skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That was Trump's original plan, yes.

That's why I have to qualify my sarcasm with /s on this site, including my post above: the population density is too high. /s Trump sarcastically suggested it, but there never was such a "plan". Nor could there be one: the president of the United States does not have the authority to shut down (mostly private) testing.
Location, location, location. Well, and skillset of course.

I would strongly recommend against it though. The pay is terrible. There was a strong push for a few years to get people into the trades, and there was a strong misrepresentation of what the opportunities are really like.

Keep in mind that government contracts are a race to the bottom. The contracts go to the lowest bidder and since materials, etc. are a given, employee pay has really suffered. Being a machinist is not the path to a middle class life anymore for most people.
How many of those states have emergency powers provisions that would allow them to override that restriction?
Does your Irish app require the app to be open on iOS?
You are right, the article didn't suggest anything illegal. It suggested instead a strong culture of NDAs. But again, I think something as illegal as the OP post in this thread suggested would have gotten some folks to whistleblow nonetheless.
It's really depressing we live in a world where this is a thing people need.
my wife is a financial analyst who swears by excel spreadsheets, I think she'll find this very useful
What's the hash?
Versioned buckets and denying delete gives you an equivalent of an append-only backup. (As long as your backup tool supports that)
Analysts' bias is "hard-core" / console centric. Pokemon Cafe Mix has been my fave of Summer 2020. Nintendo could have a dominant position for many decades making mobile games of superlative quality ;)
In the same spirit, Ulysses By Tennyson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
The authors of the studies seem to believe that the "combination of physical activity and sensory enrichment" and “cognitive and coordinative demands” are the key ingredients.

If this is the case then the results should also generalise to sports, which have an aspect of sensory enrichment and coordinative challenge.

But I agree with you, it would be very interesting to actually find out what the “key ingredients” are. Especially since dance is so diverse and difficult to define. In fact, I think the category of dance can be best described using Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblance. There is not one essential common feature between all forms of dance, instead there are a lot of overlapping aspects.
It depends on which side of the zoom screen you're sitting.
What percentage of the current population has already been infected?

What is the latest death rate of confirmed cases?
Your last sentence is logically equivalent to saying that no society can afford to give medical care to everyone, the only choice is who to ration it for, since Medicare-for-all is characteristically no different from any other comprehensive risk pool bridged over an entire population. And under conditions you're describing where the population truly is uniformly ill, every sub-population will look similar to the population at large, so no private insurance pool will do better by excluding some of the population.

Sounds like a problem.
My gold and Bitcoin and debt want this.

My parents who are about to retire do not want this.
I recommend taking a formal college accounting course online, via any online learning platform. I took accounting in undergrad and found it to be one of the single most valuable and generally applicable courses that I took. Accounting is the language of business – knowing accounting for business is like knowing object-oriented programming or something similarly basic for coding.

A great unrelated line that I heard from an MBA who works in Marketing: Everyone thinks that Marketing is a creative field and Finance is a methodical quantitative vocation. But in reality, the best marketers are methodical and quantitative, and the best Finance folks are highly creative.
I am very curious to know what lab she worked in, but there is no trace of her (apart from these stories) that I can find on the internet. She was in the lab for ~6 months, so it's unlikely that any of her research is published yet.
You just described the architecture of PhotoStructure: https://photostructure.com/server/photostructure-for-servers...

(Not a dozen components, though; just four. A main/watchdog service, a web service, a volume watchdog and directory scanner service, and a cluster of sync-file jobs).

Related: it was a total pita to handle real-time debugging until I made my own `tail -f` that sorted by timestamp and automatically updated as new processes added new log files).
Just pay each person a $100 if they download the app, or whatever. People react to incentives, and downloading the app brings no personal benefit. Change that.
Canada is having a huge shortage of primary care doctors. So much many people don’t have one and have to rely on urgent care.[1]

This isn’t a US only issue.

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...
In Facebook’s case, assuming malice is a rational way of looking at their actions.

For instance, and this is really one of many — Facebook took phone numbers from users for 2FA, promising it’d only be used for security and... used those numbers for ads[1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...
"Gary Larson (no relation)" is an appositive, and you separate those with commas, so yeah that's part of their same caring about grammar.
I can't speak to whether this is the paper referenced above, but a Hobonichi Techo planner using Tomoe River Paper is amazing in how thin it is, yet it resists ghosting (ink showthrough) like a champion.

I do wish you could get good Japanese paper in hardbound journals, something like Vela Sciences, but with Japanese paper.
Also happens to potatoes. Natural breeding can cause plants that produce too much glycoalkaloids.
I wonder how Beat Saber fairs... I'm being dead serious. Since the gyms have closed it's become my new passion and i love it.
Anki's iOS app is really only useful (IMO) with the desktop app. I do not like creating cards in it. But I also didn't mind paying as it's the only part of Anki that's sold, and it's a one-time cost.
http://www.youexec.com — we have business frameworks and spreadsheet models to help you pick up the skills you list
Uh huh. Sure it does. And who is auditing that?
UPenn just announced an online FinTech Boot Camp. Looks really current. Master python, portfolio optimization and crypto in one semester ;)

https://bootcamp.sas.upenn.edu/fintech/
The US also has much lower population density and Europe had a month+ head start. Give us time.
> people have wacky ideas about things like economics and intelligence.

Boy howdy.

There are three major parts of the economy which are extensively regulated to achieve political goals: health care and higher education (on the national level with some state involvement) and housing (city-level zoning, with occasional other mandates particularly in places like California).

Notice then the three areas where prices have become radically more expensive over the past several decades, fomenting a crisis that threatens our prosperity as a nation: housing prices, higher education prices, health care prices...
Getting Your Machine Learning Model Out to the Real World
Organic chemistry and neuroscience are complex. FWIW soursop has also been linked to causing Parkinson's like syndromes due to neuro toxicity.
> Imagine playing an instrument wired up to headphones and then adding a 30ms delay

We need to keep these numbers in context. 30ms delay would appear as an echo if you were playing an instrument and also listening to a 30ms delayed version of the same sound.

However, you're not feeling the latency. You're noticing the presence of two distinct signals. That's why UX input latency matters much more when you're doing something like dragging across the screen with your finger on the screen: You visually register the distance between your finger and the expected location.

However, when you're typing a memorized series of letters on a keyboard, you're not comparing the keypresses to the letters appearing on the screen. You already know what you're typing and what you expect to see on the screen. Visual stimulus latency is on the order of 250ms, so you wouldn't even begin to start processing types for an order of magnitude larger than the latency of these text editors, for example.

Most of us are operating with regular 60Hz laptops or monitors. End-to-end latency from physical key press to physical color change on your monitor might be as high as 50-60ms even with zero-latency software.
My question is - if 50% of people can/will work from home, but everybody in the office needs twice the space, on average, shouldn't demand stay the same rather than halving?
It's a dubious default, though. Why muck with tags from originals when you don't have to?
Well, a full nuclear exchange between the U.S. and Russia would end civilization as we know it. Though it is unlikely to wipe out the human race entirely, we'd be reduced to paleolithic population levels and it's really hard to predict how things would develop from there. A nuclear exchange between the U.S. and China, or between India and Pakistan on the other hand would cause a decades-long crisis, but wouldn't outright destroy civilization in the way a U.S.-Russia exchange (with 10x-100x more nukes) would.

I would personally be more worried about another global pandemic and/or biowarfare/bioterrorism. An infection with the virility of SARS-CoV-2 but the case fatality rate of Ebola or MERS would end civilization. What'll keep you up at night is realizing that this is almost at the point where a biology grad student could engineer such a thing in their dorm room.

It should be noted that people who think about these things are also worried about AI existential risk. Personally I think that while there is reason to have some concern, it doesn't hold a candle to the above two risks.
Using Typescript for Flutter is the intent behind this project https://github.com/chgibb/hydro-sdk

Though, note I am the author.
I'd say PhotoStructure.

(Disclaimer: I may be biased).
Thanks, this seems like an important phenomenon, someone must be studying this somewhere, wonder if there are other terms or phrases used to explain this? Would this fall into puff pieces?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
> Payers routinely reimburse health-care providers for specialized procedures at high rates, but primary-care visits—which might include chronic-disease management, routine vaccinations, or smoking and diet counselling—generate lower revenues. This imbalance is due, in large part, to the Relative Value Update Committee (R.U.C.), an extraordinarily powerful group of doctors that advises the federal government on reimbursement rates for physicians. The R.U.C. consists of thirty-one doctors convened by the American Medical Association; it’s structured such that each specialty has an equal say. On the R.U.C., urology, thoracic surgery, and head-and-neck surgery have, individually, about the same representation as all of pediatrics. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C.M.S.), which has final authority to set payment rates for Medicare, has in many years accepted the R.U.C.’s recommendations nearly ninety per cent of the time.

This is more deadly than it appears on the surface.

For example, this article on life expectancy is a good read. One should pay close attention to the case of South Korea and how they are focusing on the health of the younger generation, which has the best payoff (By the way, I am both a citizen of the US and Croatia. The biggest difference: Croatia is going the right way, the US is not): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...

Archived version of link: http://archive.is/3EpBi
> Remember, all our greatest accomplishments and any fame we could hope to accomplish are all ultimately fleeting.

What's the point of thinking this way? At the end of the day the Sun will destroy the Earth and nobody will ever remember anyone because there will no trace of us all. If you keep looking at things this way, this is rather depressing.

If all our ancestors thought that "let's forget about investing in building something better because ultimately it does not matter", we would not even be having computers to write on by now.
Absolutely. I highly recommend going outdoor climbing: the mental aspect is even more intense. A lot of the time is spent route reading and figuring out safety gear, which are mostly cerebral.
Hah go to a rural area and find bidirectional gigabit fiber optic internet for $60/mo and a decent house for $200,000.
Reading the best books on a topic is infinitely better than any time spent on this site. There is nothing to learn here anymore, it's just news.

For example you'll never hear the words "Concurrent hashmap" or "denormalization strategy" on this site, but you will in an interview.
For anyone else looking to embed a modern browser in their Windows/macOS/Linux* C++ application, you might consider Dullahan: source: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/src/master/ and example screenshot: https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/dullahan/raw/master/docs/web...

I recently updated it to use Chromium 81 and would have updated it to the most recent version (84) if there weren't some non-trivial changes needed to make video/audio streaming work again.

It's what we use in Second Life and would welcome other users' comments to help improve it.
A healthcare system should strive to make the care people need affordable.

Your framing is boring, we need to figure out how to make the care as widely available as possible regardless of the payment model.
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You really think that those are the only three things regulated to achieve political goals?
I really hope he keeps making more, given the response to these first few comics.

I grew up reading the Far Side in the newspaper every day. I remember the excitement of running out to get the paper to grab the comics before anyone else.

Today I follow some comics on Instagram, which gives that same sort of excitement. I load up Instagram and among the pictures of my friends are some comics that I enjoy -- including one account that I'm sure is not legal but posts a Calvin and Hobbes comic every day.

I'm not sure if I should feel bad following the account knowing it is probably being done without permission, but at the same time, it brings me daily joy, which is what Bill Watterson always said he wanted to do.
People had lower expectations of healthcare back in the 20’s.
Many of the vaccines we have today didn’t exist, and there were no antibiotics.
Contact tracing apps were NEVER going to work. There are numerous fundamental technical problems but those aren’t even worth getting into, because people won’t use this shit.

Smartphone contact tracing is an absurd silver bullet pipe dream from a bunch of hammers who see the world as full of nails. It won’t work, can’t work, and will not ever work.

How much more effort are people going to waste on this?? Every time this comes up on HN the horde mass downvotes anyone who dares to dissent. It’s been almost five months now.
Overcoming Imposters Syndrome
Can you imagine having a Chief We-have-been-pwned Officer who is responsible for building relationships with criminals so that they would actually delete your data rather than resurface it years later when nobody remembers (not even you) you having lost it?
I'm running around 90% of the things in my homelab in a kubernetes cluster. I love it, but storage has been the biggest challenge. From my experience, OpenEBS and Rook both seem to be good options when you have multiple physical machines with disks on each one. Portworx is also very good, but the licensing costs are way too high.

I'm running my kubernetes nodes as VMs and I didn't want to have to backup the virtual machine disks. I just wanted to back up my freenas server, so I went with trying to use NFS.

I wanted to use the NFS client provisioner, as I thought I'd want to be able to add and remove volumes automatically, however, this makes redeploying onto a new cluster from scratch hard. Eventually, I just tore that out and just mounted each NFS volume individually because it turns out that I actually only need a handful of volumes.
Dependent typing can make guarantees like that if there are no loops, no parallel mutation, no I/O, no cosmic rays. For example if I made y have rand() elements then there's nothing a compiler can ever do about that. In other cases the compiler can check types by executing code (not always decidable). Dependently typed languages are not Turing complete. They can help with proofs and such but it's physically impossible to use dependent types for general purpose programming (e.g. try writing Linux in Idris, you can't).
In 7th grade my English teacher had us each put together a book on grammar. I used "The Far Side" cartoons to illustrate all of the rules that I had learned. I wish I could link to it, but the only copy, a hard copy, is somewhere in my parents' basement or attic.
Odd. For me ctrl-f Calvin returns nothing.
No. I'd love to be wrong, btw: please correct me if I'm wrong.

(I've looked at the sidecars from takeout, and the API). You might be able to scrape the metadata via puppeteer, but that's brittle and janktastic.
Kotlin is statically typed only runs on the JVM though, I thought?
Did a memo go out saying it's "global heating" and not "warming"?
Horizontally Scaling the Hive Metastore Database by Migrating from MySQL to TiDB
Today I learned about cucurbitacins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitacin
Advice on Starting Out
If you are not the copyright owner none of that should bother you. Without insider knowledge it could be from the artists sent from their own home.
StarGAN v2: Diverse Image Synthesis for Multiple Domains
Certainly an issue insurers have been thinking about for a while.

Funding certain kinds of care with heavy taxes on things like smoking makes a lot sense.

Other things like unhealthy eating (or sitting, HN participants, lookin' at you) are so much harder to draw easy lines dividing contributing activity from everyday liberties that it makes less sense. You can work at the margins with something like soda taxes or maybe even incentives around bloodwork but the tradeoffs are less clear along with the dividing lines.
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You should start looking into LTE flip phones. There aren't many (the Alcatel Go Flip comes to mind), but carriers are starting to phase out 3g. E.g. AT&T is killing 3g in 2022.
As a country, we are just BARELY getting to the point where people are willing to be public in their support of marijuana legalization. We have a long way to go before entheogens are legalized federally. But I think if there is any way to achieve that, it would be through doctors attesting to their efficacy in treating various illnesses. It's the same thing we went through with marijuana -- show the people there ARE medical uses, that the world is not ending because of it, and then they accept a wider use.
I would like to point out we're not questioning whether repetitive activity enhances plasticity but if dancing is better.

Also when the study says dance they mean learning a new dance. If you were to do variations of the same dance over and over this study doesn't prove you would also get the benefits. I'd imagine if we did study it that case would show results very similar to the benefits from repetitive activity.
>>In other words, I had a degree of independence and agency that you normally only see in the Jet Set -- people who get called independently wealthy -- or comfortably well-off retirees. I had more control over my time and my life than your typical working stiff.

No offense, but I would not attribute any sense of freedom or higher degree of control in one's life to receiving alimony. What happens if/when the ex-spouse prematurely dies or has their bank account hacked?
Anecdotal data point about primary care:

About a year or so ago I subscribed to "direct/concierge primary care practice". I pay $80/month and in exchange getting an access to a primary doctor who takes care of keeping an eye on me, my blood pressure, all my prescriptions (some of which used to require monthly visits to specialists). I am also getting access to really cheap prices on labs, typically 30 min visits same or next day if I wanted (unlimited visits per months), EKG when I wanted to put my mind at peace right there in the office ($25 one time fee), etc. Doctor is available over the phone, text or email. Does not dismiss me when I mention "I've read on internet..." something and actually explains things. Basically, I think it will take care of the most of my health care needs, as well as puts my mind at ease thanks to easy access to the doctor.

The doctor also refers me to specialists who's cash-prices were often below my co-pays.

For major accidents I still have a traditional health insurance with high out-of-pocket limit bought at the marketplace (self-employed).

This practice existed for quite some time and thanks to the subscription-based fees (not episodic described in the article), I expect it to be a long-term sustainable business. It is also owned by the doctor as far as I am aware. They explicitly do not deal with private or public insurances. (Although by recent law changes I can charge monthly fee to HSA account).

There are a few practices like that in the area. Can't say if others are similar in experience, but fees - are. So it looks like it is possible to build sustainable business around primary care. But it takes a different approach.
No, but they, and US government insiders, often profited from it:

https://slate.com/business/2008/10/forensic-economists-exami...

http://econweb.umd.edu/~kaplan/coups.pdf
The US purposefully lowered the amount of doctors in the 90s. If anything we should be creating more need schools and creating more doctors.
exurb1a's variation, from his amazing video[1] "We're the Last Humans Left":

My name is Homo sapiens, hominid of hominids;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvbTFwXagdQ
> Annoyance aside I seriously worry about the accessibility of the windows lock screen. Through a weird display setup I sometimes find myself trying to log in blind and I just can't do it.

If you try running a screen reader, such as Narrator (built into Windows; edit: turn it on and off with Ctrl+Win+Enter, even on the logon screen), you should find that even if the focus somehow gets away from the Password field, you can get back there with the help of speech output. Logging in blind doesn't have to mean logging in with no means of orientation.

(Disclosure: I'm a developer at Microsoft on the Windows accessibility team, working on Narrator among other things.)
I think HN also has a very strong anti-sports leaning, especially for “traditional” sports.
Here's the previous thread on this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23881342
Unfortunately they have a terrible standard of spelling at the New Yorker. Every time I read one of those words with the umlaut, it causes a full parse error in my brain, to the extent that I usually have to read the entire paragraph again.

Seriously, if you're not happy with "cooperate", spell it as "co-operate". This is an old standard, and it still works well. I don't get how the New Yorker tries to pretend they're the magazine of high society while spelling like Spın̈al Tap. The point of language is to have common understanding, and you can't do that if you're the only one using your weird spelling.

(Also, I wish they just got the the point in their articles. At least give a summary of why I would want to read the whole long form article before launching into some anecdote about two people meeting at a bar.)