrown an assortment of right-wing talking points together.

> social policy academics from the countries with higher social safety nets, they will tell you the same thing

You pulled this straight from your ass.
Nope, expected something interesting, but this is based on a boring brute-force simulation.

He did hint at using a parabolic shape, like in satellite dishes. Why not use some actual calculus and differential equations to figure out the optimal parabolic-like shape here?
This might be an obvious suggestion but are you familiar with Do Things that Don't Scale already? There might be a few useful things in there.

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Nice color theme, but $49 for three computers seems a bit high when comparing to what's available in the market.
Maybe instead of taking that as an argument to not have a census the solution here is to conclude that Nazis are bad and they ought to be stopped.

This is not a reasonable argument because it can be applied to anything. Telephones enables nazis to communicate better. Guns allowed them to shoot faster. Cars made it so they could round them up even more quickly. Without fuel they wouldn't have had any tanks. The list goes on.

The fact that technology empowers nazis as much as good people is trivial and obvious. As an argument against technology it's useless because by that logic we need to go live in a cave again.
Their visual results are very impressive. But their speech synthesis seems like 20th century quality.
That was my thought. Same as ads. If the currency is the attention of users, why not double-dip profits!

It's the same reason when I book a plane flight, someone's always trying to sell me the rental car while I'm there
If you need streaming, then yes, RNNT is a good option. If not, encoder-decoder-attention performs a bit better than RNN-T.

Note that there are also approaches for encoder-decoder-attention to make that streaming capable, e.g. MoChA or hard attention, etc.

Google uses RNN-T on-device. But they are researching on extending it with another encoder-decoder-attention model on-top, to get better performance.

This is a quite active research area, and it has not really settled. But CTC is not really too much relevant anymore, as RNNT is just a better variant.
I work at a bank, and we have strict rules about what data can be logged (and what data can never be logged), to avoid accidental information disclosure if somebody ever gets our logs (which, I assume, would be about as hard to do as getting somebody’s password database, which happens all the time).

So, while that’s not about remote code execution, I will agree that what is actually logged in this SQLite database could be important information. But I would expect a little more than “OMG! They’re logging to a SQLite database, and you could log bad things to a SQLite database!”
Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle-class women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Israeli drug ‘Opaganib’ successful in treating patients with Covid-19
> In this case, the problem was seen as "some shady businessmen exporting unreliable masks for their own profit and got caught, it harms our 'global image'". So they took them down.

No, no, no, no. The point I make is very different. Don't think of them as that dumb.

While, yes, a giant amount of PPE is now being exported in contravention of the ban, the very few well connected companies are making 8 digit sums per day thanks to it.

Also, the Chinese red cross is now very happy with PPE makers having no way to sell their stuff to the West, because now they can buy piles of it on the cheap for export through their "special channel."

The same thing has happened during the ASF outbreak last year. Pork prices soared N-fold, state media were all screaming murder, the national pork reserve was unsealed, but... at the same time, pork importation was quietly banned using overzealous sanitary inspections, culls of otherwise healthy pigs were ordered, and somebody made billions.
100%! I'm a HUGE SpaceX fan. Exploring space is by far the most exciting thing that humanity is working on right now, imo.

A thousand years from now, no one will remember the richest person, or who had the most fame or political influence. But, they'll remember the names of the first humans on Mars.