skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly how easy a traditional rental is. They require a credit card and driver license, and takes about 10 minutes to process. The rest of it-- waiting in line, long walk to the lot, is only because the car rental company has much higher quantities (of cars and customers) to manage. And Home Depot is far more likely to have all trucks occupied than a car rental company.
Also take into account the average hospital duration.

Days suggests 2,5 days instead of 8,5 days and that gives a lot of wiggle room.

Edit: it's not because of deaths...
Ask HN: Does Twitch have a means of selectivley muting any background music?
I want to watch Twitch chess and bridge videos, listening to the commentary to improve my skills. However, the broadcasters are often also streaming background music, and when the broadcast is saved as a video, lots of the commentary is muted because the music is copyright. Does Twitch have some means of selectively muting the background music, but not the commentary when the stream is saved as a video?
The joke was that the USA was the developing country.
> 31% of the world’s adults are ‘unbanked’ and rely on cash and dark credit. In the 1970’s a similar amount lacked electricity. It’s global ways of living are remarkably diverse, and I for one hope they stay that way. Homogeneous is bad for our species.

Are you willing to give up those things in order to reduce homogeniety (or do you just want others to forego them)?
I signed one as an intern.
> getting great performance is all the exposure to security vulnerabilities.

ironic to post this right after java's biggest vuln to date (log4shell).
Yeah, a ponzi scheme bases on exponential growth and if you know the fake dividend size as well as the size of your economy, you can create upper limits for its lifetime, while speculative asset bubbles are different. They don't give guarantees about paying the dividend at some fixed date, so can remain overvalued for way longer times. That's the same problem that the crypto currencies have. No lie to keep up that you get dividends in terms of dollars, means less solvency issues to be solved by the person charged with keeping up the bubble (if it's even an individual doing it, usually ponzis have one person or individual at the center while bubbles can have many actors). Just spreading HODL mentality as well as optimism is enough.
It seems that this guy used to spend more time writing and maintaining Haskell libraries. Nowadays, it seems that he spends more time ranting about public blockchains/cryptocurrencies. It's weird to me how much time he seeems to spend on these rants.

I call these rants because I don't see any underlying principles they are based on; he does not say exactly what are the important principles/virtues/rules that society needs to uphold that are being violated because of cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are mostly not illegal anyway. This is just like criticizing anything else that don't agree with your values/biases. E.g. some people think think it's a big deal that Epstein got suicided and some go "meh". At least if you state those important first principles, you can say which issues are more important and worthy of discussion more, e.g. Epstein or cryptocurrencies.
Have any of the relevant limitations been removed in the last decade+? I don’t believe so.

Project Valhalla is 9 years on, is there an end in sight?

When Java & the JVM were first released, the treatment of primitive vs. what we now call “boxed” types received a lot of criticism, mostly of an aesthetic variety. In retrospect, I wonder how much bigger the Java and JVM ecosystem would be if user-defined, non-reference types had been there from v1.0.
Show HN: Toy-lang, Toy programming language created in under 2 weeks
> It would appear that mass vaccination had a minimal effect on the already low case fatality rate.

Why would one focus on any impact on the case fatality rate? A lot of vaccination's benefit is preventing infections and cases in the first place, isn't it?

That graph is also misleading, because it's looking at the cumulative case fatality rate, not the fatality rate at a given point in time. That is, it's the ratio between the red and purple lines on this graph. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-deaths-and-cas...
Japan’s secret weapon against childhood obesity: school lunches
Hypothetically, you could short overvalued companies.

But you might be better off finding a value-oriented ETF that simply excludes high-multiple growth stocks. Blue chips and dividend stocks, perhaps. But this is very simplified advice. You may want to buy a couple hours of a fiduciary advisor's time if you want to seriously pursue that strategy.

Most folks will simply ride the top x-hundred companies, let their returns get padded in the good times and take the drag in the bad times as growth stocks rise and fall. Over decades, this strategy backtests pretty well.
Probably https://gbdeclaration.org/
> log4j would just send those user provided strings over an IPC channel

No it'd have to send the strings and a capability for network access. Which it wouldn't have unless you were specifically doing that, so it would be able to make network access.
Use ETFs with strict rules of entry designed to keep out the imposters.

I believe the S&P 500 index actually broke their own rules by not adding TSLA in the quarter it should have been added. I imagine the people in charge of the index were incredulous about it's insane value rise and questionable profitability.

Then again, the risk you take by using an index that excludes these kinds of companies, is that you miss out on the next AMZN until it's fully valued.

Just VTI and chill.
Thank you for reminding the room that markets can fail to provide at a middle price tier because there simply aren’t enough people willing to pay. The only remaining options are the super-premium, which most of what would have been the middle market can’t afford, and basic economy.
This is a programming language I created under 2 weeks. Please checkout the Wiki page for more details. It is basically a subset of Scala (in terms of syntax and semantic)

Open source: https://github.com/amir734jj/toy-lang
incoming email is easy. Outgoing email is a whole different ball game. I tried setting up an SMTP server on digital ocean and found it to be impossible due to the fact that all Digital Ocean IP ranges are on various blacklists. I moved the server to AWS and was able to eventually get a running SMTP server, but it requires additional steps to gain the trust of AWS and outlook.com and other providers. It SHOULD be possible to set up an email server if you never never never never never send marketing email. If you DO send marketing email, then your stuff should be sent straight to the garbage bin and you should be on a blacklist. That's the whole point of spam.
Wait, this is definitely news to me. I'm pretty sure secondary coverage becomes primary if you don't have personal insurance. I re-read the Amex terms and conditions and it says nothing about requiring primary coverage (https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/features-ben...).
I have been asked for a zip code buying gas with a tap to pay card recently. I assume that’s going to be more common.
But those are also the people who ruin it for everyone. Why not heavily optimize for the 90% good case via full automation and discourage time intensive behavior. I'm thinking either only taking online reservations or doing a 30% surcharge for walk-ins. The happy case should be that I book online, I get a parking spot location where the car is and a QR code I show on exit. Hertz Gold at SFO is like 80% there, yet the normal case remains having to walk to a desk. It seems in their interest to discourage going to the desk as much as possible.
A blog about growing your own food or making your own necessities instead of ordering more disposable crap like most of the internet would have you do.
Yeah but in more time I think we'll eventually figure it out. The invention of Gutenberg's Printing Press was massively disruptive of both Europe and the Islamic world and in Europe kicked off hundreds of years of war. Eventually we got used to the fact that you can't trust everything you read on print. Hopefully we'll work something out with the internet as well.
There's a fairly common method in most streaming software now to split out the audio into different feeds so that the music is streamed but not saved into VODs.
I wish these papers were printed in journals that publish the reviewer comments. In fact i think it should be a requirement for all journals. Unfortunately all online commentary ends up becoming a pissing contest where everyone is trying to outwit each other instead of attacking the paper itself from all angles.
They get squeezed about it regularly as well.
Because the programming language knows things at a finger-grained level than the operating system does, which can allow for better protection.
This shows a huge misunderstanding of how the internet works.

People don't congregate around websites. They congregate around subject matter. Tumblr is THE place to congregate around a long tail of niche subject matter.

It's not full of Tumblr loyalists. They mostly have lukewarm opinions of the iOS app. They're on the platform for the fandom, not the company.

The fact that you refer to Tumblr as a singular community shows that you should probably not comment authoritatively on the website :)
Maybe adding a surcharge for walk-ins or having a separate line for them seems like the way to go. Or maybe don't allow them at all and lay off the staff saved.
What is Blind?
That's still not a Ponzi. That's a pump and dump.

And when the pump and dump never ends, generation after generation, that's money.
I use RSS (feedly), but I stopped clicking directly into links that interest me

I now always open the comments section first and skim the first few messages for notes like (dupe) or "wow what scam / clickbait / trash"
Companies can expend resources to push the government to implement policies (or ignore existing policies) that flood the labor market with labor from outside of the existing market. This isn't even theoretical, it's something that's been going on almost since the country was founded and continues to distort the labor market on a colossal scale.
Which had nothing to do with Java or how it manages memory. You could have the same vuln in NodeJS or Python.
There is barely any solid data on hospitalization yet; the first batch of preprints with enough signal to start assessing intrinsic virulence vs prior immunity and other covariates were all posted like less than a week ago, out of South Africa, the UK, and Scotland. The lesswrong post in the sibling comment covers these pretty well

I don’t think it’s been long enough that anyone will have reliable enough data to form a solid conclusion.

The good news is that prior immunity seems to be very protective against severe outcomes, and that’s been clear for a bit
It is quite interesting that most of the problems mentioned don't exist in recent version of C# on .NET Core, considering all the similarities of C# and Java.

I would even say, some of the problems didn't exist in C# in 2009. C# always had value types with configurable in memory layout. It also has a very good mmap solution. It also allows for hand optimize things using unsafe blocks.
It's something I have seen a lot of people say here on HN, but I don't know if it's true. If having the whole virus was more effective than just the spike protein, wouldn't Sinopharm and Sinovac—which are inactivated virus vaccines—be more effective than Pfizer and Moderna? We still don't know their efficacy against Omicron, but they were less effective than mRNA vaccines against all previous variants.
So, he just wasn't right yet? ...
Dawson Knives have numerous models:

https://www.dawsonknives.com/collections/home-page
I'm not the same user but I checked SimilarWeb (better sources may exist.)

It looks like Tumblr has a lot of traffic, but isn't growing and is far behind reddit and twitter. None appear to be growing in the last several months; I don't know what that means.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com/?competitors=r...
https://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com/?competitors=t...

Tumblr is about equal to wordpress.com hosted blog traffic, interestingly. Wordpress.com is a collection of hosted blogs with very light in-network social features. https://www.similarweb.com/website/tumblr.com/?competitors=w...
CPUs today have more instructions-per-clock, so things like the extra "& 0xFF" might not affect performance at all. Similar for conversions to/from types: Those are compute on data already in cache/registers, so incur extra instructions but not extra memory fetches and might be free(depending on iop cache).

Boxing is still bad, because it often means more uncached memory fetches. Container types that hold references instead of values are also still bad. I notice many higher-level languages are putting more emphasis on adding value-types and unboxed options recently, because memory indirection is a comparatively worse problem for them than it used to be.

Memory is faster, caches are larger, so things that compute on bulk bytestream reads(initial loading of program code, reading large packed .git directories, etc.) should be more consistent across languages compared to 2009. Back then, it was easier for language runtime code(GC, JIT, etc.) to push data out of cache and trigger more memory fetches.

I haven't benchmarked JGit or git, these are just my prior assumptions.
I keep wondering if any insects are going to discombobulated by thinking along those lines - but am a complete layman
I saw a statistic of Denmark (who are aspirating) vs Norway (who aren't), and vaccine complications[0] were something like 1 in 25.000 in Denmark vs 1 in 15.000 in Norway[1], so there was a clear difference.

[0] Or myocarditis specifically?

[1] Don't quote me on these numbers, they are ballpark numbers from my memory
Hrm....

Though there are other tools for mapping LaTeX to specific formats.

I'll keep this in mind, and I'm aware that all document formatting specification conversions are lossy, ambiguous, or both. LaTeX seems to me to be the least lossy and most consistent over time, as well as sufficiently lightweight in authoring.

There's an idea I've been using for myself, of a minimum sufficient level of typographic specification. For many works that is truly de minimus. I've typeset book-length works using nothing but Markdown, almost always sufficiently (there are a couple of limitations, with underlining and text justification (right or centre) being the principle ones.

There's no specific hierarchy of formatting levels, though there's a rough classification, from whitespace and emphasis to formuale and interactive diagrammes, as well as document-level constructs such as tables of contents / figures / tables, etc., foot / side / end notes, bibliographic references, and indices. LaTeX supports all of these rather well. Markdown can achieve some of these. HTML itself natively has no inherent concept of many of these, though the typographic and some semantic primitives (e.g., hyperlinks) from which they can be created do exist.

So if I'm looking for a consistent sufficient standard, I'd lean strongly toward LaTeX, and find ways to deal with the edge cases in conversion as they crop up.
A thread from 2012:

Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3455673 - Jan 2012 (102 comments)
Lol they link to source documentation. Imo it’s a fine source, because it links to the material. CNN on the other hand never does. Go ahead search cnn right now, always self referencing, aka they are “truth”, “trust us” -_-

Anyway, this was the first hit on DuckDuckGo related to google censorship. It was the first “choice” that a different engine presented me — kinda shows the problem with the political hostilities, no?
> Actual scientists will usually be circumspect until the evidence is overwhelming.

It feels so good to read that. I hope that is actually the case, and all the hysteria we're seeing these days is media overamplification.
> how much bigger

Isn’t it already crazy big? Not sure this was holding it back.
> Hertz was perhaps the most famous example, where the stock was bid up even though it was already in bankruptcy proceedings and was inevitably going to $0.

Hertz shareholders did receive a material payout after Apollo's debtor-in-possession takeover of the company. https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertzs-complex-shareholder-payo...
That is for a few hospitals. The flu is not serious to lead to an actual, complete, collapse of the healthcare system as a whole where no resources are left to treat immediately life threatening conditions. That's what we were facing with COVID.

Even with unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions and with vaccines, many first world countries were at the point where they had to cancel cancer surgeries that were not immediately crucial to survival. That's not something that happens with the flu.

Now the flu is very serious as your links show. The flu vaccine is around 40% effective against hospitalization (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33378531/), and around 70% of seniors are vaccinated against the flu, for a total reduction of around 28%.

If we removed that reduction, the flu could still not be severe enough to lead to a complete collapse of the healthcare system without serious intervention. With COVID, that is guaranteed to happen.

But you're right in that the flu is a serious disease that puts a lot of strain on the healthcare system and I can understand how my comment could lead to underestimating that.
They are getting a decent education.

In addition, they get for free perfect knowledge of English, work eligibility in the US and an extensive network of friends and relatives. Something that many immigrants can only dream about.
Operating systems are also written by programmers. An operating system written in a capability-safe language would not have such ambient authority problems.
It might be qwant, if that's also a privacy proxy on top of Google / Bing.

I'm familiar with Searx, that's its own decentralised search AFAIU.
I had a situation where I found a fantastic deal on the company's own site for a Volvo XC-90, which I booked. When I got to the location they told me they have never had or seen any Volvo model. They offered me a Cadillac XT4, a worse and smaller car, at a significantly higher price than the deal I had booked. Again, booked on their own website. It was egregious enough that it felt like it should be illegal.
Weird, I tried my friends' zipcode and it didn't work. Maybe I got it wrong or something.
So what's the life meaning they should chase? Money? Human greed seems to center around money and causes tons of issues in society, maybe those families have the right sort of idea thinking of it as dirty
This knife enthusiast[0] implies that this steel isn't necessary in the kitchen

Though I had the same question, I'm guessing it'll be a few years and it'll be very expensive.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697285
How can a statement like this possibly be meaningful?
"this isn't hard" -- first sign that the ranter, I mean commenter, is way out of his depth.

Of course car rental companies take reservations seriously, there are plenty of times a company will say they are "sold out" in a specific city on specific dates. Plenty of others where prices are sky-high exactly because of a large influx of reservations.

Are there times when their algorithms don't work precisely right? Assuming 10% no-shows and actually turns out to be 6%, for example. Yes that's a problem (that hotels and airlines face as well). And it sucks to be stuck. But unable-to-fill reservations probably comprise a very small percentage of overall rentals. Flights are asking for volunteers to be bumped all the time.

If you really want to be safe, don't just make a reservation, pre-pay. They will have a car for you.
People are generally willing to go through a lot to get a lower price.

I fly Southwest, which guarantees no seats, but offers free changes.

A car rental usually comes with a flight, and the flights aren’t 100% reliable. The airlines don’t bear the cost of being late. If they’re delayed a day or a half day, people would seethe at the “sunk” costs of paying for the “missed” time.

They’d rather be charged for actual time used than get a guarantee for a particular car at a particular time.
Definitely pick up Carcassonne if you haven’t played it. It’s quick to learn, simple to play, and is fun. Play without farms for the first few games at least. Heck, if she’s very young you can play without scoring as a tile laying game.

Shaharazad is a relatively straightforward small box co-op game that isn’t too hard but might be fun to try co-op gaming without much setup or complexity.

Speaking of co-op, Codenames is a great game for 4+ players. Codenames Duets is a co-op version. You’ll probably want to skim the cards to make sure she knows all the words depending on her age, but it is a great vocabulary building game that I’ve heard about foreign language teachers using. Plus it’s fun. My in-laws probably requested we bring it every time we came over for a year or two before they bought their own copy.

If she’s into tactics, or grid based games at all, onitama is quick to learn and pretty straightforward.

If you’re looking for something different, I really enjoy crokinole. Though since a board is expensive, there are some other agility games on the market if flicking disks sounds like fun.

If you’re looking for something more strategic, I’ve not played it but I’ve heard great things about My Little Scythe. My board game group has not met physically in two years, and we’ve moved to RPGs digitally, but this is on my to play list. Scythe is an awesome game, but I’ve heard My Little Scythe simplifies the game while still keeping it fun with good strategic depth.

Hope that helps! If you have any other things you can add that you think your daughter would like, or themes that would appeal to her, or her age, those are very useful to give a better recommendation. Also, if more than two players are possible, that opens the door a bit to other games.
Please. iPhones have a browser; you can open google image search, type "sex" and get some adult content.

Apple is not attempting to create an adult content free device (not that it'd be a good idea if they were; it's just that is clearly not a thing they are attempting to do).
Did he qualify the statement or make it in general? If he didn't qualify it, he is simply incorrect.

Additionally, if he suggested that for any demographic the vaccine is more dangerous than COVID, even if he mentioned that it was only for one demographic and only for one vaccine, he was wrong and remains wrong.
The same reason the software is ass at the car mechanic when they want to order parts: Legacy systems running on old VAXes, with UX upgrades consisting of screen scraping and fields you have to tab between.

And if you miss one: You gotta tab all the way until it wraps around and back to where you were.

The systems are often blazing fast underneath, but these crazy tab-forcing-90s-looking-UIs are stupidly common in airlines, car renrals, part ordering, smaller banks and anything else that started using centralized computer systems early but didn't expose those systems to end users.
Way too many confounders to draw that conclusion from the data. Vaccinated in Ontario are allowed to participate in a whole host of risky activities like going to gyms, dining at restaurants etc. that unvaccinated technically can't do. And the people left unvaccinated at this point are mostly ideologically opposed; do you think they're actually testing and reporting their cases? We're also just way behind on tests in general.
> that moderation focuses on legalism instead of actual damage to productive discourse

It's pretty bizarre to run into such a completely opposite description of everything one is trying to do. The only thing we care about is the intended spirit of the site.

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