skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are seeing a fraction of what would have happened if you just "let things be."
I’ve followed tutorials and tried to code graphics before. There was nothing really “hard” except for some of the math - not programming it but understanding it.

How is this course different?
ICU patients require a significant amount of highly-trained personnel 24/7. You quickly burn through those people.

And, since the Federal government never stepped up to fund anything, no one is going to bother training personnel that they'll just get rid of in 12 months.
Honestly, it seems like this headline pops up at least once per year. I switched to another registrar close to a decade ago because of security concerns.
California is a dense place. And a lot of people live there. It was inevitable since people won’t social distance.
It may be true that, "Lubos Motl is still arguing that string theory is the language in which God wrote the universe"; but it has been several years since I last encountered any text he wrote. So, that seems like progress, of sorts.

I gather that Alzheimer's research is still almost exclusively about amyloid plaques and tau tangles, despite absolutely negative results and disastrous drug trials for decades.

And, of course, magnetic confinement fusion is still 20 - 30 years off, and always will be.
Free series: https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/i...
COVID needs to be taken seriously. It's easy to get complacent.

I haven't seen mention of his underlying conditions. Very few healthy 41-year-olds have succumbed.

Judging from the most recent photos I could find (the one in the obit is old) he was overweight but not obese. (Being overweight increases your risk, according to CDC.) He didn't appear to be a mask-denier. Plenty of photos of him wearing a mask. (But a cautious person wouldn't spend any time socializing indoors, mask or not. I don't!)
since there is a lot of ignorance in this thread, some data:

"In 2017-18, the median time stood at 2.8 hours, while for 90 per cent of visits, it was 7.9 hours or less."

https://www.ontario.ca/page/time-spent-emergency-department
It's not either-or.
Risk of being stereotyped as "lazy" by people who've invested in your company or use your product.

The internal benefits are honestly great, but as soon as folks external hear about this (and they will), they may have a different reaction, especially if your product isn't stable yet.

Alternatively, what if you could make it easier for folks to live a sustainable lifestyle through consulting? What's preventing talented folks from just taking consulting jobs?
do you think CA has a higher rate of “numbnuts” than Florida? I would assume about the same.
Honestly I think that's on the phone. I also have an S7 with extremely heavy performance issues opening Google Maps (and almost every other application, for that matter), yet my ancient Nexus 4 is as quick as ever.
Got half a dozen in my Christmas stocking!
That's the last 7 days. Total area under the curve matters here.
Japan to create first wooden satellites that completely burn up
Sure but the market moved to mobile. If you cherry pick data of course you can pretend to be right.
Important to note in the west especially government is not just the state but a coalition between state operators and corporate operators, either general(various industry) or specific(ex; defense or banking)
When hospitals hit capacity, the death rate dramatically spikes. Take a look at early NYC data to see how hospital overload affects this. Letting things be would have been true disaster.

Because we took steps, this is not going to reach anywhere close to the same result in terms of deaths, even if it comes to equal cases. The solution to the time problem was more strict action earlier, ironically for most on the "economy" side of pandemic action. Give people a big stimulus, stop all jobs beyond food and true essentials, and enforce strict contract tracing. We might have been out of this in two months if we did that.
> It was also crazy to think that short-term containment measures (masks and social distancing) wouldn't start selecting strains that are more virulent.

Why? It can't evolve against "no way to reach the human" like it could chemical/biological countermeasures.
I thought GoDaddy was an industry pariah, avoided by anyone who knows anything. What's the motivation to use them beyond saving a few dollars? Do they have a monopoly on certain domains?
As an Asian, this is a reason that I start to become disillusioned with "the world community". Their missionary zeal has not diminished. It just transformed from religion into political ideology.

There are alternatives outside of so called "western-like democracy with liberal ideals".
Other reports funded by those aligned with US foreign interests. If it conforms to Chinese government behaviour then these are extremely public and predominantly well compensated rural labour transfer programs occuring in other provinces that alleviates poverty for 10s of millions every year. If it's anything like Chinese tech (it's not) then they would be extremely well compensated and overworked relative to rest of society. In Mike Pompeo's words: We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole. That should be the default assumption when treating these analysis, especially when they contradict each other i.e. Zenz estimates of millions detained is based off fanciful estimate of 1,200 camps... GIS analysis found only ~300, but the same analysis that essentially debunks Zenz will still blindly reaffirm his claims.

It's manufactured consent. The implication is reality is worse than CCP purports but better than US funded analysis alleges, especially considering ongoing geopolitical tensions. Per leaked XJ internal documents, these are indoctorination and vocational training camps designed to secularize and alleviate poverty. Abuse will happen when operating at large scales, but CCP "political work" and demographic engineering has always operated on carrot and stick. It's more or less a proven model that works more often than it doesn't. There's a reason why the current narrative tries to insinuate it's only stick, and has to operate on fabrications, cherry picked data, repeated testimonies from the same handful of people. It's Pompeo / state department's prerogative to lie, cheat, steal for US interests. People should understand this, except those for whose interest depends upon them not to.
They weren't ultimately needed then and you couldn't staff them now that the pandemic is countrywide rather than restricted to NYC. The real limiting factor here is availability of trained medical personnel and there is no surplus of them anywhere.
Exactly. Popular perception after seeing a video like this is to project capabilities into the robot that just aren't there. Talk to the lay public, people!

People assume this is actual AI, that it could just walk into an unknown new kitchen and do useful tasks like get dirty dishes in the dishwasher or other general stuff.

The other thing is a conflation of this kind of robotics with deep learning. Most of the work by Boston Dynamics uses no fancy machine learning. It is "just" (for experts it's not a "just", but a "just" for the public) electrical and mechanical and control engineering plus lots of specifically programmed behavior.

Now, it is impressive sure, but the humanoid form makes laypeople think there is more to it than there is.
Has anyone considered that people periodically pointing out places where HN is being Reddit-like is part of what contributes to keeping this perception an illusion?
how do you opt out of the Visa Advertising Solutions Opt Out list?
> placing patients in conference rooms and gift shops

If there's any truth to it, I can imagine the hospital's snack/convenience shop is being used. So it's not a neighborhood gift shop but some room in the hospital that sells a branded keychain. Definitely a click-baity title though.
I once made the mistake of putting an unguarded comment section on my now defunct blog.
Within days, it was stuffed to the gills with tentacle porn links. There were no readers, just spam. I dropped the comments table and never went back.
The San Mateo County Health Officer recently published a statement that rhetorically asked this and other similar questions about CA, and I suppose human behavior and response to various types of SAH orders and the like. It was a very well-written piece and was featured here on HN 3 weeks ago[0]. Here’s a direct link[1]. I highly recommend reading to get an honest perspective from someone who has to make these kinds of decisions at the county level.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25341289
[1] https://www.smchealth.org/health-officer-updates/december-7-...
With a different president, yes. Not with this one though.
This is an incorrect take, and deeply frustrating that it is so pervasive, given that there is literal evidence of it being wrong. China, especially Wuhan, was the center of the virus outbreak early in 2020. China successfully locked down and stopped the spread of the virus. Today, Wuhan and China in general has no community spread of Covid. So there is clearly a solution, even with out a vaccine.

Our political leadership was too weak to make the decisions necessary to implement these solutions. Some readers may retort that lockdowns are a violation of democratic or constitutional freedoms, but there have been times in the past when these rights were suspended. During the civil war, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and jailed people without a trial. In extreme situations, extreme actions may be warranted. (The US will soon have more Covid deaths than US soldiers died in all of WW2, if you think my war comparison is unfair). China took extreme actions to enforce lockdowns and successfully ended the spread of Covid. America's leadership decided that peoples lives did not matter, and did not.

Ultimately, I will be significantly more suspicious of any western politician who demands we go to war to protect lives, or give up liberties for personal safety. 2020 has shown that politicians would not take even the weakest measures to protect personal safety (e.g mask mandates) - exposing their lies in other domains as well. The war on terror was fiction. The war on drugs is a jobs program. And a 9/11 amount of deaths can happen every day and politicians will literally do nothing and people will demand nothing. I am deeply pessimistic about our future.
People still are spreading, and believing, disinformation. Even here, when the numbers came out of the 400k extra deaths this year in the U.S., 300k from COVID, no shortage of commenters were disputing the numbers and the causes.

One political party has worked so hard over the last generation to convince people that science and experts are the enemy, and now we're paying the price.
Infection is more safe. Mass infection is not. I was recently hospitalized with covid and got the experimental cocktail (remdesivir, convalescent plasma, dexamethasone, azithromycin, anti-clotting drugs, zinc, D, C, probiotics) that only became available a few months ago. It cost over $62000. How many people can afford that? And it requires hospital beds because it is strictly inpatient treatment. It's not without its risks either. It's really only viable if 1) the patient has insurance and money and 2) the hospitals can avoid being overrun.

Regeneron could change things. That's an outpatient treatment that could be administered at clinics to patients who have tested positive. The problem is it's simply not available and it's still expensive.

If you catch covid, have good healthcare and can be admitted to a hospital then your prognosis is very good. What we can't do is treat large numbers of people simultaneously. Mass infection is a disaster.
what is crystal clear about this virus now is that gathering with others inside is very bad.

Outdoor dining is not ideal, but could have prevented many indoor gatherings. Remember how CA was closing the beaches in the spring despite that clearly being stupid?
Same here, “System error”
Yea, there are lots of aspects to this article that have the same feel of the article that made it to the top of HN news a few weeks back about a nurse who claimed her patients denied COIVD was real as they were dying. The Wired article that dug deeper into that story, showing the glaring holes in it, didn't get as much attention:

https://www.wired.com/story/are-covid-patients-gasping-it-is...

There are no indications in this story where the capacity is coming from. What percentage of people are in the ICU for other conditions (heart attacks, car crashes, delaying treatment for conditions they needed surgery for months ago) vs infections? What are the percentage for flu, strep and other serious infections vs COVID? There's a lot missing in this article.
Wars R Us: A Review of C. Sorensen’s New Book “Understanding the War Industry”
Is it just opt out once forever or do you have to "opt out" each time they update and send you a new card holder agreement? Who has the discipline to read each packet Visa sends you every few months and re-opt out each and every time? Out of pure attrition, I'm guessing 99% of their customers will eventually be "opt-in".

Besides, considering that Visa, Mastercard, etc are all headed toward "data and AI" model, it's not going to matter ultimately. The entire business world is going towards collecting data and selling your data.

Isn't data the "new oil"?
They simply don't have enough doctors and nurses. You can't train up the kind of people needed here over a summer.
Aspen residents left without heat for days after vandals tampered with gas lines
>I’ve done the whole google maps support thing but no response and deaf ears.

You've used the suggest a change feature within Maps? I've done that several times and I think it always worked for me.

Full disclosure I work at Google, not on Maps, and I always did the suggest a change with my personal account.
I live near a hospital. At least they’ve stopped running the sirens all the time; there’s no point in rushing to the hospital when the ambulance will have to wait for hours anyway. It was getting pretty annoying on Christmas Day, no traffic noise save for the parade of ambulances.

It’s sad that so many people are dying, but that’s the price of not living in an authoritarian mask state where humans care about each other’s survival.
So the big shots in crypto still don't understand how to secure their coins?
The poster you’re replying to had a valid point about the meaning of this data—it’s not some trope or judgement. Calculating someone’s net worth in this way is not considering these things on which money is being spent. In the most non-judge mental way possible, I would love to see some deeper analysis here. Two different households could have the same income, but one could save more (at the expense of missing out on a lot of things that increase quality of life) and another could save less. I don’t at all think badly of the family who saves less, but it is a valid factor to consider in an objective analysis of income inequality’s effect on households.
Given he leaves behind a baby and a toddler, and just ran an election campaign, an underlying condition is probably significant fatigue.

This is too terrible.
Have to say, there's a decent number of photos on his Twitter feed of him doing campaign events with folks who don't have masks on (though it looks like he himself was consistently wearing a mask as of late). It might be that he personally wasn't a mask denier, but the Republican base has often taken mask wearing as "weak" or "cowardly," and he felt obligated to not require a mask at these events to not alienate his base.

I can't help but think of the ol' "I never thought the leopards would eat _my_ face" tweet: https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/654934442549620736?lang=...
Does anybody else hate it when you click on a medium article and it’s a paid one? I know it’s a minor problem but I hate that.
I'd recommend "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice" by Foley and van Dam. It's highly regarded and is on 2nd or 3rd revision.
Brutal that this idea keeps surfacing on Hacker News contrary to the advice of almost all epidemiologists out there. It seems like utter hubris to assume you know something they don't.
You clearly wouldn’t have made it as a physicist.
> incredibly more safe

This was your takeaway from the article?
There is absolutely no reason why the use should be limited, now or in the future. In practice, the information will be fed to automated systems effectively putting everyone into surveillance, and I wouldn't be surprised if the number of manual pulls is in the 100 000 people per year range.
The above was taught during a lecture at business school. A quick search found this link which infers the above along with some interesting other points related to the subject.

"The certainty of being caught is a vastly more
powerful deterrent than the punishment"

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1...
One hundred percent of the time when I've clicked that button, it says "XYZCorp is advertising to people located in the United States", even when the ad is clearly more targeted than that.
I don't get how these restaurants can get away with this. It's not like the police suddenly can't enforce the rules anymore. If I refused to obey the speed limit or refused to pay my CA income taxes, they'd come down on me like a ton of bricks, but for some reason, when a restaurant refuses to obey the closures loudly, visibly, in full view of the public, where are the police? Suddenly it's "oh, we just can't seem to enforce things, golly what do we do?!"
It was. Kubernetes should have been native v6-only from the start, with inbound v4 connections being handled by reverse proxies. Would've simplified the whole thing a bunch.
Is it possible that the increased transmissivity triggers behavioral changes that decrease transmissivity to below baseline?

I.e., could a biologically more virulent virus actually be less virulent in reality because it triggers a coordinated behavioral response in humans?
This is laojiao, not laogai, these people haven’t been convicted of any crimes and this is administrative punishment for unharmonious but not criminal behavior and thoughts.

The west is held responsible for Chinese behavior by the Chinese themselves. Notice how China was criticizing the west for taking advantage of recycling contracts in China with terms that were too good to be true, and eventually were found to basically be dumping in China. Likewise, as you say, this is our responsible as well: we must make sure that we operating with Chinese businesses with acceptable labor practices.
Wuhan’s Covid Cases May Have Been 10 Times Higher, Study Shows
ArchiveTeam has a larger YouTube archival effort running (on IRC, hackint/#youtube-archive) -- I think the channel list is on the order of tens of thousands. You can email me or ping me on IRC if you want to setup some coordination effort (no sense in doing duplicate work).
This comment is why I love hackernews
Fixing leaky optical pipes with topological glue – Penn Today
Back when I was a college student, my popular video game wiki's domain [1] was stolen by a former associate of mine while I was overseas.

Godaddy did nothing to help the situation, and the thief had substantial monetary resources and threatened to get me tied up in court. He was ten years older, had an engineering income, and came from a family of lawyers. I was just a college student and felt powerless to do anything about it.

I assume it was social engineering. He had access to the server and database, but was never supposed to have domain name access.

Godaddy sucks.

Also, their founder kills elephants for sport. So there's that too.

[1] strategywiki.org
He looks obese to me with a big gut. Could be visceral fat.
I believe the interests of the public are best served with transparency of our justice system. Unless public knowledge would truly pose more harm to the convicted than the sentence itself and stigma that any conceited criminal bears, then it should be public. If sealed under the "additional harm" principal, the public should be provided with at least the broad strokes of that potential harm so that public scrutiny of our justice system is possible. The more such scrutiny is lacking, the more room for abuse.
I’m a big fan of Kirby. It’s not open licensed but the source code is available. Very easy to setup and run.
Can you trust Florida's numbers? They SWATted a woman for reporting worse numbers.
It's definitely worse in American media but I think this bias exists even in Europe, just to a slightly lesser extent.
but the camera is pointing forward so I don't think that it is their plan
How is this illegal? You make a form that says “XYZ” and buy a domain “abc.com” and if someone enters a random submission they go to jail for it?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
I thought it would be about doing it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_languag... . That would certainly be interesting to see!
Well governments have been forcing a single currency for millennia and it worked out fine. I get your premise here but this sounds like hyperbole of a high order that is spread by crypto-enthusiasts. There have always been black markets but the majority of people just want to be left alone they aren’t going to go out of their way to use an obscure, illegal, currency.
Yes, I'd rather see legislation to resolve this issue as well.
What about all the people that wore masks and got Covid? Were they not religious enough?
I've been playing violent video games my entire life. Depictions of rape and murder still make me cringe. I can't even sit through 20 seconds of slaughterhouse footage. But I love watching statues of dictators or pro-slavery losers topple.
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It won’t work for standing robots because those need to adjust for dynamic variables or they will fall down with the first tiny gust of wind (or floor micro-shake)

Disney animatronics don’t have this problem because they are attached to the ground.
You should qualify which numbers you're describing.

I see an average wait time (to get an initial assessment from a doctor) of 1.2 hours. There are lots of averages, though, depending on which stage and which path people take.
You've been downvoted, but I think you have a point. Maps support & "suggest a change" are two different sets of ears, and while one may be deaf to this problem, the other may be more responsive.
I think maybe there is some discussion to be had about the difference between personal violence, such as a particular person carrying out a violent crime, and the general acceptance of violence as a viable solution to a myriad of problems.
From a technical standpoint, it is possible to configure separate DNS records for subdomains, so something.visa.com can be set up completely independently from their main website. And it won't have to share cookies either, making it more secure. For visa.com/something, you would need to add a routing rule at the application level in whatever server is hosting visa.com.
From ABC News.

>The CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, Dr. Elaine Batchlor, separately said patients there have spilled over into the gift shop and five tents outside the emergency department.
I too remember the "Xbox kernel is not Windows" narratives in 2000s-2010s. Clearly Microsoft then considered it "not Windows", IIRC especially on Xbox 360. It's not that a VMM that reside parallel to the Xbox kernel makes it not Windows or not. Sometimes they said it's "built with technologies from Windows" or sometimes it was "built specifically for Xbox" but they maintained it's not Windows.