skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but hospitals are run at a level to hit peak capacity at the point when vitamin D deficiency peaks.

Here's LA County using overflow tents in 2018 because the flu season was particularly bad: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flu-demand-2018...

So it's not like this is some new threat. "2 weeks to flatten the curve" came along with some understanding that hospitals would increase their resources. Instead, in many states, they've spent more time working out which unvaccinated staff to fire and how than they have increasing staffing levels.
That was the point, yes. On top of that it would be fairer, because everybody will pay their share of the employees' wage. Freeloading cheap food, made possible by other people's tips would no longer be possible.
There is a delicious irony in the fact that you are training yourself using a reinforcement learning approach to meet the needs of an imperfect machine learning application.
Wolfram Cloud keeps getting better. It's streets ahead of where it was a year or two ago.

Best feature is the ability to share files with notebooks created in the desktop version.

My workflow is: create and refine using the desktop version or Mathematica or Wolfram Desktop. Then access the notebook from anywhere, anytime, even on mobile devices.

Some downsides: you can mess-up a notebook on mobile there's effectively no "undo" capability to fix botched steps.

Presently I'd say, if you are using the cloud version only, best to create and iterate on a desktop computer browser first. Creating and iterating on a tablet or phone browser isn't going to be a good experience. That said, it's getting there.
One pet peeve of mine in all of this inflation talk is that all of the comparisons are to a year ago, i.e. to a very unusual year. I'd much rather see the annualized increases from two years ago. Better yet, show both numbers so we can understand the both the trend and the covid effect.
isn't that the Chemtrails guy? yep

https://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/Chemtrails.html
A daring new tack in fed apologism: everything is transitory.

Guys—don’t worry about the heat emanating from our sun; it’s only a multi-billion year transitory phase!
From the screenshot I suspect the real secret is that it gives the user a chance to correct errors after scanning.
Would someone who is flagging this comment please, instead, respond to it? If it is so trivially dismissed, please show the rest of us.
> Until the MSN messenger rebrand in 2005 sounds like a good rule of thumb.

I think the point of no return was the launch of the iPhone. Not that the writing wasn't already on the wall, but everything accelerated after that, and it was clear things weren't going back after those devices took over.
TEGs aren't the only technologies that can do what steam does. There are closed cycle gas turbines, for example, which do not combust a fuel but rather use heat differentials to convert energy. There's also Thermoacoustic generators as well, which are quite efficient and interesting to boot. Both of these have practical efficiencies that are already much higher than TEGs.
It's not like we're not culturally flirting with that already. Film photography and vinyl have both seen massive resurgences lately.
It seems dreams are not affected by aphantasia.

Reading "in your head" does not require hearing "your voice" while you do that.

I can draw perfectly well, but when it comes to drawing things I've seen, I'll be drawing from my memory of observation of features ("his eyes were close together"), not from the image in my head.

All of your other examples are similar: I never assumed that everyone can visualize exactly the same or that the term "photographic memory" refers to majority of the people: I rather assumed that this was out of the ordinary (and it is, just on the other end of the curve).

I've always had trouble with following flow-charts: they were never helpful for me. But I realised that most people like them, and that it's likely their brains are wired slightly differently.

So in short, I could notice that there are some special things about my brain, but I did not know that this might be "aphantasia" (I was thinking maybe that's why I was so good at math and resolving complex programming problems). I've noticed other things as well which I don't know the name for or if it's only a symptom of a wider difference in processing (eg. I have a hard time separating multiple voices when they are talking at the same time, even when I notice others can easily do it).

I, for instance, don't find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that you find it implausible that adults would only learn about a fringe "condition" like this (which doesn't stop them from any of the daily human activities) later in life, but I find it extremely unreasonable! Because human brains are extraordinarily complex beasts, and we understand only a miniscule part of them.
People probably fear being paralyzed more than they fear death.
Because when we get the opposite, our own behaviour has ultimately driven us into the ground and we end up in hell or dead.
The important point being, once you saved, the working memory was also reset to sane conditions and you could keep on going for days, or weeks. Saving frequently not only kept the injuries, which added to the insults of a crash, in bounds, it also prevented those crashes from happening at all.
Why though, is there such a disconnect between what we personally experience (colder weather) and what we are told (global warming)?

Must I take the science on trust?
I think this is pretty common at early stage YC companies. At least the one I started at did this until they needed to give us fancy titles to impress investors.
Yes, this. Principal means something vastly different between Microsoft and Google (where at Microsoft it means “Staff”). I even got recruiting emails from some not-popular SV firms for “Principal software engineer” when I had 3 years of experience.
Before that data point resolves itself, remember that n=1 doesn't really support either meta-narrative. Not saying you are doing this, but I'm sure there are many who are preparing to both sharpen this data into a spear for the "other side", and at the same time, preparing a cognitive dissonance process to explain the data should it not support their meta-narrative.

The end result is discussion that advance little in the Shannon information sense, but maximally clarify every individuals social net.
The south African doctor had insufficient evidence to conclude it was "extremely mild". Waiting for more data was the right course.
Is that unreasonable?
Well you didn't even have to write HTML back then. You could author it in whatever program and FTP it. Which to be fair was still a stumbling block for some, but out of all the hurdles and hoops you have to jump over and through to put something on-line anyway, it wasn't that difficult.
the semantic web is philosophically bankrupt. schemas and curation lost to the algorithm, by a wide margin, and for a good reason. ontologies are infinite.
> I am in no way saying masks don't work, in fact I think that they do.

This is still so hilarious to me. It's pretty obvious that some masks work, that is, n95 or whatever actual respirator masks. It's pretty obvious that other masks don't work at all, that is, 99.99% of masks worn by the public at large.
Is the problems of nasa that they don't have an unlimited budget? Why make a experimental rotating artificial gravity spacecraft when a fancy sleeping bag will do the trick?
Frankl suggests that the people who perished in Nazi concentration camps could have survived if they had a better attitude. This is intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant. It is akin to suggesting that people who suffer from depression should just try not being sad, only much much worse.

I will hazard a guess and say that nothing you have seen played out time and time again compares to the horrors of the Holocaust.
Ask HN: Was commoditizing crypto a central government scam to fight inflation?
Most true believers in crypto preach that it is the answer to government controlled fiat currencies. Fiat currency continue to lose value as central banks continue to print more of it.

I understand this reasoning but what concerns me is that crypto is diluting the commodity pool and in effect boosting the value of fiat. All that is required is for the central banks to declare the newest NFT or Crypto flavor a commodity and the fiat will flood into it and create support for the government backed fiat currency.

If there was no crypto how much more fiat would be in circulation already?

What is more concerning is that what seems to be a virtue of crypto in not having government backing, seems like a perfect opportunity for world central banks and governments to collude to manipulate crypto value without consequence by crashing the market through regulatory action and effectively dissolve a large amount of the fiat pool.

I doubt that the majority of public will blame governments for destroying an anti government construct, no matter how loud the anarchist voices get .
According to what I heard through the Covid update of work. Omicron settles more in the nose and not as much in the long ( their source was a doctor).

Although it's too early to be sure, it would explain both an increased transmissibility and a milder variant.
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Because pursuing creative, passion industries often do not pay the bills (due to oversupply or labour gatekeeping). Game developers being exhibit A. For non software engineering examples, look at traditional engineering and STEM. Most aerospace engineers start out with dreams of human space travel, they will either end up building missiles and drones, pivot, or work for one of Elon's passion companies that are infamous for their work life balance. People enter life science with the intention of becoming doctors yet most will be stuck with debt and a dead end job after graduation with medicine being forever out of reach. Teaching and non-tenured/non-STEM academia pays so badly (not to mention the incredible gatekeeping to even get the job) that you will probably find more English graduates on OnlyFans than your local college's literature department. Writing JavaScript apps is hardly the most meaningful job but it is a safe career path with good growth for current roboticists or electrical engineering graduates. Software engineering may be materialistic and CRUD apps boring, but they are an easy, uncontroversial way to pay the bills for the massive pool of STEM (and occasional non-STEM) talent we have right now.
My only check-off for "illegally entering a country" was to stop briefly on a sandbar in absolutely nowhere Angola to have a gin and tonic before rowing back across the river to Namibia.
I could see a good use case for those planning/kanban/mind mapping meetings where you plaster a whiteboard with notes and drawings. Scanning or photographing that isn't so nice. Formatting it into a pleasant, readable wesbite would be pretty cool.
If you find it implausible, you need to simply read the literature on perceptual changes caused by brain lesions.

Try reading “the man who mistook his wife for a hat”, by Oliver Sacks.

Most of your examples don’t have any obvious connection to what was posted.

E.g. most people don’t have a photographic memory and we all know that, so why is that relevant? Reading in your head doesn’t require you to visualize anything. It just requires you not to say what you read out loud.
Neither does GDPR compliance but here in EU I know some companies who're real nervous of being fined, while at the same time doing their best to comply.

Fines would therefore be the obvious solution to the lack of cybersecurity. Network breach / data leak due to not patching software x days after vuln disclosure? Here's your fine!
I have stiff hands in the morning but no pain. It's probably a sign of oncoming problems.

Did you consult a doctor?

I found out that I had major vitamin D deficiency
>> And again: declaring defeat in advance, or throwing up ones hands and declaring that "all is foreordained" won't get you there.

I am not sure why what I said comes across as defeatist :).

>> I'd argue that part of the genius and heroism comes from recognising such loci, recognising the societal magnitude of the task, and searching for a solution space

I agree.
Thank you for the thoughtful responses and the references.
> Corporations will do anything permitted by the law ...

A bit off-topic, but corporations will also do things not permitted by the law if the potential penalties are likely to be significantly lower than the potential profits.

And, of course, they also expend significant resources to shape the law to serve their interests, and appear to be significantly more effective at this than "ordinary citizens".
There always are. Average hospital staffing and resource levels mean at its minimum ICUs are at ~78% capacity. Come low vitamin-D season, January or February, most ICUs hit capacity every year.

Google doesn't run its data centers at 5% capacity for the same reasons ICUs don't.
Another "conspiracy theory" that turned out true.
100% my default was to just pick up the phone and call a supplier - then when you’re in a bind you have a personal relationship that goes a long way to smoothing out issues (in both directions)
>do you think that these things would not exist without these individuals?

In the case of Elon, no. The technology foundation for SpaceX had been around for decades, with no traction.

I'm less familiar with Tesla and EVs, but several people seem to think Tesla advanced the EV industry 5-10 years relative to where it would be in a world without Musk
We've had the same vSphere cluster for 5 years now. I forget what it initially cost, but over the timespan in question I think it would be very difficult for Cloud-anything to cost less. Hell, the licensing for the software we use to do business costs an order of magnitude more.
using centrifugal force would require a complete redesign and billions of dollars. Whereas the ISS space station is for a few people for a few months and mostly for research.

sophisticated space stations would have to wait untill a turning point in profitability is reached. Space elevators are still in the realm of science fiction and are on the edge of theoretical feasability
You should compare with risk of clotting vs covid disease.
Using it when estimating with query like "today plus 30 working days"
They actively corrupt democratic governments and disseminate misinformation in order to keep making money by destroying the planet. Exxon infamously supports cap and trade because they know it's politically non-viable [1]. Confident no consumer is asking them to do this.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1Yg6XejyE
Weird, I thought that the natural immunity from COVID-19 wasn't as strong as the vaccine.
Why is it ok to to be skeptical of findings if they are optimistic when it comes to covid, but if you challenge a pessimistic finding you are an anti-science anti-vaxxer piece of work? Let's be consistent here.
Last time I checked, those companies were still adhering to the JEDEC standards for how they define SSD write endurance, which is based on how worn-out the flash can be while still meeting certain unpowered data retention thresholds. For consumer SSDs, that threshold is one year unpowered and stored at 30°C. [1] All of the challenges of unpowered data retention are already being addressed in the normal course of bringing new generations of flash and SSDs to market, even though nobody is yet making drives specifically tailored for that use case.

Additionally, lightly-used flash has error rates that are orders of magnitude smaller than flash that has reached or is approaching its write endurance limit. Which is why an archive-only SSD can very reasonably be expected to provide unpowered data retention far in excess of one year.

[1] For enterprise drives, the specified duration is shorter but the storage temperature is higher. The warrantied write endurance is also typically higher, so those drives are willing to take their flash to a more thoroughly worn-out state.
Forensic artists learn how to help people describe more. They can try different shapes until the witness says it looks right. And the successes get more attention than the failures.
It's buried in a mountain of spam. You might just miss it.
The only way to unfuck the web is to do it yourself. Have some self control, be disciplined about how and what you build, and don't just drop your trousers for the first investor that gives you the time of day. Have some principles. That's the difference between then and now (perhaps in the past it was by accident). There are scant principles anymore, just a whole lot of people looking for their "out," blind to their contribution to the downfall.

Read: be the change you want to see, not a dime-a-dozen snarker who smugly contributes dick all to the world.
I've always wanted to see (or do) that - just something that you can check in on a year later and say, whatever happened to X from last year?
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>You're not allowed to question climate change like this on HN.

What's there to question? The carbon credits markets that are being implemented definitely won't be manipulated by Wall Street like the commodities markets are.

Nothing at all could go wrong with financializing periodic elements and allowing entities like Goldman Sachs to create carbon credits out of thin air.
Well, this business scales easily, what am I missing?
Entry level, on average, churns out in 1yr. Other reasons for that too, but it's not a carefree job. I love helping the analysts using us, but gets frustrating seeing how many are treated.

Developers make products: they are indirect profit centers, and while everyone sees room for improvement, get treated relatively well.

Conversely, outside of areas like say finance, big tech, & gov, sec teams get starved and ignored as cost centers. Their event log DBs (SIEMs) are often from 15+ years ago and might even be SQL-based (think MySQL, not bigquery), if they even have one.

Not fun even before all this - automated attacks with bad support has been going on for years.
This sounds very useful. The quality of sagas would matter a lot. This is from my personal experience of trying to build a news site in my past life which cuts the clutter and focuses on facts. The problem I faced was in how do I decide which link to choose without biases. This turned off a lot of people who did not conform to that view. Even on clear topics. For instance most people agree racism is bad but there would be diverse opinion on where to draw the line and what actions constitute racism.

However there are quite a few topics where you could be objective - sports scores, election results, new releases etc.

Good luck. Hope to see it on Show HN one day.
The BBC (in collaboration with The Guardian and PA) created an RDF ontology[0] a few years ago for describing "Story lines" stories that can span multiple articles over time.

That could be useful to use (or just take inspiration from).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20170719191914/http://www.bbc.co... - bbc.co.uk/ontologies is currently offline as a mitigation against the log4j incident, hence the archive.org link
"In the long run, we're all dead"
Yes I noticed recently that this is very common in the Kubernetes community whicj is very annoying.
Thanks for writing down what I lacked the time to do.
> what I'd rather see than bald assertions of "person bad".

Can you point to such an assertion in the GP?
It's not like the industry has a stellar reputation for putting the publics interest ahead of profits. Oxycodone, $700 EpiPen.

How do we know vaccines aren't addictive. almost every person I've seen once they've had one they go back for more and more.
>In this article he clarified that generally viruses that spread more are less severe (as killing the host makes it tougher to spread).

It takes far less than death to reduce spread. People who feel sick stay home from work (not guaranteed, but with enough frequency that it matters), don't go out to eat, don't wander around and go to parties, and so on. Any time they're sitting home, they've hurt the chances that their variant is the winning-est variant.

Again with the caveat about dormancy periods for Covid.
G7 company suspends Tesla taxis after serious accident in Paris on Saturday
Just because the OP yawns at a trite post doesn’t mean he or she doesn’t care about the issues you mentioned. The only thing that isn’t cared about is deflection of responsibility.
I don't have any concept of seeing something in my head. I always assumed it was a way to say "think about this thing" and never thought people could "see" it in any meaningful way. If someone asks me to picture an elephant, I don't have any visual experience at all. It doesn't even make sense to me. I can describe what an elephant looks like. I can draw something--poorly--that other people would immediately identify as an elephant. I can talk about the shape of an elephant, the parts of an elephant, colors, textures, and other physical properties. But I can't "see" or "picture" an elephant.

I'm not sure if I have aphantasia or if I'm just being overly-pedantic about what people mean when they say they "see" something in their head. I guess maybe this could be measured by seeing if the visual cortex is active when imaging an elephant; I'd be curious to see how I compare to others in a test like that.

Like many subjective experiences, I'm not sure if I'm experiencing things differently or just describing them in different terms.
Sounds like a niche for RSS to me. Push updates on a situation as it develops, know which part of the news stream you haven't caught up to yet.
Most jobs in "cybersecurity" are essentially just around for CYA purposes and not actually for improving security in any meaningful sense. Indeed, deployment of "security measures" for managerial CYA purposes result in things actively detrimental to security, like widely deployed, invasive snakeoil and many other things.
It's amazing that we can train someone to be a doctor and allow them to operate on your heart, brain, etc. within less time than you'd allow someone to touch your precious environment.

This points to two issues: education needs to be addressed with more input from industry, and expectations for hiring need to be realistic. 10 years before you're able to work on something security related is not realistic, nor is it sustainable.
This[1] has some good explanations, but as an example - spaces, special characters, etc in file names.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-pars...
It helped me go through all highschool math exams
These two things can both be true. As you say, assigning blame primarily to citizens is just incorrect - corporations/governments have the most direct effect on the problem. At the same time, suggesting that the actions of citizens are meaningless until corporations/governments act is demoralizing and obscures people's power and agency. Given that most of us are ordinary citizens, shouldn't we use the levers available to us, and encourage others to do the same? For example, voting, advocacy, reducing consumption, etc.
Make a BLE Enabled Smart Bulb with STM32 and JavaScript
The aim of this project is to control different home appliances using a web browser or smartphone.
Part of the "new Web" that that I'm not a fan of is, with the massive reach of the modern Internet, some person's infelicitous comment or ribald joke can permanently end a career. The force multiplier of these corporate silos of information make this situation worse.

I would like to return to a more HTML-ified Web, with less reliance on JS frameworks that scatter spinny loading icons all over, but IMO the worst aspect is a social and cultural problem, not a technical one.
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