skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we need a dental service?
We need dental services so that we can deal with our dental issues properly. Dental hygiene is a deeper concept than it seems. It includes basic dental cleaning like brushing, mouthwash, flossing, good dental habits along with professional dental care and checkups as well. Professional dental cleaning can be done through dentistry.
https://stoneybrook.dental/family-dentistry/
It seems that someone reported the issue more than three years ago: https://groups.google.com/g/racket-users/c/6dIb242Ve8s/m/us8...
It will, as an R higher than 1 means that there will be no maximum in the new infections at all (while any health system obviously does have a maximum capacity that is significantly lower than the size of the population).
R going lower than one means, there will be a maximum in the future. Of course, only when numbers are currently increasing.

R is basically the second derivation of the case count (+1). So a lower R first means that the increase in new infections decreases, until the new infections decrease.
As someone who had never heard of the practice before moving to the US as a teen, it seemed pretty culty to me.

I understand most Americans aren't that bothered, but that makes it even more creepy to us foreigners.

I'm sure North Koreans are used to the Kims' pictures in every room, but that doesn't make it less weird from an outsiders perspective.
People used to hire the best qualified candidates only. Nobody hired blacks.

I’m not saying the two are related, but the latter was seen as a problem and these forced diversity quotas were instituted.
I'll try anything once.

Cream in coffee is proof God loves us. Half & half, milk, coconut cream are okay. Almond milk and oat milk are terrible. Soy milk is a crime.

I also use a lot of cinnamon, because I once read it does something for glycemic response. And I've grown to like it. Ditto turmeric.

Soy milk and Yerba mate is pretty good. Soy milk steamers (fresh ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg) are delicious.

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From my brief googling, I understand that oat milk needs an enzyme. That's what Oatly does. You can buy some enzyme packets for home use, which I've never done.

I've read that honey and bananas also have an enzyme that works on oats. I already use both in my smoothies, so that's what I do.

Also, most howtos I've read say to filter the bulk. But I want the dietary fiber, the more the better, so don't filter.

I also use chia seeds, which makes the oat milk creamy like yoghurt. Someone smarter than me will replicate what I do, add misc tasty fruit, freeze it, and call it vegan ice cream.
> PDS: Some posters have suggested that the electrification of molten salts to extract oxygen was a process known for a long time. Probably true, but this is the first I've heard of it (Disclaimer: I am not a Chemist or Chemical Engineer... in fact, I'm not even a real Scientist! <g>)

Unless there is a detail that I'm missing, this is very similar to the process used to transform Aluminum oxide to metallic Aluminum on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93H%C3%A9roult_proc...

The mix of molted salts is the liquid where you dissolve the Aluminum oxide. IIRC, you can theoretically try without the molted salt, but the temperature to melt the oxide is much higher, so it is not a practical method without the salt.

One difference is that this process to produce Aluminum you don't make Oxygen. You have big Carbon electrodes, and they get burned.

If you want to produce Oxygen, you probably can replace the Carbon electrode with a Platinum electrode. It would require more energy, and the bubbles will make the process even more complicated. (This should work in a laboratory. To make this safe an efficient at industrial scales, would require a few years of tweaking with the additives, shapes and temperatures. Amway, using Carbon is more efficient, and this variant is too expensive as a method to produce Oxygen for the Earth market.)
Why India has become a different country
Yes, an absolute disaster and they're going to blame it on Xmas instead of the actual cause, sending the students home. And then, they're going to let them go back again 2nd week of January :'(.

And not a single newspaper is reporting about it. The media should be shouting from the rooftops day after day that the 2nd wave was caused entirely by universities reopening and yet instead they regurgitate these releases from ONS blindly.

We could have reopened schools and accepted the small increase in actual cases, kept unis online only. But by reopening schools and universities, with the two events so close to each other they compounded and caused the 2nd wave.

As a small ray of hope, I know people who work in both the unis here in Notts and they're taking it very seriously and doing mass testing before they send them home, as well as staggering them being sent back. Hopefully other unis are too.

I've heard that one of the reasons Notts infection rate shot up so high compared to nationwide is because Nottingham University were aggressively contact testing with their own labs and found many more asymptomatic cases than the national government's shambolic track and trace system is presently achieving.
sparql queries and openrefine('s reconciliation service) are pretty good at generating those lists.
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Uh, what? They're apparently fucking not managing the actual pandemic well since any given citizen is at a higher risk of dying of suicide than of covid...
He's totally, utterly wrong.

Wrong on a spectacular level.

We empircally know he is wrong because when schools went back there was a MASSSSSSIVE spike it requested tests (as school children got their start of season colds and worried parents got them tested in the first 2 weeks of school returning).

But there was not a MASSSSSIVE spike in Covid cases.

If Covid numbers were being driven by false positives then there HAD to be a massive spike in cases as testing numbers spiked. There was not. So false positives cannot be the reason.
but being a travel hub does not mean too much: you can still isolate people who enter the border.

People in transit infect each other, and workers are exposed to more chances to get infected, but it's a more manageable situation than land borders.
Why would I then base a development project on Rust, if there's neither a spec nor an alternate implementation? This is strictly worse than what we have now.

And no, I don't trust the Rust propaganda machine. When Mozilla announced they were getting rid of Rust teams, all we heard from said Rust devs was that this doesn't spell the end for Rust. My impression was that they were mainly motivated by advancing their language rather than, you know, implementing a browser.

And to this date, I haven't really read a critical post-mortem addressing claims that Rust can actually replace C or C++ in the areas where these languages are essential. Apart from kernels and drivers (where Rust seems an outright no-go), C is traditionally used for higher-level language runtimes and compilers/interpreters/VMs. But Rust's borrow checker is a bad fit for just about any text book algorithm and technique in that space. Hell, even Rust devs themselves say implementing a DOM is about the worst use case for Rust.
> There are still some question marks on the ROI

How did you solve this in practice?
Money for giant pub chain JD Wetherspoon owned by Tory Brexit propagandist, perhaps.
UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech
Industrial processes are just so power-hungry. We're a long way from mining, smelting etc in space. So many problems to solve, not the least of which is projecting power-generating equipment in the megawatt range into space.
I bet you're right about the survivorship bias, but it's nonetheless reassuring (comforting?) to hear that. That's also been my impression, though it's hard to actually believe schooling doesn't accomplish more.

On that note:
Had I stayed in college, I would've been a senior this year. I recently brought over a college friend to discuss a paid internship at my company with him, and was very underwhelmed with what he had accomplished during his university tenure (this being a quite prestigious institution). From the stories he told of professors assigning grindingly futile projects to his lack of knowledge about relatively widespread concepts like distributed hash tables, it was a rather disappointing conversation.

I still think the institution of the university is hard to replicate elsewhere, but the content (and maybe the people) certainly need an update!

Thank you for the note about Knuth's book. I'll check it out in more depth — I have the PDF version sitting in my downloads folder. My startup is currently being acquired, but once that's settled I'll have time for some holiday reading :).
the board and corporate governance of companies should be held criminally liable for actions they oversee. You can get locked up for life under the kingpin act. Let's make that applicable here.
Sure you can find racists anywhere. It's more about their home environment than it is about anything external. But if your parents tell you white people are bad and you meet one who's nice you might start to question that upbringing.
New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner
>> With EVs tou don’t have emissions and pollutions

You don't have them at the tailpipe, which I guess is really the key thing because it means a reduction in asthma and deaths due to PM in habited areas.

You do still have emissions, they're just emitted away from where humans live. It's a great improvement but not a complete solution.
A better work environment doesn't have any effect on tenure. Only the extremes make a difference. That is, lower when extremely bad and a bit longer when extremely good.

According to the BLS, median tenure is 2.x years for those 25-34. For those 35-44, it's 4.x years. Keeps going up with age, peaking at 10.x years starting in the 50s.

Not much seems to change it in a relevant way, maybe another many companies are blah in this regard: not worth the money/time/effort. Just mumble some BS to look good to the world, then repeat as the same dead company. The BS isn't even mumbled to recruit, as it also doesn't have any effect there.

The only ones in a position to be affected by such marketing are new grads, a group typically viewed as worthless and that have to take what they get. It's all just air in the winds.
There's an expectation of more from a super-smart person. It should be so easy for them. But as you say, it doesn't happen but rarely.
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This cert seems to be mostly nonsense? For example this question:

> A company currently uses Amazon EBS and Amazon RDS for storage purposes. The company intends to use a pilot light approach for disaster recovery in a different AWS Region. The company has an RTO of 6 hours and an RPO of 24 hours.

> Which solution would achieve the requirements with MINIMAL cost?

You have 4 multiple choice questions, however only one uses the "Use EBS and RDS cross-region snapshot copy capability" while the other uses generic server jobs. It is therefore obvious which choice is the right one without even knowing anything about AWS, all you need to know is that they want you to pick the most specific option they have instead of implementing your own services.
4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904 (2017)
But that’s not the case for Rust? Rust is backed by Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Intel, and many others...

The Rust development and specification happens all in the open on GitHub.

There is no single company controlling its future or direction.
Comparing the Pledge of Allegiance to North Korean indoctrination is exactly the sort of absurd nonsense that I'm talking about. It's a basic tradition that helps instill patriotism, which from a purely practical point of view, is almost a political necessity in a country as diverse as America. Criticizing one's own country, which is probably one of the most American things one can do, is absolutely not possible in North Korea.

I don't want to assume the country that you're from, but I'll say this: Europeans often have this constant attitude that they're the forefront of civilization and that anyone who doesn't match their highly subjective standards is ethically "behind." It's nauseating and frankly just the new flavor of Eurocentric imperialism.
Rather than post vague sarcasm, could you possibly provide your alternate interpretation?
Bitcode is an IR, but it is not architecture independent, and the code will have been compiled to a particular calling convention. Bitcode may allow Apple to apply different optimization passes for iPhone processors, but it’s not going to be hugely useful for Rosetta.
> “But the true product of Apple has been focused iterative delivery.”

... Excepted that this is not a product, be any definition ever.
In that case you'd still need a way to convert stuffit files to 7zip - the reason this is needed is because it was common to distribute Mac software as StuffIt files back in the day, so there are large archives in the format that people want to read. There exist no 7zip archives of Mac System 6 software.
> It's a basic tradition that helps instill patriotism

AKA culty and weird.
Between August and November restrictions had been relaxed a lot. Most public places were open, you could meet friends indoors, etc.
They kind of do though; exporting renewable power means less non-renewable power needs to be generated by the importer.
> The fact that Victoria exports back non-renewable power isn't in their control.

So it is not in their control to be powered only by non-renewable energy. The rest of what you have written doesn’t change this simple fact.
Isn't the extra 2 on Zen not a decoder unit, but rather a 6-way dispatch[1] with op-cache being used to kept the execution unit busy? Or was that the reason behind calling it a 5 or 6-wide depending on how one's may count it considering cache miss and all?

[1]: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/Zen3_arch_5.jpg
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Useful resource for excess deaths in Europe
Emissions from brake pads on EVs are almost non existent (regen braking). This is a vast departure from combustion powered vehicles where PM from braking systems, from exhaust catalytic converters etc. etc. contribute a lot of the grime you see at the edge of a motorway. EVs do make this better.

Tire emissions are NOT a factor we need to be concerned with however :-) Tire manufacture, sure. From waste - most definitely. But emissions from driving are not something to worry about even with the billions of miles driven annually on tires.
Something I learned after moving from the UK to Germany, is that my German friends think Otto von Bismarck invented modern public health in 1883 and the NHS was based on their model.

My German language and history is not good enough for a rigorous comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Otto_von_Bismarck...
People are and can be naturally good looking. Many override average/mediocre genetics with makeup, money, status, gym time, etc. Unless extremely disfigured by genes, being appealing (enough) is a matter of time and effort.
What version of Windows? 10 definitely seems less stable and slower than 7. I haven't had any BSODs with 7, which is amazing looking back now (with 10 having unrecoverable blue screens, damn).
This kind of snarky, low effort comment belongs on Reddit, not HN.
If you want to destroy someone's game - just ask how they do it. Thats why you learn a lot by teaching others.
We actually have an ONS-run surveillance program where they test you every week.

I know because I'm in it.
Yes APFS still supports resource forks.

But with the death of Carbon, I don't think there are any APIs left to read the actual resources. So it's limited to storage and reading the raw data stream.
Writer of the blog post here. Happy to answer any questions you folks might have.
I'd just like to thank you for your work! I've used reveal.js on numerous school presentations and it continues to impress the audience every time.

It is very versatile and I've also modded it to be used to create live effects during concerts.
Lufthansa trialing lie-flat Economy seat concept
> and working at any of them will teach how it feels like working on a place where software development is a cost center, not the business that they care to sell.

And have you worked for them? I have for some. For those who develop software it is an essential tool and the software developers closely work with natural scientists and are as appreciated as any other team member. On the other hand you won't have problems finding an American software company where developers are held in cubicles with no daylight.
I submitted my application online a few weeks ago and it's saying both "We are taking longer than expected" and "Estimated case completion time: May 2021 (6 months)". Is that date wholly unrealistic then?
I do not think you understand the complexities of the visa laws of USA, so instead of judging someone please spend time educating yourself first and then make comments here.
Yep it seems the public did not understand people have different size and shape faces until we all started wearing masks.

Just by looking at some masks you can guess which gender the were design by/for, but they are advertised as one size fits all.
Google’s Cash Makes Rivals Less Eager for Antitrust Crackdown
I used to be that workaholic who worked crazy hours and had "passion" for the job. Thing is, it's not sustainable in the long run no matter how much you love it. It might be OK in your twenties. But you're not going to be doing that for four decades. You need to live a life outside work as well. Otherwise you'll be a burned out wreck with crippling RSI.

For the record, I did get crippling RSI in my early thirties and this forced a drastic reevaluation of my priorities. Eight years later, and the RSI is manageable but only because I completely changed my lifestyle. Part of that is only working a regular workday, and doing other stuff outside that time. Like running and mountain biking. I quit my "second job" as a Debian developer and general open source contributor because of that. I still do some, but it's strictly casual with no commitments. That's the price for not being physically crippled. You've got to consider your long-term health. Sitting at a desk is terrible for your body. Doing it in the evenings as well is even worse.

Regarding not looking desirable. I think you're a bit off about that. Sane people and sane companies do not work themselves and their staff to death. They want people to be able to work over the longer term, and not burn out. In most of the places I've worked at, working out of hours has been strictly frowned upon. If you can't do your assigned tasks within work hours, that indicates a management failure in assigning you too much work, or in underestimating how long it would take, or in overestimating your capabilities. There is a reason we do all of the sprint planning and backlog refinement. It's to ensure no one is over- or under-worked over the long term by having a consistent and (most importantly) sustainable workload. If someone did find themselves having to work longer hours, the first thing they should do is tell their manager and get the situation fixed. Not to pull out all the stops and burn the midnight oil.

The younger me would have been that person. But part of getting more experience is learning to say "no". No matter how much work you do, there will always be more work the next day. And you will rarely be thanked or acknowledged for going above and beyond the call of duty; ultimately you have to look out for your own self-interest as well as the interests of the company. Sometimes there are good reasons to work overtime, but that should never be a routine part of your existence.

My personal experience of people who work crazy hours is that they wear their "heroic" efforts like a badge of honour, but the work itself is often terrible. (And I include myself here.) When called out upon this during code review, you get excuses like "yes, but it was 2am on Saturday". "OK, but it's Tuesday now, why didn't you review it in the cold light of day and fix all of these obvious defects? We don't lower the bar just because you chose to work late while very tired."

Keep yourself healthy and sane for the long haul.
What’s the advantage of a formal standard when the language itself and the tools are all open source? All I can see a formal standard adding to the picture is a lot of bureaucracy and friction and the headache of subtly incompatible implementations.
Well, American immigration law differentiates between people based on where they were born, part of the reason why many of us have to waste our time working for FANG when in reality we would like to start something of our own.

Discrimination in law is bound to have discriminatory consequences down the road for the folks. It is very common practice of citizens to demand a premium for being citizens from those who are on a visa and are stuck in 100 year green card queue.
No, you are not putting it another way. Achievement is not “exploiting those lesser than themselves”.
Related: The Origin of the Shell, discussed two days back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25207957
On the one hand, there is something rotten in the university ecosystem. I have met a ton of people who laboured their way through degrees (even in sought-after fields) who have now ended up working minimum wage jobs at Starbucks or something equivalent. In the US, these people are also usually in debt, between ~$20-150k.

On the other hand, the gatekeeping that a degree offers does seem to be important. I think this is mainly because degrees serve as a sort of stamina test, of the kind which is hard to replicate elsewhere. Someone who plodded their way through a coding bootcamp is unlikely to have the same grit and determination as someone with a Bachelor's degree.

Perhaps we just need a better way of gatekeeping, and then the universities can once again serve as centres of education and learning. I think it would also help if employment guarantees were offered, so universities would be incentivized to teach their students relevant skills.
Situations like this are what money-printing was made for.
Configuring IRQs on hardware and in BIOS always made me feel like a hacker. Windows 2000 and earlier also had problems with DHCP, I fixed many network setups back in the day, often half-assing it and just using static IPs/mask :D. Worked surprisingly well for small businesses where they used the same hardware for years.
Painting a Selfie Girl, with Maths – Inigo Quilez
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It's worth remembering that the original lockdown models always factored in a certain amount of non compliance, and afterwards the model makers expressed suprise that real levels of non compliance were significantly lower than expected.

Non compliance concerns are often a social group function or a side effect of anxiety. it's normal for humans to identify enemies and other groups to make them feel better.

A spectral enemy that one can blame for the bad things.

I wouldn't be surprised if the UKs behavioural modification experts know and use this too.