skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thats left as an exercise for the reader -- im no expert in the hospital system my point is simply that after i shared my experience of what happened one particular night when i needed to go to the hospital, im getting flagged for it and downvoted like its a lie and i have some other agenda and that's frankly absurd. it happened. ive never gotten that reaction on hn before and im not sure what it means. i posted some links so those readers can expand their knowledge. i digress.
Can also recommend Long Way Up the new one where they use mostly electric bikes.
We'll obviously give nurses more patients, though a nurses' group is pushing back.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/califo...

I wonder if we could have trained covid medics over three months.
Really? I've found I do the best work I've done remote like 0 office politics the efficiency of have a 0 hour commute is absolutely huge in a city where the average commute time was 3-4 hours a day on top of a 12 hour day for 8 hours pay.
Well no, unfortunately.

Remember that "data is a team sport". Together, we try and make better decisions (in manual or automated ways). A DE can produce great data but it's only useful if it helps the DA/DS. There's a lot of friction there.

Most of that friction disappears with SQL-based orchestration tools (I mean specifically dbt here, but there are others). Suddenly the analyst can create the data they need! With minimal guidance from a DE.

That can be with Spark SQL (+ DeltaLake / Iceberg), or some warehouse. That's not the issue.

The issue is around keeping orchestration simple when you're not just doing simple stuff anymore. Keeping that DAG logical, clear, and smooth is difficult once you include non-SQL items.

This isn't solved by Spark UDFs unfortunately :)
It would be interesting if someone could disrupt this thinking though. What would a company look like if staffed entirely by part-time devs? Could you get more experienced people than you could otherwise attract and win that way? Just thinking out loud.
You aren’t talking about a foreign currency you are talking about alternative currencies that are definitely banned (why toy money has to say that it is not legal tender) with few exceptions.
> And, since the Federal government never stepped up to fund anything

This is California, aren't people happy to pay 50% taxes there ? Why would they depends from the feds...
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What registrar do people recommend these days for domain registration that's (more?) secure against domain theft attack vectors? Namecheap? Gandi? MarkMonitor? One of the cloud providers?
> All those measures that CA took that were lauded - they don't seem to be working as expected

Yes, they did.

And then the subsequent widespread public rebellion by county sheriffs, who lean very strongly to the political right and to whom state law invests exclusive and largely discretionary authority for enforcement of public health orders, that they simply would not enforce any of the orders also worked exactly as expected.

National media has tended to cover the state and regional public health orders, but not so much the very public announcements of non-enforcement by sheriffs. But they are extremely well distributed by local traditional and social media, and effect behavior.
And yet people will continue to say “but only 0.x% of people die”.
Two of the largest and most powerful Lobbyists are the United States are the Motion Picture Association (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA.) They didn't like every pleb across the entire world stealing every movie and song ever created. They tried to ban bittorent. They failed. So too shall bitcoin succeed. Disclaimer: I'm biased.
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Nothing new here. Hacker News (and more generally a lot of people in tech) are pretty sure they have the solution to: debt, famine, equality, global warming, etc.
I failed it 3 times before getting it right.
Level 3 cc processing is becoming more common though.
They do a lot of marketing, which makes them the default choice for many.
Agreed. Nowadays if I found anything really interesting and not a video I'll just save the while webpage in local. Usually only the texts and pictures matter so when I reopen them the webpages still look OK.

I wonder how to trigger archive.org spiders...
Seems like this course is for understanding how vectors are translated into rasters. I guess it is single threaded. On the other hand, with normal graphics programming, where OpenGL or Direct X with GPU hardware does these things for us, execution is parallel. With this course we will get the fundamentals strong. Still for high quality light processing, ray tracing is the king. The course is good with this aspect. But you have to unlearn everything to avoid prejudice to get accustomed with the massively parallel GPU environment. That is the faster and economic way for real-time rasterization. That is a point of caution. Or rather an aspect to consider spending time on this non parallel algorithms. If this course discusses parallel things, cpu is only multi-core, not manycore like GPU, so cannot give real-time performance. However, I am assuming everything from the course-outline!
>Governments in most western countries have thrown out habeas corpus and have given themselves the right to indefinitely ‘disappear’ anyone they arbitrarily deem a threat to national security. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden come to mind.

Neither of those seem to be examples of habeas corpus being thrown out. Neither were "disappeared" and the court systems were used against Assange and nothing has happened to Snowden as of yet except for the legal system being used to try to keep him from earning money from his book.
It's funny how brilliant people like Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer were so intentionally stupid, because they were blinded by their own religion of "Everything Windows". It really makes you think how many others are blinded by this type of religious, dogmatic thought pattern. I'm sure there are many that we just don't hear about, including Zuckerberg, Pinchai, Musk, etc.
TL;DR; by doing a little bit of work, you can transfer a cucumber from your possession to your friend's. Same for Bitcoin. Therefore, Bitcoin is a cucumber.
The Russian leak about peter systems and sorm is the only one I know of in recent history.
Feel free to check their methodology.

With that said, if you could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 0.3% with a flip of the switch literally nobody would notice, you'd be mad not to do it. All you'd turn off is crime, and speculation.
All my ebooks are free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

And here's a huge list of freely available programming books: https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/boo...
> Do we really know this? Obviously the spike proteins are using an existing mechanism (ACE2) in our bodies to bind to cells.

Sure, but aren't the proteins produced by the vaccine virtually identical to the ones produced by the actual virus?

If so, the calculus looks like this:

1) Take the vaccine and accept the (unknown, but apparently quite small) probability that something in your body will react very negatively to the generated viral proteins.

2) Get the virus, accept the probability (also unknown, but the same as in 1) that something in your body will react very negatively to the viral proteins, plus accept the additional risk of being infected by the actual virus.

I guess the third possibility would be to refuse the vaccine and gamble that you won't get the virus, either.
Apple's devices have fuses, too, but they ensure that you boot something signed by them.
> How much has anti-mask protesters contributed to the surge?

Probably less than BLM protesters.
The Federal government has severely circumscribed authority to restrict travel, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly determined it to be a fundamental Constitutional right on the same level as freedom of speech. You can’t suspend that right without narrowly tailored due process for each of 330 million Americans. (This cuts both ways — there are several things that are effectively impossible because “due process” doesn’t scale regardless of the purpose.) This is the reason no State implemented real “lockdowns”, the Supreme Court has overturned such attempts many times historically, it is settled law at this point. States actually have fewer restrictions than the Federal government in this regard.

Similarly, effective contact tracing by the government is illegal in the US, ignoring that the disease was endemic before anyone even noticed. It isn’t just illegal, the US infrastructure is intentionally designed to make it extremely difficult to do at a technical implementation level, with the idea that it would hinder potential abuses. You could modify the systems to make contact tracing work, ignoring legality, but it would require at least a year of lead time to do the technical implementation. Many senior people in US government did ask about this early in the year and were repeatedly told that implementation would require a very long time both legally and technically. So they dropped the idea.

No amount of “real national commitment” will address these issues, and denying that these limitations exist isn’t the basis for a constructive policy.
> They can spend that, and only that. They get a set amount of time on all TV stations.

That’s naive. Media is owned by a few folks. There’s nothing to stop Murdoch from broadcasting/publishing the names of only the person that Murdoch wants to win. And you’ll never hear about the little Green Party lady that YOU want to win, and you can’t donate to help her out.

You can cap TV time for funded spots, but the talking heads on radio and TV will just keep mentioning how great Candidate Y is.
You're referring to something called "demurrage", which is the fair way to disincentivize saving. What the government(s) would do, though, is inflate the currency (print more tokens of it) so that your balance feels to stay "intact" (but the value of it isn't).

By the way, this is what happens today with the USD (or any fiat currency). It doesn't need to be "digital" (it already is).
Because only the feds can print money, the states cannot. Covid put a huge hole in state budgets.
I was not aware we were in a Depression.
correct me if I'm wrong but haven't all the mRNA vaccines skipped human studies / have 'emergency use' certification
And if you don't think Linux and Windows are secure, then you do. Either way, you shouldn't be putting them behind NAT.

You should put them behind NAT if you want to connect your network to the internet but you don't have enough IP space to do it. It has nothing to do with how secure you think your OSs are.
The "http" is the punchline.
I'm not sure it's speculation to suggest that fatigue can weaken your immune system.

And I'm certainly not commenting about it as some form of excuse making for a young person dying from covid.
The millstone that hangs around most people's necks tends to be financial and professional. The sort of psychic violence that comes from having to work for decades and follow an ever-growing social contract is far more harmful to our physical and mental health than any game. In this sense, gaming addiction is more closely related to the absence of a worthwhile link between effort and reward in real life for the majority of people.

The game industry is growing faster every year because the demand for an escape from the dull grind is rising just as fast. The violence is just a peripheral aspect of it.

Another aspect is that it's easier to recognize violence as fictitious. When you are exposed to real-life violence, it feels completely different from anything you've ever experienced in media. There is simply no confusing the two. On the other hand, sexual content tends to be more directly related to the act itself or to complicated emotions around it, even if the material is recognized as fictitious. Sometimes the content IS the act, if we take into account that for a large number of individuals the main draw is the exposure itself.

Unlike with fictitious violence, the tastes of the player/watcher/consumer are in plain view, and we know that these tastes can then easily become behaviors. Much more is revealed than we would care to see. That is why is it considered much more abhorrent.
as a nerd aside, i find it interesting that the bill is literally a changeset
If there was a demand for a product and it's use doesn't hurt others, you cannot ban it successfully. Look at how the prohibition fared!
Never trust Google maps blindly. I once let it direct me down some back roads to save a few minutes, while driving my gas guzzling SUV and towing a camper. What I didn't realize was that there were no gas stations along this alternate route. I was extremely lucky to make it to a station before going dry - the gas gauge had been on empty for miles.
And perhaps he might be still alive had he worn his masks.

Masks significantly decrease the bolus of the virus you get hit with. Multiplicatively so if the virus emitter is also wearing a mask.

There seems to be some solid research linking the severity of your Covid with how heavy a bolus you get hit with. Younger, non-precondition deaths from Covid seem to be correlated with getting hit with a large bolus.

I got Covid via community transmission and had a "moderate" case. I wouldn't have stopped wearing masks even had I known I was going to get Covid anyway.

And, now, I simply view it as a "community service" to provide a good example. I still wear my masks even though I am probably immune.
> For example, could this significantly improve flu vaccines by allowing them to be more up-to-date? ... Could we respond rapidly enough to help with common colds?

As I understand it, the answer to both of these questions is likely to be "yes".
It is! Of course we animals are standing on the shoulders of hundreds of millions of years of evolution's fine-tuning. But to see it in action like this is incredible. Or a child from ages 2 or 3 to ages 4 or 5, is night a day. At 2 or 3, they're drowning risks in the tub. At 4 or 5 they're playing mario kart with you.
Or have the virus already and get immunity in that way.
If all of the military in a place belongs to one country, it's hard to argue that place isn't part of that country.
Or CNET reporter James Kim in 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim#Death
Fwiw you don't save a few dollars with GD, they have terrible pricing.

The only - only - thing they have is a big advertising budget. Their services, support, pricing, ... all bad
I suppose the Chinese response would be "America has forced hundreds of thousand of black people into prison slave labor just because they're black".
Last week I was in a southern city, my DiDi driver said he loved Kobe and mourned for him often. A few days later, a building service attendant told me he loves watching the NBA. Shocked...
X comes with subscription, microtransactions, ads, wants your personal data, and/or is the result of regulatory capture.
I agree that proof-of-stake systems are an interesting and promising development on top of existing cryptocurrency technology.

But how does that make Bitcoin "completely irresponsible" just because it might not be as good as the best, newest available technology? Today's proof-of-stake systems probably never would have existed without Bitcoin.

When proof-of-stake systems become mature then Bitcoin could adopt one, or perhaps if Bitcoin users can't reach agreement on that then maybe a new proof-of-stake based cryptocurrency will gain enough trust to overtake Bitcoin. Either way, it serves the purpose of a relatively mature decentralized store of value until then.
There was a clue though. It was the nickname of Kolkma Highway aka “Highway of Bones”. Anything named as “Devil”, “Death”, “Hell”, “Tears”, or anything else sketchy I would either read about or stay away from. The problem in this case is that Google didn’t show the nickname.
The Gebru paper’s discussion of wokeness vocabulary and rapid changes in activist language is a deep embarrassment to science and utterly says nothing whatsoever about ethics in large NLP models or implicit biases from biased corpora. It’s sheer embarrassment to see anyone taking that section of her paper with any seriousness. That is politics and tribalism 100%, completely devoid of critical analysis that holds it up to basic levels of rigor.
Not can't enforce. But aren't. By choice.

https://www.foxla.com/news/orange-county-sheriff-says-deputi...
That sentence appears many places. The earliest I can find is 22 December: https://ktla.com/news/california/california-health-system-bu...
> Why did they not extend capacity with field hospitals weeks ago?

They...did. There is a limit to the ability to magic up staffed medical facilities on short notice ex nihilo, however.

> They’ve been telling us it was going to get bad, then it did and they’re not prepared for it?

Had it not been predicted that it would exceed the potential to boost capacity, they would not have implemented the capacity-cobtingent statewide stay at home order (which is undermined by county sheriffs widespread and public non-enforcement stance.)
The podcasting battle to be the Netflix of audio
> Yes, they did.

Do you have a relevant study backing this assertion ? At best, we'll have a good understanding of effectiveness 10 to 15 years from now.
You search for an animated gif using a particular word and the result is a NSFW image, yet you post it anyway.
You'd need to get cooperation from the other folks using the road that they'd replace the rope after driving through.
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Human trials of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were conducted, with tens of thousands participating.

Your statement is wrong, and I’m glad you welcomed being corrected. Have a nice day.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-pfizer-phase-3-hu...
String theory is moreso considered a framework that may lead to physics than a physical theory. Physicists are interested in it because of its potential to lead to physics. Of course, both of these statements are contained in the original comment. That's why, as the original comment suggests, the absolute most important question about string theory is, "which string theory leads to our universe at low energies?"
No, the mRNA vaccines did not skip human studies. Phase I, II and III human trials were conducted.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
One interesting statistic is that more people dropped below the poverty line in the united states this year than any other year recorded to date.

Much like occupy wallstreet didn't really kick off until well after the 2008 financial crises, the impact of what is happening now in the economy will not be clear for several more years
> earlier this year we had setup unused overflow facilities and those were taken down.

No, they mostly weren't.

> Why were they dismantled?

They have largely been activated, including ones which while prepared stood empty in the initial, far lower, peak, and many additional ones were set up for this surge.
Using any Google product is very scary as they regularly shut many great services like Google Reader down. Disappointing.
I’m going to respectfully disagree. He did contribute to MS before he became CEO. And invested in a lot of things where the fruits are harvested to this day.
> Doom or Wolfenstein, some of the most violent games of their times

> Plus its a good aggression outlet for young boys.

This is one of the standing theories why the influx of those types of games in the 90s coincided so perfectly with a drop in crime. A closely related one is games in general, as "gives them something to do instead of go out and cause trouble".

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii45/oversaturated/2r6ns4...
The question is what criteria would you want a measure to have for it to be called a good measure.

You are arguing that if it empirically works for most people, then it’s a good measure. I’m saying that a good measure should in principle work for most people.
I understand being upset at the reaction, but if you're going to make the argument with numbers, you're not going to have much success by pointing to a website and telling everyone to educate themselves.

Regardless, I am indeed sorry to hear that happened to your brother. Waiting in a hospital in an emergency is one of the worst experiences in many people's lives.
I don't think MarkMonitor is for casual domain owners.
Yes, in string theory the extra dimensions are very small, leading to three macroscopic dimensions the same way the thinness of a piece of paper leads to two macroscopic dimensions.
These phones can't do much to address a glass supplier that is mean to their workers. These are just more environmentally sustainable phones.

I'm all in on putting pressure on Apple and others to clean up their supply chain, but it can't just be Apple that's held to this standard. Right now it is.
Some other options:

* Google Charts: https://developers.google.com/chart
* Chart.js: https://www.chartjs.org/
I once submitted a correction for the exact location of a public park. The correction looked like it was applied, but when I looked later it had been reverted.
That would be the same as 2, in terms of risk from the body reacting negatively to the viral proteins.
Missing the issue by a mile: It's the place data not the maps, and you're required in the ToS to use Google's maps if you want to display their data geospatially. When Factual/Foursquare/Facebook/Apple (who all use a blend of each other's place data) overtake Google's data quality there then we can talk about the decline of maps.
Or even a "private property, no trespassing" sign.
As the other person linked, it did happen, although perhaps it would not happen again. On the other hand, I would not risk it, especially since any competent database admin would have your edits rolled back quickly. What would it accomplish? They'll undo the edits then make it harder to remove yourself from the list in the future. Who does that serve?
> It also protects other users from liability.

What liability does it protect me (as a user of Facebook and Twitter) from?
China has a localized crisis and could move surplus doctors and nurses from other places (they also have a system of government that lets them do that without political and partisan friction, which is bad for lots of reasons but useful for this specific situation.)

While California is worse off, the US has a national problem and no region to ship surplus from, even leaving aside the political problems which would add friction if the capacity existed.
It’s 100% speculation to suggest _this man_ had complications from fatigue. That has nothing at all to do with general properties of fatigue.
>there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers.

I'd say there's a 100% certainty this will happen.
You’re implying that the impact only matters if it is direct.

‘Actual cause’ implies a singular input and output relationship which is both rarely accurate and the type of logic that enables things like anti mask lunacy, and vaccines, and other conspiracy theories.

Overall I don’t see the problem as anti mask protests...I see anti mask protests as a symptom of the selfish stupidity that seems to impede progress.
Namecheap is excellent and they have solid YubiKey support. Plus whois privacy proxy service included for free.
Their help page completely fails to document how to use computers to act as printer servers for your hand-held devices which was my primary use case. The lack of help strongly suggests a blind spot to me: the continuing utility of the service. I also used it to print from a recalcitrant mac which refused to talk to the printer directly attached.

I'm sure there is a traditional lpr/cups path out for a Windows 10 host with use printer, to run a queue. Google doesn't seem to want to tell me about it.