skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Importantly, Utah’s success also shows up in health data. Utah’s cumulative case fatality rate—arguably the most important measure of pandemic success—measures 0.63 percent (compared to the national rate of 2.87 percent) and ranks lowest in the nation (as of this writing in October 2020).

What in the world is this saying? That somehow Utahns are less likely to die once they have contracted the virus and that this has something to do with their economic prowess?

Utah currently has a raging pandemic with a test positivity rate of 22% and an ever growing 2000+ people a day being picked up by testing. ICU and hospitalization rates are skyrocketing: https://cv19.report/UT

Utah even sent out a text message to all residents warning them about the problem: https://coronavirus.utah.gov/utah-will-deploy-a-single-wirel...

This doesn’t look like much to brag about.
I disagree, a combination of cost of health care even for insured people, enormous worst case out of pocket costs and terrible wages means that people are conditioned to not go to the doctor (and conversely that some people are conditioned to go to the doctor to get "use" of their insurance) even when they are "insured".
My childhood home was burgled several times and death threats written on it. I was assaulted several times.

But I’m not rich and powerful, so.

I recall Sherif telling my dad if he shot someone, to make sure the body was in the house pointing toward the inside. That way he wouldn’t be arrested.

So we were under constant assault, and if we tried to defend ourselves we had to make sure everything was “perfect” so as not to get arrested.

Complete insanity.

Moved away as fast as possible.
I once watched a few videos about US politics. After that YouTube just kept spanning half my recommendations with vids about USpol. While they were addicting, they didn't really interest me. I then took the effort to flag tem as 'not interesting' (about 3x, refreshing the browser) and it works, I have gotten very few recommendations about that since then.
Evatec Rescue Knife Review, Legit or a Scam?
> Would be fun to do a GDPR removal request on that piece of personal info.

It would be as dumb as the GDPR is.
To be fair, I only got them around a month ago :)
So I'm not sure, although in the specs they say it's supposed to last around a year. My battery levels are still at 100% although I know that is not a reliable indication.

One thing to note with the new model, the Bluetooth messages are encrypted and a device bindkey is needed to read the temperature values. Fortunately there is a great project over at https://atc1441.github.io/TelinkFlasher.html which can pair with the device and retrieve a bindkey from within the web browser. Then you just need to plug the bind key and MAC address into ESPhome and you're good to go.
This doesn't work for high speed designs though. Probably anything over 20MHz will be difficult to make useful on a breadboard.
this may be the most depressing post in the whole thread - healthcare is fucked, insurance is too expensive for normal people, but hey, bankruptcy is pretty easy!
Charles Darwin notebooks 'stolen' from Cambridge University
Yes, most of the large models that are not feasible to be trained by individuals are downloadable. Frameworks make it easy to import and export snapshots of model weights. See https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/sl...
She and her class are above the laws.
"C-Like" and "Lisp-like" are not very well-defined terms. Some people see such categories as very broad, such that both Javascript and Awk are "C-Like", and Tcl is a "Lisp-like".

This is a problem, if you ask a question that inherently demands specifics.
Ah. This comment seems off the cuff and not well thought out.

I know how pervasive Windows is, I've made my living writing software for it for the last twenty five years. That is why I know that it is a bloated and over complicated mess.

The reality for most corporates is the only software they want on their desktops is Office and a web browser. This has been the case for a long time. There are laggards of course but taking too much notice of them has crippled the system.
> Although few might expect a consistently Republican, low-tax state like Utah to lead the way in [income homogeneity]...

One article isn't a showstopper, but I really wish this didn't surprise people so much.

Taxes are taking away people's surplus (I've often heard 'they don't need the money' come up in arguments about taxes, for example) and invest it in government. That means that if the government fails to do something it is game over. The people have had the resources they would use to deal with it diverted. Low tax scenarios are much more fault tolerant. High taxes won't necessarily promote equality or great outcomes.
This lines up perfectly with my predictions for the future of UK roads - they will be filled with leased, oversized hybrid SUVs, driven by people who care about nothing except getting to their destination.

These vehicles will be hybrids, because it's now almost impossible to sell a new ICE only car in Europe/the UK. Following from that, they will be SUV-sized, because hybrids add lots of extra drivetrain components and weight. Also following from that, they will be leased, because of the increased cost.

I am particularly aggrieved about this, because I generally cycle everywhere I can, and despise this new "green" future for motoring. I also tend to buy 10 year old second hand cars, which was already getting hard enough with all of the extra electronics on newer cars. The idea of buying a 10 year old, ex-lease, completely thrashed, hybrid SUV - well. I'd rather walk.
Oh god. Just had a quick Google, looks like the EU has decided to make VAT payment mandatory without the previous up to 22€ exception (https://www.paketda.de/news-zollfreigrenze-22-euro-abgeschaf...). That's gonna be one of a nightmare, international shipping already takes ages...
> The point of school is to teach discipline and grit

Have you heard of neoliberal magical voluntarism?
> Convolution is a correlation with a reversed signal.

Interesting - when I learnt it, convolution came first.

I like the visual 'sliding' explanation best. Perhaps partly because that's what I was shown, but also because, I think, how else would you explain any integral? I mean, you could, but would you?

Even to a blind person (so I couldn't draw a diagram) I'd explain integration as 'picture a graph ... it's that bit ... it's adding this and this and this ... just like when you multiply two sides of a rectangle ...'
From what I know there's no way to actually disable the default DB. Even with external DB it's only a replica of default DB not a replacement.
Carbon capture from power plants would contain a mixture of CO2, NOx and SOx, and very few projects (see article) have ever attempted to capture this corrosive mixture, on an industrial scale, for a very long time. It is quite a complicated and energy-intensive process (collect the gases, compress/liquify/make supercritical, transport, convert P/V/T again, pump it down).

I know that the Norwegians (or perhaps various multinationals) have been doing this for decades, capturing CO2 at the source, at the Sleipner giant oil field in the North sea . But that is not a power plant.
You are going to donate $10k for hiring a lawyer from your own pocket?
Then you are going to spend evenings and weekends on promoting that cause, tweeting, posting on forums, asking people for more donations?
Review 32: Portfolios and new projects – elefDoesCode
Good timing, I guess.

Huge battle between DraftKings and FanDuel. DK never (I believe) had a profitable quarter, they just want to be the absolute dominant force in the space, which would attract huge players in other industries.

And the market is about to expend in a massive way with changing legislations in various states.

Not sure about how ethical this is for Disney, but otherwise it seems like a good move for both.
Children in developed countries involve significant changes in lifestyles, adding to the consumption of resources.
Free online digital skills courses revive hope and careers for millions
Yes that is (auto- if using the same signal) correlation.
>I wasn't making any assumptions about your nationality; it seems irrelevant regarding the truth or falsity of an idea.

Yes, but it's not irrelevant regarding to the propensity of certain nationals to consider some ideas true (or "consider them to be self-evident" - see what I did here?), and to put them forward at any opportunity.

>Nevertheless: quotes are nice because they distill an idea down to an elemental form. They might be wise or they might be dumb, but the simple idea expressed in the phrase (regardless of who uttered it, or what they meant at the time) seems wise to me as we consider the tradeoffs between a walled garden vis-a-vis privacy.

Well, the idea is: never trade essential liberties for temporary safety, you'll lose both.

To which I answer: safety is always temporary, what's an "essential libery" is debatable, and we must voluntarily (and ocassionally involuntarily) give up essential liberties all the time to get the temporary safety and other goodies afforded by society.
Neural networks are just regressors. Yes you can learn the weights with genetic algorithms. Is this advised? Not so much : 99.99% of neural networks are trained with some variation of gradient descent on a specified loss function.

I don't even know if I agree to the statement. Polynomial regression solves basically the same problem as neural networks but performs way, way, way worse on big datasets. But nonetheless I would say that polynomial regression is machine learning too.
Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop
Damn. That's neat.
Please don't be rude.

Or, to answer at the same level, learn the difference between

(a) when action at two fronts is legitimate

vs:

(b) when there's an essential front where action must be focused at, and a distraction/band-aid/irrelevant secondary target that doesn't really settle anything.

Not all dichotomies are false dichotomies. Sometimes you really should not spend effort at one level/battleground, but on another.

The fact that you can spend effort at both is irrelevant -- and spending effort at both can still be detrimental to your cause.
Dear HN-Community,
Another quick update.

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After sharing the study to friends and family, we were already able to reach 1.300 participants within the first 4 days - which was already mindblowing for us and exceeded all our expectations. With 1000 paticipants the data would probably already have been better then most research that has ever been done in this field.

Thanks to the support of this unbelievably kind and helpful community we have now reached more than 6100 participants, collected more than 160.000 votes and nearly 800.000 datapoints in our database.
The amount of extremely valuable and helpful data is just beyond believe for us - and I cannot thank you all enough for all your support, effort and positive feedback!
We are now on the edge of creating one of the most if not the most profound studies in the field of breast surgery ever - and the amount of extremely helpful knowledge we can get from the data is just overwhelming.

Thank you HN for this wonderful opportunity, all your support and all your fantastic feedback and kind help!
TensorBoard vs. Neptune: How Are They Different
Those are interesting points although I'm sure I read that Apple expects each product line to stand on its own two feet.
USB type-c power delivery is 5 or 20V it’s not a variable voltage supply.

Switching between the modes isn’t fast enough and if you do try to pulse modulate it you more likely than not to kill your power supply as they weren’t designed for that.
I think the misconception stems from thinking that we could be net-positive energywise. We cannot.

We can (and currently sort of have to) extract energy from fossil sources because our economy runs on hydrocarbons but we will need to expend more energy later to put the extra carbon back where it belongs. The energy we will expend for this in the future has to be renewable.

We are basically borrowing from our future selves and will have to pay back the debt one day.
It can’t be turned off at will if you’ve got a huge investment in mining infrastructure that needs to pay for itself and the margins are so thin you can’t afford downtime.
The Carbon Majors Report of 2017 (summarized by Guardian [1], original PDF here [2]) found 71% of greenhouse emissions caused by 100 companies, the top dozen(s) being fossil fuel producers. I think there's much more needed to be done than a single individual, hermit-style approach.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...

[2] https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1...
Oxford's Defining Words of 2020: 'Blursday,' 'Systemic Racism' and 'Pandemic'
Nordveld uses automation and open banking to bring financial fluency to everyone
Yea, the group is both insane and amazing.

They have a conference in Vegas.

The sound from these setups are amazing.

I started to get into it, but there is always something to do that provides a slightly better experience. Even 40k setups have room for improvement
I don't know about Germany, but in france, the 20% include retirement plan and something else untranslatable, but think financial help for familly with children, youth camp and childcare founding, association founding, financial help for college students. I think the "secu" (health care) take around 30% of our blocked slaray, so it more like 7-8%.
Bike lanes: How cities across the world are responding to the pandemic
Singapore suspends using two flu vaccines after 48 patients die in South Korea
If it’s for actual use and not hacking it would wait...

$25 for a high powered device that one holds in their hand and has a heating element would have me worried.
Image Classification: Tips and Tricks from 13 Kaggle Competitions
saved you a search: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/statista-how-far-behind-us-i... . includes this depressing factoid, "American workers took an average of just over 17 days of vacation in 2017, the highest level in seven years".
The specification explicitly says what you want is the Wrong Thing™. The designers of SNI didn't leave this vague, they spelled it out first in RFC 3546 and most recently in RFC 6066

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066#section-3

> "HostName" contains the fully qualified DNS hostname of the server, as understood by the client. The hostname is represented as a byte string using ASCII encoding without a trailing dot. †

So, when your web browser sends the hostname "news.ycombinator.com." that's not an "absolute hostname" that's just an error. Maybe you can demand that web browsers stop doing that, but they'll likely tell you they don't care, and you should stop writing URLs incorrectly.

† The trailing dot rule was in every version, but earliest sources talked about using UTF8 because they pre-date the insight that all this backend (ie not human-facing) stuff can use A-labels which are ASCII and avoid any complicated Unicode problems. This version just says to use ASCII here.
Is it really possible to do a DDoS attack over Tor? I don't think the network is fast enough to do such an attack. You lock out a bunch of privacy-conscious users by blocking Tor.
I would argue that extending "improved syntax" beyond readability to carry "addition of new features" blurs the lines between syntax and semantics.

The point was that modern JS is more convenient to use: Const/let, arrows, classes, proxies, async/await, generators, destructuring, default/rest/spread parameters, etc.

Even if you discard const/let/arrows as merely syntactic improvements (which they are not), you should not ignore the others - unless of course they are all syntactic improvements with added features at which point "syntax" lost its "meaning".
I understand, it is boss(or super boss in the case) responsibility to be able to encourage feedback and open conversation. There is big difference between making small talk and using that time to be on the soap box , no boss should need feedback for that line.

It is just that as a manager, I have been surprised how people think I would take offence on something and not mention it for a long time. I always considered it my responsibility to encourage my team even if they are 3-4 levels down to be able openly talk with me and tell me what I am doing wrong and how can i help them do their jobs better, if they are not able to do that, it is on me.
Snapchat Spotlight to pay users $1m a day for viral hits
Lightning Fast Search with Elasticsearch
Ah, thank you! I did a quick search (just "finch") but nothing relevant was on the first page. "finch software" got me what I wanted (a few results down the page).
What an overcomplicated way of doing what would be achieved very simply by raising petrol fuel taxes by a few cents?

If you want to penalise carbon emission, tax carbon, not cars.
You seem much more level headed and well informed than most of the people arguing gun ownership on either side of the issue. I'd just like to point out a small thing, that by calling the automatic weapons ban in the 80's the "AWB" you are conflating terms between the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 (known as FOPA) and the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994 (known as the AWB). People are generally confused between the legal definitions of "automatic weapon" and "assault weapon". I find it useful to be very specific about which you are discussing to avoid confusion and petty arguments about terminology that can keep the discussion from moving forward.
Genuinely curious as to what you moved into after working as a data scientist. I'm a data scientist and desperate to get out.
Military officers are very hard-headed.

Admirals resisted submarines and carriers until catastrophe forced their hands.

Most people don't realize that scurvy had actual fatalities on most British ships that went on long voyages.

Similarly, in Japan in the late 1800's, deckhands had a ration of free rice (mainly carbohydrates), so that's all they ate. As a result, there were ships half full of sailors laying ill from almost no vitamins, mainly B1, resulting in beriberi.

That continued with the army into the early 1900's:

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/eating-too-much-rice-almost...
You are not the customer. The customer is someone who needs to roll this out to parts of their organization, they cannot depend on their users being able to setup secure crypto on their own or together with IT. They need something ready to use.

The is also a cover your ass perspective. If their homerolled solution had issues they had the problem, if this usbkey have the issue they can point to that they bought certified parts.
I don't know the dude. I "only" know that my field of research is deductive reasoning in interactive applications and that this area falls under "Logic Programming" and LP is an area of AI.

I know that AI researchers are usually a bit dismissive about the other area. I don't like statistics either. Reducing the whole of AI research to statistical approaches (and NNs are one of those) is disingenious and dismisses hundreds of researchers doing important work.

You may not want to have rule-based image recognition, but if your car decides to run over somebody, I feel we better have an explanation for this behaviour based on reasoning and logic.
Using an M1 MacBook Air to Unlock a Tesla
Lead generation sites exposed millions of records
This video has a nice summary of all the changes in the 1970s, and how many other prominent authors have documented that radical shift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY

The author believes the problems can be traced to the US congress switching from closed (anonymous) to open voting on January 3rd, 1971

Somewhat related, this post shows how the US congress has grown incredibly divided over time
https://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/04/24/pol...
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
> This is true but complex. It depends on the type of service you receive.

I feel this is never adequately priced into these discussions. everything about healthcare in the US is expensive and complicated, even if you "have insurance", even if you have expensive, seen-as-good-insurance.
I stopped jailbreak practice long time ago. Personally I am in a point where idea of owning "smartphone" is actually nonsense.
Convenience is king but mental clarity is a must for me. From 3 years on I have build a habit to avoid my iPhone and have tracked use cases in which I really need it. There are very small real use cases: 1. Phone call. 2. Messaging . 3 Banking apps. 4. Maps for navigation. My ideal phone is actually only a phone plus internet hot spot. In the future I can see my self using VPN firewall and replacing the list:
1. Voip 2. Mail. 3. Web browser with e certificate. 4. Separate GPS device.

I know that all of this sounds extreme, but the mental benefits are of the chart. I have enormous focus, no "fear of missing out", no "notification hell", no "social media" rush. So no jailbreak or any form of functionality will bring me back to this time waisting mental bonanza.

If smartphones are the future of mandatory personal identification governments must offer them free of charge. Just saying:)
Something to consider in these kinds of cases is that you're not just paying for a more complex physical product, but the the cost of actually designing and certifying the device.

The market for the basic stick is massive, so the cost of design and product development is spread across many, many units.

The market for the FIPS stick will be tiny in comparison. That means that the cost of design and development will be both higher (more complex product) and spread across many fewer units. Now add on the cost of going through the certification, which will involve massive amoounts of paperwork, box-ticking and bureaucracy and the cost of development really shoots up compared with slapping some memory cells and an interface into a plastic box.

I used to work on safety critical software, and the amount of time that was actually spent writing code was really quite small compared to the effort required to demonstrate both to ourselve, but also to the certifying authorities that the software was safe. The Verifcation and Validation teams would often be far larger than the original development teams.

Having said that, I am absolutely sure there will also be some price gouging going on because there will be only a small number of companies that make FIPS certified devices and so competition is lower.