skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>had co-morbidities, meaning other things that they also died from other than Covid 19

First, that is not what comorbidity means. From Wikipedia[0]:
>In medicine, comorbidity is the presence of one or more additional conditions often co-occurring with a primary condition.

Second, most of the listed comorbidities that are significant factors for death are actually complications due to COVID-19. The number of people who die of spontaneous respiratory failure is basically zero.

>So the actual increase in deaths from 2019 to 2020 will probably be significantly lower than 3%.

This is assuming the other comorbidities would have lead to death in the absence of COVID-19. But that is not a reasonable assumption based on the CDC data. There are many kinds of comorbidities that people live with that don't usually cause sudden death. So if they didn't have COVID-19, they would almost certainly still be alive at the end of the year.

Since your conclusion doesn't follow from the data, claiming the data supports your conclusion is necessarily misrepresenting it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorbidity
Eh I see no reason to offer up teachers unions as a concession. Ban public schools and local variation in funding of schools. Period.
Same in Kyiv/Kiev. Very striking.

Also productive to consider the fate of Gaudi's housing projects in Barcelona, notably Casa Mila aka La Pedrera.
TIL political neutrality in a company workplace is a controversial issue...
Claim is that VW is using it to "calculate traffic flows" [0]. That sounds like the "traveling salesperson problem" that quantum is supposed to be good at [1].

0 https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/Dwave_Tech%20Ov...

1 https://medium.com/@michal.stechly/solving-the-traveling-sal...
My wife was homeschooled, I went to public school. She decided to home school our three kids. I was skeptical at first.

I was absolutely shocked at how quickly they cover all their subjects, homework, etc. every week. My kids get 10x the amount of play time I got at their age. It's great. Makes me regret all those years I spent in public school.
The King Arthur recipe, which is one of many but certainly one you can trust more than Wikipedia, is over 10% sugar (bakers).
Does anyone else think it smells horrible? It’s an identifiable disgusting.
Also the Pixelbook Go - whoever named that must’ve been throwing two darts at the same time!
> Using a fairly simple base class like Lit-Element to provide some template niceties and lifecycle hooks gives us all the extras we need. We've figured out a really nice top-down functional state pattern for data that eliminates the need for two-way binding and requires very little "framework" level code - it's probably like 100 lines if you take out whitespace and comments.

I'm also a fan of LE, which I'm using to build my current side-project.

However, the data doesn't back up this claim. A component built with LitElement gets about 19 KB added to it when bundled:

https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-co...
Oh they shut those too in quebec, to be clear. Bars restaurants etc
You're touching on another important issue. Zoning that mandates homes be built away from jobs and businesses means that more density causes drastic increases in traffic. But allowing mixed use development gives people an option to cut their commutes to almost zero, if they choose, letting the density scale a lot better than if everyone has to drive.

Since most modern work is not noisy, polluting industry, the major benefit of separating residences from work has mostly gone away. But we're still suffering the costs of this form of zoning. It would be non-trivial to intentionally come up with a more wasteful way to structure our cities and towns.

Another thing to think about is that if we could allow denser, mixed used development in all the suburbs, there wouldn't be so much pressure on housing in the dense urban core of cities. If just 10% of houses in suburbs turned into duplexes, that would mean a 10% increase in housing, and it would be hard to even notice. But again, we also need more intermingling of commerce and residences, to cut down on traffic.
Sorry, I confused you and the author of the comment you replied to.
I'm all for nuclear power but this is not at all how I want them to behave. It's not often that power companies do good by their customers and this app sounded like it was genuinely a win-win.

Dispicable.
"French bread" might be what people who buy Safeway's execrable facsimile of a baguette call it, but baguettes definitely don't define French bread; it's just the most famous of them. The French are pretty great at all kinds of bread.
Is anyone else struck by how similar this looks to Apple TV? It looks like a straight up clone, down to the remote and interface. Only difference is that it looks like it dangles from your TV and has Assistant instead of Siri.
Sure, but in the generic drug market, you rarely see generic makers pull out of a market.

What Teva basically did was drop the price enough to make the generic not that attractive in a cost basis.
Welcome to Asia, where most "bread" is what Europeans would consider pastries, only with mayonnaise, tuna, pork, seaweed etc on top:

https://www.breadtalk.com.sg/products/bread/whats-new

Of course, in China even the bacon (肉干) and beans (豆沙) are sweet.
For some reason this font looks much better to me in the cool-retro-term screenshot compared to the modern terminals but I can't explain why. Does the spacing somehow seem less wide on a CRT monitor?
> if you don't want to pay for enough support agents for your call volume, wouldn't it just be simpler to let me cancel my damn account online??).

It really should be illegal especially if you already have an online account you log into not to be able to cancel. Idk if I was just stupid but I struggled to cancel my Scribd account so I cancelled it from the PayPal side cause I was so over the awful UX and it was probably me trying to find the payment stuff on the Android app which wasnt there cause I didnt subscribe through Android.

Companies do the most awful things. I want to make the world a better place by making it easier to cancel a simple subscription from any and all institutions.... Should be the pitch for a glorious startup.
It took me quite a while to understand that this device is actually something I wanted. Their marketing is terrible and I had to read an article on another site to actually decipher the code words.

It's not a Chromecast, as we used to understand them - it's a full Android TV device with a new skin/launcher called Google TV.

It is, essentially, an updated Nexus Player, a competitor to the Nvidia shield and cheaper no-name android stick devices. One can hope it will be easily rooted, thus allowing for some interesting potential uses.
It’s hard to tell from the comments here, but the author actually ends her article on a hopeful note and offers concrete proposals on how we could fix the shortcomings of Web Components and fulfill its promise:

– No dependencies beyond one <script> tag

– Syntax and API in line with conventions of built-in HTML elements

– Accessible by default via ARIA

– Themeable via ::part(), selective inheritance, and custom properties

– Only one component of each type in the directory

Which proposals would be beneficial is up for debate (esp. the last one IMO) but they’re worth highlighting and discussing.
Yes indeed - impressive man and Alzheimer’s Disease is what got him. Life is the opposite of fair more often than not it seems.
Restricting supplies of doctors.
As a half German living in Germany my impression is the government make the people far too reliant on the it and the people mostly just go along with it. It’s the biggest criticism I have of the country. So many people I’ve met abdicate personal responsibilities because of the system.
You can also click little discover icon on Element and search Gitter for channels.

That being said the bridge is very flaky. Sometimes my messages would not get delivered and attachment such as schreenshots never work either. For the most part it's quite functional though!
You're right, I wasn't sure what to call it but "genre" is probably more fitting.
Well-located land is inherently scarce because the social graph isn't planer.

(Credit my co-worker for the observation)
as a developer-who-can-market i often wonder if itd be worth my time taking a 50% cut to be a marketing partner heheh. not sure i can do it repeatedly for people i dont already know.
One comment buried in this thread manages to note what I think is the key error here.

The article claims that the parts for building are not sufficently standardized. That's certainly a claim to make, but you can't just accept that as-is.

The parts for building almost housing stock in a given country are almost completely standardized (they may vary from country to country, of course). What the authors mean, but do not say, is really "the standardization has occured only at the smallest scales".

Studs, joists, shingles, plumbing, electrical, block work, window and door sizes, plumbing connectivity, and so much more are all more or less completely standardized. There are options to break with the standards and get (for example) a one-off doorway sizing.

What the authors want, but do not say, are modular components of larger scale: entire walls, or entire rooms, or entire buildings that one can put together.

They might be right to want this, or they might be wrong. If software was any useful evidence, they're probably wrong. But this is not at the same thing as saying "things are not standardized and should be". The small scale components of buildings are extremely standardized in most industrial nations of the world.
Honestly at this point I am jumping ship altogether although I think I will get the next Xbox console as my TV app device manager especially with the Game Pass. I hate the concept of streaming games but the idea of having most Microsoft games on a game pass is worthwhile they got some solid flagship games that are easily replayable.
The workloads here are numerical so erlang has to do a bunch of unboxing and boxing. "Programming languages shootout" is generally not a useful metric to judge anything on the erlang VM.
you'd basically be hiring a "cofounder" with equity - i assume its similar but with lower stakes. good practice tbh
Indeed, I was intending to explain my mistake, not to make the claim that baguettes and French bread are actually the same thing. You are of course correct, apologies for the confusion.
I wouldn't call it very reasonable. I mean, I understand him, and he is correct in the essence. But...

> whatever you are using to generate that particualr text output is incorrectly using bold formatting for bright colors

The problem is that this is pretty much every app out there. All small utils we have up to date, all colorschemes, they all are made with this in mind. And most (all?) other terminals do behave this way. This is de-facto standard. If he doesn't want this behaviour himself, that's fine, he wrote this app for himself after all. But refusing to make it configurable is just stupid and arrogant. This is not really a proposal for a new feature, this is broken compatibility with everything written in the last 30 years that uses this feature. And his response wasn't "respectful" is the slightest. If anything, the guy himself seems to be enough reason to avoid using this thing.
The other thing about this stereotype everyone remembers the one weird kid from home school. But its not like weird kids with socialization issues and social anxiety don't come out of public schools. Also no one factors that maybe the kid is being home schooled because they're weird. It's also possible they just have weird parents, and they're weird as a result, and school isn't going to save them from that.
Hasn't this horse been beaten repeatedly on other threads? Dick Costolo's take doesn't add anything to what has been previously discussed.
Supporting underserved communities through vertical integration is a line straight out of Silicon Valley.
While I think the intent of a law like this is noble, I fear it will throw fuel on the "leaving California for X state fire".
What I _meant_ to ask is, how soon might it be--as far as We're aware--before the leak bites US, our neighbors, and our allies in the ass, like--say--a "virus" based on broadcast audio and the way that people psychologically perceive it----so that we can prevent it or at least stave off human extinction through mitigation(s)?

I realize that the idea is weird. Though, maybe we could start (or improve awareness of) a dialogue that concerns such kinds of questions?
> Important compared to what?

Using the question "compared to what?" here only supports "compared to what?" as one of the most important questions in philosophy.

> It's easy to say that any changes to the world will be imperfect

Naturally, but in my estimation we don't have an abundance of rational thinkers who are moderating societal expectations, whereas we do have a glut of self-proclaimed gurus who claim to have all the answers for a better world provided we just tear down the one we have first. I could be wrong, I hope I am.

> civilizations have always changed and will continue to change, you'll find yourself in an ideological position

I generally agree except that philosophy isn't an ideology, it's a discipline about how to think, not an ideology about what to think.

Knowing where we come from in order to know where we are and where we are going is a philosophical position, not an ideological one.
Why don’t you move to Mexico where the cartels have already installed an anarcho-capitalist state?
Logitech remotes have a greeat (and well deserved) reputation.
Nope, found it eventually.

iOS 14 merges the 'not now' from iOS 13 into a 'forgot my account or don't set up now'.
How certain are you that the savings will be relevant? Are you sure your bottleneck is computation?
Does this leak give any new insight into the activation process? Could a XP keygen be made someday?
Sure, I’m fine with that!
It's the aliasing. Phosphor displays "smooth" out the text whereas we've spend better part of the last 30 years trying to interpolate pixels to achieve the same. See font hinting - it is a rabbit hole.

If you've never used a terminal before, one of those CRT amber displays, you're definitely missing out. It's a sight to behold. Not just visually, but also how instantaneous keyboard strokes appear on the screen. It will make you despise the current technology stack, operating systems and pretty much any user interface whilst you've just had the best minute and half of your life pressing keys...with a giant smile on your face.

It is experiential thing - the current generation will never know or experience.
In what way does <shop-app> not deal with complexity through composition? It is a component, composed of other components, which in turn are composed of further components.

At what arbitrary level of complexity should we stop composing?
> Food options for the poor in America are pretty notably terrible.

If you have middle class taste this is true. But the poor don’t have middle class taste. The market provides them with what they want. In areas where the poor are recent immigrant communities that’s cheap decent quality materials to cook at home including fresh produce. Where the poor have been in the US for multiple generations it’ll include a great deal more McDonald’s, KFC and highly processed convenience food.

> The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States

> We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy tend to eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S. Using two event study designs exploiting entry of new supermarkets and households’ moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments have economically meaningful effects on healthy eating. Using a structural demand model, we find that exposing low-income households to the same food availability and prices experienced by high-income households would reduce nutritional inequality by only 9%, while the remaining 91% is driven by differences in demand. In turn, these income-related demand differences are partially explained by education, nutrition knowledge, and regional preferences. These findings contrast with discussions of nutritional inequality that emphasize supply-side issues such as food deserts.

https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/AllcottDiamondDube_FoodDe...
He was kind of very up front about being solely focused on economic freedom.

Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over the world.

This is squarely in line in trying to push Apple to be more amenable on this issue.
The absolute number definitely does mean something! Its work created for maintainers. Checking and tagging a PR takes non-zero time. Creating 24,000 invalid PR's is a massive burden on the open source community.
Amazon Timestream is now generally available
Europe has plenty of industrial bread products that do not taste anywhere near as sweet as US bread. It was something that really threw me when I arrived here, that if I went to a supermarket and bought any old loaf of bread it would taste distinctly sweet. Just a matter of taste, and as others have pointed out it's not difficult to get a non-sweet loaf (sourdough, etc) it's just not the standard.
Right but then it becomes a mess to find anything if you have to look in multiple tab bars or you have a lot of windows which could also become hard to manage. My point is, while your approach works for you it's probably not useful or intuitive to enough people to justify designing your website around it.
In very few places people in EU wear a mask in overall and public Healthcare experts say it's ineffective for general population.
What kind of math is involved in building a faster database? Genuinely curious. I would guess maybe linear algebra, indirectly.
Yeah, nostalgia. (Glances over at the S924 machine running IBM i in the server room).
*laughs in Comcast.
> I hope the author does know better.

I hope the author doesn't know better - I'll take genuine ignorance over dishonesty any day.
Availability will dictate choice to a large extent unless there is a fair amount of overcapacity. What if there are no schools with available capacity within, say, 40 miles? What if a large region has exactly one company operating schools? What if that company goes out of business during the school year?

Why aren't other countries lining up to try voucher schools? Let's see some success stories.

What are the choice criteria that parents are supposed to sort out when trying to get their kid into an available seat?
Yeah, if you put this interface next to the Apple TV interface they look _extremely_ similar. That and the remotes are also extremely similar as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
Additionally, restricting the functions of nurses, physicians assistants etc in the process.

A lot of things that doctors do (because people want doctors and doctors want doctors to be in demand) could be done by nurses with special training.
Tailwindcss discovery and integration of international phone numbers
Stay at an aging Courtyard Marriott. Some boxes are nicer than others.
Are you seriously claiming that anything short of omniscience is useless? In most fields people deal with incomplete data on a daily basis and this is no different. CVEs don’t tell you everything but they definitely give you more than zero, and more to the point, the many vulnerabilities in open source projects suggests that the very broad but completely unsupported claim I was responding to is based on ideology rather than reasoned analysis.
At my first real job, the hackers of the day (1980) were figuring out how to draw stuff on 3270 terminals. They (the terminals) were massive beasts with a somehow delicate font.
I understand and I've been in an identical position, but it means you can't make those sorts of claims.
Suddenly that contracting company asking me to fudge the wording on my work experience is starting to make sense...
I recently took a look at glideapps.com which I thought was quite cool. It really surprised me how much of an app you can build with nothing more than a spreadsheet. This seems similar.
Do you know to what extent the short life of Japanese housing is a cultural or geographic issue?

I've read that the Japanese simply don't like living in older buildings, so their housing stock is built with the understanding that it will be torn down and rebuilt on fairly short timescales. I've also read that the frequency of small earthquakes in Japan makes building for the long term very difficult (earthquake damage to structures is cumulative) so it's easier to build housing with a short design life.

However, I don't read a word of Japanese so I have no idea if either of these stories are accurate.
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Very well constructed argument. Please see here that the court is preventing subway from claiming tax breaks by classifying their product as staple food (bread). They are not preventing people from eating it.
Lotus is all over in government and insurance. As a mail client it is mostly dead, but the apps live on.
Given that baker's percentages are given as a percentage of the flour content of an item[0], you could argue that the baker's percentage of sugar in a banana approaches infinity.

Baker's percentage (foo) = 100% * weight(foo) / weight(flour)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_percentage
This looks to be about twice as big as the mini (and stands on end), so odds are it sounds better? Not something I've been pining for, but I guess if you were shopping for a small speaker it might appeal.
California Rolls Out Diversity Quotas for Corporate Boards
Wait till you find out that soy milk doesn't actually contain any milk and is just soy juice.
Thanks for sharing, I hadn't heard about that (I live in Victoria) That said, 500 docs out of ~31K in the state doesn't strike me as very compelling.
Australia's Centrelink, the unemployment/student payment government body, is notorious for doing this. They have physical centres which usually tell you to call the hotline.

In 2015, the hotline got the busy signal for 29 million callers (Australia has 25 million inhabitants). 7 million were hung up during the wait time. I myself have been in their queue for hours at a time.

There are zero legal ramifications for this behaviour.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/public-service/centrelink-hangs-up-on...