skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure what point you are trying to make here - are you in agreement with CryptoPunk that fear is the real problem, as if the shortage of ICU beds was like a run on toilet paper?

As cameldrv points out, an increase in RSV of this magnitude is normally well-handled, only the timing is different. As both the original article and the one you link to make clear, the problem at this time is staffing, and the staffing problem is being driven by Covid.
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> I would expect that a group that has been hunted for 2 decades to be only just barely managing to survive - how do they have weapons, transportation, logistics etc to be able to basically get their act together like the past 20 years never happened?

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> Afghanistan's opium poppy harvest produces more than 90% of illicit heroin globally, and more than 95% of the European supply. As of 2017, opium production provides about 400,000 jobs in Afghanistan, more than the Afghan National Security Forces [0]

> In 2020, the area under opium cultivation expanded to 224,000 hectares from 163,000 hectares - overwhelmingly in areas under Taliban control. [1] [2]

> Meth is even more profitable than heroin—and is turbocharging the insurgency.

> The officials described the Taliban as the world’s biggest drug cartel and said the group is using heroin transshipment routes to push methamphetamine into new markets in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe and Africa.[4]

> Later, a NATO report, accessed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, claimed that Taliban's annual budget had increased to USD 1.6 billion in the financial year 2019-20. It said that the militant group had increased its profits through illicit drug trade, illegal mining, and exports. [3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanista...

[1] https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-tre...

[2] https://theconversation.com/afghanistan-what-the-conflict-me...

[3] https://english.jagran.com/world/explained-how-do-the-taliba...

[4] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/19/taliban-expanding-drug-...
Awesome! This reminds me of https://cryptopals.com/
It was https://nomadvisa.io/
But... If the vaccine hasa lower risk of side effects than this does, which it appears to, and only takes two doses, instead of having to take it daily forever, why wouldn't we just get the vaccine instead? I suppose the use case is countries that are too poor to afford the vaccine?
> [H]ow many straight men actually feel no attraction to (pubescent) teen girls?

I've long found much younger women to be ever less of a sexual turn-on. When I was fifty, it felt like "anything under thirty-five is pedophilia"; now (at 57) that limit is probably somewhere around forty. Sure, I could still see myself hugging some nubile sixteen-year-old -- just like I could a boy the same age, namely in a comforting "There, there, dear toddler, did you hurt your knee? We'll put a band-aid on it" way. (Though I probably wouldn't actually do that either, knowing how it would likely be construed.)

Dunno if this is simply due to diminishing testosterone, or (feels just as likely to me), if you want to get into evolutionary psychology: parenthood. Maybe we've evolved to be programmed to, after a certain age, not so much constantly strive to procreate, but to take care of the offspring we and others have already set into the world? But maybe if you haven't already done that, the drive to procreate isn't replaced by one to nurture. (Hm, does anybody know if the guy has kids?)
> Meanwhile, over here in healthcare, I'm currently carefully evaluating whether to update some software packages from their 2011-release version to their 2015-release version

This could partially explain why healthcare IT is some of the worst in the world. Can't imagine the number of vulnerabilities you have from using such outdated tech.

From EHR systems, to basic appointment scheduling, to billing and insurance, everything is so poorly built and tedious for the users. Not to mention, healthcare is always falling victim to ransomware, shutting down entire hospital systems.

I know you'll say you need to move slow, lives are at risk, etc. But what healthcare IT is doing now certainly doesn't work. So maybe push on the gas a little bit.
Ideally you should be avoiding natural sweeteners as well.
Nobody is saying it's impossible to eat enough fruit to be fattening.

We've arguably evolved to do exactly that, since fruits are seasonal crops with brief periods of availability before rotting and vanishing until next season. We binge when they're available (and love sweets accordingly), storing some energy for the coming period of scarcity.

But it's true that intact fruits include soluble dietary fiber. The soluble fiber interferes somewhat with the small intestine's access to the sugars locked up in the goop as it passes through, to become flatulence via your guests living in the colon.

Just look at an insulin index including fruits to see how they compare, there's a small example on wikipedia @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index#Explanation_of_I...
I'm surprised by the antipathy towards both author and technology expressed by many of the top level comments here. Personally I found the piece moving, even from the first generated sequence. By the last iteration I had tears in my eyes.

I admit I might be biased. I also have access to the GPT3 beta and have used it for this same purpose of writing assistance. To me GPT3 as of now is like a super advanced thesaurus, a tool that you can use to broaden your perspective and get out of a rut in your writing.
They shut down emacs?
> Sadly, there were divorces and broken families and bad things that came out of that. But I also learned that even at a 20,000-person company, you can get a team of 100 people to work like their lives depend on it.

Just curious if anyone has any idea what the financial reward was for these approx 100 folks? Presumably options worth a few millions today, but that's some price.
Be careful what you wish for, once wireless charging is universal, they'll start removing the USB ports.
I'm with you up until "and then attacked the United States with intent to violently usurp control of the government".

That isn't what happened and is exactly the type of inaccurate and unfair characterization you mention previously.
It is a good parallel. Obviously if your relatives live on another continent, flying is the optimal, but for example you can ride a bus from SF to LA instead of flying.
Ubuntu upgrades are extremely messy compared to Debian. If you want a rolling-like experience, the testing channel of Debian is pretty good for that - though it does get frozen when approaching a stable release.
side note - this is huge news to me that Python 3.9 broke numpy ! very interesting to hear this
No, they stimulate insulin release and make people hungrier.

IF you could IN COMPLETE ISOLATION replace sugary drinks with sugar substitutes then it would lead to weight loss.

The number of people who can actual accomplish that is probably very small. The majority of people, particularly those with actual weight issues, are going to wind up hungrier and gaining weight through consumption of other calories. They are not diet drinks, they are ruin-your-diet-drinks.
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"You pick your Facebook friends"

True, but this picking is not completely voluntary. If you are on Facebook and your relatives/coworkers/colleagues are, too, they will feel offended if you reject their friend request and you will have some personal hassle in your meatspace. Happened more than once to me and I reacted by cowardly accepting everyone and then filtering out most of them. Was not proud.

In that sense, being in a community of complete strangers here in HN is actually refreshing.

What I really value on HN is the fact that a lot of comments contain valuable info or at least interesting thoughts. I often changed my perspective on something I previously considered obvious after reading a HN discussion.

This is rare on Facebook, most of the user-produced content is low-effort, shallow, information-poor and/or fishing for likes.
Don't forget about the Guix/Nix package managers, available in the stable repositories.

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/guix
It all comes down to text input. Steve Jobs launched the iPhone with only a touch screen but he launched the iPad with a hardware keyboard accessory (discontinued after a year but then reintroduced with the iPad Pro). So with iPadOS it’s always really been touch+keyboard and frankly mouse+keyboard is better.

If Apple managed to offer a revolutionary input for the iPad (perhaps subvocalised speech input or a a redesigned touch/pen input) it would be the first step to a touch-centric interface as capable as keyboard+mouse
I’m sympathize and want to believe but this is stating a whole bunch of correlative “why fruits are good for you” not a difference in the mechanism between added sugar and sugar in fruits.
Sounds bad, but it doesn't justify the proposed heuristic to kill every new process that fails to alloc without looking at the whale that's responsible for the OOM condition. Actually, it sounds like you didn't properly configure that machine.

You might be happy to learn that the OOM killer can be configured[1] to specifically protect certain processes. If the entire point of a machine is to run a single process, then you should definitely use that feature.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
That's the "without control" I was referring to.
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>> Nietzsche is easy and fun to read: straightforward, vivid, and outrageous. He was brilliant; the best philosopher of all time, in my opinion.

> I've read almost everything by him, and, cards on the table, I don't really like Nietzsche, but calling him the best philosopher of all time is a bit of a stretch.

IMHO: A few years ago, "straightforward, vivid, and outrageous" was exciting, transgressing. Now it's very tired and a bit aggravating - who wants to deal with more of it?
Bus takes much longer, whereas other messengers are practically as convenient as Facebook.
I haven’t made it to Manchu Picchu yet, but as an Old World archaeology enthusiast, I visited some Mayan sites in the past year and was way more impressed than I expected to be. If you think like I used to & and assume that all the cool old stuff is in the Old World, consider challenging that assumption :)

Calakmul in Mexico was my favorite. I loved climbing the steps of a pyramid, rising above the jungle canopy, and then seeing a pyramid twice as high staring back at me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calakmul
> Maybe modern codecs are seeing the writing on the wall and are increasing macroblock size for better parallel processing 10 years into the future

We did indeed do this for JPEG XL - the future is now :) 256x256 pixel groups are independently decodable (multi-core), each with >= 64-item (float) SIMD.
Information-theoretic approach to identify causal emergence in multivariate data
In that case, here's a short list of other foods you'll want to avoid:

- All citrus fruits (due to the limonene content)

- Mint of any kind (limonene again)

- Red meat

- Excess protein

- Coffee (acrylamide)

- Chips and fries (acrylamide)

- Bread (often contains acrylamide)

- Dried fruits and nuts (another acrylamide risk)

- Arugula, beets, cabbage, celery, cilantro, endive, fennel, lettuce, parsley, rhubarb, spinach, and any other vegetables that are high in nitrates.

Also be sure to stay away from cell phones, WiFi, and microwave ovens.

This is just a short list off the top of my head. It's a dangerous world out there. For a lab rat.
FWIW, she was not standing behind this committer. This committer, by the way, has been asked to resign from the Raku Steering Council over this (which he did). This committer has also been banned for 6 months over this from any Raku community activity, specifically on the IRC channels by the Raku CAT.

And she has terminated her relationship with the committer.

The toxic element to be "purged" from the Perl community, has now returned and will make the Perl community more to his image . Which will only get more people to leave the Perl community. But that is no different from the past 15 years that I have had the pleasure of dealing with this toxic element.
when i see yaml, i use other software
"As demonstrated by your demonstrated inability"

I made a simple typo. You can choose to focus on that rather than any substance. It only continues to highlight your unwillingness to engage in good faith. You apparently think saying a lot of words means you're saying a lot.

Just like your obsession with the word "interlocutor". Always use the five dollar word when possible, I guess.

I don't think it's a magic I win button. It is, ironically enough, what it is. Saying something is itself doesn't add to a conversation. If you can't see that, that's your problem.

You think accusing the other side of not using logic is some sort of magic "I win" button however. What I did was basic inference. By noting that being downvoted is proof of zealotry, it stands to reason that zealots must be downvoting you more than the general population. Because if the general population is also downvoting you, then being downvoted can't be evidence of zealotry. You can't have it both ways. If being downvoted is proof of zealotry, then you must be accusing those downvoting you of being zealots. If you're explicitly not doing that and saying downvotes can be coming from anywhere, then being downvoted isn't proof of zealotry. That's basic logic that you're failing.

They were scare quotes. Because your premise is ridiculous. And the word is "your", it's not "you are claim", it is a claim that you are making. I like how you're so eager to jump on any little thing at all, that you over-corrected and made the same mistake yourself.

I mean, no discussion with you is going to satisfy anyone. Unless you're satisfying yourself with your own mental mastubatory fantasy that you're destroying people with "reason and logic".

You still haven't actually responded to anything of substance. You just go on, incorrectly, about what is and is not logic and fail to do the very basic thing asked of you: What, to you, is a climate zealot? Without using the word zealot, without saying it's obvious, or any other dodge. You aren't as opaque as you think you are.
> YAML isn't a configuration language or a configuration language format, it's a serialization format

I think YAML is even worse as a serialization format than a configuration format. It has too many ambiguities, implementations are too inconsistent, and many implementations are insecure by default with untrusted input.

> Using a good custom designed configuration file format instead of trying to shove things through the narrow pipe of YAML means that you have one integrated syntax that can be designed to be more readable, more expressive, and much easier to write.

I won't say a custom configuration is never the right thing to do, but I do think it rarely is. Writing a good custom configuration language is very difficult to get right, not to mention you also need syntax highlighting and other editor support for the editors your users use, libraries for popular languages so that other programs can read and write the configuration, etc. If you need something this complicated, I'd reach for using an embedded scripting language like lua (or possibly JavaScript or python) before writing a new format from scratch.
My primary gripe with YAML is white space sensitivity, it makes editing it in a hurry in a CLI environment needlessly user unfriendly. Virtually any other option is better for the person who actually has to modify these configurations later.

If your configuration is expected to be hand modified directly by a user, it shouldn't use YAML.
Hm, again. I don't think I agree it's that clearcut.

I've found that if you mostly want a tree of simple key-value assignments, such as database.postgres.user or database.mysql.timezone, TOML is actually very hard to beat. It's extremely simple to teach to less technical coworkers. TOML mostly becomes somewhat strange if you need lists, or maps with free-form keys.

Also, YAML is horrible if you have to generate it. Pretty much everyone automating stuff I've met will prefer JSON over YAML once you need to automatically generate the configuration. Pushing some data structure through an as-yaml pretty printer usually works, until it breaks in really weird incompatibilities between YAML parsers. And that happens way too much to be a fun distraction.
For those interested in genetic analysis of human evolution I highly recommend David Reich - Who We Are and How We Got Here.

It is really a fantastic book.
Ah, my mistake, you are right. Still a heck of an endorsement coming from him.
> It's easy for people to ask for others to do things. But many people are scatterbrained and can't prioritize, and can't see beyond their own immediate needs and how their requests might impact other work.

But, should they even care? Maybe they think it's not their job?

What I mean is, there seem to be two archetypes of ways to ask someone else for something. For lack of better terms, I'll call them "market approach" and "social approach".

"Social approach" is when you try to predict how costly your request will be to the other person, and only ask them if the importance is clearly much greater than the cost. You then expect the other person to feel compelled to prioritize your request, as they know you wouldn't be asking if it wasn't very important.

"Market approach" is when you don't give any thought about the cost to other party - you just make your request, and expect them to tell you whether they'll do it, how long will it take, and what they expect in return. You then negotiate the scope of the request and the "price" until both sides are satisfied, or the request is rejected.

I don't know which one is better. But I think we're living the worst case: everyone operates at a different point between these two idealized approaches. So, in your example, you're taking the "social" perspective - you treat requests as high priority ("they wouldn't have asked if it wasn't important") and get annoyed when your hard work isn't used. Meanwhile, those people may be operating closer to the "market" perspective - perhaps they expected you to push back on their request if it's disruptive to you, and were willing to negotiate (they knew it wasn't that important, but they didn't expect you to assume it was).
Right. That makes sense and is what I am familiar with. Is it evidence-backed as a causative mechanism?

I like the Insulin Index page. That seems like reasonable evidence.
I'm not an Emacs user per se, but I am an org-mode user. I don't even know where to begin to start recommending org-mode, it is a literal life changer. It is everything that you've ever wanted in any note-taking app (Except perhaps syncing with mobile devices, but people are working on that).

Seriously, go through the fine tutorial and just start exploring it. No matter what you put off for doing that, it will be worth it.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html
Why are you assuming iPadOS wouldn’t support low-level development?
JSON is unpleasant (for me, more unpleasant than XML), but at least it doesn't attempt to be clever like TOML and YAML.
The best science, in climate change, in COVID, and in many other areas, just isn't very good science. That doesn't mean we shouldn't prepare. We make decisions on limited evidence all the time -- in business, investments, and in war, there is a certain fog.

I think where scientists went wrong -- and what contributed to doubt and fueled our inaction and inability to prepare to date -- was exactly from the type of manipulation you described. In the nineties, scientists correctly believed we should do something about the climate, but to affect change, they politicized science.

In the case of climate change, if you read right-wing media, they'll point to failed prediction after prediction expressed with great confidence 10 or 20 years ago, and use that to discount the whole concept of climate change. If that same data had been presented with confidence intervals -- and /real/ confidence intervals, not just based on statistical measurement error but on the possibility of models being wrong -- I think we'd actually be a lot further along.

If the choices were "six million wildly different possibilities of one in a billion odds", the risk would be 0.6%, and the case for acting wouldn't exist. As it is, I'd give perhaps 75% odds for the need to act on climate change. Precision is important.

But no, a lot of possibilities aren't hard to model or a reason not to act. We assign probabilities, and give a distribution. We have major wars perhaps every 50-100 years in most parts of the world. Recent past has been stable, but we've had windows of stability. Pandemics are on the rise, due to growing population and more commute. We can come up with likely scenarios, and they all have a lot in common.
Not to mention being able to have comments in YAML. That helps make the file much clearer as well.
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My buddy’s grandparents are from that group. Someone’s getting some old Geico commercial YouTube links.
Chris Sacca has raised $800M to “keep unf*cking the planet”
Ah the introduction of flat toolbars and the subsequent race to copy it (in MFC):

https://www.codeguru.com/cpp/controls/toolbar/flattoolbar/ar...

Good times!
> With less than three months to go to the end of that year, I can’t discover any further announcements from Apple that anything has changed

A date to put in your calendar, I guess. I wonder if the current criticism of Apple's approach to privacy will have died down by November.
The point of the wall was to prevent the population of the GDR from running away from socialism; Between 1959-1960 they collectivized agriculture, this means that all the independent farmers were forced to join big state owned farms; the system did not work properly and resulted in shortages. All this resulted in the flight of more than a million citizens from the GDR to the west between 1959 and 1961; about two and a half million fled between 1949 and 1961; The east german rulers stopped this flight by errecting a hightly unpopular wall; East Berlin before the wall was a very open city - for example you could live in the east and work in the western part of the city. Now they had to justify the whole project with ideology constructs - and the ultimate trick was to apply Goodwin's law, and that was done before the invention of the internet.
Then how do we get one? Our model democracy is a quarter millennium old, and showing signs of wear. How do we put in place a better system?
Do they have the same 7-8%? Or one piece of the puzzle each?
So once these are out, will some people (everyone?) be no longer fully vaccinated?
Find a battery of the same size or a little smaller and put it in. batteryjunction.com has a big selection. You might have to solder some wires on or similar. Adafruit.com has some with JST connectors which have a good chance of being what your GPS uses inside, but they don't have that wide a selection of cell sizes, so it's iffy. Anyway the first thing to do is open up your GPS and look at the cell. In the old days you could usually find a phone battery the right size on places like dx.com, but replacement phone batteries aren't that common any more.
> I would think anyone below the center line vertically (so anarchists to free market libertarians) would support what you call “cancel culture” since is a powerful form of direct action.

No liberal is the other alike, but some would argue that privacy is a prerequisite of freedom. Calling out someone with intent of harm is a violation of their privacy and civil rights. This can have a chilling effect and promote homogeneous thought and expression, which is inconsistent with basic liberal values. Maybe a distinction between anarchism and liberalism is that the former want no regulation at all, while the latter embrace legislation that protect civil and human rights.