skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all. There is one (perhaps two) month with excess mortality. "very high excess" is not a term I would use since it would leave almost no room between standard variance in death numbers and "high excess" or "medium excess" or "low excess". I see what mind-set you bring into this though - good, you are part of the group I wanted to reach.

I will post what I just posted below:
"Do you need help interpreting the data and graph given previous conversation? The height of the bars represent the number of deaths over different years and the bars are basically same height. I.e. considering all deaths, covid and actions taken (no lockdown but more distancing), no more than usual have died. Especially considering last year was a bit lower and therefore likely some old people who didnt die last year unfortunately did so this year."

If you only look at one month then yes there is absolutely an increase. If you want to stare blindly at that month then go ahead. Scream if you want to also. But I think some might be interested in hearing that no more than usual have died in Sweden this year. I have seen similar stats for other countries.
Reading this made me remember that back in the day the AWS selling point was "here you can create virtual machines with few clicks and have it instantly instead of waiting 30 min for you colocated server to be ready" but now it seems to be "here is a bunch of random expensive tools, please, produce as much stuff as possible and share the word that having servers is bad™".

This field used to be inspiring, but now I see the ideia of having a server being sold as the plague and lots of negativity towards people who are good at servers. They are not seen as another human being but the "other".

Also I can't understand why one would prefer to pay that much for such complexity.

It seems unsustainable for me, not to mention the new generation being spoon fed that that is way to go makes me concerned about the future of open computing.
Based on genetic analysis there is no doubt that an ancestor of the current SARS-CoV-2 strains originated in animals. What remains unknown is exactly how it crossed over to humans. The index patient hasn't been identified. Some sort of laboratory involvement seems unlikely, but we can't reject any hypothesis without definitive evidence.
The Brabazon was to be the palace of the skies – Airline Ratings
Rent controls do sometimes specify how much rent can be raised year over year. Drop it too low one year, be stuck with relatively low prices in the short term.
I'm assuming this is not an HTTP setup then? In the HTTP world, setting X-Forwarded-For is usually enough.
It is, but the adjustments that they are making to it especially with the PopOS Shell to build in tiling window management on top of gnome has dramatically improved the experience (for me at least).
The best lightsaber theory I've read is how lightsabers cut through everything but not another lightsaber. It's by magnetic repulse force of course.
This reminds me an old shell script used to housecleaning, which was performing first "for" loop based on an sql select to perform another "for" loop based on another sql select and itering on returned items from the first request.

Obviously the author of this script didnt know about sql joint.
Reduced the work into one "for" loop and an custom sql join query as input, script running in less than 5 minutes compared to average 5hours before.
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I've been using it for a long time and didn't notice any slowness (make sure file search is off).

What's bugging me though is that subsurfaces clipping bug in Wayland session. Kmail is still broken in 5.19.x.
Because if you attempt to influence the state of the entangled bits--say, to set a bit to up/down (dot/dash or zero/one) state to form your message--you will break the entanglement. You can measure the states of the unperturbed entangled bits, and therefore know about the states of their distant entangled partners, but the message will be random. You could also influence the states of the bits while you create the entangled pairs, but then you have to carry them far away from one another (at less than the speed of light), so you won't be able to communicate FTL; you would just have a pair of messages in a bottle, so to speak.
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It does, here's a great video by Ben at Applied Science showing some examples of the effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV4Fk3VNZqs
Can you elaborate what constitutes as 1D and 2D in web layouts?
Cincinnati. The city is old enough that the inner suburbs were established largely before cars became common, so a lot of them are more pedestrian friendly. Granted, the city loses that midwestern economy when you get closer to the center. You either pay out the nose ($1MM+ is not unheard of) for a home close to the city, or you buy a dirt cheap house ($60k- is not unheard of) in a "rough" neighborhood.
Build a more personalized news experience? Hide publishers you're not interested in?

Don't people from facebook see this'd increase the already existing polarization and information bubbles?
This just further proves the dumpster fire point made by others here. C++ is a kitchen sink language. It just has gradually become every and any paradigm. It no longer has any true identity, and I can't imagine that any new dev coming into the language has much of a shot of being successful.

I do wonder how they are able to pull it off. It is truly remarkable in some way that they are able to have so many language features without it being detrimental to the language.
I've worked around this limitation using `display: contents`. It's not the same, but it's worked in a pinch
We agree then, this is "censorship", but has nothing to do with "freedom of speech" as codified in US law.
That's something I ask myself every time I'm cleaning my monitor. How is there a fingerprint anywhere on it much less inexplicably in the corners?

Also, sometimes the act of cleaning doesn't get off all the grime and pushes a residual layer around which you don't notice until sunlight or when snapping a pic.

Never had issues with the coating itself bubbling or coming off. Just saying, the laptop in the video looks potentially inside the realm of grime (where I live and hold scepter).
therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen

Do you see an end to this pandemic in the next year or so? A good percentage of people are still refusing to wear masks, we aren't anywhere closer to a vaccine etc. I am trying to be optimistic, but the situation isn't improving from any direction and we are already 10 months in :(
>Austin is pretty pricey by Texas standards

Because for a long time it was cheap by California standards. Same story with Denver, Boulder, now Boise, etc. etc.
From what I’ve seen, rent prices aren’t falling. Landlords are just offering 1-2 months fee if you sign a year lease.
Pre-T2 macs had eficheck to verify the EFI's integrity, but with the T2 being so secure, it's not necessary anymore: https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5020911870672896
Why the hills? What about the hills in SF?
Is this only referring to in-work hours or are are they telling you what you can and can't do outside work?

E: Oh it's the latter, this is pretty gross. A noncompete sure but what is this..

> As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google.

Disgusting amount of control over people's lives. Y'all need a union.
Blog post: https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/introducing-facebook-news/ (October 25, 2019)
I don't think I should have to say "don't plagiarize" me every time I publish something.

If I did do that, the funny thing is that it might end up having the exact opposite effect! Human nature and all that.

I think licenses communicate legal things. Some things, like copyleft, use copyright as a hack to inject its ethics into the legal system. But that's one specific and very intentional case, and is definitely not something that is commonplace among software licenses. (Typically, when people try to do it, it has a Not Good outcome.)
Literally the first thought which popped in my head.
Louis Rossmann in his videos has complained about there being no authorized way to obtain technical repair documents. But he has also said that he is lucky enough to have people (some of whom apparently work or worked at Apple) that have given him troves of such documents. I couldn't find the video where he said that again, but I did find one earlier discussion on here about it[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup/videos

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16832323
These are fair points, and if a buyer had 100% confidence in prefab, your argument certainly makes financial sense. But for most consumers prefab is a novel approach, and therefore likely to be perceived as risky. So that savings might need to be greater to get them to try something new. Given the failure of prefab to make a big dent in the market, that seems to be exactly what's happening.
I'm really curious about the macro political effects too- if a surge of CA-based liberal leaning tech workers move to Texas, is Texas purple?
As a counter anecdote, I know three people from the bay area who moved out during covidtide, but had already planned the move beforehand. (This is a very high percentage of people I know from the bay area, hence the anecdote).

All had the same rationale: taxes and housing were simply far too high when they could work remotely and live anywhere else. Sure, you don't get the same outdoors, food or retail scene, but plenty of places have those things too.

I imagine the move to working remotely has made that move possible for more people than before, but those I know aren't making temporary moves, they are buying houses.
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/maro
- Docs: https://maro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pymaro/
- Playground: https://hub.docker.com/r/arthursjiang/maro
> global grid is 50x25 and the local grid is 1000x500. For each grid cell in the local grid, we want to know to which grid cell in the global grid it corresponds

Isn’t this just a simple quantization? (Lat/20,Lon/20) should do it?
PI's are not really power efficient - their CPU is made on super-obsolete 40nm node. They have no sleep mode, or any low-power mode for that matter. Imagine how long a phone would last on that battery - its the same class of CPU.

An Intel compute stick or beelink mini pcs are also passively cooled and weigh no more.
Supply and demand, I'm guessing.
selling is the difference. If you sell to someone, you're opening the market to, well, everyone. If it takes technical expertise to do it, that itself is a sufficient limit for Apple to not really care unless you poke the bear.

Maybe Wired is a sufficiently large distribution that the same thing applies, but if these guys had just released the details, I suspect Apple would just quietly patch stuff along the lines above. Selling it means they poked the bear. With a burning torch.
Auto-completion and shortcuts only work well with languages like English and alike which don't make heavy use of [often irregular] morphology. In many languages the same word could have a hell lots of forms (different endings) depending on the grammatical case and other things[1]. Ordinary autocompletion provides little help when typing these languages. Perhaps GPT-3 could manage but I don't feel like sending everything I type to the cloud monster.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/8xp58c/a_joke_abou...
Have you used a Plan9 UI recently?

The simple draw commands issued by Plan9 applications over /dev/draw by e.g. acme or rio shouldn't be cause for concern.

There is no accelerated graphics here, nor UIs that need it.
Streaming hardware is another perfect example of this dilemma. I recently signed up for HBO Max thinking it would run on my Roku, because why wouldn't it? Turns out that HBO can't have more than one paid service streaming to Roku devices at a time per Roku's TOS, so they're favoring customers that are still running the now-deprecated HBO service. It's insane.
There's been a few articles lately about the number of west coast people moving to Texas to the point that Texas will be considered a purple state after the upcoming election.

I'm from Texas, moved to CA for a number of years, and have since returned to TX. Things like no state income tax and lower sales tax are major attractions, add to that the dirt cheap prices of property in comparison to CA. There are other things that are cheaper that just make day-to-day life easier. Fuel prices are much cheaper in TX. Auto registration fees are cheaper. In TX, my Corolla was <$75 per year while in CA it was >$400. When I registered my car in CA, I was required to pay taxes on something purchased in another state. (Why CA limits this tax/ransom to cars is a real question. Why not any large ticket purchases like computers,washer/dryer,fridges,etc.)

TL;DR - It's pretty widespread. TX population is rapidly increasing
And the 'cetera' means essentially 'the rest'. Though it is common in modern usage to to use 'et cetera' to imply a continued list of items not named. A stricter interpretation would only use 'et cetera' to refer to the rest of a full list that has been previously explicitly enumerated earlier in the text.

As an example:

The authors of the text were James, Malik, Susan, Srini, and Ying. ... <some more text goes here> ... This was the primary finding supported by Srini, James, etc.

Above, the usage of 'etc' is to shorten the sentence, by avoiding a second instance of the full list.

A simple translation to English shows that the common usage can leave much up to the interpretation of the reader.

As an example:

I like sweet foods: cherries, apples, grapes, and the rest.

So, do I actually mean fruits? Do I mean all other sweet foods that exist? This sentence leaves a lot of interpretation to the reader, and depends on shared context to have any useful meaning. This usage of 'et cetera' generally means "and more in a sequence made up of items categorically in line with what I've named, which I assume, you, the reader, can infer."

This reply is not meant to critique modern usage. Language is a fluid thing, and the use delineating implication, rather than eliding a fully enumerated list, is perfectly acceptable in the vernacular. I just wanted to share some additional nuance regarding the phrase.
A busy Amazon warehouse could cause a Covid-19 outbreak on Prime Day
Meteorites that arrive on the Earth from outer space are most certainly a thing that happens sometimes, that's wear all our existing Mars rocks come from for instance. Whether something survives reentry depends on a lot of factors including the size of the object, the angle of re-entry, its composition, etc.
And it's worth noting much of this is fairly standard boilerplate at most shops nowadays.

Personally, I use it as a gauge of trustworthiness of employers; I am more than understanding that if I come up with a great idea related to something I'm working on, it's probably a result of the experience I've had AT that employer and it makes sense that they have some claim to that.

However, when employers say that ANY idea I have is theirs, that's usually a bad sign.
I had that thought as well, but TBH I don't know much about physics.

At 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, would the flame's fuel gasses technically be a plasma?

And if so, then what's the detail that made both of us think that what they built doesn't match our expectations? Maybe we assumed they'd say "flame" for this design, and only say "plasma" if it was a cold plasma?
Scroll down to the bottom of page, you'll see "Facebook © 2019"
Another video which explained also quite well the intuition behind this paper, from Yannick Kilcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdevFK_am4
Indeed, but that's why the state needs policy for this. It's should not be true that landlords capture all of the marginal productivity of 2-income households.
One time I had a famous computer science professor mail me a C program (maybe 200 lines of code) that would compile OK but would crash when I would try to run it.

I set a breakpoint at the beginning of the main() method and it crashed before it even got to main().

That had me scratching my head for a minute, then I realized that the program was static initializing a 2^32 byte array. The prof had a 64-bit computer (probably DEC Alpha) which you could do that on, but it didn't work on my 32-bit x86 machine.

It turned out that the program never used the array that it allocated so deleting one line from the code got it to run.

Most CS profs never have to really finish the systems they work on so they lack many of the skills and attitudes of the professional programmer. Some of them are artisans with code, but mostly they making a living writing papers and teaching classes and the code is tertiary.
My dad was in a nursing home for a few years, he died just before Covid. I don't dispute the point in general, but it really really matters to the families of these people what happens in nursing homes.

Consider: nursing homes have many staff. Most of them are young and badly-paid. In any let it rip scenario, many of these will have Covid, and will bring it into the home.

OK, so let's test everyone. Even ignoring the fact that testing is not 100% accurate and takes time (do you test all staff and have them wait for the results), you'll get loads of staff infected, and who do you replace them with?

It appears in Sweden that a major carrier of Covid into nursing homes was agency staff (short-term people brought in to cover staff gaps). How do you stop this from happening again?

Full disclosure: my mother, father-in-law and mother-in-law are all over 70 with a consequent higher risk level, so this is not abstract to me as I'd like them to survive long enough so that my newborn daughter remembers them.
Compared to other big tech-hub cities, I'd think SF would be one of the better ones to spend the pandemic in. There's great parks like Dolores, Lands End, etc, and they'll still be comfortable to be in during this winter. Is there more to it than that?
> Selling a device to automagically hack a key logger into a modern Mac goes over their ‘line in the sand’,

No, there is a clear distinction between what is being sold and what is being demonstrated. The latter requires additional hardware and software NOT provided with the advertised USB-PD probe being sold. Reading the end of the blog or even the product page immediately makes that distinction clear.
Or you could just sign up for the Patreon and get their videos without all that. I don’t see how giving people the option to pay for stuff is a bad thing?
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It trickles down by the fact that we all get to enjoy the fruits of technological advances without having to redo the hard work of inventing it.

But there's no inherent reason why it should tricke down in income terms.
Just make sure when you're looking back in time you choose the ones that did well.
Probably just re-using a footer component which wasn't updated yet
I fully understand that opinion - it is a big pain point for many users. Inside KDE, our VDG (Visual Design Group) is working on ironing out those inconsistencies and visual problems. It's a gigantic task, but I do believe we are making progress - especially System Settings has been getting a lot better lately. They are also working on a evolutionary update to our default 'Breeze' design theme. Check it out at https://phabricator.kde.org/T10891.

(And if you do find specific problems e.g. regarding margins or fonts, please report them on bugs.kde.org, and we'll take a look.)
Which is the exact same thing as reducing rent by 1/12th or 1/6th. Most near luxury complexes do this to maintain the “luxury” price but have the price actually be lower.
Isn't it ususally that you proof hypothesis are correct instead of proofing them wrong?

This "I'm just asking, because it could theoretically be true" stuff is slowly getting tiresome.
Could have taken this opportunity to include some degree of "truth" or "fact checking", but no.

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You are correct, the point being made was that a lot of people aren't aware of that and just take it as gospel that O(1) algorithms must be faster than O(n) ones -- but, as you said, big-O notation only says that is true after n goes above some threshold n0 which may be (and usually is) very large.

After all, the most efficient (in terms of big-O) known algorithm for multiplying two numbers uses a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform and only becomes more efficient once the numbers involved are significantly larger than the number of atoms in the universe[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_algorithm
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If anyone is curious about what this is all about, feel free to ask, this is my project which has been ongoing in one form or another since 2008.
Curated *infographics
The 2020 election will tell. Up to now, it has definitely not been purple.
You're comparing housing prices to rents. In that bubble they disconnected. During the bubble you could rent houses and apartments for around half the monthly mortgage. My friends and I were renting a million dollar house for 2200/month.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24765994
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For a while I have wanted to learn D3 for complex javascript based data visualisation, especially directed graph networks. However, now I’m looking to finally commit to learning it, I see there are a number of different options such as DC, vega and more. Does anyone have experience in using any of these different ones? Is it still worth learning D3 or is another better in all use cases?
I live in freaking Madison, WI and you can't find a studio for under $1000, there's no way you're going to find that in SF.
It's pretty much a straight trade of load times vs storage— didn't matter back when games were streamed from disk, but it sucks now that they're installed. It's just that load times are measurable and often criticized, whereas no one really talks about installation size, except maybe to remark on it when it's unexpectedly small— for example, FromSoftware's Sekiro, which clocks in at just under 13GB.

This is one of the hopes for the new generation of consoles with fast random-access storage, that much of this duplication can be eliminated, see: https://twitter.com/laurakbuzz/status/1240312373719769089
> Don't people from facebook see this'd increase the already existing polarization and information bubbles?

Facebook isn't optimizing for the preservation of democratic norms or decrease of polarization; they're optimizing for eyeballs, time, and attention (which obviously translates to money).

To answer your question, they may not see it because they don't care, and if they do see it, they still don't care as that's not their KPI.

(Disclaimer: I'm not talking about specific employees but rather the company as an organization)
This looks great! happy to see more activity in the MARL space for real-world problems.

We at AIcrowd are working on a similar project: Flatland (http://flatland.aicrowd.com/), a procedurally-generated MARL environment focused on managing traffic on complex railway networks.

It's a collaboration with SBB (the Swiss national railway company) and Deutsche Bahn (the German one).

We're currently running a NeurIPS challenge pitting OR solutions against RL ones: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-flatland-cha...

We will look into MARO. We should talk at some point!