skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason hospitals still "can't cope" (this is frequently a relentless exaggeration but let's roll with it) is because the healthcare system has persistently refused to train new people or lift a finger to increase capacity in any way, and in fact, is now firing healthcare workers en-masse for not taking it, even though many don't need to and it doesn't eliminate transmission anyway.

At some point people need to stop being so lenient on health suppliers. They are implicitly demanding society trashes itself to avoid them having to hire and train. It's endemic now, there is no cure, the treatment is mostly still oxygen+drugs. There's no excuse.
> I just took an issue with the statement that most gamers are CPU limited nowadays

I didn't say most gamers are CPU limited, though. I said "Depends on the type of game . . . there are many cases today where a strong CPU is required for gaming." I didn't say most cases.

Conversely, it would be fine to observe that many console gamers have historically been satisfied with 30fps, and therefore PC gamers ought to only "require" a strong -2 gen i5 processor. While you're at it, you could also say that console gamers game at 1080p, so PC players should be satisfied with that as well. And you'd be right, under a certain configuration of preferences, and a certain interpretation of the word "require."
That's why new companies will spring up around NGAS, Name Generation As A Service. Full servers dedicated to finding the best names in the namespace and renting them for you, because who really wants to self-host a name those days, so exhausting.
If losing your patents in a position like this is a possible outcome, it changes the investment calculus. As it stands, there’s still the possibility that administrations or laws will change and governments or insurance companies will come around to wanting to buy it at a price that recovers the investment, or some other company will believe that they can persuade buyers to buy at a worthwhile price and buy the patents or the production rights off of the current owners. Or maybe some other company will profitably deploy a derivative technology and they can sue to recover some of their investment. For all of these reasons the patents and trade secrets are still worth something. If finding yourself in this position means that you are stripped of your patents and receive nothing, that makes drug R&D an even riskier investment proposition. Being stripped of patents by the government after having bankrolled clinical trials because the government refused to pay the price required to recover the investment would be a brazen show of bad faith and a real stab in the back. The patents will expire in a decade or so anyway, do we really need the government to go out of its way to screw these people out of their last possibility of making back some of the money they spent on this socially valuable work? If we think that it’s so important that this treatment be made immediately available to people at a low price, maybe the government should buy the patents early for the several hundred million dollars that they cost to produce?
Nice at a high level but I have some gripes about the details:

1. It says "asynchronous communication" is categorically a cause of ineffective communication, but only "inefficient" meetings are a cause of ineffective communication. Glaring old-fogey double standard.

2. I was curious what "backlog inversion" is and found a definition here: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/mismanaging-th.... Apparently it's when you work on things that haven't been prioritized. No idea why they thought the name "backlog inversion", reminiscent of obscure OOP jargon, made sense, but real phenomenon no doubt.
We actually have 10 jokes, but neither is funny.
There have been a lot of states that have passed regulation requiring documentation for scrap transactions regarding catalytic converters, and other frequently stolen types of scrap. But I'm not sure that it's as easy as kicking people out for having a lot of them. The people who have legitimate scrap also tend to have a lot of it, because it is waste from their business.
really makes me concerned for the high suicide rate in the deer population
Akan Kay is obviously referring to "genius", someone who is able to see things outside of the consensus POV and make leaps that others can't. Alas, this is not transferable through language. There have been precious few that fit the characterization of genius, and fewer still recognised today, due to contempary societal conditions being actively hostile to it: https://geniusfamine.blogspot.com/
What a nice and useful service – thanks for sharing.

Do you run it out of your own pocket, or does the service have paid plans?
Was just skimming the comments and title before reading the article. Your summary has made me go read the article.
I don't see y'all on the Telnet BBS list! Also, does Synchronet syndicate NNTP?
General rule of thumb for any early stage startup, is if you are not a founder, or C level employee getting multiple single digit equity percentages, use this equation:

$VALUE_OF_EQUITY_GRANT * 0 = 0$

seriously. value it at 0
Grid had a very awkward release / compatibility story so loads of devs who were looking for a good support story just used flexbox to accomplish what they needed to do and never learned grid. The zeitgeist of grid kind of ended before support hit acceptable levels, and grid is more or less just a syntactical wrapper around flex. The `gap` property is the real killer
I came over to post this. I’ve never heard “distributed HTML”. And I’m not even sure what the distributed part would be.
It's Intel's stagnant process nodes you're seeing here more than x86_64.
The Epistemic - Metaphysical distinction: being clear about the difference between something being true, and a particular person of group of people knowing that that thing is true.
the most nostalgic thing for me was the html comment within the style tag
I don't think being pulled from your car and beaten by an angry mob is the typical definition of inconvenience.
Plenty of people thought it would work. It feels like the right thing to do so people assume that because it feels right then it must be the right answer but the global output of CO2 is 51 gigatons / year and increasing. Any approach that makes a dent in that number is going to require more than just planting trees.
you say that, but let’s swap every deer for a wolf and see where things land! xD
I cannot even begin to understand the rationale for executing someone stealing your private property. That’s some failed state shit.
Even the stuff we are proud of isn't possible to talk about due to NDAs.
I think you meant HCF.
All the games I play are CPU bound. I have a 3090 and I still can’t play World of Warcraft (a 16 year old game) with the settings on max without serious FPS drops in major cities because most of the game is bound by single threaded cpu far more than gpu.
Being connected to the engine block doesn't mean it takes 8 hours of labor to replace. Look at a water pump or alternator or anything else

On modern hybrids the catalytic converter lasts 200k+ miles.
Ask HN: How to Follow the Rules
Political issues seem to be fine as long as they are on the side of politics HN moderators want them to be on. Articles about systemic racism in medical equipment and even math are fine, but any article against left leaning narratives are banned.
I thought HN would be a place of coherent discussions on all topics, but alas group thought seems to rule here too. No one wants to, or more appropriately, no one is allowed to question the narrative without their posts being removed. Government approved responses only, any other response will remove 10 points from you social credit score.
IMO that link makes .NET look very good. Aspcore, the straight off the shelf, obvious choice, is the best performing .net server? It beats Jetty and Spring but loses to a long tail of less popular frameworks
I gave crazy demos of embedded graphical links with cut-out pop-up targets and pie menus to Bill Joy and Steve Jobs in October 1988. They each had very different reactions!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17109221

DonHopkins on May 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pie Menus: A 30-Year Retrospective: Take a Look an...

>Here’s a demo of HyperTIES with pop-out embedded menus:

>HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Browsing: Demo of NeWS based HyperTIES authoring tool, by Don Hopkins, at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM

>A funny story about the demo that has the photo of the three Sun founders whose heads puff up when you point at them:

>When you point at a head, it would swell up, and you pressed the button, it would shrink back down again until you released the button again.

>HyperTIES had a feature that you could click or press and hold on the page background, and it would blink or highlight ALL of the links on the page, either by inverting the brightness of text buttons, or by popping up all the cookie-cut-out picture targets (we called them “embedded menus”) at the same time, which could be quite dramatic with the three Sun founders!

>Kind of like what they call “Big Head Mode” these days! https://www.giantbomb.com/big-head-mode/3015-403/

>I had a Sun workstation set up on the show floor at Educom in October 1988, and I was giving a rotating demo of NeWS, pie menus, Emacs, and HyperTIES to anyone who happened to walk by. (That was when Steve Jobs came by, saw the demo, and jumped up and down shouting “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat. That sucks!”)

>The best part of the demo was when I demonstrated popping up all the heads of the Sun founders at once, by holding the optical mouse up to my mouth, and blowing and sucking into the mouse while secretly pressing and releasing the button, so it looked like I was inflating their heads!

>One other weird guy hung around through a couple demos, and by the time I got back around to the Emacs demo, he finally said “Hey, I used to use Emacs on ITS!” I said “Wow cool! So did I! What’s was your user name?” and he said “WNJ”.

>It turns out that I had been giving an Emacs demo to Bill Joy all that time, then popping his head up and down by blowing and sucking into a Sun optical mouse, without even recognizing him, because he had shaved his beard!

>He really blindsided me with that comment about using Emacs, because I always thought he was more if a vi guy. ;)

Here's a paper about HyperTIES and its embedded text and graphical menus, pie menus, and emacs authoring tool, that we made in the late 80's at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/designing-to-facilitate-browsi...

Don Hopkins and pie menus in ~ Spring 1989 on a Sun Workstation, running the NEWS operating system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fne3j7cWzg

HCIL Demo - HyperTIES Authoring with UniPress Emacs on NeWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU
That's like the /r/firstaidkit (Band from Sweden) seeing posts of companies trying to advertise their newest first-aid kit or people on /r/puppet believing they could find the next Jim Henson there.
We need to figure out some sort of fireball-trail equivalent for touchscreens. Hope Apple/Samsung invest billions into detecting a hovering finger so we can finally have this!
>This stuff should absolutely be kept away from news sites, blogs and other web resources because they're awful enough already with their constant popups about signing up for newsletters, accepting notifications and pitiful pleas to use their app

I’m sure these sites would respect your wishes and not use this for nefarious purposes!

You see, features like this would make the Web worse for 99.99% of users by enabling shitty websites’ abuses, while making it just a tiny bit better for those who insist on the subpar experience of running general purpose applications in their browsers.

So yeah, that’s gonna be a no from me.
They might just not be telling you about it.

Of the people I know who have taken the vaccine, a lot have had persistent side effects. But I didn't start hearing about this for a couple of months, and even then, well, it's personal medical situations and scary ones at that. I think a lot of people are being told by doctors to just ignore it and hope it'll get better. As the months go by and things don't improve, people become more willing to speak up to friends. Of course, it's also possible me and my gf hear these stories because these people know we haven't taken it yet. If we were rah-rah pro vaccine I bet nobody would mention it because they wouldn't want to be criticized or start an argument.

Side effect reports heard about so far:

- Several menstrual problems, including completely stopped periods and suddenly near-daily bleeding, that lasts for (so far) months.

- Major fatigue including inability to perform sexually, again, months after the shot.

- Sickness for a day or so that's serious enough that the recipient can't work (heard this 4x now).

These are mostly "young" people (under 50). The virus is by itself not a serious illness for these people, some of them had it and it was a few days of feeling ill - nothing special and nothing they haven't experienced before. Given that being bedridden is a commonly reported side effect, and it seems to happen on each shot, and that COVID itself usually only lasts a few days for them, it only takes 3 shots before the vaccines have made them as sick as COVID itself. Which doesn't seem like a smart tradeoff. The goal is to not get sick.
cryptocurrency fueled or cryptocurrency heated?

warming up of water with heat from all those coin mining rigs could be a very sustainable solution that could mitigate the reputation of cryptos as delusional Earth burning maniacs

just keep them GPU's dry
Board games: so many recommendations
Same with /r/mercury. Come and post questions about this interesting logic / functional programming language! Or be like everyone else, and post about the metal, the planet, or your star sign. :P
File uploading, processing and delivery for web apps
“So who is capable of mounting this ‘superhuman’ or ‘hybrid’ immune response?

People who have had a ‘hybrid’ exposure to the virus. Specifically, they were infected with the coronavirus in 2020 and then immunized with mRNA vaccines…” *

Natural immunity is not nearly enough. Everyone should get vaccinated. Those who have had covid should get vaccinated so that they can get a chance of super-human SARS-variants protection. Those who have not caught covid so that they avoid the very high risk of long covid, and of course to reduce their risk of hospitalization by an order of magnitude.

* https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677...
Read that back to yourself and ask which country you live in.
I'm assuming the idea was games only let the person who owns the NFT (oldest entry of the hash on the chain, or transferred from it, plus however the limited number serial works for "limited edition" vs singular NFTs).
> on Windows, assuming you have the relevant chain of DRM protection (ie. TPM might be required, along with HDCP cables and monitors).

Load of bollocks. The requirements are difficult to figure out and hard to fulfil. The standards in the ecosystem do not help at all either. Cables or monitors shouldn't be certified HDMI-compatible when they don't do HDCP for example.

The "just try and find out, and hope the situation won't change" approach is so customer-hostile I have no sympathy when someone moans about pirates yet again.
Peter Thiel – The Straussian Moment
These relate to physics/modeling. I am going to hand wave a bunch.

If a system has to operate the same way under rotation/reflection, that strongly constrains what the system can be doing. Think crystals or isotropic forces or, in the day job, what should happen if you negate a feature going into a neutral network then retrain. Should it matter from which perspective you look at a thing?

If a system is continuous then smooth changes to inputs should cause smooth changes to outputs. The system probably will be robust to small perturbations because they will result in small output changes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence#Kolmogorov.27s_th... is something of an example.
1. North America has less of a "problem" than nearly everywhere else, since (overall) it has traditionally tolerated extremely high immigration rates, and potential migrants see it as a desirable destination.

Politicians reflect their voters' views. In most countries immigration rates are at least an order of magnitude too low to compensate for low fertility and will stay that way.

2. Most of the projected increase in global population is due to an expected increase in lifespan, meaning a greater number of old people. They don't have kids.

The big reservoirs of working-age people are in sub-Saharan Africa and rural India. Not many of them have the skills and funds to enable intercontinental migration. Yet.

Not sure why declining birth rate is a problem, though. Maybe we'll get around to automating some of the things.
That was not on a high speed roadway
100% this. All you really have to do is get people talking. Have them tell you a story and ask for details. If they have trouble when you get into details then they are making it up. If not you should have a fun conversation.
I wouldn’t describe getting after my alternator as “disassemble the entire engine from above,” so perhaps we can clarify exactly what’s proposed here instead of explain basic mechanics to each other. And yeah, sure, but you’ve forgotten the compendium of ways a cat can fail on the way to 200k. It’s a top ten concern in my shop, so.
This seems super unlikely as the framer would need to have specialized saws to plant on the victim.

If someone wants to abuse a castle doctrine law there are already easier ways to do that.

I’m also not aware of any stories where the existing laws have been abused to kill people legally (eg, shooting someone, planting them in your house or as a carjacker). Although maybe they are just so successful they aren’t caught.
STING UMA / VIVL0 NM-A102, most likely Wistron like the rest of thinkpads.
Arguably, the quality record only began with the launch of satellites. How much can we really trust some weather station in the middle of Montana from 1880? And of course pre-satellite the data for the southern half of the globe is relatively sparse.

When it comes to CO2 in particular, there are things like ice cores and plant fossil stomata that gives us some understanding over geological timeframes, but that's very different from a thirty year average.
Similar: I think of it as the "I'm not crazy and/or dangerous" indicator. It also allows you to assess how compatible you'll be conversationally.

It's the handshake portion of the Human Data Exchange Protocol (HDEP). I'm fine with that, but similarly to the previous poster, I'm lost when small talk goes beyond the first few transactions. I usually don't know what to say and/or don't usually care about what they are saying.
The Numbers Game
In most states, you can claim under almost any circumstances that a person came at you with a weapon (a rock?) and you shot them in self-defense.

It is up to the criminal justice system to investigate and determine if you are lying.

This situation is no different.
Of course scanning an index is faster than traversing the filesystem.

Is locate/mlocate some obscure command? It works pretty well for this sort of thing (and has the advantage that you wouldn't need to put git repos everywhere, or something silly like that).

I often forget what I've named a pdf that I've downloaded, but usually I'll put something related to the topic of a paper in the file name, so a command like:

locate -i "*svd*.pdf"

will have a decent chance of finding any papers about svd's that I have, and is more or less instantaneous.

Although -- I think I did come across the locate command because I was searching for alternatives to 'find.' I can not for the life of me remember the correct order for the path to start searching, and the filename.
For everyone curious about DHTML, IE5 plus had this “dhtml behaviors” stuff that let one implement reusable components of markup and js. It was actually pretty cool at the time. I worked on a project upgrading an IE7 spa in 2016, from behaviors to angular.
/r/potatosalad is about John Cena.

/r/johncena is about potato salads.
There are more people vaccinated than infected generally, so what they see around them are young people in pain for maybe weeks from the vaccine, and the media not being transparent about those side effects, while the alternative media blowing up the side effects and negledging the real problems that COVID causes.
I would suggest Cloudflare registrar + CDN + DDoS protection. Keep all the backend stuff on AWS.
I wonder how they are enforced. I'm sure many shops are not keeping up with passed regulations much less abiding by them if they even know about them.
This is why I have a git alias `ls` for `ls-files`.
1. My domains all predate Amazon becoming a registrar. I registered my first domain in 1997. I register them for 5-10 years at a time. There's no simplicity benefit in transferring and paying more.

2. Too many eggs in one basket. I prefer to minimize (a) the chances of losing an account/asset and (b) the impact if it happens. If Amazon drops me, or has a long-lasting outage, I can re-build everything I run on another host and point the domains there in an afternoon. Not so if Amazon also owns the domains and hosts the DNS.
Another vote for failed state anarchy. Where all did you grow up and go to school if you don’t mind, I’m building a list of no-go zones.
That is all true, but in the context of .NET performance, it's not relevant.
Those are for ad impressions and they do a much better job testing and being neutral
> So in order to stop protesters,

No, in order to stop protesters from blocking traffic, then that is all the police need to do. The protestors can always protest in a park or literally anywhere other than in the middle of roads.

In a just society, some group's right to protest does not take priority over everyone else's right to travel and use roads. Roads do not belong to activists, and no activist group has a right to shut down public roads without arranging this with police ahead of time so that appropriate detours can be made for normal traffic.
You're not joking, apparently it's legal to shot people to death if they've entered your home. Learned something new today. I don't understand it all, but certainly puts the new law into perspective and apparently what I was thinking about wouldn't be a problem.
The lie people tell themselves is that because India does it, everyone could do it without disrupting the rate at which new drugs are researched and brought to market.

As I’ve discussed in other comments, this is why pharma companies have to recover their entire investment off of sales in the first world. The rest of the world is never going to buy their drugs at a price that would make the R&D spending worthwhile. This is why companies sell their drugs for much cheaper in countries where incomes are much lower, and also why drugs produced and sold cheaply in other countries generally can’t be legally imported into the United States. It’s also why claims that drug prices could be lowered in the United States by importing them from countries where they are sold more cheaply are fundamentally ridiculous. The reason drug prices are high in the United States and to a lesser extent in Europe is that they are subsidizing the rest of the world by doing substantially the entirety of pharmaceutical R&D spending in the world.
This seems crazy to me. I run an entire home office, sometimes with a reasonably powerful main workstation (enough for things like 3D graphics work), a second PC or laptop, and various server and networking equipment all running at once, and unless we’re also using something power-intensive like a laser printer the entire room doesn't draw 1kW!