skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hospitals have been built and staffed for estimated peak capacity forever. Slack capacity is extremely expensive.

Here's an article from 2018 about LA County's makeshift flu hospital tent, which they built because the flu season was so bad then: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flu-demand-2018...

So, what I suggest is done, is what hospitals have always done, which is do their best to make it work.

"Two weeks to flatten the curve" was all about giving hospitals a chance and not be overwhelmed, and presumably, get better prepared. It's been 1.5 years. How long do you think it's reasonable to extend that 2 weeks to?
Ugh, thats a headache of a read.

Sounds like they're just 'recommended' for now but won't take effect till next tax year at least.

Also sounds like its intended to catch people working 0% tax contracts in the middle east or digital nomading around east-asia till they need medical care. (still not a good reason to complicate things)
as of noon, looks like most commenters disagree with apple's plan. apple will do it anyway. how is plantation life agreeing with everyone here today?
WhatsApp automatically saves photos sent to the phone to the Photo Album. Does this mean they will get a knock on their door if someone sent a bad image?
unified API, the ability to drop plugins in for new file types, and for applications to actually unify around using a specific standard.

There have been attempts, such as OLE and ActiveX on Windows, or KParts in KDE 2 (and dcop from Qt 2) (or was it 3?), or Intents on Android, or WebIntents, but yeah, none of them became universal, and many of them had security problems.
The article you linked does not say what you think it says. It says that mutation for immune escape is possible. There has been zero mutations for immune escape, so far all mutations were for higher infectivity.

Beyond that, we do know that all variants are more infective in unvaccinated individuals : http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/fileCCDCW/journal/img/cover/ffd464...

If it wasn't, it would never have out-competed the ancestral type in unvaccinated India.

The OP's point was that vaccines drove mutations. So far, that has not happened. There is no variant that is more infective in vaccinated individuals but not in unvaccinated individuals, all variants are simply more effective across the board.
At this point I’m starting to warm to the Chinese system. At least the Han aren’t made to be guilty of the original sin of being White.

I don’t know what to call the US system we have now, but can’t say I’m a fan.
Venmo is clearly offering a service with the conveniences and ease of use that come with it. If you do not see the value and fees of that service, you can skip it and set up your own wallet, BTC node, etc.
Just to make sure I got it - you advisor is asking you to repeat important stuff in different section even it feels redundant?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2019/02/11/venmo-ver... (According to company reports, Zelle processed $35 billion in P2P (person-to-person) payments in Q4 2018 versus $19 billion for Venmo. For the full year, Zelle's total was $122 billion, almost double Venmo's $62 billion.) (2019)

https://www.zellepay.com/press-releases/zeller-closes-2020-r... (Zelle® Closes 2020 with Record $307 Billion Sent on 1.2 Billion Transactions, Nearly 7,000 financial institutions are represented in the Zelle Network via their customers using the Zelle common mobile app, Achieving ubiquity with banks and credit unions: Nearly 500 new financial institutions of all sizes joined the Zelle Network® in 2020)

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/venmo-statistics/ (Venmo key statistics. Venmo processed $159 billion in total payment volume in 2020)

If anyone can plug into instant payments, your value as an instant payment provider that just does payments will fall rapidly.
American expat here - agreed with the other expats - it’s the filing that really, really sucks. Like really. Breaking the difficulty down in terms of priority.

1 - just trying to work through what all might possibly be owed and not owed to US as well as the country(ies) one operates in.

2 - Identifying through which paperwork to declare it, while also ensuring income / business reporting is copacetic with the tax regime of the country that same is actually earned in. As a business owner, (many operating overseas are looking after a business) I have to complete corporate accounts (which costs $$$$ and takes forever) before I can file American income tax for the same accounting year.

3 - the value of the tax liability itself is a distant third in terms of hassle than any of the above. (I’ll include in this bucket the fact that Americans are taxed on income earned abroad, putting us at enormous disadvantage for work opportunities vis—a-vis peer expats who come from other countries)
Mostly because these stories are incredibly rare. The Innocence Project does excellent work to try and prevent people like this from falling through the cracks.
Plain file hashing for this kind of thing has not been used for years (or even decades), Microsoft came out with Photo DNA along time ago, and I am sure now days they have something ML powered to do it.

I am not sure the accuracy of these systems but even if they are pretty accurate there is something off putting about this trend.

This very much feels like a Guilty until proven innocent type of program... "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"...

Neither of those normally work out really well.
Yeah if you ran the giant box of photos in my mom's closet through an AI you'd totally get hits from photos of baby me being bathed in the sink, baby me running around the back yard naked, etc. This can't end well.
No. It was simply the descriptor applied to the largest island in the archipelago. The cultural layer followed, sadly England in particular and the UK in general have done little or nothing to address colonial and imperial legacy
I recall the speed of the explosions being CPU dependent. When we got a new family computer in the late '90s I recall the explosion going from taking several seconds to happening almost instantly. 7 year old me thought this was hilarious for some reason.
Most employers don't go after employees for these because the employee has already paid taxes on the money and the business itself has written the money off. Having to go back and change taxes or sue an employee typically isn't worth the cost of the bonus itself. This is also null and void if they're violating her rights, like the ability to use the bathroom or take a lunch break.

Last, 28 / hour is fairly low for an RN. While indeed shows a median salary of 28.30 in New Orleans, it seems like most companies in the area are hiring at 54-64 dollars per hour setting the median for the pandemic at 46.52 per hour.

If she can nearly double her pay, who cares about 10k... I've never seen a company try to enforce these.
The part where the "economic costs" of preventing the disease have been reduced to cheap masks and free vaccines, and yet they're still somehow too high. Because it was never really about the economic costs, but about a longstanding culture war.
It's more complicated than that. If you've had the green card more than (I think) 8 years you will be treated like a citizen should you want to give up the residency. So you have to pay the exit taxes (mentioned somewhere else in this thread).
I wonder how much demonstrable interest it would really take to convince the management at Serif that a real Linux port of Affinity is a worthwhile exercise. Every time the software comes up in discussions, it feels like half the comments are just enthusiastic people hoping for a Linux-friendly version. I understand the hesitation, and surely Serif have had a conversation internally and maybe done some market research. Still, if the cost guesstimate for doing it that I saw someone apparently from Serif mentioning in a previous discussion was even close to realistic, I can’t help wondering if they could easily raise that much just in pre-orders if they ran a Kickstarter-style “Will it work?” campaign, and probably a lot of goodwill from the tech community as a bonus.
In a socialized medicine country, I'd understand this argument.

However, in a private medical system, there's no reason for this. If an unvaccinated person can pay, they ought to be treated. It's their money.
> Yes, I'm probably in the minority in the Linux world, but Linux (KDE desktop) is easily the most productive for me

Funny, I used to loathe KDE but I ended up with it by default after trying out NixOS for the first time and... I haven't left. It's great. Just fabulous. I haven't felt the need to go back to a tiling WM yet, which I still find surprising...
You're proving my point.

My comment was about "field hospitals, Javits center, and the hospital ship" which are all good safety precautions to protect the largest outbreak in the largest city in the country--just like the added safety of a seatbelt is good even on days you didn't get in an accident.

Your response is about none of those things.
> I'd say that the laws are mostly fair, but the enforcement isn't.

Yes, exactly.
I've never used SQLite but always had it on my list of things to look into for smaller projects. I guess I would still use it since I only use statically typed programming languages, and can just closely watch over my DA layer changes, but I'd greatly prefer this were done right in the DB.

A 'SQLiteNext' with design corrections like this would be a good project to live alongside SQLite. His Tcl story is strange to me, I think dynamically typed languages like JS need these sorts of changes more than anything. Some layer of your stack has to come in and keep things in order. And if you only have one layer doing things right, it should definitely be your data storage.
The antibiotic resistance most likely predates widespread pharmacological usage. We didn’t invent penicillin, it was discovered.
Exactly. The accusations are all compiled from one source and are baseless.

>showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it.

We, the reader, are supposed to read into the implications, I have seen it argued up and down over the web that this is PROOF that RMS was a serial abuser because he had a mattress in his office.

I am showing that you can read the "implications" in a completely different way.
This means that people with deep pockets, with money which came from who knows where and was laundered through Bitcoin, just bought the US Senate.
> A federal "money laundering" charge requires an illicit origin, and so since successful money laundering will never have an illicit origin, the charge can only be tacked on to another indictment.

Fair.

But think about it: a _singular_ person in your mixing pool can make the entire pool illegal. One, singular, person using that money for contraband (illegal porn, illegal drugs, illegal tax evasion) will turn the entire pool illegal.

Do you trust everyone else in the pool to be using it for legitimate gains? If you went into court, would you be able to say with a straight face that "Everyone in my mixing pool was in fact, doing legal activities?"

So in practice, I'd argue that most mixers are illegal (because surely, there's at least one person using the mixer for illegitimate purposes). Furthermore: the BTC transaction into the pool (and out of the pool) will forever be written into the blockchain. If you use your same wallet for both sides (or if the prosecutors can prove that one of your wallets was on the input-side, and another one of your wallets was on the output-side of the mixing process), you're now tied to all of the illegal activities that mixing pool is associated with.

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That's the thing. Mixing pools have never been tested in court. But imagine what a prosecutor would say to a jury, and imagine what the jury would rule.
How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
The estimates of the human population of north America in 1491 (the year before Columbus arrived in the Caribbean) are in the range of 7-18 million.
What if there's a gamma variant and drinking bleach would have protected against it? Shouldn't governments distribute bleach "just in case"?
Sucks for Venmo, cash, etc. But clearly those apps can simply uptake instant payments (affiliate with bank or gain bank status) and stay relevant?
I have used SQLite to great advantage when prototyping (when you don't have a great idea of what your data is going to look like anyway) or when dealing with filthy (beyond dirty) data, where your input types are nothing but lies from the tongue of Satan himself.

I could see people who are super-cereal about types getting bunged up about it in SQLite but ... I dig it.
There is currently absolutely no requirement in the US to report crypto holdings, only crypto sales.

So it is very likely there are such people, especially since it is common to divide large holdings between many separate addresses, making it impossible to infer holdings from sales income.
So I think the problem there is that the root causes of homelessness need addressing.

Moving all these people to a different city/town/location is not "solving" the issue.
Qualified immunity does only give protection from civil liability, not criminal.

However civil lawsuits can be brought by the victim. Criminal lawsuits have to be brought by the state. Which usually will mean the District Attorney. Who normally has a close relationship with the police and should be assumed to be reluctant to bring cases against them.

Therefore, in practice, civil law is the only meaningful remedy. So qualified immunity has been a huge civil rights problem since it was invented in 1982.

(Not a lawyer, but I like to read. BTW it could be worse - look up judicial immunity some time. Corrupt judges truly have nothing to fear from their corruption.)
But the IRS needs a mechanism to understand and interpret these ledgers, right? And the IRS enforcement is only as good as the people who are doing the enforcing.

I'm an engineer and I barely understand crypto, what hope does an IRS auditor have?
> conversion of those assets back into USD via offshore exchanges.

They would probably not exchange into USD, there are plenty of other currencies and they would probably favor a local currency.
The great open source community around Mozilla helps a lot.

When I did not see my own language in the list a year ago, and I had no clue how to get it there, I reached out to my university contacts that I know used to translate Firefox years ago.

With their help we quickly translated the whole common voice site (it was a prerequisite to start contributing a language) and provided first sets of text to start contributing.

In about a week we started contributing voice for a new language. The Common Voice project is awesome and very well made.
> "The odds of This number is equivalent to generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years."

If we're talking about random files, sure.

What if the files are intentionally created to match the desired hash? The malicious actor doing this could be a private party intending to disrupt your life, but it could also be law enforcement as a means of gaining access to your device when it would otherwise require a warrant.
The incredibly illuminating thing about cryptocurrency hard forks, is that it reveals that money is just a numeric measure of the social relationships people have towards each other, and as a result the ledger and its rules can be dynamically changed according to the needs and desires of the people (in constrast to what many naive metallists say that money is and should be a fixed store of value such as gold). I think crypto people have been generally focusing too much about the ideal, technical aspects of absolute distributed, immutable ledgers, and focused less about the social, political aspects of their work.

It is this aspect that I view the current Ethereum hard fork as one of the most important test the crypto scene had in a while - it's more of a political test than a technical one. I'm assuming that there will be quite some friction between the miners and the owners - and I'm interested in how it would turn out. Those two groups are dependent of each other for their existence, and the rift between them would potentially be the demise of the project. Will the project succeed in establishing a governance structure that would address both the needs and desires of both groups? Or will the project go into tyranny with one group dominating over the other (which would eventually lead to everyone's downfall)? In other words, this will be more of a test of governance than about technology. I don't have high hopes for the miners though, since there's just too much investor pressure from all the crypto craze that hasn't really been stopped since the coronavirus, and the miners doesn't seem to have a strong enough coordinated willpower to land an effective strike.
Indeed. Systems like the Amiga show us what we have lost from the world of personal computing. Things we could do in the 80s and 90s have disappeared and been replaced by hodgepodges of barely interacting components. It is, frankly, disgraceful and we should be ashamed as an industry that we've regressed so far.
this is fear mongering. The fatality rate of COVID, even at the beginning of the pandemic when we didn't even have proper metrics, was never measured to be more than about 7-8%, which is very high, but not 35%.

The paper you cite is about a hypothetical. Stop with the fear mongering.
Nation-states are political entities, so choosing languages by such a distinction would absolutely be political.
Sounds great- emailing you :)
> What people should know with SQLite is that it's flexible about types

and flexible how. What caught me off-guard is that I thought that since the types aren't specified with .import, sqlite would behave like how it does when you create a table without specifying the types:

sqlite> create table t(x);
sqlite> insert into t values (1), (2);
sqlite> select * from t where x < 10;
1
2
sqlite> select * from t where x > 10;

But that's not the case. It behaves like the types were explicitly set as text:

sqlite> create table t(x text);
sqlite> insert into t values (1), (2);
sqlite> select * from t where x < 10;
1
sqlite> select * from t where x > 10;
2
This is an interesting idea, essentially a platform to allow people to produce interesting/creative images and distribute from there.

I agree with you that this is not a giant leap or value-add from what is out there. I'm hoping to iterate from where it is right now. I created this over the last few days as a hobby project to learn a few technologies.
Quick search, macaques's lifespans are roughly 20-30 years. The old alpha was 31... so, in human terms (roughly), it's like a 20-ish year old woman beats a man in his 60s-70s... and she's "brave".
> There literally aren’t all the resources on Earth to do “detailed investigations” about every one of them.

I think you're overestimating the number of people incarcerated for criminal insanity and underestimating the number of resources available.
I feel the same. Everything I thought I knew about bowling seems different now; of course those weird insides hook.
I'm sure people with those biases exist, however Burr is willfully conflating these people with any diversity initiative or outreach; that's both unfounded and ignorant, and seems like the kind of joke that you laugh about until you think deeper on it for like 5 minutes.
Strange, for the last few yeas NH pretty much sold the idea that its climate change and thous evil politicians that aren't 100% in on the the green movement who cased the wildfires, hurricanes and heat waves.
What makes you think people want vaccines in countries that can’t afford them?
Perhaps the revenue is not very great but if there were a blanket exception I think you’d suddenly find a lot more people gaming then system to not technically be US residents and thereby escape large amounts of liability.
> no court is going to indict you because you have baby pictures on your phone

Maybe, maybe not. Bad luck is possible with anything involving police, prosecutors, judges, and juries. Need justification for that point of view? Just look at the number of people who were convicted and spent time in jail who truly were innocent. That doesn't even touch on the possible repercussions that can happen from just being questioned/arrested and later let go.
> FedNow will eventually replace the ACH system

Now that's interesting - does that imply that the clearing delays in transfer (say your US Bank to your Brokerage, ~3 days ACH) will disappear and FedNow makes that an "instant" (within 1 day let's say) settled transfer? Very intriguing.
FWIW, there was a post by an ICU nurse in my local subreddit who said that NOBODY took advantage of extra available shifts even though the hospital was offering double pay.

Her point was for many medical personnel, it's not about money, it's about being exhausted and burnt out.
Just a reminder that smaller guys don't have 32 ETH to spare. That's $88,603 USD. Not much for the levels.fyi crowd, but a fortune to most people.

Which means, whether you can stake is very dependent on your personal situation - especially geography - much like whether you can profitably mine.

Of course staking is still better than mining for many reasons. But it's a somewhat rich person's game.
The design of the system allows people to be lax and make mistakes, the system could be designed with more accountability. However, people designed the system and people make mistakes
Benchmarks that I could find: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Benchm....

See also: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
What counts here as a digital asset? World of Warcraft coins? Steam collectible cards?
It helps that most people don't know the difference between peer to peer and decentralized...
I don't feel like cards would be better :). I want the opposite - a kind of tech graph that's too large for any single player/NPC to explore thoroughly in a single playthrough, allowing a greater variety of opponents and games. I'd like different parts of the tree to offer different advantages, enabling different play styles.

Stellaris tries to enable variety by using "cards" to prevent you from seeing the entire tech tree - but you still know there is a tree. You'll still walk through most of it roughly in the same order. So will everyone else.

In this sense, my dream 4x is to Stellaris what StarCraft was to Dark Colony. Where StarCraft gave you 3 completely unique tech trees, each with its own mechanics, playstyle and lore, Dark Colony gave you 2 species that were really just clones with different sprites for the same units (and in few cases, slightly different stats).

(I could rant on and on. One day maybe I'll just write the damn game myself. I already have a sketch of a design doc assembled over the years.)
Hell, what if you were browsing a site like Facebook or Imgur or Reddit, saw an abuse image, reported it, but it still lives in your phone's browser cache?
Sure, but I think what throws people for a loop is that in SQLite, you can store text in that column:

sqlite> create table example(a int);
sqlite> insert into example values('00123');
sqlite> insert into example values('abcdef');
sqlite> select * from example;
+--------+
| a |
+--------+
| 123 |
| abcdef |
+--------+

Not to mention, "create table example(a)" is perfectly fine, and then the '00123' survives the trip to the database and back again unchanged.

Whereas in most other RDBMS implementations this is at best a warning:

mysql> create table example(test int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)
mysql> insert into example values ('00123');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)
mysql> insert into example values ('abcdef');
Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.03 sec)
mysql> select * from example;
+------+
| test |
+------+
| 123 |
| 0 |
+------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)

This "sometimes it's text, sometimes it's a number" property of SQLite is well documented, but can lead to some impressive "what just happened to my data?" scenarios if you're not used to it.