skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay. As long as you remove all medical regulations so that those people can buy whatever drugs or treatment machines they want.
As the sibling comment pointed out, 78% ICU occupancy is not that high compared to baseline.

From a 2014 analysis:

>Issues pertaining to the utility, interpretation, and reporting of ICU occupancy measures were identified and there were indications that optimal ICU occupancy rates were around 70-75%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24373914/
>Eluther's GPT-J (https://6b.eleuther.ai/)

Did this website receive HN's "hug-of-death"?
Not generally. It mainly gets complex when the latter side wants to deny the harm. Then it's an ocean of motivated reasoning and endless arguments. We still have people arguing today that American slavery was good for the slaves.
> If your knowledge base is sufficiently large, you will want to store less frequently accessed data on cheaper storage (e.g. HDD or even object storage like S3) and hotter data on more expensive storage (SSD or even maybe keep it in memory). I have always had to write this code by myself and haven't found a tool that helps to manage this very importance concern in ontology building.

This is a general concern for a lot of areas, including observability. Lots of data, need to query it, need to store it cheaply with a time component to help differentiate.

Take a look at Thanos and Grafana Labs Cortex. It’s a mostly generalize architecture.
There are things you can refuse to work on and there are things that you have to put in effort to make better. Improving a bloated site to load faster is not as trivial as refusing to put a dumb timeout to slow things down. I still think the OP is totally overreacting and even calling something as stupid as this a "dark pattern" belittles truly horrific things that are happening in the world including the cyber world.
Except that it is. They were already able to distribute the product under EUA. The push for 'full approval' was entirely political.

What's the bar for full approval? Whatever the FDA says it is. Usually that includes convening the advisory committee. That didn't happen. Recently, 3 members resigned from said committee. While these resignations weren't about the vaccines, they were about a lack of trust in FDA (interim) leadership.

If you want to continue to believe everything is just okie-dokie, knock yourself out, but you're not going to convince anyone.
It certainly does. To fly, an airplane has to push air down, it creates wing tip vortices, these vortices are wasted energy. The heavier the plane, the more air it has to push, the stronger the vortices and the more energy is wasted.

Cars push on the ground, and the ground gives back all the force applied to it, so no losses here, planes that fly very close to the ground can also take advantage of the ground effect (that's the name) for more efficient lift.

To how much extent, I don't know, but one thing for sure, manufacturers strive to make their planes as light as possible.

As a side note, heavier gliders actually fly a bit better (faster) but unlike powered airplanes, they don't lift themselves.

Edit: added ground effect
Dependence no, diminishing returns yes. Modafonil is not a toy. It can ramp anxiety and paranoia through the roof.
Nonetheless it was a monumental screw up of justice no bureaucrat wants to repeat in any form.
Oh yeah, I don’t know exactly what they’re doing in UK. SMART Health Card is an open standard that requires using ES256 for signing (more here: https://spec.smarthealth.cards/).

I assumed we were just talking about SHC, but UK could do something outside that standard. These all look the same, like a QR code, but the underlying structure could be different. I believe NY’s Excelsior Pass is also doing something slightly different, although I won’t claim it has anything to do with the signing aspect.
>So having established that unsafe labs abound in the USA (per your definition), let's move to point 2 in your suggestion: "diplomatic pressure and travel and trade restrictions "

There's a key difference going on there, and you're sort of making the poster's point. The United States is genuinely transparent about as evidenced by your ability to actually find write-ups, and that processes are sufficiently audited to improve on process with. China hasn't done that and has actively stonewalled international cooperation by destroying or otherwise covering up any information vital to characterizing the nature of the early days of the pandemic.

So you're creating a false dilemma. Yes. Unsafe labs happen. How seriously is the issue taken, and with what level of transparency and scrutiny and preventive due diligence are these inherently unsafe ventures undertaken with?

That's more what I think the poster is getting at. Not a simple binary yes/no unsafe labs, but track record of safely and transparently handling lab escapes.
I strongly agree with this - RDF is fine and there are some great concepts in the SemWeb world (IRIs for example), but OWL and SPARQL are confusing and can be off-putting, especially when it is all rolled together. The latest iteration of our triple store actually moves radically towards linked-document or a 'document graph' to make it more understandable while keeping RDF at the base.
What methods would you suggest? My parent said "ban tobacco".
People have made half-duplex, 2-way single-fiber links this way.

With reverse-biased diodes, you are operating in photoconduction mode. If tightly-coupled to a fiber optic, and with a quantum efficiency of say, 10%, that would mean for every 10 photons which come in, you get 1 electron charge of current flow.

IIRC there are people who paint e.g. 1N4444 diodes with black paint to minimize opto-induced leakage.
I have a journalism degree and work as a software engineer at a newspaper. The place I work allows pretty much anyone on staff to pitch story ideas, and if the editors like the idea enough, you can write it and get it published.

You can perhaps try to first get a tech job in the industry you want to be in, such as journalism or media, then see if you can internally transfer. Might be easier than quitting your job and randomly applying to media companies to be a writer. Also you can see if it's something you actually want to do if you're around other writers and journalists a lot.

Just a suggestion though, I don't know your full backstory so it really depends on your situation.
> in a prime location

I have no doubt that owning a gas station can be hugely profitable. Those independents making 500k made more money because they could get away with charging more for gas, being in a great location. Not because of lower costs. And also because, despite anecdotes, most people are not super price sensitive.
I did not experience that, but you're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_services#ChanServ
> You’re breaking the law if you do not show the requested documents within 7 days

Many people might also not know that it's against the law to carry a driving licence that is not perfectly up-to-date regarding your address details.

Coming from Italy, a country with strong ID card requirements (because of Napoleonic attitudes compounded by actual Fascism), the UK situation looks to me idealistic, naive, pragmatically disastrous, and only very occasionally safer (ID-card fraud in Italy is an actual problem the UK does not have, but the practice of validating identity with house bills in the UK is even more open to abuse). I expect we'll eventually get something that works like an ID card, looks like an ID card, but it's not called an ID card - possibly owned and operated by banks, who are the real authorities here.
This hasn’t been my Ubuntu experience at all. I’ve used it for years
I agree it hasn’t gotten adoption, but you get a pretty slim JVM if you properly modularize. Another poster in this thread said he got his image down to 30mb.

Helidon is probably the only library I know that is modularized [0].

I think once the community finally moves past jdk 8 (I’m hoping spring making 17 the base next year will help) we’ll see more adoption as more libraries modularize.

[0] https://github.com/oracle/helidon
It is a challenge, I also wrestle with, ever since I read about a boy getting shot dead for sleeping on his own roof in Iraq.
In the UK a good start would be campaigning to send Tony Blair to the tower as a war criminal.
The problem is no one (other than the ordinary soldiers on the ground) is ever held to account for their crimes.
What You Need to Understand About High-Ticket Clients
As a VFX freelancer: the tools are actually making this a lot simpler nowadays. 15 years ago it wasn't uncommon that instead of having physical correct(-looking) renderers one would have to fake even the light bounces by hand to make things look decent.

The issue with 3D tools is that in order to make real use of them you have to basically be a good photographer, you have to be extremely provicient with both natural and artifical lighting, you have to be very observant of the physical properties of materials, you have to model accurately and to scale etc. These are things any software can help you with, but just like the greatest piano won't make you a great pianist, a great 3d software won't make you produce great images.

Like any art form VFX and CGI depends on people who are willing to work on their results and learn from each other till they are perfect.
Delphi was not abandoned because it was technically inferior. It was abandoned because Borland/Inprise started pushing Application Life Cycle products (don't get me started on that) and also pricing Delphi very high and the number of new companies/developers coming into the Delphi ecosystem dropped precipitously because of this.

As Delphi lost steam, the development of Delphi too last steam and now we have the situation where Embarcadero marks HiDPI support as a feature in 2021.

Embarcadero really, really needs to look at its pricing structure. Giving out a "community" version which does not even have proper database connectivity isn't going to change anything.
My worry is based on the concerns of the top professors of epidemiology at Oxford, and Stanford School of medicine.

> Are common colds and other things much worse there? I don't think so.

I would love to investigate this further, considering the latest 3 deadly strains of H1N1, and SARS have come from here. But given that we don't have any reliable data (data we can trust), it's hard to tell what actually is going on there. We are only told what we want to be told by an authoritarian regime.
It's not exactly "almost free"; you need a powerful GPU, which are extremely costly right now. But apart from the cost of that and power, free.
4 million with COVID, not because of. China would certainly point out that all COVID fatality data is confounded, e.g. the average age of death being above the average life expectancy in some areas. Given how a COVID death is defined, an entirely inert virus engineered to be spreadable but otherwise completely harmless would still be considered to have racked up a lot of deaths.

They would also argue that they aren't responsible for western policy responses, even if those responses were inspired by theirs. Things like hunger are a side effect of lockdowns and supply chain disruptions, not directly the virus.

The true number of deaths genuinely caused by COVID that wouldn't otherwise have happened is unknown and probably always will be. It's probably in the same general area as the 4 million figure, it wouldn't be 50% or anything, but really for a virus that so heavily affects the old and co-morbid you'd need to be calculating in terms of life years lost rather than concrete "deaths". It's the latter style of counting that has led to this mass confusion in the first place.
I don't really know about the job market, but Erlang/OTP has been a very fine piece of technology for the past 30 to 40 years.

Elixir is quite new (2015) and with every release it gains in maturity, and the ecosystem is growing. IMHO, Mix was a game changer in terms of tooling.

Also, with tools like Horde[0] and libcluster[1], it became very easy to setup an Erlang/Elixir cluster on Kubernetes.

When you work with distributed systems, the OTP framework is a godsend, it's no surprise to me that it's finally getting traction.

Also, I like to use Rambo[2] to call small go/rust binaries that I ship with my Docker images, useful for features where performance is important.

[0] - https://hexdocs.pm/horde/readme.html
[1] - https://hexdocs.pm/libcluster/readme.html
[2] - https://hexdocs.pm/rambo/Rambo.html
Because many of the early protocols, including IP, we’re designed with network failures in mind.
>correlated with overall economic health.

How is this measured?
Your story is hard to believe, but your conclusion is correct. Sleep, exercise, caffeine and theanine (mild nootropics) are the best supported performance enhancing drugs for intellectual work. Modafonil is good for alertness when you cannot sleep, but doesn't really help with the 'good mania' unless your main blocker is mental exhaustion.
Vertices sliced off and, to one degree or another, some of the remaining vertices slid around to more regularize the new polygon you created.
Your argument doesn't hold water here, since it assumes that the BBC regularly makes official reports on NATO war crimes in Afghanistan. This is something they do voluntarily very, very rarely, if ever - esp. not recent ones. The BBC would have acted the same way had the reports been true or not. It's not verified because they made no attempt to verify it. We have to rely on individual journalists, wikileaks and non-MSM for such reports for the most part.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10604
.. but what if Taiwan is up next.
Don’t forget that Biden authored the Patriot Act and he is now president.
I am starting my first Elixir role tomorrow. I come in with no real-world experience (edit: no real-world experience with Elixir specifically - I have a mid-senior level of experience using other languages), just some tutorials (Elixir Koans and Pragmatic Studio) which helped me submit a decent code sample. There aren’t a ton of Elixir roles, but hiring managers also recognize the shortage of devs so for a junior or mid-senior role they might overlook a lack of formal experience with the language. Elixir roles also seem to have pay scales as well as work arrangement flexibility that are higher-than-average.

Geography-wise, I’ve noticed growing, “hipster” cities like Columbus (where I live), Denver, and Austin have a pretty decent share of the Elixir job postings (although, again, if you want to live elsewhere there are lots of fully-remote Elixir roles out there).
Scooby-Doo
Only if there is no interaction between them in your code
I have not, but a big part of the appeal of Coulton to me is that it’s a lisp.

I think if I were looking at an ML language I’d be more inclined toward F#.
I know at least one vendor of a prolog based graph database [1] that hopes the interest continues to grow.

[1] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb
That thought was why I added “almost” right before posting! It’s free to run, just, except for the expensive parts... AWS still rents out GPU power, right? That might be a bit easier to get started with.
Ok... this "study" was searching for myocarditis symptoms in the VAERS database and extrapolating from there.

> this retrospective epidemiological assessment reviewed reports filed between January 1, 2021, and June 18, 2021, among adolescents ages 12-17 who received mRNA vaccination against COVID-19. Symptom search criteria included the words chest pain, myocarditis, pericarditis and myopericarditis to identify children with evidence of cardiac injury. The word troponin was a required element in the laboratory findings.

But further, myocarditis occurs at a rate of about 200/million in general [1]. That somewhat reduces the impact of a study searching for general terms that finds an incident rate the same as what we'd normally expect.

It's frankly irresponsible journalism to have a headline like this. We are talking about what's essentially an exploratory study that needs a LOT of followup before taking action and pushing it in a way that's going to cause people to run scared.

Even though the article calls out some of these points, that's just not good enough.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32127272/
Seems fine, just quite slow, as it says.
You haven't tested the type you wrote. `type AddTest = (2 + 2) ~ 5` compiles without error the same way `addTest = (2 + 2) == 5` would run without error.

To test it, try, for example

{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators, ConstraintKinds, TypeFamilies #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
import GHC.TypeLits

test :: ((2 + 2) ~ 5 => a) -> a
test x = x

main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"

That will fail to compile. If you change the 5 to 4 then it will compile.
Liquid hydrogen sounds rather impractical, with its deep cryogenic requirements, compared to regular compressed hydrogen. Compressed hydrogen already has high energy density by volume to easily compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.
PipeWire is aiming, and positioned to be this service. I don't have a particular case for low-latency audio so I can't comment on that but it is amazing that you can use pavucontrol to tweak your device configuration and volumes then use qjackctl to wire the devices however you want. I'm impressed at how well it works and it even supports better bluetooth codecs than pulseaudio does.

It has already shipped by default in Fedora and is available in Arch and NixOS. It does look like it will quickly wipe out PulseAudio by default. I'm sure Jack and ALSA will hang in there longer but they are already used much more rarely (by users, the ALSA API will stick around for decades more I'm sure).
More demand than supply, definitely. It’s hard to hire Erlang/Elixir devs from outside.

Some companies just avoid using the platform because of that, but others (like my own company, Covalent) hire devs who seem like they’re experienced in learning languages generally, and then train them in Erlang/Elixir internally.

These devs don’t move around much, though — a company willing to do internal promotion/education is usually pretty good at retaining talent. So new companies looking for Elixir devs still don’t find as many as they’d like.

(An interesting other side effect of this dynamic is that it’s easier to hire senior Erlang/Elixir people than junior ones, since most Elixir devs you’ll find that have ever used the language for anything serious, learned it at work, and so usually have a decent chunk of their career already behind them.)
the transition from pulseaudio -> pipewire was pretty matter-of-fact. A great example of things done right.
I'd advise you to write your methods with type signatures.
I don't know, man, I'm on OpenAI's side here. The article is just filled with blaring warning sirens: "one man turned it into a close proxy of his dead fiancee", "Rohrer shared a dialogue he had had with Samantha to inform her about the OpenAI decision", "he also said that there's no way now even for him to talk to Samantha". There are obvious dangers to a high-quality "very friendly, acutely warm, and immensely curious" chatbot, and it sounds like this project was running into them face-first.

I beg the commenters downthread to think twice before trying to find ways to build this kind of chatbot without controls in place.
> elites are selected primarily for their prestige and status, which has many contributions, including money, looks, fame, charm, wit, positions of power, etc.

I’d argue that it’s only money. Prestige, looks, charm, wit and even positions of power come and go and rich people have always surrounded themselves with those the same way they have always surrounded themselves with experts.

At its core, I don’t think human society has really changed that much since the dawn of organised civilisation. Sure we’ve tried different some very systems over the thousands of years, but if you zoom out to the helicopter perspective, the biggest “influencers” have always been the oligarchs and the sole requirement for joining their ranks is having lots and lots of money.

At least I can’t think of a period of human history, or a political system, where the richest families within it, didn’t have much more power than the ordinary citizen, and I suspect the sole reason liberal democracy has been so successful is because it is the “safest” system to be extremely wealthy within.
that’s neat! thanks for mentioning it.
> I don't need to show my licence to get in my car

It would likely be difficult to buy a car without it, and obviously you could not rent it (yes, code and blabla, it's just a proxy for it).

> Have you ever applied for a library card?

Yes, and in fact they were pretty fastidious with validating that I lived in the area they serve (that might be because I have a funny accent, but still). I don't remember how I managed to get it, eventually - likely with the usual utility bills, which here work exactly as ID would, as long as you have a pair of them. Their use for this is extremely problematic.
These projects always need some kind of governance model because people disagree on stuff and need a way to work with that.

As a result there is always some kind of political model at work.
You can rent GPUs from various cloud providers, but those are hilariously expensive too even given datacentre GPU prices.
> large underground storage tanks, pumps, & related infrastructure.

That's CapEx. Plus, somebody built the store, too. How about labor? When was the last time you saw an employee OUTSIDE at a gas station, not inside the convenience store?

I never said the gas station part has no costs, just that the store likely has more, and when a article from "The Hustle" attributes ALL OpEx to the gas, it's the readers being hustled.
If I get you right you're disappointed that free markets didn't lead to 100% efficiency. IMO the simple truth is that nothing will be perfect and there's always strange patterns emerging from the chaos. It's almost like entropy to me.
The only remotely sane points are about UX and the fact these GNU/Linux systems allow users to do stupid things if they want to.

Running software from your distro's repos? That's safe, I mean, how could you use a system and not trust the people who make it? The only alternative here is writing your own OS (analyzing everything is much harder than that).

Running something else? Firejail is really simple to use. Sometimes flatpak or docker can get you covered (just don't assume it's safe by default). You can always use SELinux if you have to.

You can't prove linux-libre is less safe than a slightly more recent non-libre, and it'd be surprising if that were the case.

Not having kill switches isn't better than having them.

The rest either have been considered acceptable in the safety-paranoid Linux community for years or are absurd. Claiming something like DMA is possible from the isolated modem is a VERY strong claim presented with zero evidence.
For one, apps in a Linux distro are generally built from source on distro infrastructure, often maintained by a separate person - the distro maintainer - from the original authors of the software. With the source code fully in the open like this, its much harder to slip in user hostile behavior, without anyone noticing and doing something about it.

In comparison on Android or iOS Autors directly upload unauditable binary blobs to an app store that then pushes app updates without almost any user control, often fully automatically. Sandboxing makes more sense in this context as a result.
Not a textbook (just a book), but still a fun way to intuitively encounter formal logic - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird