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> In Germany some hospitals are postponing "planned operations"

Are these hospitals doing this because they've currently run out of ICU beds to staff COVID patients, or in anticipation of a future influx of COVID-19 patients?

Also over 90% of people who die with COVID-19 have co-morbidities. For example, Colin Powel recently died with COVID-19 in his system, but he also had myeloma (blood cancer) and was 84 years old.

In any case it's been 2 years now since COVID-19 started. At this point if hospital systems still can't manage this, then that's a failure of the governments and the healthcare systems.
The build up of troops on the border of Ukraine, and the Chinese military incursions into Taiwan’s airspace have not been drummed up by the US news.
OK, I concede that the comment might have not been particularly articulate or thoughtful, and I will refrain from similar snark in the future. I do not however think it resulted in a wretched flamewar as the replies were, for the most part, respectful, substantiative and not particularly acrimonious. The one-sideness of the upvotes indicates what I posted was not particularly controversial as well.
We actually would buy cars in Australia as students and ship it to Malaysia. Even with the weaker currency and shipping costs, it was a good deal. That's how bad it is in Malaysia. The long story was that Malaysia invested a lot in car manufacturing to become a high tech industrial country, which failed, so the gov taxed foreign cars and stunted public transport.

I think the best model is personality + incentive. It's probably worth a couple chapters to discuss. But basically incentive is the time domain - can you continually incentivize them on such a slope to act in your interest?

Personality is what kind of incentive they expect. Some people would lose their jobs for an affair. Some just want to appear successful. I know a guy whose life was changed by meditation, so he gave up his whole career and traveled the world helping people with stress. Everyone is a mix of things and place different weights on different things.

So you want to model people and see that they align with whatever your specific venture is. Someone suited to one venture may not be suited for another. And there's a time component too, so someone great 5 years ago may be unsuitable now.
Mining asteroids is a way to obtain materials for use in space, not for transiting back to earth. Duder here seems to think that earth use is the goal. That’s dumb. You mine asteroids to avoid the cost of getting the material up the gravity well.
Then you'd probably love "Powerbroker: Robert Moses and the Death of New York" by Robert Caro. Long, but he's a master.
Influenza B is thought to have been made extinct recently due to the pressures introduced by SARS-CoV-2

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211025/covid-pandemic-may-...
Why does Christmas Eve play into this? It's a time of year where we try to be a bit more charitable, so why should I not expect more civility here?

And if the GP or original poster of this was seeming more rest on Christmas Eve then they could simply have avoided posting today.

Edit: I just realized you probably meant Dang? That's fair.
Fort Ross: Former Russian Outpost in California
As the data becomes more available from South Africa, the UK, and Denmark, it’s starting to look like Omicron is a more infectious version of the wild type, maybe 40% less virulent than Delta, at least in terms of putting people in the hospital.

There’s still not enough data to conclude about mortality.

The good news is that prior immunity seems to confer a large degree of protection from severe illness still

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...
Don't use webmail. It's a bad user experience.
I was thinking the same; they have a map of their route and I see they went through Rahova, Ferentari and they somehow missed Zetari and the cemeteries there on their way to Anghel Nutu; those areas are actually the worst off of the entire city - quite a coincidence :/

I’ve been almost daily through these areas for years; used to actually live on str Anghel Nutu; finding this on HN on christmas day is a bit surreal. I come here for tech articles mainly
Indeed the snark and arrogance are so off putting I quit early too. It’s hard to imagine HN benefits from that tone of conversation.
Coworking space is rather a big-city amenity, while the point of remote working for many people is to avoid big cities.
If that were to happen, you’ve probably got the financial security and confidence to tell that customer to go F themselves and receive applause and accolades from the rest of the team (and other customers). No one should act like that to anymore, especially towards people working a demanding job.
Casual gaming is fine on them for me at least. Magic Arena or Civ5, performs well and totally quiet.

I know this isn't most or even many gamers, but it's the gaming I did on my intel MacBook and it's way better on M1.
I've said elsewhere in the thread, but everyone has a circle of influence. Big Mail needs to maintain a reputation of being reliable. I can and have convinced people that e.g. Yahoo mail is not reliable for receiving mail and to stop using it. And those people will do the same with their people. I think that's why it's important for people to keep at it with these "artisanal mail servers" (with the help of mail packages that do automatic configuration). More people can pressure Big Mail and demand that they let us deliver our (legit) mail as smoothly and easily as possible.
It's not about feelings; the site guidelines say,

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

> [several other points, which don't apply here]

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

And while I am sympathetic to adding meaningful information ("4th time this month" is technically against the guidelines but I wouldn't object), that's not adding anything more other than telling us how freakynit feels about it, which bluntly isn't useful.
Not sure why you're bringing up the beginning of the pandemic, because 2 years in that's no longer the situation. The case fatality rate in the U.S is currently 1.6%, and we now have a better idea of how the virus works.
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If we are talking about China-India equations, they are troubled too. China claims vast swathes of land all along the Himalayas, including two Indian states (as being part of ancient Southern Tibet). It is interesting that China recognizes claims only unilaterally, as any territory in dispute on Chinese side is immediately shut off from the discussion.

India & China are in middle of a military standoff, which began in 2020 summer, about border lines [1]. It has seen one of the most massive buildups since 1962 Sino-Indian war

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_China%E2%80%...
Using the same stack and have to agree. Once it’s up, it’s rather low maintenance. I wouldn’t start again from scratch, though today.

There is also a guy, Jar, who runs a rather his own email service, mxroute, quite successfully. Users love it and he seems to know his stuff.
> Heart disease kills 659,000 people a year in the US alone (https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm), but for some reason we're not having COVID-level panic about it.

I think you answered this yourself:

> Of course, heart disease isn't contagious

If heart disease were contagious and could be effectively curtailed by wearing masks and getting a vaccine, I think you'd see a similar reaction to it that you're seeing to covid.
It’s not so much that I want to go all the way and do it myself, but I’m interested to see the gold standard way and as per the OP, perhaps go part the way (ie not send) - do you have a resource you could point me at that you recommend or rate?
Not trying to get you to do my dirty work, just wondering if you have a resource you use.
Possibly yes.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-create...
+1 for Tsoding. Very smart fellow. Unlike most streamers, he always mixes up programming languages instead of focusing on a specific one. I find that interesting, but I also understand some people wouldn’t.
> 1: how are hosting costs paid for?

This site is literally owned and operated by billionaires. Sam Altman could fund it with the change under his couch cushions.

>2: how many people need to get hit by a bus to bring it down?

Certainly more than one. Dang isn't even the only moderator.

>If Dan G got hit by a bus I know for a fact there is nobody who could replace him.

See point 2.

>When I imagine hacker news shutting down I can only think of the massive implications it would have for my life and I imagine feeling scared because it’s like a part of me is gone. It would be a massive thing and I’m not sure everyone like me realizes it.

This is just an internet forum. Most people are just here to waste time, and in the grand scheme of things, even within the tech industry, it isn't that important. The degree of emotional dependency and instability you're displaying here is unhealthy.
US refused to sell Patriot missile system to Turkey. It also refused to sell it's F-35 fighter jets before Turkey formally requested to buy S-400 anti-air missile system.

US knows that it cannot keep Turkey on a leash like it can, for example, France or Greece. So it does not want to sell it weapons, in case Turkey ever becomes a "problem" (read too powerful to control).
So long as the carbon is sourced from the biosphere (preferably extracted from seawater or air), and the energy feeding that is carbon-neutral (solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, ...) then the net use cycle is carbon-neutral.

There are use cases other than automobiles which would benefit by petroleum-analogue fuels, most especially aircraft and marine shipping, though also some overland freight (trains, trucks), remote off-grid applications, and some portable tools and equipment. Batteries suit some but not all of these cases.

Yes, there's a huge efficiency loss, but the win is in storage, portability, energy density, safety, and on-demand availability. Round-trip recovery would likely be ~15--25%, mostly through hydrolysis losses (~40--50%) and Carnot efficiency (only 25--50% of heat energy produces useful mechanical energy). Those are givens, again, the question is the trade-off and capabilities gained.

There's well over 50 years of research into these technologies. I've summarised and collected this in earlier comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21517357
what's funny about it? You think there's anyone working on this project who isn't super excited to see it go up on Christmas?

No better gift than a successful launch. The folks working on preparations overnight surely see themselves as Santa's Elves in some fashion.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend fixing bugs vs. developing?
Hi HN, I would really appreciate your input. Personally, I spend 30-40% on debugging code I wrote vs developing features.

Also, do you do anything to reduce that amount?
My rule of thumb: comments should tell you WHY; code itself should tell you HOW.
It's better now, but in the early days of organized blacklists (more than 20 years ago) it was somewhat chaotic. Many large ISPs ran their own blacklists and some were poorly managed. AOL was the worst of them all. Their admin staff was unprofessional and unresponsive when I provided a PoC for their defective spam control system.

There are a few sites where you can plug in an IP address to see if it's on any blacklists. A handy thing to do before setting up a new server is to work with your provider to find a clean IP address beforehand. Here's one that I have used: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
Heart disease is not collapsing the health system. Why are we bothering to compare them.
Looks like pretty standard commie-block district to me. Outside is no man's land, it looks pretty dead and post-apocaliptic in winter, but with exception of few photos, it's all pretty livable and relatable.

Last time I visited my parent's commie-block, it even looked lovely (during summer) with all the trees outside. It's insides of those housing projects, that are soul-crashing really.
Taiwanese Foreign Minister's interview is terrifying, the sheer horror on his face: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3D0_Bhzbyo

It's also fair to push back on war hungry narratives, it is equally as important to understand all scenarios. Nobody puts this better than Gen. Mark Milley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSBN5xBC1L4
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> … when someone squash merges…

It depends on who the “someone” is I suppose.

I typically squash my own commits, and as part of that I aggregate all of the commit messages into a single message with all of the relevant details (and leave out the “fixed typo” type stuff that’s not relevant.)

From the complaints that people are raising here there must be dev shops where someone else decides to squash a bunch of commits and throw away the messages.
It's clear that Russia is moving in the same direction of China, ban and erase all data or video, audio uploads that criticise the government or even make space for a wide range of diverse voices from protestors or just small minority groups whose opinions and right to free speech might not be in line with official government policy
Since big tech company's have millions of users they are a prime target for government censors and they have the money to pay large fines
Transfer the domain. You can generally find a deal for transferred domains.
The difficult thing about measuring causes of death is that we take it as axiomatic (and, to be clear, I think we're right to do so) that the goal is not for humans to live forever, that everyone should die of something. Heart disease mostly affects people who are at the age that people tend to die of "old age." In other words, eliminating heart disease entirely would largely only cause those people to die of something else. There are, I don't know, maybe 100-200K "premature" deaths from heart disease which ought to be the focus of public health interventions, but addressing the rest of them won't meaningfully save lives.

Or put another way: 22% of all deaths in the US happen in nursing homes. But we don't say we should get rid of nursing homes. If 22% of all deaths in a city happened in their college dormitories, there would be an immediate outcry to shut down the dormitories.

Now, the harder question is that covid also disproportionately affects people near the end of their natural life (and probably so does almost every medical cause of death besides, like, SIDS and pregnancy).

So the question is then, how many people does covid kill "before their time," so to speak, and how does that compare to heart disease? One of the common arguments is that it does kill lots of people before their time - even thought it skews towards the older, it nonetheless kills a good chunk of older folks who would have otherwise lived happy and healthy lives for several more years.

One way to measure this is by looking at excess deaths. How many people are dying of any cause compared to the year before covid was around? If covid was, say, killing people who were about to be killed by heart disease, we'd kind of expect a drop in heart disease death statistics. If we're not seeing that, then that implies that covid shouldn't be bucketed as an "old age" cause of death, that there's a reason to be more concerned about the 630,000 covid deaths over the past almost two years than the 659,000 heart disease deaths in 2019. And in fact it looks like the number of heart disease deaths didn't drop in 2020 (and grew, in fact) even as covid killed 350,000 people.

(You can get these numbers out of http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html - which I found linked from the site you linked, thanks! - and break them down further by age etc.)

A lot of arguments that we should specifically care about covid (which is the camp I'm in) are predicated on the assumption that this is true; a lot of arguments that we should just treat it like we treat the flu are predicated on the assumption that it is not. I think this is a question of fact (though one that requires the statistics to actually be available) and not just a difference of opinion or worldview.
> Reuters is a problem.

Any independent news organization is a problem for the CCP.
In England in 2015, Cameron had 40.9% apparently (https://www.statista.com/statistics/717022/general-elections...). The point still stands—he had far more than 40.9% of English seats!

On the other hand, the Turkish electoral system can fail even more bizarrely than a simple single-member constituency FPTP system—in 2002, only the CHP and AKP cleared the 10% threshold, so the AKP had ⅔ of the votes.

However, at the moment, the president is directly elected, so anything <50% wouldn’t suffice. (How those votes are obtained, of course, is another matter.)
I remember having an Apple Newton, which was visionary but sucked. People would always say to me, normal people aren't going to carry a pocket computer around like that. And they wouldn't because it sucked. But also, what would they need it for? Things change.
> I'm fat and depressed from selling all of my life so far, and have to spend the next 5 - 10 years undoing that while everyone else I meet has developed their life with some kind of balance

I didn't take the FIRE route, but I don't recognize this picture in friends I know who did. Some have kids, most have multiple hobbies, plenty of friends, and take regular vacations.

They mainly did two things early and consistently:

1. Were incredibly intentional about their careers. They always maximized for both pay and potential career growth and were absolutely ruthless about leaving a job if they began to stagnate on either metric.

2. Identified expenses that didn't make them happy enough per dollar and cut them. No fancy car, decent but not incredible living space, adequate furniture, vacations that aren't $1000+ a day (camping is great for this if you're into it).

Remember that if you're a knowledge worker putting in 60 hour weeks into your career is almost certainly an anti-pattern. The best data available says you're probably going to be do way better somewhere in the 30-50 hour a week range. That leaves an awful lot of time for the rest of life.

Once you hit financial independence it's not like you stop working, you just no longer have to ask the question "will my work let me pay the bills?" You can find the exact balance you find most fulfilling.
This is one of the reasons I don't have any FB (or FB owned) account. You're at their mercy, with all your eggs in their basket you have to hope they don't decide you're not allowed your eggs.

It's not the only reason. Not even at the top on my list for reasons. But if there is going to be a metaverse, Facebook cannot be the gatekeeper, or any other US tech company that randomly and for no given reason permabans you cough Google.
Does it matter if it is direct result or second order?

BTW, this week, the interest on private loans increased substantially, not gradually.
It will be 5+ years before we can tell it was just a fad or something real. Web 2 was also a flash based hype in it's time like this. However, the architectural and incentive changes are very big with web 3.

Like ipv4 to ipv6, I think small and meaningful feature additions compounding over time are practical whereas resteucturing entire ecosystems has a risk of a slow and inefficient adoption rate
Let's not forget that 40% of adults in the US are obese and some immuno-compromised. As a parent who falls into one of those groups I hope we can find a path forward that balances personal liberty and our health.
US does not have negative rates. Every other central bank would raise interest rates with inflation at the levels we’re seeing in turkey. They problem here is that Turkey is doing the opposite
Well that sucks of course.
Russophobia is omnipresent in the Western press too. It is simply another form of racism.
You aren’t necessarily wrong, but there’s a difference between a service at AWS scale experiencing frequent problems (inevitable if you think about it) and what actual impact those problems have. Overall the vast majority of AWS users don’t experience frequent problems.

By analogy cars crash every few minutes in my city (Las Vegas), but I can’t conclude that indicates some inherent (or easily fixable) problem with the road infrastructure or the design of cars, or the skill of drivers. The frequent crashes rarely affect me.
I've always found it so weird that "account age," or lack thereof, is used as an attempted insult here and on Reddit. I've remade my account, both here and there, several times, as I'm sure a large majority of other users have at one point or another. Account age is literally and figuratively meaningless.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This person chose to get into a business run entirely on someone else's property and now they're paying the price for that bad decision. They lampshade this in the first couple paragraphs but that doesn't change the relevance.
Political Fictions is my favorite Joan Didion book, particularly her essay on Insider Baseball., which together with Asimov’s Franchise anticipates 538 and all the other media on elections that ultimately disenfranchise voters.
It breaks for me, too.
Here comes the 50 cent army
Klick Health employees given $100, goal: make a difference in someone's life
> I'm curious as to why you think this is necessarily true ?

It's always going to be slower simply because it's two compilers rather than one. You're writing another file to disk, and reading it back in. The lexing and parsing has to be done over again.

C++ only works if it is a superset of your language. For example, suppose your language wants to trap integer overflow. C++ doesn't do that. Think of how you'd write a+b in C++ and check for overflow. It isn't pretty or efficient. Or suppose you wanted to do a computed goto. C++ doesn't have that. It's not easy or efficient to do rewrite it. (gcc has it as an extension.)

Suppose you wanted to use the BCD arithmetic type in the x87. You're out of luck using C++. Or the 80 bit reals in the x87. You're out of luck with many C++'s as they don't support that.

> if you don't compile to a language with exceptions then you need to make exceptions work from the very scratch.

Yes, not an easy task at all.

> there is no reason the overall approach can't work with other languages

You'll find, as a practical matter, that if you're using language X as the target of your language, it will inevitably constrain the semantics of your language to be that of X. You can't even do things like use a different function call ABI.

> It works when you need something working and you need it fast

I bet you'll get something working fast, but trying to get the last 25% working will consume much more time than if you used an existing, well-developed back end.
What Joan Didion Saw
I don’t understand. Can you not squash your commits and rewrite the message before you merge? Wouldn’t that preserve the message? (Trying to think of a scenario where it wouldn’t…)
They're not encouraged to use unbuffered io. The documentation for FS and IO both point you in the direction of BufRead and explain why you might want it (in the intro section of each).
What booster would you use?

Another booster up in the fairing? That would need to be quite heavy. It would be a totally custom thing for this specific mission. You would need a suitable storable propellant.

Leave the booster from the Ariane attached? The lh2 and lox would boil off after a few days.

What do you do if the deployment fails? SpaceX's dragon can't do space-walks on its own, it doesn't have an airlock. There would be no way to fix it short of developing a whole new space craft for that task.
> Seems like a small price to pay to not comply with censorship.

Doesn't work that way. They'd have to pay again and again and again. Till they comply or leave the Russian market.