skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much is "a bunch" of hospitals?

A fair criticism. Let's survey several US states and major metro areas to get a better idea, using sources not more than 30 days old:

Colorado: “The burden of the unvaccinated on our hospitals is profound”[0]

[0] https://coloradosun.com/2021/09/10/coronavirus-hospital-icu-...

Washington: Local Hospitals at ICU Capacity; ICU Nurses Resigning [1]

[1] https://keprtv.com/news/local/local-hospitals-at-icu-capacit...

Alabama: "On Wednesday [Sept 8], Alabama's hospitals had 2,724 people with COVID-19, according to the Alabama Hospital Association. There were 68 more patients than available ICU beds in the state that day." [2]

[2] https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/09/09/u...

North Carolina: "We can’t transfer anywhere all hospitals are in the same situation" [3]

[3] https://myfox8.com/news/coronavirus/randolph-health-hits-icu...

Illinois: "Herrmann told the radio station that the majority of those critical COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated, and said the effect on staffed ICU beds is negatively impacting other patients who need critical care." [4]

[4]https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/coronavirus_news/idph-reports-zer...

I'm no expert on what is "a bunch", but I feel pretty certain the above examples (out of many more) have, together, met the threshold.
well, this is realy the reason i asked my question.

It is a pain to move in and out of scikit and write all these wrappers and converters. I would prefer to do more in one framework.

For example, doing hyperparameter optimization in pytorch using scikit can be a bit painful sometimes
How would someone even measure those percentages?, what happens if someone hired is the reverse is true, being 30% right?, is that even observable?, would compensation be negative?

Otherwise, without being able to objectively measure this then it's all smoke and mirrors and the persons reach these positions through other means.

If that's the case, then taxing an appropriate amount is fair. There's also a precedent with Roosevelt introducing a tax that only really applied to Rockefeller
> Specifically that cows aren’t the only source of milk: sheep, goats, buffalo and horses have all been milked throughout history

Sheep and goats are major sources of milk today, just not milk for direct consumption.
Not only software support, but ongoing software support. The first rpi is still in use and fully supported.
That is quite wise and a necessary and basic consideration for a society to get to public healthcare. It will always cost you if you introduce it, but you eliminate severe financial risks in case it hits you. If that is your own doing or not is of secondary importance.
People didn't get this 100% tax exemption because the government felt "they deserved it".

They got it because it's a means for governments to bootstrap things. Like EV car adaption or tech startups. Once that goal is reached the tax benefit will go away.

And in this case I can't see how on earth a 100% tax exemption on capital gain can ever be considered fair towards other people like "normal" working people.

If you advocate things like tax the rich and justice then rejoice because this is a step in the right direction.

Like with so many things people want change but don't want to change themselves. They want other people to change. So no this isn't trolling.
yeah and computers are “just” interactions between electromagnetism and matter. This slides a lot

> History has not been kind to nations whose governments break those rules and started nationalizing corporations

Yeah but history has been kind to companies who mold laws for and heavily intervene in them
the Apple website uses background blur and has giant scroll-animated images. The store page has drop shadows and CSS transitions.
As someone who has traveled to some of the lesser traveled places on this planet, they do too! Sometimes even worse techniques are being used to fix things.
120hz makes a huge difference for me. I really can't understand you don't see the difference. But maybe it's something that some people can see and other people can't
Practical API Design at Netflix, Part 1: Using Protobuf FieldMask
> Can I please please just have normal 2FA

The HSBC mobile banking app is much more normal that way - Touch ID is sufficient - and it can do 95% of what you want to do most days. (Pretty much everything for me bar opening/closing accounts and making/renewing mortgage contracts.)
> Well, you can use a non-informative prior. And that's the correct choice when you genuinely don't have a better option.

At which point you've just found a more cumbersome way to do frequentist statistics. Frequentist tools aren't inconsistent with Bayes' law (they can't be, since both are valid theorems) - indeed one could say that the whole project of frequentist statistics consists of building a well-understood suite of pre-baked priors and computations that are appropriate to situations that are commonly encountered.

> ....this is in no way a "problem" that needs fixing, by allowing shortcuts that can easily be hacked. Rather, it's a factual statement about the difficulty of drawing correct conclusions, in low Signal-to-Noise-Ratio domains. Whether you use p-values or not, and whether you use Bayesian methodology or not, you cannot get around the need to understand the data you're working with.

Well, the fact is there are too many small-sample studies being produced for all or even most of them to be critically analysed by people with deep understanding. And maybe the right fix for the problem is to give the right incentives for that kind of critical analysis (e.g. by allowing that kind of analysis to count as research for the purposes of journal publications and PhD theses just as much as "the original study" does, given that a study without that kind of critical analysis cannot truly be said to represent advancing human knowledge). But if you just tell people to do Bayesian analysis instead of frequentist analysis then that's not going to magically create deep understanding - rather people will try to replace shallow frequentist analysis with shallow Bayesian analysis, and shallow Bayesian analysis is a lot less effective and more hackable.

> Yes it does. It's called Bayes factors.

But you still need a prior to compute a Bayes factor.
PWAs still have the advantage of avoiding app stores.
Would made a nice anti-bulling food. The Veggies for bullies movement.
For this approach I don't know. It's a wire mesh so I think it can resist some damage.

I read about other approaches that make me marvel at mankind's genius. For instance, on the moon you could slowly spin a pool of liquid Mercury to obtain a radio telescope that is basically immune from microimpacts. Not sure how it would work once the mercury freezes solid due to lack of sunlight, but I think it's such a beautiful (but maybe impractical) idea :).
Or using API-mode cffi which basically does that for you, though it’s still not quite safe you can combine `cdef` and `set_source` to re-export exactly what you’re looking for. `set_source` will basically create an intermediate module under your control.

Sadly AFAIK you always need a `cdef` which defines the binding between Python and C, I don’t think you can tell cffi to get this information from a real header file. But by providing a custom source you can more easily ensure the `cdef` and the function for it match correctly, with `set_source` bridging to the real underlying functions.

One drawback of using API-level CFFI is it requires a C compiler (and probably all sorts of dev packages / headers), whereas ABI-level use doesn’t.
> I love this logic, if you're going to take some of my money away I will do nothing instead. Really? Bullshit.

Is it? Why is it so hard to imagine that higher taxes on risky ventures might cause somebody to go "Eh, not worth it, I can make better use of my time - like spending it with friends and family"?
Scientists can now assemble entire genomes on personal computers in minutes
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.
Oh definitely, you can be working and still be poor, but that's a separate issue. I was pointing out that the number of people on unemployment benefits isn't the number of those seeking work, so there's no problem having 3m people vs 1m open jobs that don't get filled. It's an inconvenient truth to many, but it's still the truth.

Getting them back to work would be a great improvement. But I don't think we can make low-skill jobs magically double in value, so there's probably no way, and we'll keep an underclass who are effectively getting UBI and don't contribute.
it's a logical fallacy to argue that because we don't do X already, we don't need to do Y because it's similar.

The reasons for not doing X (treating obesity as an epidemic and with the same harshness and forcefulness as covid) is that X is an existing, slow moving beast.

The covid situation is much more urgent. Making forceful vaccination would have immediate effects and begin a recovery of sorts.
4. Stability has nothing to do with reliability. I had less issues with Arch Linux than with Ubuntu LTS and I hear people say the same thing. Even Windows 10 is a rolling release OS. If you want a ready to use stable OS there's Manjaro where repositories are purposefully a bit behind Arch.

7. Decent is 1080p@60Hz, what most people play. What you want is extreme performance. Honestly 300fps at 4K is just absurd even on Windows unless you're playing an old game as CPU becomes a bottleneck and why would you need it? Do you have a 300fps display?

8. Never measured it but trying pw-loopback I don't see how whatever it's can be a problem even for competitive gaming.
Two Weeks with FreeBSD as My Daily Driver
Ad-hoc container images containing packages requested via the image name
Wordpress with a bunch of plugins and a theme from themeforest. Figures.

I wouldn't be poking any bears had I been running that setup.
I’ve ran a website non-stop for over twenty years. I intend to keep it up as long as the internet exists. It’s not really had any major changes since 2008, but it’s a major source of nostalgia in my life. Beyond that it hosts my email address.

I was curious about prepaying for years of my domain in advance, and stumbled upon Erik.

Epik offers a “forever registration” where you get a domain “forever” for something like $500. I was seriously considering it before I heard about all the negative shit associated with them.

I suspect they’ve sold that service to at least a few average Joe’s.
Is it more fair that the person in Kentucky has a much higher quality of life than the person in New York

Quality of Life isn't objective. People who choose to live in New York probably wouldn't have a better quality of life living in Kentucky and vice versa, even at the same pay, because so much of what defines quality of life for those people is tied up in the things that New York or Kentucky can uniquely offer.
Isn't it the same connotation here? The work is shared with your collaborators, but not yet "published" to the master branch or to customers or wherever?
1) They tend to be anxious about everything.

2) Governments doesn't exist to serve anyone particular group. Those concerned about climate change can put their money where their mouth is.

3) Given how economically ignorant and left-leaning (most) young Westerners are, I say governments are not ignoring them enough.
You'll make this analogy, but if I remind you that banning driving would save lives, you'll tell me "car accidents aren't contagious!"

Your mind has been destroyed, and unfortunately there is no vaccine (remember, the definition can change).
JACK is also really easy to setup with PipeWire.
> I'm aware of MIDI mapping, my question was about the possibility to make a stand alone sysnthesizer (with keyboard and knobs) in which the necessary controls would be read from analog inputs while still displaying them on the screen as if they were changed with the mouse, which is not easy to do when playing live.

I see, I understood the opposite way! But yeah, what you are describing also exists! Many (high-end) mixers have motorized faders, also using MIDI if I remember correctly, so you can change the fader in your DAW and it's represented in meat space.
Their long term plan seemed to be to not worry too much about what proportion of people get the flu vaccine (and certainly not about documenting who has or hasn't had one), and live a normal life (travel, party, etc.) even while flu is spreading.
A "free" web where in Firefox's default configuration Google controls what you can download. [0]

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing
Hacking a WhatsApp account with the help of ethical hacking: https://rb.gy/mjkv72
It looks like they have hotten thicker again. I wonder if they could revolutionize the phone market YET AGAIN and re-introduce a 3.5mm jack.
That is laughably cheap in the grand scheme of things
What's the purpose of not capitalising the first letter of each sentence? They really commit to it since even the tos and privacy pages are written like this. In case it's not obvious, it's less readable that way.
We will soon have "Amazon Rust™" for only 0.01$ per minute of Rust compile time.
Is not "light years ahead" of __all__ manufacturers, just the cheap ones.

Surface laptop trackpads are on par with Apple ones.
Is there a headless mode, for synthesizing sounds and performing FX, from an API? Or is this like 99.9% of music software that the authors assume only a human will be the user?

I've been doing research on music AI, inverse synthesis, and the like, and shockingly few open-source software packages were usable for creating training sets.
If my understanding of physics is correct (and if it isn't, I'd appreciate a correction because this would be some fundamental problem), if they stuck the antennas in a crater that's opaque to most radio frequencies, and make a wall around the edges - making sure no point in the (extended) inner surface can see anything else other than the inner surface and the sky, then there shouldn't be a problem with radio interference.

Radio waves are light, and to a good approximation, radio emitters are like lightbulbs. On Earth, we have a problem because atmosphere scatters radiation. On the Moon, if you can't see the radio source directly or through a set of reflections, its signal won't get to you, period. So if you stick the antennas at the bottom of a well, they should not get any interference even if there's plenty of human activity nearby.

One problem I see is that human activity near the telescopes could create dust clouds, and those would definitely scatter radiation - and in low gravity, it could take some time for them to settle. I imagine it would make sense to prohibit rocket launches and construction work involving explosives in the vicinity of the telescopes.

EDIT: I'm looking at the picture in the TFA:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ni...

The crater shown there is already the kind of well I'm describing - its edges go above the nearby surface, and at least on the diagram, at no point the inner edge can see the rest of the Moon's surface.
Both - or a combination of even more incidents could be plausible. I guess it would be similar to a disastrous plane accident; usually it's not caused by a single failure, but a multitude of failures with a resulting cascade effect.
Can we get a rule where the adjectives like startling, striking, profound etc get applied after an application has been demonstrated. Speaking as someone who suffers from adjective overload.
Driving drunk doesn’t imply violating driver’s own bodily integrity against their choice. A drunk driver risks other people’s lives and it’s a punishable crime.
As others mentioned solar is just fine. I believe the majority of the energy will be needed to keep the batteries warm enough to work (like the drone that is currently on Mars). Bouncing the signal back to earth will be more problematic as you need a satellite orbiting the moon.
Apple's forced IAP is either dead, a joke, or illegal
> where people might avoid working on climate-resistant crops or efficient AC or improved fire control strategies because they believe their efforts can't help with climate change.

No. People will keep working on it. But being unrealistic and continuing to live and consume like you did in the 00's because "anyway, tech will save us" is the worst comportment anybody can have.
>The Romans often commented on the inferiority of other cultures, and they took excessive milk drinking as evidence of barbarism. Similarly, butter was a useful ointment for burns; it was not a suitable food. As Pliny the Elder bluntly put it, butter is “the choicest food among barbarian tribes.”

Well, they weren't that wrong (the Romans I mean).

Milk after childhood is not that beneficial. And a taste for butter soon leads to empty calories and deep fried Mars bars...
The fact that we're not 100% sure of a theory does not prevent us from building upon it. See, for example, all the work built on the basis of dark matter and dark energy. Proving this dependent theory might even help solidify the original one.
> Astroid impact proponents present their view as rock solid but the reality is there are holes in the evidence […]

I…really thought this was going to be a joke post based on this sentence!
>So no, 34000 deaths/year that are attributable to air pollution, or 3000 of about 80 Million

Attributed to coal-fired-plants alone, please read.

>And those lazy comparisons somehow imply you could replace all that pollution with nuclear power

Lacy reading i the bigger problem on your side, and yes replace coal-fired-plant with modern nuclear power (or anything else) would ZERO those 3000 death ATTRIBUTED TO COAL-FIRED-PLANTS.

>Germany is a free, democratically run country. Nobody wants to have a nuclear facility in their vicinity.

As a Swiss i see the "free" and "democratically" thing a bit different than Germany, how much can your citizens influence European made law?

And Nobody wants to have a coal-fired-plant in their vicinity too....i hope, the difference of objective and subjective danger. Nuclear power is objective danger but in reality negligible, coal power is subjective, you think oh that's not dangerous yet with every breath you suck it in.

Let alone destroying vast forests to dig out more coal and make that coal then artificially cheap. Here's your brown-coal proudly sponsored by your government ;)

BTW: Death from air-pollution (over all, NOT just from coal-fired-plants) in Germany is a "little" bit higher (~71000 in germany, 403'000 in Europe):

https://www.eea.europa.eu/media/newsreleases/many-europeans-...
Draft is also the depth of water displaced by a boat/ship.

Draught (sounds the same as draft) is the wind through a crack or a type of beer. A door or window might be draughty but a beer wont.

Drought looks similar but sounds like "drowt" and is what you get when there is a long period of time without rain.

Be careful with draft, draught and drought!
Ask HN: Resources to learn about business models and Ops per industry?
I am curious to know more about the anatomy of different business models, operations and challenges from different industries without the fluffy part of reality shows. More as a scientific paper. Has anyone encountered something like this?
How would you go about drawing blood? Is a finger prick good enough for these tests or would you need to know how to draw venous blood?
It's not about power. Making cars doesn't mean you're responsible for people murdering other people with those cars, even though you're in a position to supply cars and they aren't. There is no power involved - no one is being coerced into behaving badly.
I would check to make sure I was running on an OpenBSD system first before anything else.

You could use sys.platform()

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.platform
End-to-End Encryption in the Browser (2020)
> To hit 55% tax rate in California after this, you only need to make like $250k total.

Marginal rate, effective rate not even close.
Since they increased about the same magnitude of that of all others, I'm more inclined to ask why they are still lower than a lot of that of other groups, especially that of 'Non-Hispanic native Indian or Alaska Natives'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155821/
99M-year-old spider mummies reveal moms cared for teeny spiderlings
Why would you want an iPhone with the headphones jack?! I dropped to the floor my iPhone two times: and both are due to the headphones jack cable!

I hope Apple will introduce a better codec for Bluetooth, way behind the actual AAC 256. But not the cable again…
Maybe I'm missing something. But equity for work is income. Which should be taxed like everyone else. Or if you view it solely as an asset just like all other stock, you should pay cap gains just like everyone else.

Is there something hidden in the draft to tax unrealized gains? I know that was an idea thrown out by some super progressives but it is not in the draft bill and won't get passed.

Looking at inheritance only even that got stripped too because of 'family farms'
There's a ton of static code analysis tools for Go that check whether the error is actually handled/passed/etc - I'd say they're almost mandatory they're so useful :)

I find this slightly at odds with the argument (made by other people, not you) that in Go you’re not reliant on the IDE, because all the program behaviour is immediately visible.

I don’t really understand the objection to using an IDE to look up overridden operators and so on. It seems like it’s in the same category as having a type-checking compiler that knows how to look up a type definition and check that you’re using valid operations. There’s no way all the information you need is going to be nearby in the text in any reasonably-sized program.
Yes, but they are followed then selected, not selected then followed. Which has totally different dystopian taste.
I unfortunately cannot find them online, but in the UK canal maps used to be illustrated on either a long fold-out card, or a roll of paper, a bit like a toilet roll or scroll, or some meter long folded strip. These were straight, even though the canal would weave and veer through the countryside keeping the water level whilst it routed around hills.

When I stayed with my father in my youth on a canal boat, he'd translated one of those maps onto a rope with knots. A bit like how you'd measure speed with a rope and knots, but in his case the rope was much shorter and different knots marked different features. i.e. a single knot was a lock, a double knot a pub, a different type of knot a significant bridge.

For him it was just a fun thing to do, but I marvelled that a few metres of rope condensed a very long canal (days travelling time) into something that could tell you where you were just by thinking about the landmark you'd most recently passed and the one coming up. Even if it was repetitive you'd find yourself in a little while.

A rope could be a map.

This is obviously easy when it's a fixed path, a canal, but it shares an echo of the inuit map as I suspect their path followed a natural fixed route through the geography of the land.
> is whether it is socially sustainable not to re-distribute that

“Bread and circuses” is derogatory, but the unsustainable parts of technological industrial society aren’t “rich people exist”. Conditions are so ridiculously prosperous and powerful for everyone that the new injustices are stuff like “my life expectancy is 70 instead of 80” and “I can’t afford to pay for debt I took”. What’s unsustainable?

There are plenty of homeless, but there’s also lots of jobs. They may absolutely fucking suck, but in terms of buying power you’re not gonna die and can live quite materially well vs rural.
SpaceX Inspiration4 mission will send 4 people with minimal training into orbit
oh weird. i thought they also did stuff like parse and reconstruct requests to try and catch any funny business and centralize/add ease for things like ratelimiting and fail2ban for webapps. looking at this one, it appears not.