skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we're seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of > 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed.

The staffing problems in hospitals (and nursing homes) have existed much longer than Covid. I heard a lot about them myself when I did my FSJ (volunteer work) back in 2004, and it's only gotten worse since then. Our government is in full CYA mode, and doing everything they can to blame a scapegoat for problems they themselves have willingly created over decades. It's despicable, and nobody should support it.

FSJ is a year-long volunteer program for young people typically organized and funded by NGOs like the Red Cross and similar. I worked with small children, plenty of the other volunteers I met regularly worked in hospitals and nursing homes. They all talked at length about how atrocious the working conditions were and how they were asked to do things they weren't legally allowed to (e.g. taking blood, handing out medication) because the staff shortages were severe enough that people didn't have enough time to adhere to very reasonable safety rules anymore. That was 17 years ago.

This is a well known, widely publicized[0] and not at all new problem, and the unvaccinated are not to blame for it. Let me repeat, we're talking about one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of 83M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients.

[0]Some random articles from 2018/19 (German):

https://gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de/themen/mehr-personal/++...

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wenn-aus-notstand-panik-...

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2018-05/pflegenotsta...

https://www.rbb-online.de/kontraste/ueber_den_tag_hinaus/bil...
Add the tendency of the press to fail to report on anything which doesn't fit the required narrative, e.g. the recent example of multiple vehicular homicide in Waukesha where a casual reader would conclude that a self-driving SUV went rampant, the way the school shooting in Timberview and the subsequent release of the shooter (including a festive reception by his family) was buried [1] and far too many other examples of what is clearly an agenda. What those media seem to fail to realise is that they have lost nearly all trust among the general population - i.e. they are preaching to their own activist choir.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/did-media-bury-mass-shooting-becaus...
It's even worse than that. Because LA is so spread out, merely living in apartment buildings doesn't solve the problem: the apartment-dwellers still need cars to live in LA. When you need 1-3 parking spots for every apartment, the economic efficiency of apartment buildings drops precipitously.

With rose-colored glasses, I can see a path forward; building free-standing parking garages that will eventually be demolished / repurposed when car ownership in a neighborhood goes below a certain level. But that's expensive, clunky, and ugly -- and folks aren't going to want to walk across a wide, busy street just to get to their cars. Probably not politically viable.
And in general many of the denser areas of New York City are some of the most expensive while parts of Queens and pretty much all of Staten Island are less dense and cheaper. So it's by no means a direct relationship between density and cost.
Why is this a LA/California problem? New York City and all major cities have had high price housing that benefits owners for decades. What steps have Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, etc done to take their housing prices down to their national average?
To some extent, yes the major exchanges are insured:

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/other-topics/legal-pol...

However, most losses in crypto are not happening from custodial exchanges, but dAPPs that get hacked... or phishing targeting folks that have custody of their own private keys.
> Facebook is doing it because their Facebook brand is imploding due to years of mismanagement. It's a dead zone at this pont. I check in once a month and then leave in disgust. Absolutely nothing going on there whatsoever.

What do you base this on?

This is their revenue, operating profit and monthly active users.

I get it, facebook isn't your cup of tea but don't be delusional about them being on the brink of collapse. A lot of people use the product and they're still seeing double digit user growth after nearly 10 years of double digit user growth.

Year Revenue Operating profit MAU

2010 $1.97 billion $1.03 billion 482 million

2011 $3.71 billion $1.75 billion 739 million

2012 $5.08 billion $0.53 billion 955 million

2013 $7.87 billion $2.8 billion 1.15 billion

2014 $12.4 billion $4.99 billion 1.31 billion

2015 $17.9 billion $6.22 billion 1.49 billion

2016 $27.6 billion $12.4 billion 1.71 billion

2017 $40.6 billion $20.2 billion 2 billion

2018 $55.8 billion $24.9 billion 2.23 billion

2019 $70.6 billion $23.9 billion 2.41 billion

2020 $85.9 billion $32.6 billion 2.7 billion
I have 16MB of flash and I wanted to link in some webrtc Go library and the binary was over 1MB. As I had other stuff it seemed like C was smaller.
what about the costs to global economic catastrophes outside of money? the livelihoods of millions are ruined, families slip into needless poverty, and people die. if those are the costs, I don't think just letting things "work themselves out" is worth it
That just looks like many older, low density suburbs (single family homes with some duplexes and ADUs sprinkled in) all across the US (especially older suburbs in the South).

>It is dense

It's absolutely not dense, probably less dense than newer suburbs with smaller lots.

>walkable, and extremely beautiful.

I'll give you that, it definitely looks beautiful.
> Until Merkel is out of office, the EU isn't going to do anything to antagonise Russia or China.

So until next week?
Go on, laugh me out of the room, laugh whoever you want out of the room, the virus doesn't care how much or how little you laugh.
> Everyone needs to agree that starting a nuclear war is bad. You would likely want to stop China from shooting nuclear missiles at San Francisco. Yet I doubt that when you insist on this narrative, you would think of yourself as being tyrannical.

Extreme examples work, because you can actually count on the people reading your comment to agree with you. But you can't extrapolate towards less universally held examples that you happen to believe in; someone who requires everyone to agree about what's done with trees on your own property could well be considered tyrranical.

> One of the best observations about why people in urban areas are more liberal, and rural areas are more conservative, has to do with the idea that when you are around more people, you need more rules to guide how to interact with one another.

That's a cool observation that I'll keep in mind. However, in my experience, it's not been the primary reason. Rather, it has seemed to me that rural folks live closer to nature than urban folks, and have often had firsthand experience that mother nature tends to be nasty and brutish (or just check out r/natureismetal). That's an experience which tends to create what they would consider (IMHO) a much more pragmatic idea of what it takes to survive in the world.
Women aren't a gender minority.
> They are in tech.
Yeah, there are a bunch of ways to turn them off if you're a frequent user. But as a fresh install, you get bombarded with all sorts of useless recommendations and ads. It reminds me of the MSN start page.

I see the fresh installs often because I only use Firefox to test occasional browser bugs (it's always Firefox), and then delete it a few weeks later when I no longer need it, then reinstall it later when I need to test it again. Every time it gets more annoying.
You are underestimating the geographical spread and numbers of deer in the us. And likely also overestimating the number and ability of hunters.
Yes, I have ... you are right, should have maybe mentioned it at the end.
Free predictions football soccer 03.12.21
There also are websites Google delisted voluntarily which had nothing to do with copyright infringement or anything illegal. I'm also curious about these.
Some context: RISC-V Summit is next week, and RISC-V international has just approved a batch of important extensions[0]. With these extensions, RISC-V is not missing anything relative to ARM and x86 ISAs in terms of functionality.

I expect a lot of tape-outs to happen this month, as core vendors were probably holding for the announced ratifications, in fear of last minute changes. Next year is going to be exciting.

[0]: https://riscv.org/announcements/2021/12/riscv-ratifies-15-ne...
First of all, super cool to hear that you've been such an early adopter of CodeSandbox! Not many can say that.

The fact that we made your projects public and kept charging is definitely a big mistake, and shouldn't have happened in the first place. When you cancel a subscription, we should keep your existing work private. Could you send me an email at ives@codesandbox.io so we can fix it?

Apologies for the fact this happened to you, that's a severe mistake and shouldn't have happened!
Did this affect a lot of tech folks, or other non-tech front office/sales positions? Unfortunate close to the holiday.
Thanks! Unlike more generic tools, "start pages" are highly personal, and everyone has different preferences and needs. Therefore, universally good start page does not exist. But I made my own dog food to eat :-)
This article was a fun read, and it really highlights how we trust the words on the tin to be accurate and not mistaken marketing gibberish.

However, the part about the cost ranging from $40 - $80 is simply not true. I know this, because I purchased for $20 yesterday a faraday box to hold my auto key fobs and my cell phone. [1] There are very many items for sale at this price point, fabric, pouches and boxes.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=faraday+box
The Hollywood term for film recorded without synchronous audio is MOS.

One of the many alleged origins for the term is a German director (which director varies according to the story) declaring that a scene should be shot "mit out sound".
So prohibit listing domains on exchanges?

It's an offer to sell the domain that causes you to lose it, not where you put it. Putting it on the domain itself just makes it easy to find. But so does putting it on an exchange.
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Why not something like the LG 27UK500-B on Amazon? 4K with 3:2 aspect ratio at ~$350
There is huge demand for people to live in dense walkable areas that can't be met because of restrictive zoning.

You may not want to live like that, but plenty of people do. We should allow them.
Apple gives themselves and GitHub special deals, which I guess is what they feel to be a reasonable solution.
I'm more referring to the fact that Europe is nowhere near the low end of the vaccination percentage health officials stated was necessary to have any chance at controlling this.
Any process inscribed in the technology is part of a larger business process, and as such is also resistant to such change. You can do refactoring all you want, which by definition means not changing inputs and outputs. But you can't change the process without looping in business. And then it becomes about making a business case for spending the money and time and training and etc to make a change to the business process.
Suspected Chinese hackers breach more US defense and tech firms
Good grief. Not everything is a "crisis". This type of alarmist language games needs to stop. This is less a housing crisis and more an entitlement crisis. There is an entire country between the coasts. There are jobs available over the country. There is open land and housing all over the country. It's more that people feel entitled to a certain location, a certain line of work, a certain income level, a certain proximity to [friends, family, or whatever] and are upset they can't have it. But there's nothing stopping people from making a living and thriving elsewhere, and it would also be beneficial for the country by driving a more distributed and decentralized economy.
I think it's because Windows doesn't come with good window management. But now they have FancyZones[0] so it's much easier.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...
Paper on Google's first prediction market, from 2005-2007: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/services.google.co...
The difference is far more likely to be in capability or expertise than principles.
Snowball Fight, a deep reinforcement learning environment
More people who have never been to Europe. Hong Kong vs suburbs are not the only choices.

For a closer example, visit Washington DC, and another poster recommended Montreal.
The link references a specific response to remdesivir, but I don't see how the selective pressure isn't the same in the broader case of low-level or asymptomatic illness persisting in a vaccinated person, particularly when they'll be mingling more and taking less precautions.
Hacker news has a downvote button, unlocked after a certain amount of karma, but it's not to be used simply because you disagree with someone.
Why would you not put them on their side and stack them like hard drives? You'd get way more density that way then trying to figure out how to make it fit in 1u for no reason. You could even stack multiple rows deep to get more density.
From https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/#Pricing:

"Amazon EC2 Mac instances are available for purchase as Dedicated Hosts through On Demand and Savings Plans pricing models. Billing for EC2 Mac instances is per second with a 24-hour minimum allocation period to comply with the Apple macOS Software License Agreement"
Not totally disagreeing with the rest of your comment, but we haven't had a gold standard for awhile now, and that’s the problem. Lifting fiat off gold lets institutions play games with fiat to increase their fiat with the appearance of being a good steward of fiat. This is what people don’t trust.
The fix for me has been surround sound.

I have the center channel bumped several steps louder than the others on my receiver. This makes a world of difference over stereo mixes. (I will admit the voice sound can be more uneven - wind noise etc starts to show through)

Hmm, thinking out loud - I bet a multichannel mix could be calibrated on your system to bump the center channel, even if outputting to 2 speaker
You are not liable for credit card fraud in your name in the us. You should have been able to refuse to pay. That sounds shady that the company tricked you into making them whole for something you aren't liable for.
People constantly forget that large multinationals like Amazon are bigger that many countries, are purely authoritarian structures and work as 100% centralized economies.

> Central panning doesn't scale

On the contrary, it scaled pretty well in China and in Soviet Russia, leading to the two cases of the fastest economical growth on the planet. The problem is not scalability.

The problem is that dictatorships (both countries and private companies) exist to benefit those in power. When push comes to shove everybody else is expendable.
I wouldn't say China is any more centrally planned than the US. The economy is highly controlled in some aspects, but in others it's a lot less regulated, which is how you get plastic in baby formula.

On a government level, every one is centrally planned. That's kind of the purpose of it. Democracies just happen to elect their centrally planned government.
I used a 40-or-so inch med-to-low tier TV for coding a bit, and was surprised at how not terrible it was. The latency was not actually that much worse than a monitor.

This was in the living room, which is sort of inconvenient. So I decided to get one for my desk. Being a silly project just for myself, I didn't want to splurge on it, so I went for the cheapest 4k I could find. I think it may have been a store brand.

The response time on that thing was noticeably terrible, like I would lose track of the cursor in vim because it wasn't keeping up properly.

The moral of the story I think is that you can get a not-terrible 4k tv for coding reasonably cheap, but the response time issue may still exist. It is probably just a roll of the dice.
We call them three-flats here in Chicago.
I noticed that as well and typed

arcsin (3/sqrt(9+49))

into WolframAlpha.

It's clear in the picture that the corners of the monitor are not on the same level.

But now I'm wondering what led to the error…
Apple Silicon roadmap leaps ahead of Intel
Assembler has basically no abstractions on top of machine code; just a human-readable syntax. So there would be no difference.
As a student of more traditional forms of navigation I can't help but have an "I told you so" moment when I read things like this. I've experienced multiple GPS failures in aircraft that necessitated breaking off an approach, as well as active jamming from the ground that interfered with GNC on spacecraft. You simply cannot expect GPS to be invulnerable to attack or to never malfunction. I know this isn't an immediate concern for 99.9% of people--worst case, you have to ask someone for directions and look outside your car instead of using your phone--but for folks with navigation duties at sea, in the air, or in space, or even just someone going out for a long hike, it is imperative to have and be proficient with another system. Fortunately the US military and the engineers who build its systems know this well. I only harp on it because it can sometimes be difficult to get students to truly appreciate the dangers of relying entirely on a single means of navigation.
Of course it's building more. But the question is what kind of more. Is artificially changing the density of every Single Family Home neighborhood going to create a more that depresses pricing? No. Because the housing will not all be built magically overnight. Units will come onto the market after: 1) The developer buys. 2) Tears down the SFH. 3) Builds a new multiplex. The capex in each of these steps guarantees that this will happen gradually (also as people are willing to sell) and since everything will be truly new construction (if you want to double density, say) it will come out on the highest end of the market.

This can make housing more dense and it can gradually lead to more units on the market. Potentially you could eventually reach competition dynamics that depress pricing. But in reality pricing is also dictated by: location, style, build quality, schools, and a hundred other factors. This is why trumpeting upzoning as though it will somehow depress pricing is dishonest or foolish. Since you can't double the density of LA overnight (even if you can double its theoretical denisty), it's naïve to pretend that this is a silver bullet.

My greater point was that the conversation around "housing affordability" has less to do with zoning than developer incentives. Developers need to be given the mandate (and the incentives) to build sub-market rate housing as part of much larger developments if you want affordability and a middle class in California cities.
> a ton of unnecessary cognitive load that 0.1% of their users will find useful.

Maybe it's been designed specifically for that 0.1%? There's nothing wrong with not catering to the masses.
> You're going to have to dumb it down for me as to how this doesn't refer to spread.

Vaccinated index cases infecting others in the same household are only one scenario, and in that particular scenario, the study found no impact on spread. The study did find that vaccinated household members were less likely to be infected (SAR 25% vs. 38%) and that vaccinated cases had a faster rate of viral load decline - both of these findings (especially the first one) also relate to spread.

(It's arguably a bit surprising that the faster rate of viral load decline did not have an impact on the SAR for vaccinated index cases - one could make a (hopefully) reasonable hypothesis that this would matter more outside of household settings and thus still have an overall impact on spread, but that's not backed by any data from this study.)

There's also a world of difference between not "ignor[ing] the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission" and saying that it doesn't stop spread to any significant degree. It's not binary.
Who thinks, “I want to look up a video trailer, so I’ll go to the Warner Brothers home page, whatever that is.”? No, the layman searches for it on the world’s second most-visited website.
You seem to have ignored the entire class of businesses that don’t “make their own software” at all.
And monitor aspect ratios got shitty.
The author seems to be confusing distributed systems with market systems. Cloud services are a market system, but it isn't distributed... it's all in central servers. The technologies that are "simply never going to be able to achieve their goals" are trying to be market systems and distributed systems.
I partially agree with the basic point here, but China's not a great example as its economy is not, in fact, centrally planned. It is more of a hybrid of private enterprise/capitalism and strong state influence. Back when Chinese central planning was more aggressive and comprehensive, you had worse outcomes like the mass starvation of the Great Leap Forward.

The obvious issue is that centrally planning an economy to achieve our desired outcomes is very difficult--perhaps beyond our capabilities. Of course, an easy way of addressing this is to do what China has done and effectively concede that you can't centrally plan everything, but you can find an equilibrium where the necessary parts are controlled and the rest left to market forces, with a system of regulations to address distortions created where the two meet.

Of course, you might also say that it's not exactly trivial to create a market-oriented system that achieves the outcomes we want. I think history demonstrates that societies have had greater success with market-oriented economies than with centrally planned ones. But you may be right that we shouldn't be so quick to completely rule out the possibility of a centrally planned economy based on a small number of examples, each of which was actively sabotaged by other major powers--much less should we rule out the viability of hybrid systems. (In fact, basically all modern economies are some sort of hybrid between planned and unplanned systems, including that of the U.S.)
Changing data and changing virus variants doesn't mean you were "obviously lied to".
(full disclosure, I work for Google)

I think it's easy to take an absolutist approach when it's somebody else who faces the consequences. In some ways it's a rehash of the arguments when the Navalny app was delisted.

In a vacuum, "should someone follow politically motivated requests to take down content?" is an easy question to answer. But when you have to worry about consequences like giving up your freedom, I can't say that I'd have the courage to follow through. The Dutch prisons might be nicer than Russia's, but asking someone else to give up their freedom for ideals is still a tall order.
Voting is a blunt tool. It destroys too much nuance and freedom of choice.