skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elderly are better protected now. Only they need to be protected, everybody under 50 has a higher risk to die from a car accident.

Belgium and Spain had the most prominent policy errors in their care homes, which led to it's exorbitant high percentages. In Belgium they didn't have enough N95 face masks, so caretakers started sharing them. In Spain it was a similar care home fuckup (Fascist government cuts, they only kept the hospitals in excellent shape).
My guess is that the UK with its privatized care homes had similar issues. No idea yet about the high rates in France. They didn't had fascist government lately I thought (Forgot about Sarcozy apparently). Italy had its high flu IFR's of over 1% for decades. (Privatized homes plus high air pollution plus Berlusconi, leading to be the world flu leader). The US has its sugar crisis and healthcare crisis known for decades, besides it's political inefficiency.

Treatment protocol improvements are another theory, but as far as I see it they still use oxygen ventilators, which is known to be of not much help. So unlikely. They also refused to use known therapeutical prevention methods which did work (politics were apparently more important than saving life's of elders), instead promoted fringe methods like 5% face masks and school closings.
The latest mkfs.btrfs on my Oracle Linux 7 supports "crc32c, xxhash, sha256 or blake2."

The relative benefits are discussed in "man 5 btrfs" in the "CHECKSUM ALGORITHM" section.

man 5 btrfs | col -b | sed -n '/^CHECKSUM/,/^FILESYSTEM/p'
I looked in to a bunch of options when deciding on a new ECU for my car, ultimately the idea of leaving the reliability of my vehicle up to a more complex stack of software, with dependencies, updates and bugs within the layers beneath the ECU software itself, didn't feel like the right choice.

I also really love that aftermarket ECU manufacturers have been able to find a market, and I wanted to support that. Almost all of the ECU companies I've been in contact with were started by one or two engineers as a commercial project for enthusiasts. You just don't see bread and butter circuitry and embedded software companies solving real problems like that getting a fair go in the market these days. It's a niche where talent makes your reputation, and it's not a space big enough to get "disrupted" by the Venture Capital bubble.
You might be glad to know that both my wife and I have been happily “assimilating the canon”, with as much furious energy as before we were married. In spite of the fact that our tastes don’t overlap 1:1. In fact I’ve been introduced to more of the canon through our heterogenous tastes.
Ask HN: What is the oldest code you wrote that is still running in production?
I'm curious to hear from both folks that have been in the industry for decades and those that are still relatively new: To the best of your knowledge what is the oldest bit of code that you've written that you know (or believe) is still running in production?

For myself: I wrote a data management system for nuclear reactor steam generator inspection/repair in VB6 from 1997-1999. It has been running in production since then.
I have also bounced off of LiSP a couple times
I agree, in short I think there is a very important and underestimated difference between joy and happiness, fun and satisfaction. I think indeed they are even at odds with each other.

It comes back in many aspects of life, i.e., the entertainment industry, the smartphone industry (maybe any industry?) aims to bring you fun, a short-lived positive emotion. What brings you happiness (a long lived positive feeling of satisfaction and peacefulness of mind) is perhaps difficult to discover and deeply personal.
That's true. I've been looking at housing a lot because I'm hoping to buy next spring, since my wife and I finally just finished saving enough for a down payment.

I've started considering it a "smell", if you will, when a recently-constructed single family home is in the range of 2800-3500 square feet. Almost inevitably, I look at more detailed pictures on the floor plan and layout and see all sorts of weird choices - a little "half office" right at the top of the stairs not even in its own room (just like, an empty space). Questionably shaped rooms that interact strangely with the roof. And so on.

Additionally, my personal preference is not even to have that much space - I'm nearly content with 1000sqft for a family of 3, what could I do with 3 times that much? - but I must confess that I do play the value-per-sqft game without meaning to when I'm comparing a 1500 sqft against a 2000 sqft home.
Your encryption analogy doesn't really work either. Encrypted text encodes the key used to encrypt it. This is why it takes 2^N computational steps to recover the plain text, where N is the key size rather than where N is the text size. It's just that the computational cost of decrypting with sufficiently large keys is intractable.

But human languages have much more exposed regularity than ciphertext from good encryption algorithms, so the computational cost is much lower. The "key", i.e. world model, in case of human languages is plausibly much bigger, but since human languages have significant exposed regularity, it is still tractable to compute, with the trade off that you need much more text to do it.
Marriage has its roots in slavery. Not many people realize this today. Traditions have changed it on the surface, but deeper the effects are the same. So there can never be a right person to become a property of.
I don't think so. The source code is the same but there's now metadata that helps in setting up the same environment again, even years later. You still have the original code in case, e.g. Docker is no longer available.

For instance, if you just have a Python script importing a statistical library, what version are you going to use?
Scipy had a pretty nasty change in one of its statistical functions, changing the outcome of significance tests in our project. Depending on which version you happened to have installed it'd give you a positive or negative result.
Show HN: An implementation of Microchip app note AVR101
K-12?

Are they expecting students to “sit in class” by watching a live zoom lecture?
> Today, researchers can use Docker containers (see also ref. 7) and Conda virtual environments (see also ref. 8) to package computational environments for reuse.

Docker is also flawed. You can perfectly reproduce it today but what about in 10 years. I can barely go back to our previous release for some dockerfiles.
I think the fundamental error here is to think this is in any way a new phenomenon. This line, in particular, holds the key:

> Others evolved over the centuries: Islamic architecture encompasses both Moorish horseshoe arches and the turquoise domes of Uzbekistan, but the unified features such as minarets and geometric ornaments tell you these are lands conquered and converted by Muslim empires.

(Emphasis mine)

This architectural homogenisation has always happened to some extent except that, in the past, its sphere of influence was limited to the area of a certain empire, nation state, or religion. Nowadays the actors are powerful corporations with global reach, and hence the homogenisation is global in scope rather than more localised.

There may be a solution to this but I don't think calling for a preservation of local architectural style and culture is it, because it's not dealing with the root cause of the problem.

That may go back to valuing function over form and getting the most value for money out of buildings, although neither do I think this is a complete explanation.
Amazon's profit margin is small, but only a fool would say they aren't making money hand over fist. Profit isn't the only measure of 'making money'.

ATT's revenue was $181B in 2019.
I agree. OP, Use your cover letter to assuage potential fears of the hiring team. These could include:

- show that this company is not just a temporary gap filler until you find a new CA job

- provide evidence that you would stick around for morE than a few months. Outside of SV, I don’t think it is common for tenures to be as short as they are in SV.
I did watch some YouTube videos where Gotham was used a while ago and I remember it to be far from breathtaking...
Workaround: if you have the app and manually enter the meeting number and password, it works.

But hyperlinks are not.
I'm from the same places. Definitely some overlaps, but IMO the big difference is the weather and the culture. All them security clearance types right next to one of the worst ghettos in the US vs. Seattle's Portlandia-light + Amazon/Boeing/Sbux/MS money all over the place. SLU is sooo much nicer than a lot of DC, save for maybe parts of Georgetown.
It won't happen until researchers are forced to do it. Please sign petition at https://publiccode.eu and have a look at my other comment here.
Is there really thermal concerns for wind turbine blades ? These things are literally aircooled by the wind, aren't they ?
Write-downs or similar
When you're talking about AI then your software suite looks very different. The actual running of the vehicles engine and subsystems is something that is very well known, and can be handled by embedded software/hardware quite easily. It's not that I don't think more complicated stacks can handle it, it's that I don't think they're needed. That said, no matter which way you skin it, if you increase complexity then you increase risk.
https://www.zuora.com

Zuora seems to be a bit like Stripe? Maybe it's their outage, or maybe someone at Zoom forgot to pay the Zuora bill..
Ah :)

So yeah, they've given us hardware to be able to run CI, which is a huge step. This also includes statements like "Arm intends to further donate newer and more capable hardware to this initiative."

They've had employees doing testing and submitting patches and fixing bugs.

The focus is on aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu to start, but there's a lot of procedural kinks to work out. Future targets should go much more smoothly.

More detail here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2959
Oh I agree, I lost a lot of nuance with my trite 1-sentence summary. Shiny is mostly good judgement, good taste, careful organization and a lot of sweat resulting in well-crafted CSS.

Especially in the past few years, as browsers have implemented a lot of animations and scaling in CSS which offloads to the GPU. You don’t want JavaScript/CPU doing that math anymore.

Component-based JavaScript frameworks “force” us to organize our CSS in the same way outlawing cars in favor of bikes bikes ensures everyone follows the speed limit.
Sales and marketing costs at 60% of revenues last year? My understanding of Palantir is that this isn't some SaaS model where a fixed cost product can be scaled at huge gross margins. This is a niche IT consultancy coming up on two decades of life. Today's stock market of hype dream valuations is their window to offload this to the public and clearly they know it.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/palantir-deal...
The difference is that all of the other scenarios you mentioned don't work by default under standard execution privileges, and/or require additional setup beyond just executing the program. /proc/$pid/mem just works with any program under Linux. That's a pretty fundamental difference. Like I said, if it weren't the default behavior on Linux, I wouldn't care. But as it is I don't think you can meaningfully say the default Linux environment is "not a reasonable environment" for running secure software while I am happy to say this about, say, running with root privileges, or having a debugger inserted, or loading non-default kernel modules.

The idea that unsafe is supposed to only cover "deliberate" invocations is kind of silly, IMO. That is not what unsafe means. A function called "get_unchecked_index_this_requires_a_bounds_check_be_careful" still needs to be marked unsafe. But even if somehow this distinction could be made meaningful, this turns an accidental bug that lets you manipulate the file path into full blown arbitrary code execution.
Here, in the Netherlands, towns get more similar. Mostly because all the shops are part of the same big chains, with the same cheap building style, and the same ways roads are upgraded.
Cities all have their own history, so there is more variation there.
If no one has by EOD today, I will! Good idea. :)
I am originally from the Soviet Union but had moved to Canada very long time ago.

Also while I am totally floored by such a man maybe his place is not in a schoolbooks yet. If the US is similar to Canada school education wise I suspect that kids in US are in desperate need of basic fundamental knowledge. This should come first I believe.
> What's Bitcoin missing in technological or infrastructure terms that's holding it back? I'd wager nothing.

The technological solution to the slight incomprehensibility is a huge part of what holds back adoption.

Also, regulatory issues are considerable for a certain class of user that would probably like to take advantage of e.g. 1000x gainz.
> It looks like this was removed from the front page in about an hour. We’re not even allowed to talk about this topic on HN so I’m not too optimistic about more ambitious goals.

So we miss out on yet another thread of the same old bitching & complaining, regurgitation of statistics, and snarky criticism of our various outgroups. There are surely several of those happening as we speak on Reddit and elsewhere if you need a fix, I don't think it matters all that much to the planet.

> It’s pretty clear we’ve decided as a society that we’re going to follow the road we’re on, and stick to it hard, and see where it leads.

It does indeed seem that way unfortunately.
Minotaur: A pythonic, asynchronous, inotify interface
Is this an evidence based opinion? I am trying to find evidence myself -- but my memory is that religiosity is well correlated with marital satisfaction. If you have something that supports the opposite conclusion I would be interested in reading it.
The only time it’s acceptable to write notes directly into a book is when you’re taking it into an exam. Otherwise, it’s just an act of vandalism!
Cut em some slack, they've been holding the world together with sticky tape for about 9 months now.
Qt is by far the best choice for me.
Ask HN: I've created a REST Browser Automatization service, how can I sell it?
You can use a simple HTTP Request to start a remote browser and make any action on it, also scraping. could there be an interested niche?
I'm still shocked that AT&T's acquisition of Warner Bros and HBO was approved. I think a fair rule would be that if you're a company that wants to be a "natural monopoly" like AT&T, you shouldn't be allowed to enter other verticals like content production or advertising.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the ISP monopolies in the US all/mostly the result of government monopoly protection/non-compete agreements with cities?

When governments grant monopolies the consumers get screwed. There's nothing new or mysterious about this.
I do something similar but I keep shortening and shortening my summary until I reach the point in which I have a couple of key points at the top of the note, with everything longer than that somewhere underneath.

That way I can quickly catch a glimpse of what the note offers as soon as I open it, and in case I need to understand the arguments behind those points, all I have to do is to scroll down.

This has proven to be quite effective when I want to reference something I've read about years prior.
HN: "A single server with SQLite is perfect for typical production workloads, it's so robust"

Also HN: "Database X can fail in Jepsen tests during partitions, it's unusable"

I see HA as a mandatory part of what makes a system production ready...
> x86 is notable in that you can cause a branch or jump without calling a branch or jump instruction.

I'm curious what you are referring to here. Are you talking about CMOV? Or INT/SYSCALL/SYSENTER? Or just the ability to trigger a fault handler? Or semantic games like push followed by ret?
They were using blackboard last year (ugh)... I think they are switching some to zoom.
At risk of being flippant, you're overvaluing media and art over actually living life. Where do you suppose art comes from? More from life than from looking at other art.
I didn't watch Netflix last month and I was still charged for it. Streaming services are only a bargain if you watch a lot of TV. If you watch <5hours/month/service than the value proposition begins to become questionable.
I think I misunderstood your initial comment and we probably mostly agree : )

When I think 'Skia-based', I am thinking of a "canvas-based" renderer as opposed to native views. So I would group Skia and your option together in my mind.
While the patient was infected with mild symptoms the first time he showed no systems the second time. Also no mention if the virus was still contagious in the patient.

How is it with other vaccines? Do you see a small infection before the immune response overwhelms it?
.NET runtime
I'm not trying to be snarky here, but can anybody point to an example of machine learning used in law enforcement that hasn't lead to inequitable outcomes?
A few comments:

* Sidereal time is different from solar time; sidereal time measures the Earth's rotation relative to the stars, while solar time measures it relative to the Sun, which moves relative to the stars. Thus, UT1 and sidereal time have different rates.

* Wikipedia's page on day length fluctuations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations) has a discussion of the influences involved. It also has a handy graph, from which we can see that the average day length is around 2 milliseconds shorter than in the 1970s (hence why we had a leap second every year from 1973-1979, but the last leap second was over four years ago).

* There's also UT2 and UT0. UT2 has a corrections for seasonal variations, while UT0 is derived from raw observations, without correcting for polar motion like UT1. These are rarely used.
And then they kicked the sore leg
Because it is not transliteration, at least in any correct sense of the word.
I disagree. The irreversible nature makes the case for "making" it (work) stronger.

I'm reminded of GK Chesterton, in Heretics: "Posting a letter and getting married are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic a thing must be irrevocable."
I agree 100%. I'm a bit bemused that I've received down votes on such a neutral observation.
Unlikely since UBI will likely be essentially offset by income tax so above a certain threshold (likely just slightly above full time minimum wage) the net benefit will be zero.

If businesses reduce their pay they’ll have to pay higher rate taxes on their end (CIT, payroll tax, business rates).

Also in many countries reducing income is illegal, especially in western countries. It’s often can only be done during restricting after going through an employment court as an alternative to redundancy and it’s limited both in amount and duration.

That said truly universal UBI would require a considerably change to how and what we tax as well as the general employment market you likely won’t see basic income until there will be no means of offering sufficient employment to the majority of the population until then UBI is often less effective than direct benefits simply because it’s less.

The main less from these UBI studies is that the threshold for cutting off means tested benefits is way too low and there is quite a bit of benefit to gain at continuing proving direct cash benefits at higher income levels. That said we currently don’t have any reasonable way to fund it, as well as to ensure that UBI isn’t going to be just a wealth transfer program from the working and middle class to corporations.
I'd consider these accessibility features and as such I'd say they're important for any GUI work tool, even if it's not your daily driver.
With all due respect, "Chromium devs wanted feature X" does not make it a good idea. Servo devs wanted features that would have made Rust worse, too.
1994, lot of internal code for a then Austrian ISP, since bought by a competitor, but the code is still running I hear. (Voip regex routing engine for asterisk in C, a webmail in PHP, dns, lot of Perl stuff)
My experience with btrfs is from a few years ago, so it's possible they've changed the semantics here since then, but this might be applicable:

Btrfs requires a regularly run administrative task via "btrfs balance". Balancing consolidates data between partially filled block groups, which will restore consumed space even if a block group is not entirely empty. Typically, one runs balance with a set of gradually increasing parameters to control the records affected (ie: bash script that starts with block groups that are more empty and proceeds towards ones with a higher percentage utilization).

In my experience with btrfs a few years ago, running a balance in some situations would result is incredibly high system wide latency.

The man page [1] does not appear to reference the free space issue directly, so I'm not sure if they've removed this need.

1: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-balanc...
There are many districts that expect kids, including early elementary, to sit and stare at screens a majority of the day (with breaks for things like lunch).
This is what I was thinking as well. It just means packagers have to be mindful of what kind of files their maintained software makes and to appropriately carry these metadata changes where they are needed. I don't really see an issue with this mindset.
It is precisely the sanctity of marriage in those cultural expectations that pushes you to keep making something. I a marriage is irrevocable, you better do your best to "make" it good. In a culture of disposable marriage, there is little reason to invest deeply in building, since the whole thing can be torn down in a second.
Yes, some schools are planning on this. Breaks for lunch / recess.

Too many schools are taking the approach that our learning wasn't structured enough in the spring, so we are going to the opposite extreme.

It's going to have a negative effect on the children and caregivers.

We have non-technical people on tight deadlines trying to reproduce brick and mortar on a computer screen. It's not going to end well. I feel for them, they are trying their best.
I can only really speak in much detail about Christianity and Judaism but this is a pretty big misinterpretation of how marriage is supposed to work in both of these religions. While both are generally against divorce they also specify guidelines for how one should behave in a marriage. These guidelines are ways that a marriage is "made" over time.

I would imagine that this holds for other religions as well.
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