skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please source the 4,000 number properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29422105

As I point out in my other comment, you cannot interpret that number in any to imply as though we ever actually had those 4,000 beds.
Yes of course - problems, needs, not complaints.
Would love to know the effect if any of being surrounded by countries with lower vaccination rates. Germany may have 70% vaccinated but how much does it help them when Poland has only 50%? Is there enough mobility between Poland and Germany to make it matter?

Of concern to a Californian who is surrounded by other states with lower vaccination rates. Even internally in California there is a steep gradient between the coastal counties with 80-90% and the inland counties as low as 50%.
New York’s AG “Gets After” CNN’s Chris Cuomo – “Let’s Get After It ”
After eight years of Chris Cuomo uttering his catchphrase “Let’s get after it”… The news anchor may have finally “Gotten it”, meaning… Done, Gone, Finished, Terminated.
Germany had elections at the end of September, and I feel that this is the main reason for the catastrophy that is unfolding now. It has prevented the ruling parties from imposing stricter vaccination requirements more early on. They could have easily required everyone to be vaccinated by November first, and this current situation would have been spared. Now the government still has to do it, but they need to rush it, and they impose unrealistic goals like 30 million vaccinations until christmas.

After Macron's speech in July to put vaccination requirements for the medical industry, there was a major surge to the vaccination centers. Meanwhile Germany was in pre election mood.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-vaccination-d...

You can see the effect of Macon's speech clearly on this graph: it led to a major surge in per-day vaccinations in mid July 2021 while Germany stayed in steep decline, and the "corona is over" mentality spread. Germany has reduced its distance to France in the last few weeks, but France still has more vaccinations than us, and it's far away from european leaders like Portugal.

At the start of covid, everyone in europe admired Germany for its good covid response. They flew ICU patients from Italy to Germany as the italian hospitals were way beyond their capacity. Now we might have to fly Germans the other way.

Yes, you can say that there has barely been public support for vaccination requirements up until the start of the current wave. And indeed it's been quite unpopular in the autumn. But if politicians had been more courageously trying to sell vaccination requirements, maybe it'd have worked out.
I didn't say anything about not recognizing problems.
Regarding the histogram issue, I worked on a project that had a few hundred histograms based on data from over 3 billion data points. It turns out that after a few thousand data points many histograms will stop changing significantly.

So, unless you really need to show exactly how many data points each bucket contains, it's much easier to run the analysis once offline, then serve just the histogram percentage data. From that you can make an SVG and overlay additional user-specific data on top. The point is that this histogram data is small and easy to cache.

You can then rerun the histogram analysis later if you'd like. However, for this project I never saw anything change with more data. It was overkill even to run it as a cron job.
A typical voxel contains a million or so neurons, and only shows a correlate of the energy consumption in it. Assuming there’s some kind of mapping between an artificial NN and voxels is quite a step. So yeah, highly speculative IMO.
Is there any reason why you didn't use BlitzJS? Where, I think this issue is largely solved with Typescript?
It's called consumer protection, and it's weaker in the US than many other advanced countries.
No- it's part of the consideration in exchange for the developer generating increased tax revenue and dedicating the right of way to the city.

If that weren't the case, the developer would likely keep the parking and streets privately held. Which is something that you do see more and more of these days.
How do you reverse a cash transaction in a way that doesn't apply to crypto?
What is your basis for that claim?

What would convince you otherwise?

(I'm absolutely no fan of FB as my history here and elsewhere will show. I find the problem space they occupy interesting, however, and the data they provide does afford insights.)
Denmark has 76,4% completely vaccinated.

Source, the data on https://www.zeit.de
In the sudoku exapmle how can Bob be sure that the three face down cards in a cell are three identcal card?
Without this knowledge, it is easy to pass the final validations without a correct solution.
How does CryEngine/Lumberyard/O3DE compare in developer experience to Unity and Unreal?
He described his investing style as super conservative.
How is this remotely legal?

Hey, DOJ, do you need a sign that Microsoft needs monitoring for antitrust compliance again? Here it is!
The Danish study is self reported with no policing of wearing a mask correctly at appropriate times and always using clean masks (not reusing masks from day to day).

> Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

The Bangladesh study found masks were effective.

The third is a literature review with no indication of quality control, so basically as reliable as the Danish study (no policing of actual mask wearing, no policing of proper mask wearing, no policing of mask hygiene).
The most common cause for failure to use the instruction you wanted is that the compiler is told, implicitly, to generate code that would run on a 2001-era AMD Opteron or similarly antediluvian target. Almost every instruction added, since, at great expense, is there to solve a performance problem.

A quiet "-mavx" to unlock these particular shackles fixes numerous performance failings.
I'll be curious to know what these numbers are in 5 years.
I truly don’t think DeFi is, at its heart, anti-regulation. I do think a lot of early proponents are armchair anarchists, but that’s just the scene. I think it’s anti corruption/abuse of power by institutions too large to fail—often due to lack of meaningful regulatory political power, across the board. (You’ll probably easily find people playing with web3 dns also advocating for personal data regulations, for example.)

No, software can’t fix all of the institutional and political problems, but it can present a more efficient modern system that helps generate the political clout people will need on the battlefield. We have systemic problems and no they’re not all going to go away with better software. But we need catalysts that motivate people, win hearts, and pierce through the apathetic menagerie.
Those people don't refuse to go to hospital and they don't refuse the ICU bed.
I first thought it's because new TVs hide speakers on the back, but even a decent soundbar didn't help much. Best you can do is to use a headphone.
Denmark has 76,4% vaccinated: check on https://www.zeit.de/index
But if we do that then the media doesn't have a scare tactic
I like the simple system of DokuWiki, no databases.
This is a pretty uncharitable interpretation of my comment. I currently don’t even use Linux on desktop (though I have in the past). Like I said, Haiku is very cool, and I love the idea behind it and Serenity, but in terms of what is closer to a useable desktop, I think it is still a while off, and will always suffer from app support (if that isn’t as important to you as it is to me that’s fine).

I do agree though that all of the Linux distros that are aimed at being minimalist aren’t simple (e.g Arch).

Though there are some like Puppy Linux which I think have quite cool ideas around it.

Please refrain from projecting whatever ideas you have around “Linux desktop people” onto me.
Agreed completely. In terms of the absolute worst piece of technology, there have been no applications that have even been shipped successfully with it, and every developer who uses it is probably encountering some form of s=Stockholm syndrome, or they're inexperienced enough as developers to not see the value of native applications.
There's mechanistic reasons why the infected would have weaker immune protection because other viral proteins like ORF8 suppress MHC-I expression and T-cell responses. All the studies that I've seen that look at the problem properly find that recovery from infection provides highly variable protection with younger and less severe symptoms providing much less than vaccination.
> The RISC-V ISA has only 1 good feature for code size, the combined compare-and-branch instructions. Because there typically is 1 branch for every 6 to 8 instructions, using 1 instruction instead of 2 saves a lot.

Which isn't really a big advantage, because ARM and x86 macro-op fuse those instructions together. (That is, those 2-instructions are decoded and executed as 1x macro-op in practice).

cmp /jnz on x86 is like, 4-bytes as well. So 4-bytes on x86 vs 4-bytes on RISC-V. 1-macro-op on x86 vs 1-instruction on RISC-V.

So they're equal in practice.

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ARM is 8-bytes, but macro-op decoded. So 1-macro op on ARM but 8-bytes used up.
Could stretch the "yaw" into a "yawn" which is the typical response when you showcase your elegant and impressive code to family and friends.
Ameca Teaser
One thing that happened was that home copies of movies used to have a stereo audio mix, I assume professionally and manually mixed down and rebalanced, even if they didn't originally (though older movies—and not even that old—mostly were stereo to begin with) but then at some point in the DVD era they started only shipping 5.1 or better, even though very few home viewers have a 5.1 or better speaker setup, and even fewer have it calibrated anything like correctly. Result: most people are getting 5.1 dowmnixed to 2 by whatever shit-tier hardware + software their TV or budget-level DVD/Bluray/streaming player has, then played over bad TV speakers or, at best, a mediocre soundbar. To be clear, this isn't their fault, it's the fault of media distributors for no longer distributing an audio mix appropriate for most people, which would be a stereo mix focused on clarity of dialog at normal playback volume.

The result is that all the trends of making the 'splosions louder and the dialogue quieter are amplified (haha) for the vast majority of home viewers, to the point that they can't understand any of the dialog unless the background music and explosions are waking up the neighbors. And that's without the film itself having made some questionable choices to begin with (as—which others have mentioned here—Tenet)
There is no “freedom from being injected” or “freedom from spreading a virus” or “freedom from denying a vaccine, getting sick and straining the healthcare system”.

People just love making up “freedoms”.
I don't think exercising your right to vote in local elections and ballot initiatives and speak your mind about local issues is "too much control." It's part of living in a democracy that has some measure of municipal autonomy.

In this particular case, most of the local opposition is because city government is fast-tracking the project while neglecting their own regulatory processes and distrust of the developer (for good reasons, frankly).. Not only do local residents want the community to keep certain qualities in that neighborhood, it's encoded into the law. That wasn't done by one person with too much control, it was done by an elected body with the consent of the governed.

But I don't want to get into the specifics, the gist is I can empathize with someone that wants to preserve the community they live in.
I think this take on decentralization and structurelessness sort of misses the point. Of course it's true that all systems that do anything useful have structure somewhere. The point of various movements for "decentralization" are where to locate that structure. Jo Freeman's essay correctly points out that "structurelessness" in activist movements locates that structure in social influencers and insiders, which is probably not desirable for most action-oriented purposes.

Which layers or pieces of the system we choose to anonymize and make fungible are an important architectural choice, and DeFi/crypto simply expand the scope of available choices in that regard. Prior to their existence, it was not possible to locate structurelessness in the layer that crypto does. Whether locating it there proves to be useful remains to be seen, but it is clearly an expansion of our capabilities, in the same way that Paxos and Raft are for databases. Yes, they still have structure, no, that does not make them useless.
Except that the problem with RISC-V isn't even design by committee. Even the most dysfunctional committee would probably not fall into pits that RISC-V managed to. The most credible explanation for it's misfeatures I've heard is just plain bad taste and overly rigid adherence to principle over practicality by it's original designers.
the 90% vaccination claims of the op are false.
"This concurrency model may also be seen as a generalization of Unix named pipes where processes and pipes correspond to coroutines and channels."

This is in keeping with tcl, bash, and glue languages - I love this. I'm about to go looking for it, but if anyone can point me to a good reference on Go's concurrency model or it's best practices I would be much obliged.
> it seems to me that an influx of residents into the area might give our neighborhood more pull in local elections as we'd form a voting-block with some aligned interests (services & infrastructure in our neighborhood) even if we differ in other interests.

It might give more pull in local elections, but the one major benefit of having more residents is an increased tax base and being a more desirable place for businesses. There are lots of benefits of increasing the density of an area, like you mentioned. The NIMBY resistance has a lot of time and money on their side so it can be hard to overcome.

I'm also in a very similar spot as you, between expensive suburbs and a major urban core. Despite the city I live in voting to restrict new housing, they were able to approve an exception for my area. Definitely appears to be helping, lots of townhomes and apartments are going up and new businesses have been coming in.
The relevant legal standard is not “felt threatened”, but that a person must have a reasonable grounds (by objective standards of a reasonable person, not by subjective standards of threat, which might be completely unreasonable) to believe, and in fact believe that there is an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm.

Since Rittenhouse was quite apparently running away, and Grossenkreutz was pursuing him, in no way can a reasonable conclude that Rittenhouse was an imminent threat to Grossenkreutz — if he didn’t pursue him, he’d be completely safe.
The size of the files can be very misleading, because a large part of the files can be filled with various tables with additional information, with strings, with debugging information, with empty spaces left for alignment to page boundaries and so on. So the size of the installed files is not necessarily correlated with the code size.

To compare the code sizes, you need tools like "size", "readelf" etc. and the data given by the tools should still be studied, to see how much of the code sections really contain code.

I have never seen until now a program where the RISC-V variant is smaller than the ARMv8 or Intel/AMD variant, and I doubt very much that such a program can exist. Except for the branches, where RISC-V frequently needs only 4 bytes instead of 5 bytes for Intel/AMD or 8 bytes for ARMv8, for all the other instructions it is very frequent to need 8 bytes for RISC-V instead of 4 bytes for ARMv8.

Moreover, choosing compiler options like -fsanitize for RISC-V increases the number of instructions dramatically, because there is no hardware support for things like overflow detection.
Too early to tell.
Nothing to do with covid and everything to do with socialized medicine.

Canada has always had very long surgery wait times:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/health-care-wait-times-hit-20-...

edit: not irrelevant, it's yet another problem being blamed on covid when it's really Canada's mismanagement of their healthcare system.
I am pretty sure it is satirical, or at least not meant to be taken super seriously.

> It provides the longest line lengths and no longer need to worry about that pesky 80 column limit.

You don't need a monitor at a 22 degree angle to eliminate 80 character line limits ;)
Trading is not investing, which this guy completely does not understand. He says that he still doesn't believe in diversification and that it's not the answer. The answer to what? If we're talking about building a long-term portfolio, it's the best answer we've come up with to-date. On the other hand, almost by definition, you don't diversify in trading. Yes, you can have a variety of open positions but each one is an individual bet and must be viewed as such. Selling off a diversified portfolio is not recommended in a market downturn but sticking to a bad trade is a recipe for disaster. The crucial lesson here is setting a stop-loss for every trade and abiding by it no matter what.

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack Schwager, considered a classic, focuses on the psychology of trading. At the end of the book, the author reflects on the one thing that all of his subjects had in common. Every one of them experienced a massive loss, sometimes several, early in their careers. And every one of them came back with the discipline to cut future losses at predetermined thresholds.

From personal experience, it's also crucial to lock in profits. You need to set a reasonable sell-down schedule that won't leave you with the urge to claw your face apart if you miss the chance to sell. I recall reading that missed opportunities tend to haunt traders much more than losses. This was certainly true for me and part of the reason why I decided to get out of trading altogether. I ended up with a tidy profit but it still hurts to think about the life-changing amount that I missed out on. If I had followed a system and banked half or two thirds of the life-changing amount, I am pretty sure I would have had no regrets. That's because I never got hung up on taking an acceptable loss on a position that would have eventually turned a profit. Just like in poker, it's easy to absolve yourself of blame, when you are following a good strategy.

But at the end of the day, one has to understand that trading is gambling. And you don't gamble with more than you can stand to lose. I've learned that gambling is not for me and so I no longer trade.
I wonder if certain applications would benefit from redundant setups in different cpu arches to check for discrepancies.. kinda like NASA stuff but different.
Not sure what to say without being labeled an anti vaxxer...

I was very sick for a week after each shot. I'm 30, I work from home, I work out, I'm lean and only go out when running in the forest and buy food.

I can't possibly know what would happen if I caught covid, but I wish the vaccination (I'm already vaxxed, but I mean the boosters) was my choice. With my reaction to the vaccines, it's two weeks a year guaranteed sickness vs a very low chance of getting covid with an even lower chance of getting very sick from it.

The pros and cons just don't make vaccination every six months an obvious choice for me.
We have been talking about building an educational non profit that teaches engineering skills, this would be a great way to get started
Then described his trading style as super conservative, dismissed index funds, and blames robinhood.
>Simply because “a couple thousand” is all that’s needed during ordinary times.

Yes but.. extraordinary times exist, if we were sane we would prepare for crises before they happen, because we always knew that it would hit us eventually, people have been warning about this for ages, this is not some black swan.

More healthcare capacity would help, just like more supply chain capacity would help, or the ability to manufacture some masks, the entire problem is we've been running on the idiotic 80s managerial efficiency mindset for decades and now we're running on fumes on every front.

If we had any appreciation for crisis management, robustness, redundancy and had some shock absorbers in our system many people would not have needed to die. And no it's not just the unvaccinated. Plenty of countries this year, including the US, will lose more people in total to covid in 2021 than in 2020. Vaccines help but they are not pandemic ending, and our systems are deeply screwed up.
It's entirely possible that the 24hr minimum is driven by the operational overhead, not just the licensing terms. Since this is bare metal, re-provisioning between customer sessions might require some level of human interaction, and this needs to be baked into the cost model of such a service.
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Is this a bug or a feature?
Certanly, though I still argue that apps like Instagram are more closely designed around the model of voyeurism and dopamine-chasing that come to mind with porn.
You think that is different in any other country?
I used the rufus work-around to install it, and I'm nervous that it'll die after an update for that reason.

Aside from that, and a couple of UI annoyances (the placement of the start button and the re-arrangement of the start menu) I'm happy enough with Windows 11 that it will be a bummer for me if I have to go back.

For me it's little things like the way the context menu is cleaned up -but the old one is still available, and the file manager is similarly cleaned up. I also like that WSL is better than it was on Windows 10 (running gui apps are now an option without grafting a separate and half-assed X implementation ).

So yeah, I'd say "trainwreck" is a hyperbole -especially for anyone who had to use Windows 8!
There's an old man made cave near me that consists of two small connected chambers, and once you are in the second chamber it is pitch black.
Opening a bunch of links without seeing them first sounds like a big old security problem waiting to happen.
Thanks, something really didn't smell right there.
Until people don't have a center speaker hooked up.
And even more confusing, the positive and negative impacts are quite likely to be second or third order phenomena. Managing unintended consequences of complex systems is no easy task, even in hindsight.

> A better question to me is, given where we are now, what incremental steps can we make it better, and for whom?

This is indeed a better question, and perhaps the best we can do in many situations. But we have plenty of systems where small changes have large secondary consequences or conversely small changes are just drowned out by the fact that the system is in some like of local minima
Nreal Light AR Smart Glasses Make U.S. Debut at $599
Larger caches, as seen in Apple's M1 L1, are one of many tools to deal with bad code density.

RISC-V might, at first glance, look similar to MIPS, but it leads in code density among the 64 bit architectures.
Which at least back in the day neither the IBM compilers nor GCC 2.x - 4.x made much use of. I've seen only a few handoptimzed assembler routines get decent use out of them. Easy to fuse pairs a probably a good compromise for carry calculation e.g. add + a carry instruction. That would get rid of one of the additional dependencies, but it would take a three operand addition or fusing two additions to get rid of the second RISC V specific dependency. And while GMP isn't unimportant it is still a niche use case that's probably not worth throwing that much hardware resources at to fix the ISA limitations in the uarch.