skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me at least the length of the race just makes the situation less likely to occur. The problem is still in play for a 4 km pursuit or in theory the transcontinental race (though the likelihood of a sprint finish is near 0).

In general I think in sport we should use replay tech to eliminate errors that human judges can make, not improve accuracy beyond what was possible for them to see (because fundamentally these are philosophically vague). And then just have rules for ties that are good for the sport: ties go to the runner in baseball, offsides go to the attacking player in soccer (I believe the dutch do something like this by using thicker lines for their VAR?), etc.

But with cycling the whole game is decided by the finish, so I think that makes a bit harder to come up with a satisfying approach.

I was curious what the actual rules are about calling ties. Apparently if there's no photo finish tech and the sprint between 2 riders can't be decided its called a "dead heat":

> if the finish takes place on a road, the two riders will race against one another over a distance of 1000 m, from a standing start

https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/publications/practic... (page 26)

Which sounds awesome to me. If it's a group of 3 or more they are just declared 'equals'.

The rules for ties with photo finish tech (basically all pro races afaik) is kind of weird? All I could find was:

> If, after all technical means available have been exhausted, it is still not possible to separate riders for one of the first three places at the world championships or Olympic Games, these riders shall each be awarded the placing in question. No award shall be made for the following placing, or, where there is a three-way tie, for the following two placings

- Rule 2.3.043 in the UCI Road Race rulebook

Not clear what that means for races like Amstel...
This shouldn't be surprising.

That Epic was willing to risk iOS distribution for all this should've made it obvious iOS was not the primary source of revenue. They know the risks.
I used joe for a while, basically because it was installed at the Uni's labs (and because I had used WordStar on DOS). vi (or vim, can't remeber) was misconfigured with terrible defaults, so basically I got used to joe.

It was very hard to force myself to stop using it and learn vi!
> every person with the flu was labeled as having “Covid”

I got a cold a few weeks ago. Got tested, it wasn't Covid. Where mental gymnastics are needed is in ignoring hospitalization and excess mortality statistics.
There are financial incentives to solve scheduling issues in the UK. Trains must meet a schedule within time limits. Failure to maintain reliability at a regulatory 90.9% can mean the loss of the license to operate.

The UK interconnects with European networks via Eurostar, and the major hubs feed it. The tube runs trains every minute or two so connecting between these hubs, for example Waterloo to Kings Cross isn’t usually an issue. But arriving late at a hub can be very disruptive.

Middle managers, in europe generally, focused on targets don’t need to understand the math, but are in a competitive market that can require mathematicians to model and solve scheduling issues.

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/05/tropical_mathem...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/late-network...
100% agree, we have full documentation of the board schematics and have photos from full teardowns, along with examples already stored in museums. Storing becomes hoarding after a point.
You don't need to go far if you want to find your own micro-meteorites!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210131191401/https://www.nytim...
Guess we'll have to agree to disagree. ALthough I do agree with "Don't destroy life for money". Cheers, have a great rest of your day!
It's only seasonal because of increased indoor/outdoor humidity permitting longer micro-droplet aerosol suspension. If everyone were wearing masks that trap micro-droplets, then flus and colds effectively die out. It's the no maskers and chin-guarders that cause infectious agents like SARS-CoV-2, flu, and colds to proliferate.
> If masks/etc was super effective wouldn't you expect those to go down with influenza?

Viruses are not identical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinovirus

> They are lytic in nature and are among the smallest viruses, with diameters of about 30 nanometers. By comparison, other viruses, such as smallpox and vaccinia, are around ten times larger at about 300 nanometers, while flu viruses are around 80–120 nm.

Different virus sizes, different mask effectiveness.

Anecdotally, my kids are in middle school, and every winter we get several colds. None this year.
I was quoting from the article. I didn't realize the quote was out of context w/r/t this project. My apologies for perpetuating it.
For me, it looks like:

17630 27 S 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/httpd (perl)

which stands out like a sore thumb, IMHO.
Preparing a successful Product Hunt launch
Chicago Undergraduate Physics Bibliography
That's how our company does it too. That group tend to build the pipelines, build the tools, and publish patterns for the rest of the teams to use.
iPhones got thicker before Ive left. MacBook Airs got their first big refresh while Ive was still there and they were thicker.

They just reached a useful minimum, I don't think it has anything to do with Ive.
As somebody who is traveling out of the US for the first time on a South America trip, I found this article both helpful, and technically illuminating!
A great read!
That's where we differ. I enjoy reading a longer form article like this. Lot's of interesting details and well written. Not everything writer needs to cater to those with shorter attention spans ;-)
Constitutional complaints against the Climate Change Act partially successful
Inform him about the offer you get from another company.
Let him counter if he wants.

Nothing ever worked better than this.

In any other negotiation you're a beggar.

Turn the tables.
> This analysis presumes that hospital emergency and critical care capacity is flexible (it's not), that we can expect medical professionals to keep on performing at 100% in the face of overwhelming stress

No I'm not. Remember, what I said was: "So in many circumstances the hospitals would be overloaded for less total time and thus lead to less non-covid excess deaths."

Let's assume hospitals are severely overloaded, and are simply unable to treat COVID patients. The pedantic meaning of what I said will certainly be true: non-covid excess deaths will be less.

But the steel-manned version - less excess deaths in total - could still be true if lockdown drags on sufficiently long, and COVID-19 is sufficiently mild, and/or the marginal benefit of hospital care on survival is low enough.

> hospital systems and their staff would still be intact after such a large wave. This may sound crazy, but while we're trading anecdotes you may be surprised at how many ICU nurses considered quitting because of how hard the latest surge hit. These are the people who dictate how many "ICU beds" we have, not the physical beds themselves!

I'm well aware. Frankly, I suspect that problem is made worse by a long, dragged out, pandemic. People can often handle a short period of extreme stress better than they can handle a much longer period of high stress.
Would this only show up in the covid infected population?
Do most chimney's have a flue these days? In my experience they do, but I've only really used fireplaces in fairly old homes.
The UX here is excellent!

Threaded discussion is best done simple, and that is what we have.
Did those hospitals ever get used? I heard some reports that the auxiliary hospitals brought to NYC (especially the floating Navy(?) one) never even saw patients, for lots of obnoxious red-tape reasons.
> complete lack of social security net or poor access to education

I don't know what leads Americans to be consistently misinformed other than memetic doomsaying but the USA is 5th for education expenditure per capita, and 10th in per capita social welfare spending, both far ahead of OECD average and ahead of Japan, Switzerland, AUS, NL, UK, etc.
I'm not a mathematician, but I found Spivak's book on the linked page to be very accessible. They've started a company as well.

https://conexus.com/
There is an Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar" called
Keto [0] that integrates with the rest of the Ory ecosystem. We are actually testing it and looks great so far.

[0]: https://github.com/ory/keto
Show HN: The easy way to automatically generate accurate subtitles for videos
The title of this article makes no sense. In the article the author conveys a positive feeling toward GDPR and negative toward the site owners creating a miserable experience. Greedy, unethical, sloppy site owners are what's ruining the web, as outlined in this article.

It's click-bait. Not even good click-bait.
This is really cool! Love seeing how people are using no code tools.
> These companies are making profits and revenue

Are they though? Uber said in its 2019 SEC filing that they may not make a profit [1], and while the company says profitability is around the corner, they have not yet turned that corner.

Not saying that Uber or any “gig economy” companies should continue to classify their workers as contractors, but if your business model does not generate a profit despite not providing benefits to your workers, one has to ask how viable that business model is.

While I understand the long game is to use self driving cars, this is not a proven technology. It’s a problem that may be solved in the next few years, but there’s no guarantee. Imagine investing in fusion energy, which has been just a few decades away for the last fifty or so years.

While sometimes the long play does work out, such as with Amazon, where you end up with a behemoth that dominates its market, you have to wait a long time to start seeing returns.

I wonder if these long term, risky investment opportunities are a sign that the exponential growth in the economy that we’ve become accustomed to is slowing down and becoming more S shaped. I can imagine this being a world where wealth does not come from growing and generating more wealth, but from political and bureaucratic maneuvering (like worker classification) to give workers less benefits and distribute the wealth higher up the class hierarchy.

[1] https://investorplace.com/2019/04/seriously-uber-never-turn-...
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. It degrades discussion and we're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is just an anecdote, but I just moved to the suburbs from the city. My WiFi is so much better in the suburbs!

In my apartment I had no choice but to run ethernet cables through the whole place because I couldn't get strong WiFi despite having a gigabit connection. Can't get much more than 100 Mbps down over WiFi with a clear line-of-sight and often much worse.

My apartment would find dozens of wireless networks.

When I moved to the suburbs, I immediately started researching how to get ethernet to my home office (upstairs from the router) but was stunned to be getting 300 Mbps+ download through WiFi, same router, through a wall, despite having slightly slower hard-wired download speeds.

Interference from the other networks is my theory.
> 98.8% (!) of preschool and kindergarten teachers are female

I'm fairly sure a big part of the driver for the imbalance in education is that being a teacher is one of the only ways, other than being a full-time employee (not contractor) some place like Google, to access European-like levels of parental leave, plus European-like levels of time-off, generally, which is also hugely valuable when you have kids, while also being a career in which leaving multiple times for months at a time to have kids (if you time it well with Summer, or hit up FMLA time) is minimally disruptive to one's career growth, which is unusual for non-very-rare-and-hard-to-get jobs. Plus, and this isn't to be under-appreciated, teachers are in demand everywhere, so one can gain all the above and move to (for example) let your spouse chase higher wages at a less-family-friendly job (nursing is similarly friendly in that demanded-everywhere way, and go figure, nursing is dominated by women, too).

Relatedly, teaching is also one of the most single-parenting-friendly jobs around. The pay may not be great, but you're off (more or less) when your kids are, it's stable, and it comes with benefits. Retirement, even! It may also let you do things like get a job in a good school district, while living in a worse district (cheaper housing), but send your kids to the better district you work in, which can make a huge difference if you're on a single income.

For younger grades in particular, I think it's all of the above, plus a combination of simple interest-factor, and of men fearing (not unjustly) that any interest in or affinity for young kids (who aren't relatives) will make them look extremely creepy.
If you wait a paid forum, The Well still exists.
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
"One might ask, what incentives are there to over report a given illness at any given time?"

It allows the government to create fear and panic and pass broad sweeping bills with huge budgets. All in the name of "Covid Relief" etc.
Also Momotaro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotar%C5%8D#Story
> While I think this is most likely due to masking, distancing

I give it 5 years from now when it is no longer politically intolerable that studies will come out and admit that masks and social distancing did absolutely nothing to slow or prevent infection.
That would be unfortunate to all those prevalence studies where the difference between 1.1 and % 0.3 means the world for them. They may never know if it was %0.5 or %0.8 of the people infected.

On the other hand, it's a pretty good accuracy when you have a hospital full of sick people. Sure, you may end up recommending 14 days of staying at home every now and then when it's not necessary.

See, the PCR test is just one of the clues that is used to diagnose people. Negative test with clearly Covid-19 symptoms and medical image of the lungs showing spots gets you a bed and treatment in the hospital. Positive test and no symptoms gets you stay at home and wear a mask recommendation.
The Fourier transform performs a change of basis into the eigenbasis of convolution.

It's linear and so in the discrete case can be expressed as matrix multiplication (every discrete linear operation is expressible as matmul).
>>Expecting a city skyline to never change is ridiculous. The only problem is that so few people use these buildings. The best kind of density regulation requires _more_ density.

You're right, yet there are many cities that still restrict building development in the name of protecting certain views.

One example is the City of Vancouver that has a page dedicated to explaining the views they are trying to protect for real estate zoning.[1]

[1] https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/protecting-va...
Editr automatically generates accurate subtitles for videos, saving you time and effort. It is designed to be simple and efficient; meaning that anyone can use the platform easily.
As a travel newbie, any recommendations for loyalty programs or tips + tricks?
Honestly, I downvoted because most of the utility in these articles to me isn't the precise number, it's the idea. After all, I don't really care that chocolate bars work this way if I'm selling a SaaS product. I'm going to run the numbers myself.

It's the idea that this could work.

I want to encourage people to honestly communicate ideas to me and I want to discourage people who would discourage those first people.

I explicitly don't want to restrict only the highest-quality research. I want to permit some amount of scamming me.
"Rich Indians trying to flee" is pretty perjorative? How about "Those that can, leave the worst Covid hot spots".
It still has to run on the IPhone and ask for location, ad ID, etc. from iOS. Where the app comes from doesn't change that it must make the same system calls as everything else.
They have similar incentives to Uber where their main goal is to get engineers to work for them by being interesting, and it doesn't actually have to be profitable. I think Uber also writes blog posts about architecture to trick competitors into thinking it can't be done by sharding each city into one box under someone's desk.
I mean, if you look at May 2019 vs 2020 for the enterovirus/rhinoviruses on that chart, that's a drop from ~25% to ~3%; September went from 35% to 21%. So it's still a pretty solid decrease. I think it just wasn't nearly eradicated like influenza was because the prevalence is so high.
Please don't use HN for flamewar. Such discussions become less interesting and nastier as they go along, and we're trying to head in a different direction here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
His results jibe with the advice I was given by a frequent traveler: book your flight about 2 months in advance.
> a buggy patch originating from an experimental static-analysis tool run by another developer at UMN. That led developers in the kernel community to suspect that the effort to submit intentionally malicious patches was still ongoing. Since then, it has become apparent that this is not the case, but by the time the full story became clear, the discussion was already running at full speed.

So they found a convenient scapegoat.

I am not buying it.
To the second question: build something that a specific set of people love
Do you mean damper?

Anything with an opening into the building would probably have one. I wouldn't be surprised if people often don't realize it is there.
I used to do it. You might remember there was a project called kukuruku.co – quite a lot of submissions from that domain were on the front page of HN. But, it was super hard for me to monetize the project, so I abandoned it. Fun fact: the founder of Habr wanted to buy the project from me, but I declined his offer.
I've been really happy with express (Node). It has scaled really well for my company.

Currently processing almost 200 million requests a month on a cheap $25/mo heroku dyno.
These disclosures always hedge.
> The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on influenza

s/b

The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on FANG earnings.
You also need to consider the damage that long covid possibly do over the next 30 years.

Yes, and also the long term damage of lockdowns. Some children will be permanently harmed by the loss of education, and many people will be dealing with the effects of social isolation for quite a while.
# rm -rf /
send me bitcoin and I'll get your files back
There would be fewer traffic accidents as well right. No idea if the balance of consequences are a net plus or a net minus.

In any case there were a couple peaks in the USA where deaths from all causes were 25% higher than average.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
Question from a newbie to cloud stuff: what is the performance like for a database server that's separated from your host like that?

In terms of latency alone it sounds like it risks adding tens or even hundreds of milliseconds to even a fairly trivial request: out of my datacenter, across the wire, into theirs, grab the data, and then reverse the path. And perhaps a charge for data going out each way.

Am I wrong about that? Am I overestimating the travel time, or perhaps they end up being located in the same datacenter so it's all high speed?
Your skin color and socioeconomic status are irrelevant.

You can talk openly about whatever you like. The fact that you don't understand how awful it is to talk about a "well-off white male mentality" is an indictment of you as a person. You've lost the plot completely and your worldview is characterized by comic levels of intolerance.
> Of the remaining four, one of them was an attempt to insert a bug that was, itself, buggy, so the patch was actually valid

Absolutely legendary
It was less than one percent, "Of the $517 billion the Treasury collected in 1980, only $3 billion to $5 billion came from the 70 percent bracket — less than 1 percent of total tax revenue."

But that was also because we had many fewer millionaires and billionaires back then. The same rate and thresholds in 2021 would represent a significant fraction of the tax revenue raised by the IRS in 2021. Estimates range between 5 and 15%, depending on the pundit. (And even the notoriously right-wing "Tax Foundation" notes that a 70% rate would raise more than 150 billion in additional tax revenue.)
In the beginning, bell labs invented the transistor...
Some of my containers run for weeks between deploys, I’d like to know what changes in ‘em just as much as thay oldskool iaas db server marketing uses ;)
This is easy 20/20. At the time they were not entirely sure how widespread and if the incidences would increase. Remember doctors follow the Hippocratic oath - First, do no harm.
Build your own application with GTK4 as a Meson subproject
There's a chink in your argument.
Your example is good, but I would argue it points to a good confidence (uncertainty) estimate as the most important element of trusting a model, rather than a human-interpretable explanation.

Like you say, we want to know that the test data is distributed the same as the training data, and that our model repeatably gets predictions right in the presence of irrelevant perturbations (those two statements are at least partially equivalent). If we have this information, and are happy with the train/validation performance, then the actual process that our model uses to make a prediction really is not that important.
Better yet just stay home.
in·stinc·tive·ly

/inzˈtiNG(k)tivlē,inˈstiNG(k)tivlē/

adverb

without conscious thought; by natural instinct.

I used it correctly, the idea is that I end up on HN without thought and the bright lights surprise me.

You should've pointed out 'built', I meant 'build'.
Ehh... most viruses really don't live on surfaces very long. Unless they were continuously spraying the whole pandemic on a weekly basis I don't see how it could do much at all. And even if they were doing it every week... most of us get viruses from handled (by humans) surfaces.
Firing rates for neurons are in the order of 10hz - under the minimum acoustic frequencies of about 20hz.

Peak neuron firing rates basically only touch the lower bounds of frequencies that need to be processed.

Without the "hardware acceleration" of the cochlea that preprocesses the time domain signals to frequency domain first, basically our whole audio sensorium is out of processing range.

Normal nervous signal transmission speeds are in the order of the speed of sound, switching rates are in Hz range. Voltages are in the 10s of millivolt range.
Do you have any resources for someone interested in doing freighter cruising? I imagine right now with the mess that is international shipping, things aren't so good.
The problem with that is the question becomes who determines what is informed? It wasn't that long ago that informed people were being made fun of because they where avoiding handshakes despite the CDC not supporting it.

Now both those who support and those who disagree with masks think they are the informed party. I have disagreed with the reopening plan for my country, based on the science as I understand it (they didn't open up enough outside) and it now looks like I was right.

So the question is, who and how do you determine what constitute an informed opinion?