skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lady calls in, her 450lb 57 year old son with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and COPD is found dead at his home. Post-mortem test shows he's positive for COVID. You're the doctor, your hospital has had to furlough a quarter of their staff because nobody is coming in for any outpatient care, there's an ICU full of people on vents and you've been there for 18 hours already.

The guys mom is there and you're working up her son's case. You have to fill in the blank for cause of death. What are you going to do? Order an autopsy and possibly cut this family out of government aid for COVID-related expenses and deaths?
Thanks for this, incredibly informative.
Care about your viewers, don't make a 6 minute video to convey a two sentence message (that is probably wrong)...
Does it need AJAX to do its job?

A blog does not. An interactive chat application does.
Based on numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, over the past twenty five years, the 95th percentile income household has grown from an aggregate share of income of 21.2% (in 1994) to 23.0% (in 2019).
The children should have had the good karma to be born to more responsible parents.
I have no axe to grind at all. I'm just saying why I personally don't use it. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. Please don't be so angry with me.
>This isn't true across the entirety of the US labor market.

There is also a labor market outside the US that puts a ceiling to US wages.
The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century (2017)
My main issue with ZFS is the integrated nature - like systemd for filesystems.
My 'alternative' for ZFS isn't BTRFS (awful performance characteristics for my workloads) but LVM coupled with ext4 and mdraid. I get snapshots, reliability, performance and a 'real UNIX' composable toolchain. I miss out on data checksums.
>People wouldn't care if the latest iMacs were twice as thick...

I think Apple have a pretty good idea about marketing, and what sells a product and what most customers find attractive about it. The vast majority of computers sold are never upgraded, whether they can be or not and most people would never even think about it.
There is basically no good place to build high speed rail in the U.S. Cross country routes aren't remotely competitive with air travel. Regional routes only make sense on the coast where they have unfavorable terrain like mountains, and some of the most populated/valuable land in the country. HSR really starts losing in time cost to flights in the 800-1000 mile range, and needs about 200 miles to make it better than driving. That a very narrow band for the U.S.
> What "coercion"? China employs internet commentators to influence online opinion[1] - whereas the US does not (as far as anyone can tell).

There are many examples of the US working to influence the internal politics of other countries through media, for instance Radio Free Asia or the National Endowment for Democracy.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/National-Endowment-f...
Doesn’t a monad or for comprehension use implicits to find the right CanBuildFrom?

Are you suggesting to use scala without using for comprehensions? Or do you mean you don’t need to write your own?

It’s been a long time since I wrote scala, so may be getting it wrong.
As a layman I found the odds of this happening near the only bsl4 lab dealing with coronaviruses so improbable I didn't even need to wait for great articles like these to make up my mind. The politics of it are extremely complicated. What do we do if indeed this happened? Can we drive ourselves to bigger catastrophes in form of war?
Amazing. HD47780 displays are not only commercially ubiquitous, they were used everywhere when casemodding was still a thing. But so far, hardly anyone seems to have thought to exploit the possibilities.
Cut/paste
The title is currently: "Honeywell exported technical drawings of B1 Bombers, F-35 and F22 to China"

Written this way it appears as if substantial drawings have been disclosed, while in reality quoting the article (emphasis is mine):

"it exported technical drawings of *parts for* the F-35 fighters and other weapons platforms to China and other foreign countries"
Apple makes hardware that runs macOS. They do not make hardware to run Windows/*nix. They do not need/want to support those other OSes, else, they would make a product that would do that. They have theirs and they feel it is perfectly fine for the product they are offering "thank you very much". Since day one of Apple, the Steves argued open/closed system. Up to the Apple II, Woz won. With the Macintosh and ever since, Jobs won. It is now Apple's ethos. It is theirs to decide. You are free to not like it. Others don't like it, shrug their shoulders and choose to do it anyways. Some of them will even share what they've learned, and some of those will even do that well. If you choose to follow, thank them, and join the movement. Complaing that a company isn't doing exactly what you want just seems sad and pathetic to me.
Netflix did start pushing commercials. They started testing pre-rolls in 2017. They faced huge backlash over it, but they still want to.
Most recent and impacting in the Gambia and its sectors
The WEH001602A is pin compatible to the HD44780, with OLED output instead of LCD. In 8-bit parallel mode with an FPGA you can exceed the recommended clock rate to drive quite a bit of data into the displays: https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1088240598971310081
Kudos for the employees to be able to organize and shut down operations for the day. I hope that it’s not only symbolic. What would it take for the CEO to get replaced?
> Bit of a fool’s errand to try and avoid politics at work

No?

Politics and religion: the two topics you avoid in professional settings. Over drinks? Sure. But not at work.
care about your viewers - don't use just left audio channel in your video

in more seriousness though - please minify, but don't obfuscate, or even better don't use js if it isn't completly necessary
I think "types" are just compile-time unit-tests.

But unlike conventional "unit-tests" they also apply inside the code, not just on its externally observable call-boundary.

So perhaps more appropriately then types are "reusable assertions".
I am a big fan of LaTeX for tasks like this, like the sibling suggested, but this looks more like something done in Scribus or similar software.
Cut/paste from the other reply

Again, not sure why I can’t reply directly to timr, but the data in the graphs on EuroMOMO is not spelled out, it’s just data. That’s no reason to dismiss it?

You can start by asking questions like- why do some neighbouring countries have different profiles? Why do some not have any excess mortality? Why do some have multiple spikes?
It's funny, if an individual self reported that they'd shared classified documents to China they'd be in jail. A multi billion dollar company gets a slap on the wrist. Seems unfair.
What is the point of doing this? Is there practical value for third parties (and if so, what & which?) or is this primarily a skate video?

No right answer, just curious
Does anyone know why Bash has low usability?

It seems like Bash has tons of footguns and unintuitive syntax. Is this just because the language grew organically?
> What harm is simply photographing an accident scene

These days a “good” accident scene video will get you a ton of view on social media which translates to a lot of money. If someone crashes and is dying bleeding out on the road, the financial indentures for passers by is to stop straight away, increasing the risk of further accidents, and rushing to the scene to get the best possible shot of the dying person.

I honestly cannot see the problem in just removing that whole tangent completely by making it illegal.

The only proper action at a scene of an accident is to help out if possible or get the hell out of the way.
If someone gets free money and they spend it, they increase demand for labor, which makes it easier to raise wages until working becomes attractive again.
but hey, I get free giftcards from those guys for copy-pasting the review they email me after buying a product from them...
Every time you rebuild a record you run through its constructor. I doubt this can be optimized the same as with a plain C struct.

Eventually with some more evolution. But not yet.
'a lot of the time the one doing the asking has explicitly said "I know this is unorthodox" or "just answer how to do Y please, don't give me your 'better' options".'

After being burnt by a person who never wanted to do anything in a conventional, well-supported way* and kept making that explicit request, I have given up volunteering my time to appease them.

At work I get paid to say "I know a couple of ways of doing that, but if you could tell me more about your problem and the constraints, I can give a better answer."

*Problem: router and three laptops need to be networked. Conventional solution: ethernet cables or wifi. Requested solution: IP over serial (SLIP or PPP) over USB-serial connectors. Had not purchased USB-serial adapters.
I think this is a goof in Tom's Hardware's reporting. In the Backblaze report, it says:

"What we have are two groups of drives, one HDDs and the other SSDs, which have performed the same functions in the same environment over time. The table below compares the failure rates in aggregate for Q1 2021 of our HDD and SSD boot drives."

So while the age is different, the function is the same for the HDD/SSD comparison section of Backblaze's report.
Sorry, what exactly is the mechanism for those policy deaths you're invoking? Can you cite the relevant study you're thinking of and explain why it's more convincing than people simply dying of a serious disease?
Created in a US lab, released in China, as part of covert biological warfare
Maybe I'm just ignorant of the relevant statistical methods, but how do you suggest models be validated prospectively? All the model validation techniques I'm aware of come after the model is fit on the data (or a subset of it), like testing against a holdout set, or k-fold cross-validation, or checking R^2.
> you won't find the 'do nothing for herd immunity' as a stategy

Sure, I will. Here's the original Imperial College Report 9 to which I am referring:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...

which discusses 'mitigation' and 'suppression' as two possible strategies, in March 2020.

The UK government took this report as an endorsement for 'mitigation', which it discusses in more detail, even though the report says "For countries able to achieve it, this leaves suppression as the preferred policy option."

Mitigation is quoted as meaning "reducing peak healthcare demand while protecting those most at risk of severe disease from infection" - I'll admit I extrapolated this into "do nothing".

There are then plenty of articles discussing this, e.g.: https://henrytapper.com/2020/04/04/suppression-vs-mitigation...
> is to start by solving 1 specific problem for 1 person willing to pay for it.

You said it. The secret sauce is people.
Much less crazy than when Mac dropped the 68K -- those had been joined at birth and separation was believed impossible by even the best surgeons.

Solaris was portable by design all along, in the later Unix fashion. Sun actually sold their first x86-based system running SunOS all the way back in the 1980s, as a low-end complement to their new high-end SPARC machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i
The first paper seems like a critic of the attitude, which is a welcome change.
What Is a Vector Database?
iOS has had this functionality for a while now, but android is a lot more diverse
shrug I definitely don't know for sure. Clemps on YouTube has a theory that "Automata leads to the events of drakengard 3,which lead to events of drakengard 1,which lead to events of nier which lead to Automata." So there's at least the possibility that it loops that way. Which is a bit ... odd. I just thought it repeated in the sense that the machines use the YoRHa backdoor, wipe them out, and start over again.

I don't recall exactly what the Red Girls say, but I thought they implied that they'd built YoRHa multiple times. Don't remember now though...
The media can be expected to fuck up a science story, even a high profile one, because they do that as a matter of course, even for simple, basic technical stuff that would be obvious to a first year college student with the relevant major.

The true problem is those professional scientists who jumped on the "lol conspiratard" bandwagon and probably ended up carrying water for the CCP, albeit unwittingly. I'm talking about the government who cried "racism" when other countries started closing their borders to China — the first one to do that was of course Taiwan AKA Republic of China, who are by that token racist against Chinese people, I guess.
yeah, it's fucked up that it's come to this but I'm the same way. I don't even really care about reviews anymore on amazon. I just don't believe the star rating.

Reviews with pictures seem better, or like reddit reviews if it's a brand name.
Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it. So, while I am not an attorney lol, I am very confident that it can't be enforced with thousands of miles and a few continents between the parties :) It costs them nothing to send an e-mail and see if you'll maybe pay
In practice there may be shifty individuals specifically exploiting the situation - but it sounds like SAG requires that it members be well compensated and treated fairly and tries to make it easy to approach joining the union from a number of different angles.

If there's exploitation going on here I don't think it's really fair to attribute it to SAG in particular (though I'm not certain if you ever were, your original comment just mentioned the exploitation of hollywood - not specifically that SAG was driving this). Maybe it's more the case that a landscape that's likely to be rife with exploitation (and actors and abstract artists are extremely vulnerable to exploitation as a class of employee due to the strange quality of the value they produce) is actually made a little bit better by SAG ensuring that most actors are getting a fair shake?
> Minification provides measurable performance gains for clients by reducing parse times

That sounds like an omission from the talk indeed, assuming the gains are indeed noticeable and not just theoretically measurable. Do you have some numbers for this, or a link to some?
I’m assuming you didn’t read the white paper or anything about the implementation. No location tracking is happening.
Nothing very good.

https://i.imgur.com/LfZI0QD.png
Why would anyone need to enlist? We have nukes, they have nukes, there won't be a massive ground war.
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The jet suit's performance looks impressive to me everytime I see it again. I wonder how much arm and upper body strength is required to use the device. The engine on the back might certainly help to reduce that though.

You might also like it as quick way to move for emergency personell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtvCnZqZnxc
Besides the sheep bit, there's two unsaid parts that ring out to me.

Understanding IC's to repair them is a failing prospect. They are black boxes by nature. If you can't actually repair it without the factory, why should they write you a manual to help you repair it?

Beyond that though, there is a degree of Power lost through dispelling the blackbox (information asymmetry is Power, never forget). Explaining how it works opens up PR doors places would rather not have to deal with, and cuts off avenues of development that companies in the space thrive on. See Nvidia graphics cards for an example. Nvidia doesn't "sell" you the card, in the sense of allowing you to do whatever you want with it because they can't. They are contractually required to hide implementation details around things like HDCP and the in hardware foundations of many streaming related DRM technologies.

Then you have other aspects, like their move to requiring Nvidia signed firmware to access the power control of modern cards. This ensures only their driver can feasibly compete in the market and locks out any potential competition that may be able to pull off a true innovation using their own hardware platform (see nouveau and the signed firmware issue).

All of this would be undone by actually being required to support user firmware implementation, and disclosing how everything works.

https://docs.nvidia.com/drive/drive_os_5.1.6.1L/nvvib_docs/i...

The above is a link to an offering for a self-driving processing offering (therefore safety-criticality somewhat justifies the absurd guarantees of firmware lockdown), but my experience tells me that once ypu nail down a tricky process like that, you worm it into as many parallel business vehicles as you can.

Just knowing another company is even capable of doing something like that is a signal of demand to competitors. Hence the desire to hide everything possible as no one else's business.
No, but that's a great idea to try.
Because for some reason, many here believe companies have the right to do things not in the interest of their customers.
It is often discouraged to use -ly words.
Thanks, I will get this feedback to a Zelle PM.
This is awesome. What did you use to handle the location search?
Has anyone made a serious attempt to recreate HyperCard for modern systems? Would Apple try to block it?
Be in a field where tech is the limit
Nobody benefits from bringing it up though, Democrats don't want to look bad and Republicans want to downplay the effects of covid.
Those unemployed workers are literally going on strike.
But if you're processing 10's of thousands of records in an O(n) loop, it will still be 10's of thousands of times slower than processing a single record in that loop. i.e. having good big O still doesn't mean the code will be fast.
Seems like there are a lot of ways that employers are effectively blaming their employees for COVID. Some of the anecdotes in this article really resonated with me. It does feel "super shitty" when you feel as though you've been barely holding it together during what has undoubtedly been one of the most difficult years of the previous century and yet your employer seems to feel entitled to hold you to the usual standards. The tech industry (well, the "business" industry really) lately seems just so utterly inhuman that I've seriously considered getting out of it for good and becoming something like a technological hermit. But I can't be a "business" hermit so I'm still trying to figure that one out.

Afterword: I feel like this post is a good litmus test for identifying which respondents are in the C suite lol.
The problem is we don't know, and "both sides" don't seem willing to admit that.

What I can guarantee is that of those 95% who died with COVID, some percentage of them would have died anyway, under almost identical circumstances, except without COVID.

However, it is also true that some of those people would have lived if they hadn't contracted COVID, even though COVID was not the "direct" cause of death. For how much longer, who knows. But certainly not when they did.

In other words: the people saying we should only be counting the 5% direct deaths are wrong, and the people that say we should be counting all 100% who had COVID as deaths from COVID are... also wrong.
Browsers don't particularly care about minified vs. unmagnified. Parsing time increases relative to the number of bytes being parsed. If a minified (among other things) strips dead code, that will give you a win.

[source: I wrote the JSC parsers]
Arc has many design decisions that are different than Racket, so Arc reimplements a lot of parts.
Social distancing was never as much about saving people directly as about allowing the healthcare system to handle the mess.

In computer terms, it's about launching processes in a controlled manner vs let them run freely and make the system paginate.

You don't let critical systems paginate.
I'm really curious how it's managing to do this browser-based screen and it's performance... VNC via html5/canvas?
At the moment we don’t have much in the implementation that actively avoids these kinds of attacks. If protocol messages are dropped then this will interrupt the bootstrap and path setup processes, which also is a kind of damage limitation. If a bad actor selectively dropped traffic but kept passing protocol messages then that’s much more of an issue. In that case the logical thing to do is to try and route via another peer that may take another (albeit slightly less direct) path. Partitioning the network is also quite difficult because all it would take is a single set of good paths through the network for the spanning tree to converge on the real strongest key.

Key generation is an interesting point though - right now generating ed25519 keys is cheap and it may be possible to flood the network with lots of nodes, but it still doesn’t really constitute a complete attack, as other genuine nodes may still end up making routing decisions that repair the path. We will need to study it more and simulate it.

We do have an entire list of scenarios to work through but some of these will hopefully be solved at the Pinecone layer and others will be solved at the Matrix layer (i.e. right now full-mesh federation, like what Matrix has today, is wholly impractical for P2P so we will need to do better).

This is by no means a finished product - it’s effectively a research project at this stage and we still have a lot to do to reach the P2P Matrix goal.
In this case, it's not a weirdo, is it? I don't know of any popular ISA with a stack that grows upward.
I suspect Apple's rights might be spelled out more in the sales contract to SoftBank than in a separate license agreement. Acorn created the ARM processor, but Apple is a cofounder of ARM Holdings (Acorn, Apple, and VLSI Technogology).
It's in no way given, that Apple would get anything money, from facebook charging for their service.

They could easily go the Netflix route and keep the subscription payment off the app.

If Netflix can avoid the in-app surcharge, then facebook is surely large enough to do the same.
Exactly! So rather than try to puzzle out this undecidable proposition for nearly a million individual deaths, let's just look at aggregate statistics. Did more people die on the whole during the pandemic than we would normally expect? Does that line up with a model that they probably died from covid?

And... that's exactly what the linked article is doing. And yeah, it turns out that all these people (on balance) would indeed still be alive had they not been sick with covid.
This has been done in various forms! One interesting one is shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hv2zh_Z0Io
Sergei Rachmaninoff recorded a 78 album simultaneously with a piano roll of several pieces - thus capturing the 'keystrokes' and the audio of intonation of the master's hand.
The piano roll was converted to an automatic reproducing piano (super high end player piano, a Bosendorfer 290SE) and
massaged by an expert to sound almost exactly like the 78. Then it was re-recorded in modern fidelity, playing back from the 290SE.
It is exciting to see and hear a 290SE (re)play in person, but a little weird in a concert setting with no pianist to watch.