skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data on elderly populations is taken from an article that you originally shared [1]. Perhaps you did not read it, or do not believe your own data, but it clearly states that Florida, Texas and California have the largest elderly populations in the US. It also clearly states that the median age in Texas and % of the population over 65 are lower than in California.

The data on covid death rates (per 100,000 people) is publicly available [2]. Even in a state with a younger population (Texas), overall death rates are still higher than in California.

I don't need to distort the truth because it is obvious to anyone with common sense.

But let's look at it another way just for fun. 40,689 Floridians over age 65 have died of COVID [3]. If Florida had the same % of over 65 residents as California does (14.3%), we would expect to see 28,245 >age 65 deaths in Florida. This would give Florida an overall COVID death rate of 201 deaths per 100,000 people. This is still higher than the actual overall death rate in California (179 deaths per 100,00 people). And in this hypothetical exercise, we are likely still undercounting deaths in Florida.

My point is that you can't only cite age as a confounder when you compare Florida and California. You have to take into account different policies, and there is no way to argue that Florida's policy has saved lives.

[1] https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here--all iOS browsers are custom skins on top of Safari.

Yes I'm aware of WKWebView and how it's not the same as Safari. I'm using the classic meaning of browser skins, dating back to browsers like Maxthon which were wrappers over Trident in exactly the same way.
That's a characterization roughly equivalent to "you have nothing to hide".

Our defense of privacy should be paramount, and we shouldn't defend the fruit company for assailing it just because we like the pretty things they make.

Every word of Stallman's warnings about computing freedom was right. He was prescient. And just like his arguments, there are many people that view this move by Apple as a huge erosion of privacy. We all have a very legitimate fear that shouldn't be dismissed.

You can attack and trivialize my arguments, but mark my words, history will show we're making a huge mistake here.
'Aptronym'. Edit: it should actually be 'aptonym', I do not know where that 'r' came from.
While he had socially conservative political views, it doesn't seem that he spent an enormous amount of effort pushing them. From the coverage I've seen, I get the impression that he was a perpetual backbencher by choice, did not have large-scale political ambitions, and focused his efforts primarily on local topics, constituent concerns, and campaigning for relatively niche, less partisan political topics. His two largest legislative contributions were on animal welfare and fuel poverty, and he was known for his involvement in particular health topics, and his quixotic campaign to have Southend be given city status. In a speech of his on fuel poverty, he outright says of himself that ‘once one realises one's limitations, it is rather churlish to remain here and become bitter and twisted because no one notices the talent that one's relatives alone believe one to have‘, and also points out that, while he could have tried to bring a bill on his pro-life views, he felt it would be far less useful than bringing a bill on fuel poverty after a constituent brought up the matter to him.

He was also, of depressing relevance to the attack, known as an MP who was particularly accessible, responsive, and helpful to his constituents.
Comparing Human and Machine Bias in Face Recognition
Yeah, that's fair (yeah you can also deduct health care premiums on Schedule C). I think the liability shield is really important though, and if you're not wild about the S corp administrative overhead you can choose to be taxed as a sole proprietor.
top comment so far! exactly correct!

believe it or not companies would actually hire junior staff and train them up on the job and promote from within. let 's get back to that.
Tooling for sure. I would be shocked in the marketing budget increased just based on how many recent .NET changes recently exclude F# (e.g. source generators).
Again, yet another person unable to comprehend the simple concept that a natural virus can accidentally leak from a lab without being engineered in the lab.
> In a time before Rails and Django and way before Nodejs there were not that many programming languages available to do big backend or web projects. Java and C++ were the obvious choices as those languages were available, being thought in schools and used in the industry.

you forgot perl, where perl plus a handful of database and session management cpan modules were kind of the ruby on rails of the era. (with mod_perl on apache as the application server, of course) perl was huge in infrastructure, but also powered quite a few massive web properties. the tradeoff arguments were interesting... while static analysis was weak, developer productivity seemed to massively overshoot what you'd see in java teams. although long term scaling and maintainability probably did suffer.

> It was also around the same time that Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, Test Driven Development, Agile and Scrum were massively adopted in software projects.

i remember being doing a training and the instructor preached all these gospels. i asked them why they weren't used in open source so much and they replied that open source software was okay, but that all the best software was constructed with these fancy philosophies and was hidden inside of companies. that was when i stopped paying attention to this person.
> Notice how Apple always has their laptops displaying some stunning photo? Or how it shoots the phones to emphasize the shiny, reflective metal? It's so simple yet other companies utterly fail at it.

I'm looking at the Pixel product page, and the pictures are a mix of blurry - pixelated - showing compression artefacts, banding, in addition of the pictures being super bland and boring. Even the animations are stuttering. It's mind-blowing...

EDIT: Just looked at Samsung's page and it's not much better.
https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-8/
It's pretty easy to understand why people believe on it.

Just here on HN read any article about some "new" "medical" treatment. From vitamin C supplements, to this-amazing-toothpaste-additive-that-can-regenerate-your-teeth-but-it's-banned-in-europe, etc.
Gluing is the least of the problem - as others mentioned, it can be easily resealed, and I very much prefer my phone surviving a bit of water.
THere may be now, but not 5 years ago.

I have many ideas about how the industry can be improved, especially with the use of a smart phone app and user interactions.

Not only is it plausible, but would make the clinicians (fitter) job easier and lead to far more hearing aid sales.
What a wildly toxic reply. Are you really insinuating that people are saving poor trapped animals due to some selfish motivation? Is this how you see the world? If so, I'd rather be what you call "Naive".
H1B is supposed to be about guest workers for short-term needs. Treating H1Bs as long-term career staffers who are going to buy houses, have kids, climb the ladder, etc. in the way that FAANG do, is a different kind of misuse, but it's also not in keeping with the spirit of the program.
Good to know! Thanks for the knowledge
Rust does support dynamic linking. But it suffers from the same issues C++ does: Code using generics will get inlined into your final binary, the ABI is unstable so you need to make sure you use the same compiler version, etc...

All those can technically be worked around, but it's more work for the maintainer. Dynamic linking is actually worse for the maintainer here, as it force them to have a stable ABI, which is a lot of work!
> Investment happens anywhere there is a chance of positive return.

I have a home solar-panel system to sell you. It will pay for itself in a mere 25 years. Now, normally, it'd pay for itself in 8 years, but taxes have raised the price. You will surely invest in this system anyway.
I think if KDE actually had a working implementation of this then that would go a really long way towards convincing those other things to support it. IIRC Chrome at least doesn't get the scale from GTK. But KDE's Wayland implementation is still unstable (in part because it seems to have a lot more features than GNOME's wayland implementation) so I think it will be a while before that happens too.

If you are really committed to using Linux and don't want to wait then I said it before but I think a better use of your time would be to spend a few hundred dollars on some different monitors that can work at just 2x scale, and then let someone else deal with this.
>> then 43% more people 65 or older per capita does not explain more than 100% more deaths per capita

Why doesn't it? Is there some evidence that it does or doesn't.... or is this more of a claim?

Is there direct evidence that it's masks and not the density and quantity of old people?

Old people makes way more sense to me than our current mask policy of wearing a dirty cloth on your face until you sit down at the restaurant.

Thank you for looking into that, in a hurry I just looked at the ranking.

>>Florida is doing better than earlier: only 4.6% positive (42th highest). Still twice California's 2.1%
Still shockingly close, considering they have no Covid restrictions, whatsoever. And Cali has been extremely strict.

I guess it's subjective levels or risk. Is two percent lower infection rate worth it to require everyone to wear masks?
Does the lithium, cobalt, etc. not undergo a material change as the battery is used? Meaning, is the lithium in a brand new battery the same as the lithium in a battery that's been used for years?
Agree on all points...except Prettier, which is manna from the gods. Better to get used to it than to fight it.
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/
The easy way to rein in Facebook and Google? Stop them gobbling up competitors
On a similar topic: I find it rather weird that contact lenses need a prescription in the U.S.

You will buy them over-the-counter here, and I have seen even a vending machine full of them. (That was in Lithuania, IIRC.)
Your thoughts remind me of this classic: https://xkcd.com/592
Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math
In this case he granted rights to the book itself, not to make derivative works of it, so I don't think this clause is relevant. I think it's saying that e.g. if Penguin had made a tv-series based on the book, they would not lose the rights to the tv-series when the grant of the book terminated.
You could get a lot of the way there if governments didn't sell or lease extraction rights at a bargain. And they do that for a number of reasons, but mostly because extraction and processing of natural resources is good for local economies. This is what ended up causing the "Sagebrush Rebellion" in the western United States, which is an ongoing political issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_Rebellion
> because I can never remember what time zone people or places are in

Good thing time zones are there along side UTC+/- whatever to help you out with that
This site bills itself as follows:

> This is a draft workshop to build from scratch the basic background needed to try introductory books and courses in AI and how to optimize their deployments.

I'm not sure learning the things on that page – Peano axioms, basic real analysis, etc. – really helps with deploying AI. I know plenty of talented graduate students with papers at NeurIPS, ICML, and another top conferences who don't know a lick of set theory, so certainly it's not necessary, even for highly academic work.

Based on my experience and what we know about the psychology of learning, I'd recommend finding a motivating ML project or application (e.g. point the phone at a sudoku and it overlays the solution), and then working backwards to figure out what you need to know to implement it. Probably it will not be the Peano axioms.
Companies do this all the time. Present day. They don't hire new grads thinking they're staff engineers on day 1. They hire them to train them up and promote them within the company.
I've marked the top of all of my USB cables with contrasting paint.
The machines can't gauge for personal preference. Many people don't like their vision right at 20/20. I personally like mine closer to 20/15.
Since applications have virtual memory, it sort of doesn’t matter? The OS will map these to actual pages based on how many processes are available, etc. So if only one app runs and it wants lots of memory, it makes sense to give it lots of memory - that is the most “economical” decision from both a energy and performance POV.
> The process of splitting into many words, as well as necessary limitations on measurement, i think both leave you in non-computable territory.

You don’t actually have to compute umpteen branches. You just have to simulate sufficient evidence to convince an observer in the simulation that many-worlds is true. Surely it is far easier to delude simulated people into believing some theory of physics is true, than to actually accurately simulate a universe in which it is true.

But, even that wholly accurate simulation - if we are living in a simulation, it is possible the physical laws of the “real” universe are very different from those of our own. If our simulators are living under very different laws of physics, they may have access to computational resources which would be “unphysical” in ours. They may even be capable of hypercomputation. Maybe their laws of physics contain an oracle for the halting problem. Maybe they can execute supertasks. Even proof that simulating our universe would be uncomputable does not exclude the possibility that we are simulated on a hypercomputer

We don’t even know that hypercomputation is physically impossible in this universe. We know of no way of achieving it given known physics, but we cannot exclude the possibility of unknown physical laws or processes which permit it, or even that it might be some bizarre mathematical consequence of existing theories which nobody has yet discovered. Maybe the hypercomputer will be the defining technological advance of the 57th century.
From their FAQ: “Just like Sidetree ION is open source. Microsoft has been an important sustaining sponsor, but no more than that.”
It is...and then you can't help thinking about the "no-code" solutions.

Anyway, also:

1. any application with sufficiently complex use cases requires configuration

2. any configuration can be made programmable

3. frameworks are application configuration with an open-end configuration programmability

4. ...

5. profit
> aren’t all laptops Linux laptops?

How is that so?

By Linux laptops, I mean laptops that come with Linux(or DOS) pre-installed. This should reduce the cost of the laptop as Windows license fees is not required. But the Linux pre-installed laptops cost more than the Windows laptops!
I actually really like Prettier. It ensures that everyone's code ends up formatted the same, and when you're working on a project that a bunch of different people touch, that makes reading the code so much easier. It may not always be beautiful, but at least it's consistent and readable.

It also means I have to spend zero time worrying about formatting. Now I often just type stuff out on one ugly line, then hit ctrl+s and everything magically formats itself, it's honestly great. Whenever I work on code without Prettier it makes me realize how much time I spend just formatting things.
Valve seems to be putting far more effort into the Deck initiate than they did with Steam Machines. I assume Deck compatibility will be shown to all users regardless of platform much like VR. Great long tail advertising. Year of the linux desktop soon?
This happens a lot with established systems. I also don't know which Linux kernel versions I'm using. Was relevant once, now most changes don't impact me anymore. They are quite specialized. ...
> You have a strong preference for machine 1. Why?

Because Machine 2 offers nothing of value over Machine 1 - only more complexity and more opportunities for hardware and software issues.
Why do you think white people are over represented in tech (you forgot about Asians, which are there also)?

Because they are interested in it. Just like some like math, others like sports.

Why e.g. women are the majority of teachers (at least in my country)? They like to teach, are good with children.

That's natural and you won't change that with ads that reverse the ethnic proportions in given country.
What happened to the recent work showing that galactic rotation curves are consistent with ordinary GR? Last I read, cosmologists were choosing to ignore it. The article does not mention it, and treats galaxy rotation as if it were still considered anomalous.

It would be amusing if dark matter and MOND turned out to be both correct, and both needed. E.g., dark matter is diffuse enough not to affect galaxy rotation, but clumped enough to account for lensing and cluster adhesion.

Casting MOND as a matter of fields, which are also particles, seems to mean just a different sort of dark matter that interacts by some other means than gravitation, rather than our model of gravity itself being off. Some people who dislike dark matter would not like that much.
Yeah this "what about white men?" doesn't feel genuine given there is a white man on the page, the new tensor feature for detecting POC, historical context of marketing in general, and the fact the Apple iphone page is comparable...
If you didn't know that Uber was skirting regulations to offer their cheap prices, then you literally weren't paying any attention and I don't know how you even knew Uber existed.
Interesting point! I haven't used F# so I assumed it was pretty "native" to the .NET runtime

Still- I have to wonder about things like concurrency, which is perhaps the most obvious limitation of targeting the JS runtime
Could you elaborate on why it’s so broken? The user signs a message with his private key, the backend verifies he signed the message using his public key proving the user‘s identity.

I believe this being the same protocol as passwordless ssh. Maybe I am being naive but if everybody got a wallet i.e. a public/private key pair couldn’t this eventually replace passwords altogether?
Fantastic news.

If you can afford the $5,000 - great! The current system works for you. 80% of people cannot and so are stuck.

For folks with mild/moderate loss (where a LOT of people don't get help) something as simple as letting Apple tweak noise cancellation to be voice enhancing and providing a tuning and hearing test app in the iphone would be a godsend.

The elderly miss out on a lot of family life because of hearing issues - people stop talking to them even if they are fully sound of mind because of this issue. I've seen this personally.

And for all those who say apple is just a consumer products company and there is no way their $180 - $250 airpods can provide any benefit I think you might be surprised.
There is also this excellent summary from LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/870478/

Although it seems like a few more events have passed since then.
I'm also using CTEs a lot precisely because subqueries are hard to reason about, and these pipelines are in turn so much easier too.
Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11
Oops! Could swear that I typed "six". At least "months" was properly plural.
Also this one: https://xkcd.com/927/
Why We Migrated from Druid to ClickHouse
LOL I know. I haven't been for a "checkup" in close to 30 years.
Why would that be a quotation? It is, in fact, a touchscreen?
I'm not sure what you mean by not worrying about iOS needing OS updates for browser upgrades as the Safari engine is the only web browser engine allowed on iOS and third party browsers like Chrome are just skins on top of Safari and not real counterparts to their desktop cousins. Upgrading the OS is the only way to get new web functionality and bug fixes.
A hearing test measures how sensitive your hearing is in each ear at a range of frequencies - they send a beep at a certain frequency and ask you if you can hear it, and lower the volume until you can not hear it, raise it to confirm you can hear it. This is repeated in each ear over the normal range of hearing, nominally 20- Hz to 20,000 Hz, most older people have lost at the low and high end. The detailed frequency/volume curve allows the hearing aid to be programmed to bring hearing to the 'normal' curve. Some people may have lost hearing at certain frequencies, it may be an irrevocable loss?
That said, an iphone with headphones can easily create and administer a tone to each ear that can be varies in frequency and intensity - with the customer pushing a button when he loses the tone, repeat to confirm, then on to the next frequency until the audio range is covered. They the customer is given test results and he sets an on the phone equalizer at the values needed for each frequency and he is good to go. It needs to be made to limit the intensity to a maximum, and some gaps might remain where he has lost hair cells and will have a permanent frequency gap that can not be cured unless we learn how to grow new hair cells in the right place of the right length.
A huge market will open up, there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth in the old FDA shielded crooks, who must adapt or fold. If they adapt, they will do well.
I am in pain every fucking second of walking.
Yep, when updates stopped being available for my Xperia mini a few years ago. Just checked and it's android 9. Still works great. Still nice and small.
People will never learn. You don't preorder Pixels, there are always better deals on Black Friday (literally in few weeks, just a week after Pixel start shipping).

Never take preorders, especially with Pixels. (learned that hard with Pixel 3).
I have yet to learn it myself, but I get the idea that there is a huge amount of people who "shut up and get shit done" with it. Posts on HN tend to bring these people to the surface.

The interest has always been consistent, it's just not vocal.
that's a good point - shouldn't it include that out of the box? must be hard to accomplish
Multistep Forms in React – Part Four: Persistent State
What exactly is the audiologist going to adjust to improve BT reliability?
Cocaine?
> These guys were putting in 60-80hr 6/7 day weeks. It's no different than the plant maintenance tech or the IT guy doing the same thing

The difference is that IT guy won't crash truck into another car when overworked. Truckers did.

And it was not because they were idiots. It was, because humans are affected by tiredness. And it did not happened because of some larger goal, but because it is cheaper to pressure trucker to drive too much.
I think the end game is no one should care about this sort of thing, so let the people who still care have it.
Also, what happens if the structure was edited in some other editor and you suddenly get two structures with no history to compare against?