skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using SumatraPDF in every job I've been "forced" to use Windows, but never knew it had a dark mode.

Thanks :)
>Compliments can be rare, especially for men

I don't know about that, my grandma keeps telling me what a handsome man I am :)
More actual questions:

- how soon after exposure do you test positive (eg. if they went to the hospital, tested negative, then tested positive later there - were they undetectably positive on the first test, or did they catch it in the hospital).

- Why do we not separate hospitalized "by" and "with" covid (and same for deaths). If half of the hospitalized are there because of broken legs and appendicitis, they'd be there, covid or not. Same with deaths, if you get hit by a bus and die, 20 days after a positive test, you're counted as a covid death.
I don't think "Covid deniers" make up any significant percentage of the population, but that doesn't change the fact that this is proof that Covid is exaggerated.
That’s the same problem you might have with a self driving car driven by an ML algorithm: is that an open lane or someone wearing a black outfit with white stripes?
It's entirely misleading. They don't write 87% of patients tested positive before or early on in their admission. Even, the headline is written to convey the opposite. What they are doing is breaking it into two numbers that are each less than 50% to obscure the magnitude of the sum and then lumping the second number (patients who tested early in their admission) with those who tested positive later. It's easy to overlook that testing positive in the first 2 days of admission includes people who test positive at t=0 of their hospital admission, people who did not get tested prior to arriving at hospital. It's more amazing that 44% tested positive prior to arriving at hospital!

But all of that is besides the point because the reported statistic wasn't even labelled or reported by the original source (the NHS) as "covid as cause of admission." The stat is labelled "covid positive admissions" which is not logically equivalent to "covid, as primary cause of admission" The article does mention this distinction but they've already led readers on by framing things and setting the scene for FUD/ suspicion toward public health institutions. Knowing how many patients that were admitted and were covid positive is a useful statistic to be tracking on it's own right without necessarily attributing the admissions to covid. I'd imagine the report that they plucked this single statistic from from is filled with lots of other data which may include numbers that more closely track attribution of the admission to covid. The article implies that bad decisions are being made on account of this single statistic, which is hard to believe or should be better supported in the article's reporting if that is the intended takeaway.

Also, consider the usage of the word "leaked" in the article and reconcile that with the statement "the leaked statistics come from NHS daily situation reports" I'm not even sure what they mean by leaked, do you? The NHS is not the GCHQ, their data isn't exactly classified top-secret. The entire article is written to leave readers with the impression that the wool is being pulled over their eyes by public health institutions. It plays into paranoia and distrust toward government and public institutions.
It means 31 (thirty one) in persian.
> IE wasn't difficult because it was behind the times; it was difficult because it was deliberately different.

That's not what I recall. As I recall, IE wasn't difficult just because it was behind the times, or because it was deliberately different; it was difficult because it had lots of bugs and inconsistencies. There were plenty of subtle incantations one had to use to make it behave consistently, and to avoid its worst bugs. We dealt with it because unfortunately MSIE still had lots of users, but once the number of users became low enough, all that bug-avoidance code was dropped by web developers.

Adding to that, MSIE's Javascript error messages were extremely cryptic. In my workplace at that time, we made a MSIE-only site (it required an ActiveX control for media streaming) run as much as possible on Mozilla/Firefox (of course the media player didn't work), just to be able to get better Javascript error messages when debugging errors on our Javascript code.
Long distance driving in a sparsely populated country is quite different to long distance driving in a densely populated one. Driving the length of the UK means passing by 3 or 4 major cities. The road gets wider, motorways merge, traffic gets heavy, maybe there's a traffic jam or traffic lights, the drivers are mostly local and get more aggressive. It becomes mentally taxing.

Driving long distance when there's nothing around (eg the M6 between Preston and Glasgow) is so much simpler. You can definitely drive longer when you're not constantly negotiating city-adjacent traffic.
Perhaps it is harsh, but element is being founded to improve the client, and I find several other open source clients to behave better than the official one.

I call this honest criticism. My hope is to push matrix as an open protocol, to push matrix as a slack replacement and I genuinely wish the greatest success to the element foundation.

I currently cannot say "element is awesome". Matrix as a protocol and ecosystem is awesome, but the client... I can't say that.
Fauci is a BIO-TERRORIST and directly funded the Wuhan Lab.

He admitted so himself in this presentation:

https://rumble.com/viskb1-anthony-faucis-presentation-of-gai...

Fauci needs to be arrested, tried, and PUT TO DEATH.

The CDC needs to be de-funded, closed, and all execs tried for treason.

Fuck everyone on this site that wears a mask or got the jab. Seriously - you are all tools of the fascist state. I hope you get ran over by cars you fucking assholes.
Also “Hollywood” is not done there anymore for tax reasons. Most stuff is done in Vancouver, New Zealand, Atlanta, etc.
$2b for a password manager, seriously?
>why are people going into hospital without having a Covid test first (assuming non emergency)

The truth is that once you put aside the creepy fawning nationalism around the NHS it's actually got some serious systemic issues that never get properly resolved because it's a political football. It's not "joined up" very well at all, at least in my experience paperwork cockups are pretty much universal. The clinical staff are fantastic for the most part but the way it's administered and organised is almost comically dysfunctional. It's damn-near impossible to actually pin down an NHS service to a concrete date or time to get anything done in my experience, in some cases you just get ignored unless you specifically know that you have to chase them up yourself. I ended up going private at my own expense and the conspiracy theorist in me reckons that's probably the ultimate aim: let the service rot to the point anyone who can afford it will jump ship for the private sector.

I have a lot of respect for the people on the ground at the NHS, lions led by donkeys indeed.
I like the research, seems straightforward - though as usual concerned itll just let societies' (looking at us) waste more food
Starlink doesn't support roaming between ground stations. Plus if you look at the oceans you can see there aren't any ground stations there anyways. So you wouldn't get internet out in the oceans even with Starlink. At least not in its current phase -- future releases, maybe?

The reason there are satelites over the oceans is simply because they're not at a geo-stationary orbit. ie their orbit is faster than the rotation of the earth.
Oh wow, it's really broken. Thanks for the notice! We're still iterating fast and hard, so stuff breaks :)
Sounds like a full time job vs. a gig.
Could you tone it down a bit, please?

In common English parlance "plague" or "the plague" almost always refers to bubonic plague or diseases caused by the same bacterium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague).

COVID and "the plague" have very little in common. In particular the former is caused by a virus, the latter by a bacterium. Beyond the obviously different types of pathogen, their symptoms, mechanisms of transmission, prevention, management, and treatment are also quite different.

Moreover using unnecessarily incendiary language to discuss COVID, even if you think you're just being funny, isn't helpful because it's too easy for people to misinterpret.
Building the Iron Man suit in real life
For some reason phones and powerbanks use mAh. Power tools all use Ah (1.5Ah, 4.0Ah, etc). Unsure why, but I always found that interesting.
I've lived in SF for 12 years. I moved here because my work is here. I've been trying to get out.

You know that situation where you're out to brunch at a popular spot, there are 10 people on the list, maybe it's raining. Everyone's crowding inside, you try to stand in one spot but it is blocking the list, you try another spot but the waitress wants by, you try a third and now you're blocking the door.
That's how I feel about SF all day every day. There's no space for me. Street cleaning: move the car, traffic: people won't let you merge, Dinner: "it'll be a 45 minute wait" that's fine, I'll go to the bookstore. "oh we called you 20 minutes early (why weren't you here?)" So now you lost your table. (this happened to me last night). What else... parking is a nightmare, the bus is full of vomit and shit, don't walk down mission street in Soma (oh you work there? be sure to step over the needles and human feces). And the subway only goes one place. And the day a cracked out homeless guy tries to sell you a lego set is the highlight of the year because at least it wasn't drugs.

You can avoid those areas, but I was just driving some out of town friends to their hotel on Nob Hill and Robin says to me, "I think that guy's pants are entirely off." I see people with their pants down basically every time I go out. It's fine, I don't really care, but I haven't stepped in this much human excrement since I wandered around the slums of Mumbai and it starts to wear on you.
The volume of space is still really large though. If managed well, it will be fine. For some intuition around this, the volume is greater than the part of the atmosphere where airplanes fly, but the traffic is much less and more predictable. It's good to have some competition, additional capacity, and redundancy by having separate networks.
I didn't install the plugin, so I could be off on it's purpose (readme is lacking info), but I'm pretty sure you can already do this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (optionally filter by date range)
I think you need to take a look at iOS15 features. Not on par but a great start.
Good point, I meant to say somewhere within that time period.
Here's where things stand right now:

2021 Toyota Mirai:

0-60 in 9.2 seconds

$49,500

43 publicly available hydrogen stations in the US

2020 Bolt EV:

0-60 in 6.3 seconds

$33,000

41,400 EV charging stations in the US (and charging at home is easy)

If you're going to claim that an FCEV is more reliable in spite of the extreme differences in mechanical complexity, I'm all ears and would love to see some cites for that.

BEVs are getting cheaper faster than FCVs, FCVs don't have a prayer of ever competing with BEVs on performance, and there are ~1000x public EV charging stations compared to hydrogen stations.
Yes, the data should be published— all relevant data should be published. But it says they just started gathering data a couple of weeks ago. So does the fact that it hasn't been officially packaged and published mean it's leaked as they repeatedly intimate? Or maybe it just wasn't published yet? Maybe they found anomalies? Just being the NHS and moving slowly?

Is it also hard to imagine that many people hospitalized because of COVID wouldn't regularly get COVID tests, even when sick? Most are older people more likely to have limited mobility, limited financial means, and difficulty navigating the world.

I don't mean to insinuate that their suppositions are false! Maybe everything is as they say, the government is counting people hospitalized for any reason at all as a COVID hospitalization, AND the number of people hospitalized with COVID who would not have otherwise been hospitalized is significant. Maybe they're doing it to justify overbroad public health intervention, as many assert. They don't provide any evidence of that, though. We just don't know.

This data could help us know, and I wouldn't be so critical if they were just dinging the NHS for not releasing it quickly enough. The Telegraph, however, is using this to bolster an ostensibly uninterrogated postulation without presenting any empirical evidence.

(malformed quotes are on them)
Prof Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said: "This data is incredibly important, and it should be published on an ongoing basis.
"When people hear about hospitalisations with Covid, they will assume that Covid is the likely cause, but this data shows something quite different – this is about Covid being detected after tests were looking for it."

The one expert they quoted. I read this quote as saying "people hospitalized for covid" is a different number than "hospitalized people who were found to have covid," which could be what those numbers represent, but we don't know. The Telegraph, however, is really grabbing the reader's steering wheel with bits like this:

"Experts said the high number of cases being detected belatedly – at a time when PCR tests were widely available – suggested many such patients had been admitted for other reasons."

That sentence wouldn't even pass muster on Wikipedia because of the weasel words. That's at the very least a heavily slanted interpretation of a quote and possibly a deliberate misrepresentation. That they attributed uncited "experts" rather than "this particular professor," I'd guess they're leaning towards the latter and completely aware of it.
I'm no farmer, but you can see the extremely expensive and sophisticated farming machines pretty much every time you drive past a rural area.

Giant watering machines, extremely weird "collector" thingies, and a whole slew of farmers complaining to John Deere about "right to repair".

Modern Farming is about having huge infrastructure so that very few people can create lots and lots of food. Between the fertilizer, the bountiful land, the water, the sophisticated machines, etc. etc.

Also, I had a few teachers who went to the local agriculture university and talked to me about soil types and soil tests. Farmers have to be extremely up-to-date on chemistry, botany and even general biology: you survey your fields by taking chemical tests to determine the nutrients in the soil. You keep careful eyes on your crops at each stage of development: ensuring that they're progressing as expected.

Finally, you also need to be on the lookout for insects and/or animals, who can destroy your crops. But not just insects and animals... but also fungus, bacteria, and viruses. (Plants get sick too, just like humans).

If a plant-virus starts to spread in your farm, you could lose the entire crop. You're pretty much the "Crop Doctor", and need to be able to tell the different kinds of diseases that can come up (is it a fungus? Should you spray fungicides all over your plants? Should you spray insecticides? Should you burn your crops to prevent the spread?)

And despite the miracles of modern nitrogen-based farming... micronutrients in the soil still matter. So you still got that whole crop-rotation thing if you want your soil to rejuvenate between crops.

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Soil alone is already a major issue. If you've got too much clay in your soil, you need to find sand and/or compost and mix it into your land. Or you know... sell your land and find better soil.

/not actually a Farmer, but had the pleasure of talking to some...
Depends on the farm and how much hustle the farmer is forced to have to try to make a profit on a commodity profit.

Most modern farms have an insane work load to desperately try to pay the bills making a product that may be worth less on the commodity market than it cost you to grow.

The older style family farm was usually only super busy for relatively brief periods of time (harvest, calving season, etc). There was always work to be done, but you fit the work in to the rhythm of the day and had the family to help.

Oh, you had to get up and milk the cows, collect the eggs, etc, but your total acreage and consumer base was usually small enough that daily work was kept in a manageable balance.

Additionally, I think you're missing the point of the article, which is clearly stated as instead of trying to balance two different lives we need to make our lives whole again and allow what we do for income to be as satisfyingly part of our lives as any other aspects.

This point is... well bluntly a double edged sword.

Like farmers it meant you might have to attend to something in the middle of the night. Or the crunch season has hit so you put off watching the telly or playing a game. But it also means you're close to your family and house and can spend time with them, often even while working.

The article is questioning the relatively new division between our working lives and our personal lives and advocates demolishing that boundary for a more holistic experience. I'm not 100% sold on this, especially for workers who are not owners of their labor (i.e. employees rather than founders-partners). These people will make family of their coworkers only to be laid off at the first economic down turn, or skip out on looking for new employment to better capitalize on their skills because they have built a life at Acme.
> translateable into Javascript

I didn't realize this was for web app frontend. This is not mentioned in the repo, in fact the README seem to indicate otherwise:

> Concepts such as app, page, user, login, *frontend*, production, etc. are baked into the language
Space is massively big. We can easily have a thousand systems like this without getting the density of an airport airspace. We should be trying to put a trillion people in space.
"After a bit more idle chat, the actor then mentioned that they were handing out flyers about a university careers event, and asked the participant whether they would like to take a handful to hand around themselves. The effects of the flattery were dramatic, with 79% of the participants offering to help with the event publicity, compared with only 46% of participants in a control group, who had not received the compliment."

How did the test avoid the fairly obvious effect that a compliment can often be a form of flirting and so might have been less to do with reciprocity as much as the person simply wanted to hang out with the likely quite sociable actor?
Remember that these agricultural feedback cycles are not instant and demand for food is only flexible to a point (if people starving is not a viable option). Removing production capabilities quickly, even with price increases, does not make for fewer mouths to feed.
This is going to depend so much on your product and target demographic.

We cold called.
Healthy competition will elevate you to levels you can't go otherwise. Healthy competition isn't about wishing others would fall down, or beating yourself up, it's about pushing yourself so that you can achieve your personal best. There is immense satisfaction in pushing yourself to be the best you can.
Glad to see he's doing something that can benefit us all but...

"Koch admitted that he regrets stoking partisanship. “Boy, did we screw up. What a mess!”"

Yeah, we're all still living with the consequences of that experiment.
+1 I have a plug-in Prius and I haven't put gas in the tank since January, when I drove 10 hours to visit family.
"valid" seems sort of weasel-wordy here.
And what connects 31 to PDFs? Just curious honestly. I also wonder why Sumatra is called that way
I have to disagree with you. Or maybe farming is just terrible here in the US because of all the rules and crap with companies like Monsanto.

Where I come from, farming is a pretty fulfilling endeavor. Both my parents left senior corporate roles to pursue farming because they love it so much. Even when they made their first money working, they bought a piece of land and were there pretty much every weekend. They started from working the farm themselves all the way to employing people. They are absolutely happy and have zero regrets about it.
This is not an isolated incident either, a number of guys I went to school with have since started farming. It is not as lucrative for some of them as some jobs there were in, but they were very happy to leave their jobs and pursue farming full time. These are folk in South Africa, Australia, Zimbabwe, Ireland and a few other places.

In a lot of countries, you will find that many people work hard in day to day jobs so that they can eventually get a farm, move there and live happily.
> All I am seeing here is the argument that given a high enough population fertile environments don't matter.

This is the exact opposite of what I read GP to say. They were making the point that for every “genius” driving innovation, there is a long trail of people necessary to support and foster such innovation. This is not an “innovation by numbers” argument.
Yeah it's pretty cool. I use it as a pdf/epub/etc reader in for calibre (which manages books/comics/etc)
There's a strategic advantage for a country to grow your own produce. You drop all subsidies, it's likely that you can't compete with country XYZ and now suddenly one of the most important thing for your citizen has to be imported instead of being produced locally. This has lots of side effects and of course you are more at the mercy of international supply chain problems (COVID!) which cause shortage, high cost, etc. Running out of food is a really bad situation to be in.
This isn't as easy as "supply and demand" to fix the market as other industries.

I'm more familiar with Philippines, but they turn out to have a very poor local farming industry. You go to the grocery store, majority is imported from abroad. We are talking of a country with 110M population. Makes food expensive, and lots of people are not exactly rich over there (on top of the issue of having country side people not having jobs)
A magazine article doesn't need to be able to send push notifications.
According to a actual established definition of the word (source?) or a definition you made up?
> Experts said it meant the national statistics, published daily on the government website and frequently referred to by ministers, may far overstate the levels of pressures on the NHS.

I don't understand this part. Isn't the important number here the total number of people in the hospital (or ICU or other ward) relative to the total number that the hospital (or ICU or other ward) can accommodate? Or alternatively, the total excess relative to normal years.

I can see the utility in differentiating these numbers for other reasons, although the accounting could be tricky, to handle cases where people are admitted for one thing then develop another, or show symptoms that could have a number of causes.
May be an unpopular opinion, but I'm all for my taxes helping us not starve to death.
The app and content will be available for free when it launches — although I do have plans to add some paid premium labs/content later at some point.
You have to go through 100 slides before getting to technical details?
I second this.

Have an organic grower locally that sends me artisan cigars and tobacco.

Then I light a cigar or smoke a pipe.

Never inhale, only puff and play with the smoke.
You come into every matrix comment section to grief Arathorn, you come off as the bad guy.
The author blogged about it in 2009 [1]

TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc

[1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...