skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What is the impact of telehealth on care utilization in the US?
Trying to do some research to see if there was an overall increase in 1) primary care utilization and 2) specialty care utilization in the US as a result of the increase in virtual access to care. Any references or articles are greatly appreciated! Everything I see only focuses on the increase of telehealth utilization as a replacement for in-person visits rather than the overall increase in care utilization as a result of telehealth being available.

Basically:

1) Are patients, who otherwise would not have made an appointment, seeing primary care providers because they can get virtual access?

2) Are more patients, who otherwise would not have sought out specialty care, seeing specialists (like therapists) now that virtual solutions are more widely available?
You can also statically link debian packages, though conventionally they aren't built like that.
What if that's only a feature of animals that went through biological evolution on earth?
How is that different from someone closing the issue manually?
Recent and related:

There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27177503 - May 2021 (457 comments)
I think the book is still useful with all it's flaws, mainly because "overengineering code" is like exercising too much: sure, it happens to some and can be a big issue, but for the vast majority of people it's the opposite that is the problem.
Correct, I mean if Stripe developed a wrapper around the native APIs as other companies have done. Payment is still handled natively but Stripe would provide consistent webhooks without having to deal with Apple’s complex receipt API.
Indeed, which doesn't happen at all with Rust.
Probably this won't actually be visible to you since it's likely buried all to hell by now, but just in case someone comes along and finds this:

yeah this was great starter material thanks :)
My point was that it probably doesn’t matter. M1 is already very fast, even without SVE. At some point you just have to decide to ship a product, even if it doesn’t have every possible feature.

Like other posters mentioned, for vector operations like this, you could be dynamically linking to a library that handles this for you in the best way for the hardware. Then when new instructions become available, you don't have to change any of your code to take advantage.
Shenzhen (and Taipei, Wuxi, etc.) supplies the electronics for the entire world economy, which it turns out is mostly boring incompetent greyface stuff like General Motors and Cemex. They supply hackers too, but hackers are a minority of their customer base. Shenzhen's customer base isn't comparable to that of Radio Shack or Byte.
I mean Mark Prince has shown that he and his family's companies are happy to murder for hire. That's probably a good starting point if you want killers that operate with at the support of a major Western government.
While Lukashenko may not, some of those dictators have the effective power to assassinate Western leaders in retaliation. I'm really not sure we want to open that can of worms.

It'll also blow right up in our face in terms of the desired effect. In many cases, I figure doing that would actually boost support for the regime. Many dictators are ruling right now on nationalist sentiment -- "I may be a thug but I am strong and I keep our nation safe from the Americans [or whoever]". Bumping them off will not exactly dispel that myth. If they survive, or if power transfers stably to their second-hand-man or woman, they can now portray themselves and their nation as besieged by hostile foreign powers which will stoop as low as assassination to manipulate the nation's destiny for their ulterior objectives. (The best propaganda, after all, is the truth.)
A non-scientific thing I've been doing for the last few months at the day job, with Julia.

1) querying a time series database of systems metrics at scale for (large) fleets. This is being done via a JSON API. Directly in Julia.

2) Creating data frames from these queries, and performing fleet wide analytics. Quickly. Millions to hundreds of millions of rows in the data frames, typically 4-20 columns. Directly in Julia, no appeal to a 2nd language.

3) leveraging the power of the language to post process these data sets before analysis, to remove an "optimization" that reduced data quality.

4) operate quickly on gigabytes of queried data, threading and sharding my requests, as the server can't handle large requests, but it can handle parallel ones. Poor design, but I can work around it ... trivially ... with Julia

5) creating jupyter lab notebooks for simple consumption of these more complex data sets by wider audiences, complete with plots, and other things.

No science done here ... well ... data science maybe ... and this is specifically in support of business analytics, process optimization, etc.

Julia is an excellent language for this, 10 out of 10, would recommend.
According to https://help.gumroad.com/article/260-your-payout-settings-pa..., it depends on Stripe's availability for ACH payouts.
Why not just use the Accept-Language header? stripe.com already does this – At least I get redirected to "https://stripe.com/en-de", seemingly based on the combination of header and geolocation
CDC Will Not Investigate Mild Infections in Vaccinated Americans
Ok, that sounds extremely similar to the history function in QLDB.

In the examples shown in the AWS docs, the results of a historical query are not changes made to the document, but the fully resolved state of a document at the requested timestamp (or within the timestamp range). Like other threads on this page mention, this is an unusual but not uncommon DB feature these days.
Not directly related to these new fancy cores, but I was looking at the product range and noticed Cortex-A34 core in there that has snuck by quietly. I couldn't find any hardware, chips or devices, that are using that core. It has the interesting property that its AArch64 only, like these new ones. Has anyone seen or heard about it in the wild?
> Maybe the real reason that distro package managers are unpleasant is that they opt to dynamically link everything by default?

This. Seriously if things weren't such a tangled mess. I could just do `apt install potato@v2.1` and life would just be so good and simple.
What does the "Viet Nam conflict" have to do with capability-based security?
on POSIX, environment variables is just a pointer to an array of pointers to NAME=VALUE strings, terminated with NULL.

The contents are private to a process, and the only method to modify them from outside the process is to have write access to process memory and change the pointer to the memory block.

When you start a new process, ultimately your calls turn into execve family with full set of arguments, i.e. actual binary to replace your process with, arguments, and contents of the environment it's going to use. The wrapper functions that don't ask for new environ value simply copy the current one.
> you do still need to deal with the situation where the character shows up in your data

JSON doesn't support binary data without conversion to string first.
most of the recent articles i've seen have been saying, "Why didn't more people kill themselves during the pandemic??"

and now we have this. i think that doctor's diagnosis sounded reasonable -- kids have run out of resilience -- their tanks are empty.

and that's prob true of a lot of people.

i think the Trump Administration's handling of the pandemic pushed most people at least to the edge, if not over it.

Cuomo and the rest of the Dem governors and Mayors (De Blasio, Newsome, Witmer, etc.) were just as wanton in their disregard for humanity (and that, imo, is being generous).

Whether the CDC was intentionally handicapped and turned into a malevolent force, or was help along by misinformation 'heroes' like Fauci, the effect was brutal.

Biden's CDC is seemingly only marginally less worse.

The GOP/Republicans - literally the most dangerous orgnization in the history of the world - have been fighting climate change legislation for decades, trying to send us all to our doom, so their misinformation about Covid was to be expected, and in context, is really almost nothing in comparison.

Fox News runs wild with racism and white supremacy and conspiracy and misinfo.

Facebook and other mass media outlets are completely uncontrolled, and we're unwilling to regulate them, regardless of the obvious havoc and destruction they are bringing.

We had an attempted coup with almost no consequences at all. The US is not Chile or some other small democracy -- we're one of the few countries that can end the world in a single moment of insanity.

The origins of Covid itself have not been properly investigated, in part because US investors are so dependent on China's manufacturing -- and US conglomerates so dependent on China's population as prospective customers (e.g. NBA).

As adults, presumably we have at least _some_ control over our situations. For kids, it must often be torture -- right out of a CIA playbook -- make them feel the loss of control/agency.

The extreme capriciousnous of covid is now seemingly reflected in everyday life for most people, but especially anyone without real agency (kids, the poor/working class, the elderly, etc.).

And global warming risks/effects like Covid are just starting to hockey-stick.

failed political system. failed media. failed health care system. failing civil society. failing nation.

i'm not ready to give up, but we're in a bad way, and i feel like these Colorado kids might be sending us a desperate message -- we need to act differently, or maybe just act at all.
"The country’s energy consumption is down to 1990 levels."

Yes, sure. Since they outsourced the energy intensive productions. But since you don't want to understand it, it is meaningless to try to explain it to you.
> It's an impressive run, but the ground has shifted, slowly, under our feet, and now Unix/Linux are no longer a good fit.

Unix is still a good fit for a kernel; e.g. it is used by Apple. The stuff built on top of the kernel (UI, etc.) can change, of course.
There’s also hot-dip galvanized and stainless steel rebar.
Windows used to be more consistent. Now the Windows users who cared gave up Windows or gave up caring.
Google Fuchsia OS finally rolls out
Was there a gap in the first place? We could design temper-proof data storage since way before the blockchain. All you need is checksums, public key cryptography and a way to publish your signed checksums.

I'm not saying that this isn't a good project but it's a bit strange to frame it as if it was a major technical breakthrough.

If anything what catches my eye in this announcement is the "time travel" feature as well as the wire protocol compatibility with Postgres, that's pretty cool.
https://archive.is/CYbFy
Counter question. How is this any different from videos of beheadings by ISIS and skinnings by narco cartels?
Related to this I have often wondered if childhood amnesia is (by a crude analogy) a "format problem".

In this analogy, the lion is our younger selves. Perhaps our brain changes so much that we cannot understand (or access) what we were thinking or experiencing anymore.

If we imagine that long term memories are encoded in a way that they can later be interpreted actively by the structures of the brain, we could expect that major developmental changes in brain function might impact the ability to interpret long term memory formed before the change.

Physical trauma, the major reorganisations of infancy and language acquisition all prompt changes in organisation and processing that could be what renders earlier memories inaccessible.

This (admittedly hand-wavey) idea seems to mesh well well with the observed details of the phenomenon. Frequently accessed memories may be re-encoded, leading to some continuity. Children themselves experience fairly continuous long-term memory. Types of memories where relevant processing might not have changed as much (smell, visual memory) might be more resilient. We would expect age of language acquisition to play a part. Etc.
Reinforced concrete has achieved regulatory capture via the building codes. If you try to build with anything non-standard, prepare to deal with a mountain of red tape.
Planning enforcement for domestic development in England is definitely 4 years, I agree with the parent comment.

There was that one guy who covered his castle in hay bales for just over 4 years before revealing it and they took enforcement action successfully, but that's a bit different. I'm guessing that's why you said "became obvious that building works had been completed" but actually the rule is simply completion date but the courts decided that this guy was taking the piss so much that he still violated the intended meaning of the law. Your odd agricultural shed example may well fall foul of the same thing but I don't see what that has to do with the parent comment.

It's 10 years (not 12) in some cases but they wouldn't concern most domestic developments.

Any insurance of the type referred to by the parent comment is 100% definitely a swindle.
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Review
Android uses a mix of JIT/AOT, just as most Java embedded development.

As for not everything being supported, well that is no different from having C++ code with RTTI and exceptions disabled, or being forced into a specific linking model due to possible problems with a third party dependency.
Yeah it's not like you were going ask Shadowrunners for a refund.
Why does this comment not seem legit... This seems like a bot. There is no way Apple or Microsoft would pick this up.
I always wonder about what would have happened if covid had been age flipped, eg killing the young and sparing the elderly.

With no political and economic power, would children’s health have had the same impact on the world?

Consider that a growing number of bureaucrats have never raised children…
There are 3 layers here:

1. Records separated by ASCII "\n" characters, wherein each record cannot contain an "\n" character

2. Each record is UTF-8 text in JSON format

3. The schema of each record is <something>

ND-JSON takes care of the first two. You would still have to use JSONSchema for the third.

This is not very different from using JSON without the "ND" part. Except:

1. Now there's the "ND" part, and I have something standardized I can use for quick and easy understanding/agreement when collaborating, especially outside my organization.

2. Plain JSON supports exactly 1 record per stream or file. ND-JSON supports any natural number of records, or an infinite number of records. That's useful to me.

I really don't understand the resistance here. Nobody is trotting this out claiming its some hot new thing. It's an unoffensive standardization of a pretty basic data format that people have been using for 10+ years.

If you have no use for it, then just ignore it. Consider that the people using it might not be morons; they might just have different needs that are different from yours.
Jaquet Droz Signing Machine: Keeping Handwriting Alive, with a Machine
Precisely. It becomes a talking point, whether for true believers in support of the current Belarussian regime or its allies, or useful idiots; one of the challenges of an open society is how to move without becoming hopelessly bogged down in bad-faith argumentation: "skeptical environmentalists", pro-tobacco fake science, or the latest push from apparently Russian-based PR agencies to pay influencers for an astroturf campaign against vaccination.
Sorry, but it sounds like you're making death threats.
To care for the state of future generations is worthwhile, because it is to give hope and happiness to them while they are living. I want all of humanity to live in as ideal a world as possible, and it’s worth fighting in the present so that future humanity has a better world. And society should care for those who have sacrificed for it, while they are alive.

Once I am dead though, there is no me here to respect any more. Death is complete separation from this world. The vast majority of people who have ever died are completely lost to memory, whether they wanted that fate or not. And for those we do still remember, they’re long past having the ability to care at all what happens to what they left behind. Whether through nothingness or an afterlife, they are no longer here.
It's been done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Eagles
Does this work on mintty (cygwin)?
Cool. I agree with that.
If you just mean that the earth will continue to exist, or that some manner of organism will live on it, then yeah that seems like a safe bet. But a lot of people think it would be a bad thing if we drove elephants to extinction, or destroyed the Great Barrier Reef (and not for any prudential reasons tied to human interests, either), and that's what they mean when they urge us to "Save the Earth."
Please make your substantive points without personal attacks. Crossing into the flamewar style like this is guaranteed to make the discussion nastier and more predictable, which are two things we're trying to avoid on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can’t do much of anything if you’ve already given away the information in question — the same is true if someone copied the data itself.

You have to not give away the key in the first place, at least not to any clients that you don’t own.

E.g. following the rule “any problem can be solved with a level of indirection”, external clients get some Auth key A, which they feed to internal client, who internally maps it to some data key B, and decrypts the data and hands it back to the external client.

When the data is removed, you delete the mapping from your internal client.
Same could be said for anywhere in the Midwest tbh
Why is does the image at the top of the blog post for half double that it links to have something that looks like a crochet needle?
I would love to have been a fly on the wall listening to that debate about the cut-off for how many dildos are acceptable Maybe this is buried deep on C-SPAN somewhere.
Will they also investigate DC lawmaker who presided over killing right to repair bill and later landed a job at Amazon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8fkAEJ4pM
I also find a pity that so far only Solaris SPARC has had proper mitigations in place for C code.

The irony of these kind of mitigations is that computers are evolving into C Machines.
CEO is a very different job depending on the size of the company. Is this a question about startups? Large mature companies? Something else?
Stripe 1 - Paypal 0

I surely will be looking into this as Paypal fees are way more expensive
> I find nothing natural in doing operations related to zero i.e. related to nothingness, meaning that I see “adding” and “zero times” as an oxymoron (you cannot associate an action, “adding”, to nothingness, i.e. to “zero”).

Seems related to [this problem](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47783926/why-are-loops-a...).

This is, a proper loop is like

do while (condition)
{
// ... body ....
}

, where each iteration checks for the condition. But some folks might feel like a loop should always just do something first and then consider if it should repeat, i.e.

do
{
// ... body ....
}
while (condition)

From that sort of perspective, zero might seem kinda unnatural and contrived, sorta like

if (!zero)
{
do
{
// ... body ....
}
while (condition)
}

In other words, the fallacy might in some assumption that doing something multiple times means doing it once and then possibly more times.
I haven't put anything on YouTube since Google acquired it. My stuff is on Vimeo.
Violence is wrong. At the same time, actions have consequences. Perhaps the Israelis should have been worrying about the diaspora when they were lynching Palestinians in the street.
If feel you know what you are saying.

People saying automation will save American manufacturing have zero experience with real manufacturing.
Epoxy coating is falling out of favour, as it has two downsides: 1) is has a weaker bond to the concrete, so you need longer bars to transfer the force, and 2) if it gets damaged (scratched or cut), the corrosion will concentrate at that location, and you are more likely to end up with a fully rusted-through bar, as opposed to a small amount of corrosion spread over the whole bar.

Reinforced concrete is much like clothing: a stitch in time saves nine. With regular cleaning and maintenance, it can last much longer than if you just let it deteriorate.
This is great! Love the simple syntax that anyone could grasp in just a few seconds. Nice work!

Some feature requests:

- Be able to resize the "code" pane and the preview

- Faster update of the timeline on change

- Use a standardized date format, like ISO 8601
i agree that tracking bounces is critical for this. that said, I'm already a big fan and would love to give this a try.

I would also love to see if a pixel can be added to emails so emails and link clicks could be tracked as well.
Adobe's "Creative Cloud" has monthly billing like a SaaS but it is mostly the same desktop product is always been with some exceptions such as the new Lightroom (maybe a web-first photo editor is appropriate if they want to compete with the immediacy of social media) or the mobile editions of Acrobat. (e.g. for heavy document conversion a phone should hand the work off to a cloud PC somewhere... not just for "resources" such as memory and CPU but also hosting the whole ecosystem to run a real copy of Microsoft Word to convert a Word to a PDF.)

For little projects though (say an app to control my "smart home" during a party) I progress through "as much as I can do with a web app" (a lot) directly to Electron through MobX + React.

You might say "that sux" but I looked hard at the cross-platform GUI toolkits like Tk, GTK, Qt, PyGame, Kivy, JavaFX, and none of them have a good story.

I guess I could learn to make native Windows or MacOS X applications, but I've gone about 20 years not learning how because the market for cross-platform software (web sites...) has kept me busy.
It was an interesting experience.

I went in assuming someone's in charge, but honestly, most of the mistakes Google makes are in the category "nobody's in charge." They operate at a scale where everyone tries to use them to do everything. That's everything good and everything bad. They've been both a force for normalizing LGBTQ identity and a force against it, a mass communication tool and a mass oppression tool, a platform to help people and a platform to stalk people. They actively manage, observe, maintain, and regulate only a subset of the space of uses their tools allow.

This is explanation, not excuse. I'm not there anymore because I think it should be their responsibility to take responsibility reflective of their size and impact. I lost faith that the leadership agreed.

In this specific example, my assumption from personal priors is they let this ad in because there's nobody in charge of negative-filtering ads like this until complaints come, and in the absence of policy the default policy is "allow." They have categories to catch ads for illegal substances, various forms of illegal activity, and so on, but "A state-level actor will use our ad platform to paint a false message of the status of a political prisoner" is a new one for them.
The circumstances he operated under while writing Doom were much different than most people encounter. The couple of people working with him on the code were all experts in their field and have a complete understanding of the problem space. What you seem to be identifying as indications of unnecessary complexity of modern development practices might really just be accident of circumstance and the individual skill of the contributors at the time. It is a mistake to look at the behaviors of the unusually talented few and see takeaways to apply more broadly.