skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hospitals build out capacity based on projections of need. So they look at the population of their catchment area, other hospitals, demographics of the locals, and calculate that they’ll need about X icu beds / maternity rooms etc etc and then build in a small overcapacity for surges.

If they routinely overbuilt then cost would go up even more. I think this approach is reasonable for any business,* whether private or public hospital.

The Covid surge isn’t something you can plan for, nor could you really build ICU capacity quickly enough for.

Also there’s a systems issue: the ICU pressure shouldn’t even exist to the degree it does as we have a “defense in depth”: vaccination. But for some reason people aren’t using that defense, which simply makes things worse for the rest of us.

* not getting into the cost issues in general, just addressing your specific comment.
It could be due to random perturbations in the small data size. Like if 10 people died last year, and 14 people died this year, deaths are up 40%, but the 4 extra deaths could be random. You'd have to look at a long trend to infer meaning from such small data. But I'm not sure how big the data is in this case.

Something similar happened in my town when I saw a huge-looking spike in a graph of covid deaths. But when I looked closer, deaths had spiked from 0 to 3 on a particular day, and the average is 0.3/day. So that crazy looking spike is probably meaningless over a longer time window.
You really think that China banning bitcoin means they no longer use those dirty coal power plants?

You may want to examine the logical flaw behind this line of questioning.
The reason that people here know about this stuff is that this place is full of people sharing helpful tidbits like this.
If you get a positive for a horrid cancer with a 90 percent false positives you should be afraid. Its lunacy for tests to be regulated beyond requiring rough false positive false negative rates, and if anything smacks of "I dont understand statistics and therefore have to protect my children from understanding statistics." The article is most likely written by some anti abortion idiot.
I got a 3D printer years ago to use on a specific hobby project, and I ended up not touching the hobby project again until about 6 months ago. I've rebuilt my 3D printer numerous times though!
Major Music Acts Are Seeing 20% No-Show Rates at Concerts
At least I can go out today and order a Tesla, or point a telescope at the sky and see some sparkly satellites, that’s more than can be said about most vapourware these things are being compared to.
What were you trying to migrate from? And what do you use now?
In release 2.1.0 were added C/C++ interface for streams catching. Server-less, cross-platform.
I never had problems with fake products on Amazon until I looked for a usb thumb drive for the Arlo camera base station.

There’s a dramatic difference in price for 1T sizes. Some at $30. Others at $150. I couldn’t understand it.

One of the 0 star reviews said it was actually a 32Gb drive that somehow fools the OS to think it is bigger. Not sure how that happens but it steered me away from any of the cheaper options as I don’t need a headache.
Consider it ordered :D
This is gold:

"""
Overhead breeds complacency — if your program is already several megabytes in size, what's a few extra bytes wasted? Such thinking leads to atrocities like writing desktop text editors bundled on top of an entire web browser, and I think it would be nice to have a language that pushes people to be a bit more mindful of the amount of resources they're using.
"""
Google used to have a great discussion search mode that only showed forum results. I miss it dearly.
I think it is the other way around -- almost always a Mac user will be an iOS user, but there are plenty of iPhone users without Macs. At least in the US. iPhones seem to be around 50%-ish of sales in recent years, while Macs are not as popular, somewhere around 15%.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/13/mac-market-share-q2-2021/

https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-iphone-record-sales-us...

Of course, there are lots of competing estimates for this sort of thing, but the numbers are so far apart that I don't think it matters too much.

Personally, I have an iPhone because I'm completely uninterested in cellphones and just want something that I don't have to think about too much/will be supported for a while. My computers all run Linux, because computers are cool, and fun to tinker with. Maybe someone who grew up in the era where cellphones weren't so useless will have a different perspective, though.

WRT dongles -- I dunno. Some of the popular Macbook models don't have HDMI ports, right? That seems pretty annoying. But my ZenBook lacks a headphone jack! The moral of the story is I guess that OEMs just want to fill our pockets with dongles. Or maybe selling replacement dongles is the solution to the post Moore's law era, since we don't have to replace our PCs anymore.
As far as I understand the protocol, you'd need a certificate signed by Apple in order to be able to masquerade as that contact in somebody's contact list, and Apple only signs these after phone number or email confirmation.
> But this is silly because as these tools get better, the driver will inevitably monitor less.

And for good reason. The main benefit to FSD, as I see it, is the ability to do something more productive with my time while getting from A to B. Most wealthy people end up paying for drivers not because they want an exceptional driver, but because once you reach a certain threshold of income it is more profitable to work (phone calls, laptop, w/e) or sleep, and pay to be driven everywhere than to drive yourself. FSD lowers that income threshold tremendously and could be a significant boon to overall human productivity. If it ever happens.
> trying to be more than that

Citation needed ;)
I did this too!

It genuinely is not that hard. I did spend most time working out the right spec (ie safety, structural etc.) and the main build took me about 2 months. I was in by month 3 and fully finished by 4 months.

I am ok with big structural stuff, interior (drywalling for example) I don't have the finesse for, but it looks OK.

I love DIY, it gets me off a keyboard! And scratches the engineering itch I miss as a people leader.

It's not hard though. Like anything it takes a bit of planning and practice. Plus the confidence to have a go.
A reminder: tobacco use kills 7x as many people every day, week, month, and year as opiates in the USA.

If opiate deaths are a problem, tobacco ones are a 7x larger problem.
Thermal powerplants are killing machines in their own right. They might not kill birds but they can kill fish by the millions and if you run them near a river then the temperature increase can kill the entire river when seasonal flow rates are low which leads to premature shutdown of the nuclear powerplant just to avoid killing aquatic life.
EVE is a very special game. I’d attribute the rush more to all interactions being unscripted, fights to occur relatively rare and having pretty tangible value on the line.

It definitely doesn’t compete very well for attention.
If you see a [pronoun] being attacked by a [pronoun], I guess according to you it's completely ethical to walk away. It's definitely the simplest, no question.
> emotional response

That makes it a social network optimized for engagement.

Someone posted a link to you.com in another sub thread. The results for the same query over there is what I'd expect.

I'm thinking that living in a deep blue geo is what's coloring my experience. Perhaps others can post what they see from an incognito browser.

Ultimately this is where big data analysis should be used. Log incognito results from a geo-diverse set of IPs to understand (a) the ranking model (b) the consequences of the model.
The author might be new to Lisp, and I hope what I write doesn't discourage him. There are some other mistakes:

((ab . c) . d . nil)

isn't a valid s-expression. Maybe it should be

((ab . c) d . nil)

Also,

(eq '(a b) '(a b))
; (a b) is a list and cannot be evaluated by eq

eq works fine on lists. It returns T iff its arguments are the same object (i.e. are at the same memory location, or are small enough integers or floats). If they're copies (as is the case in the above), it returns NIL. If this isn't what you expect, you should probably be using equal.
> For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn't -- and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up.

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/c_family_interview.htm

Gosling on why Java only has signed arithmetic.
>>Did Home Depot ever teach their employees that kind of stuff? I always assumed they hired people with previous knowledge/experience.

I think they used to hire people with industry experience - i.e. semi-retired or retired plumbers, electricians, carpenters handymen etc and that worked pretty well coming of the 2008 RE meltdown and economic mess at that time - but now any halfway qualified tradesperson can make close to or more than a six figure salary - so working at HD for $15/hr doesn't seem all that attractive anymore.

I don't even try to ask the employees any actual 'technical' questions - I am happy if they can just point me to the correct aisle to find what I need these days.
My experience with NYT product reviews is pretty awful. I wish I could be more concrete. Tried to look in my history but I could have sworn at least one article was just effectively, "top 10 most popular on Amazon", with quotes from user reviews. Maybe I'm getting my sites mixed up.
With --os:standalone and panicoverride.nim it goes down to 15k

And down to *150 bytes* with some hacks https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/
The thing to remember about building codes is that they're one solution to a problem. More often than not, one good solution. That isn't to say they're the only solution.

So for new construction or reno, absolutely follow code! Why not?

But for old construction that doesn't have obvious dangers and has served its purpose across decades? Why fix what ain't broke? It's entirely possibly it's a perfectly viable alternative solution.
> But isn’t “bum a fag” still acceptable Brit phrasing?

Well, er, I guess it depends on if you went to Eton or not…

Certain very old “public” schools[1] have a tradition of using the younger boys as a sort of personal servant for the older boys. The system is known as “fagging” and the servants/slaves are known as “fags”.

1. Where a public school in the UK is a very posh private school. It’s a public school vs a private tutor don’t ‘cha know.
The point is to build it yourself
This is a pretty broad question.

In general, hobby projects should be as simple as possible since the goal is mostly learning one thing.

= No UML, scaffolding, don't care about performance tuning, all in one app ( identity management, configuration, ... )

A couple of hobby projects were "promoted" and are being sold to customers. So I've got an ecosystem of apps ( status page, sts, spa with gateway and a monolith DDD app), auto client informing of updates, adr if someone would be helping, ... So i wouldn't consider that a hobby application anymore.

Eg. I had an application to learn Microservices. As soon as I implemented all functionality I wanted, i abandoned it and didn't finish it: https://github.com/NicoJuicy/poc-micro-service

The learnings from that project are implemented in other places.
They tried about 30 times in 2021. What actually happens is quite interesting.

Ironically, when they increase the price, it encourages more reservations as consumers seek to lock in the current price of an appreciating value.
I found Zotero very confusing to use. But maybe I am not the target demographic. I have always just used vim txt files for notes, using cli tools like grep to find what I need.
Why are New Year’s Days where they are?
Hi Mtmail - perfect - that it exactly what I'm looking for. Appreciate the help.
Yep see the examples of source code for Zip2 and X.com and commentary from other engineers
Honestly I feel like there are people out there that are massively affected by the environment around them. They can't work without a tidy desk, eat without the cupboards closed etc. A tidy desk or closed doors don't effect my mental well being, neither a bed in disarray, or bed not centered in the room? I go about my day blissfully unaware of any of it.
I also do not host the content at all. That said, people have submitted outdated content requests if they move off GitHub Wikis to Google and they are honored.
Ask HN: Google Maps alternative that uses OSM?
Is there a good alternative website for google maps? I tried the official OSM website but I can't search simple things like "gyms" or "cafes" in the current viewport (it does a name search instead of a category search)
Analyzing Seated's restaurants by reversing their API
Puma – First Open Source 3D Printed Microscope with an Aug Reality HUD
> I can’t help but think that Google is allowing this to happen because it pays the bills

Google is not that short sighted. They know that if people stop trusting it to give good results then they'll lose their market.

I suspect the problem is just harder than it seems.
> to ensure the code works correctly

It's to ensure the code works correctly and indicate where the problem is, whenever it doesn't work correctly. Querying a live database during unit tests fails on both accounts. It doesn't tell you whether or not the code works correctly - it tells you either that the code didn't work correctly or that the database wasn't available at the time the test ran.
Another way of writing that is that the courts prevent the government from taking unlawful actions. The tension is between the government and the law.
* ahem. Revision is always a revision in SVN. It’s rN and all commands accept it.

* ahem. All branches in SVN are copies of an existing tree at a particular revision. Call it a branch or whatever you want. But if you make a copy of your main development tree, you make a branch and you can work on it in the same fashion as if it was git. Merge it back to trunk when done or continue your work and sync with trunk or other branches. The principle is the same.

* Failing “svn up” is an unexpected technical problem that occurs due to problems with the server or network. The problem should never happen in normal cases.
That works in Lisp, too though, but it's easier and faster to run the tests in the REPL, so you get the best of both worlds.

When I write Lisp I usually start testing in the REPL, iterate until the test code gets to be a few lines long, and then copy it over to the package's unit tests. Then I can keep iterating on both the test code and the code being tested.

I'll do something like this in the REPL:

(ql:quickload :mylibrary.test) (mylibrary.test:my-test-function)

"mylibrary.test" will depend on "mylibrary", so quickload will load both packages when they've been changed, and I can re-run the test quickly using Alt-P to call up the previous REPL input.

And the REPL is also really great for "what if" testing that you may not want to keep forever, like, "What happens if I call this function with an invalid parameter?" Hopefully there's a test for that, but it's often a lot faster to just call the function and see what happens rather than go dig through the test code and lose your focus.
It just seems like a poorly designed survey. Maybe even intentionally.

>For instance, even if it's true those occupying blocks in Portland would have thought they were engaging in political violence, I'm not sure how of them considered themselves "Democrats".

It's a matter of framing. Many "Democrats" saw leftist riots as protests not violence.
I found that it confuses subject with object: do you want A for B or B for A. It's all the same. Maybe Google doesn't really use neural nets in ranking, or they are a joke.

Desktop web search is trending down, voice and mobile interfaces up. They should be focusing hard on direct question answering based on retrieved web pages. A recent paper by Deep Mind shows how it can be done, not that it matters, they won't jump on it. Web search should be just as smart as Codex, adapting and combining knowledge for the user.

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-la...
Google generates revenue via ads (or analytics, which helps Google target ads down the line), which lame results often include.

Downranking ad-supported websites in favour of ad-free one would cull a lot of spam and would be trivial to do, but yet Google isn't doing it. Curious right?
What you’re getting at is that an individual thread cannot really use this property without some form of synchronization with other threads in the process. Eg, to use this property, other threads either do not allocate fds, or you take some central lock around all fd allocations. Most well-written programs do not rely on it.
Housing IRL protects you from the elements is one. It also serves as a place to store and cook sustenance.

Moving IRL takes money, time, and effort. There are more physical connections and restrictions, or at least hurdles to moving IRL.
https://archive.is/1hNbF
I base those sorts of purchases on duration of warranty. Recently bought a dryer, and apart from a brand that cost significantly more, they all came with 2 year warranties. One reasonably priced machine had 4, so I picked that one.
Or those juice pamphlets were planted by Big Juice in a psyops move to increase juice sales and juice being “good for you” is a semi-recent invention, only recently overturned in favor of “juice is not good for you”.
You've managed to provide a perfect example of what the parent comment was trying to point out. You've turned several extremely complex political and social issues into angry one-liners you can scream at your fellow countrymen- your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers. You know, the regular, non-evil people you live beside day in and day out.
The article says no such thing, and in fact doesn’t even address that issue.

The closest is the following: “It may not all be COVID on their death certificate, but deaths are up just huge, huge numbers.”

The person quoted isn’t commenting on hospitals at all. For example my uncle doesn’t have COVID on his death certificate but his doctor says that his case was simple enough that he could have been saved had he been able to be admitted.
The majority of white people are on the “right,” so I’m not sure the distinction means what you think it does. Virtually all non-whites in America fall into two groups: ADOS, who since the Civil Rights era have relied on the government to protect them from the rest of the population, and immigrants, who almost always come from countries where people have a much more positive view of government than Americans traditionally do.

The anti-government sentiment among Democrats, which was pretty healthy during Bill Clinton, or say Howard Dean, seems to have almost collapsed post Obama. I would chalk that up to the party becoming more reliant on immigrants to win elections.
Unfortunately, there's no superior alternative. Anecdotally, Google produces substantially more relevant results (For things I commonly search for) than Bing and DDG.
Any reason to do this instead of multiple windows in a tiling WM?
Buying a new car is one of my absolutely least favorite things to do - even worse then doing my taxes. I will avoid it at all costs.

Current vehicle is coming up on 10 years old, hoping to get another 10 out of it - not because I can't afford a new one (I can), but because I feel like I have to take a shower every time I walk out of a car dealer.
Brave Search and Bing wrappers like DuckDuckGo and EntireWeb as well as niche search engines like deephn.org and twitter.com are better
I think they are simply clueless.
I agree, if an amateur like me can articulate an issue I've no doubt the experts are well aware of it. However it does not change the fact that there is no real intelligence, it's fancy pattern matching that works when given enough examples, and so I'd question what happens for edge cases is has not 'seen' before.
Why is "violence" your boundary? Most people agree that lots of things can be "bad" besides violence. There's a pretty broad consensus on that. You're going to need some pretty strong arguments to justify legalizing theft and fraud.
No, it's overt--I wish I could find this for you, but I saw a tweet from an apparently reputable source, it was a Google engineer saying "I'm so proud of the work our team has done to make it more difficult to find misinformation using Google". Naturally, "misinformation" means whatever the G-engineers want it to mean.
I learned it in college and a month ago I was googling to remember this software and I found nothing. So thank you for posting this !!
I'd love to know why Google has started ignoring quoted terms and treating them like normal words in a query. I put it in quotes because I wanted that exact phrase, not something that sounds similar. If that exact phrase doesn't exist, tell me.
Please do sign up if you haven't already, or send me an email and I'll get you setup.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I've started to read it. It's nice to get some history and depth to concepts I had some awareness of.

I do wonder how method of loci strategies stand up to bricks and mortar sticky note use in collaborative environments. In my day job I've felt other people moving and adding things to a wall as almost destructive if I didn't experience it happening (purely in terms of memory). As changes in Temin are written to a ledger a fringe benefit is you can play back what's happened while you were gone, which seems to sooth that.

For work, I also spend a lot of time writing/drawing/thinking with a pen, and most of the artefacts in my metaverse are created with a Wacom not a keyboard. Being able to remember where things are I put down to Temin, being able to remember what's there I put down in some part to that. I'm not going to trying to convert people who prefer to use keyboards, and I expect pen-first users will very much be a minority, but the research on retention when it comes to pen vs. keyboard is pretty compelling.
Indeed - from my understanding those power plants, the cheap energy, was cheap and available, in excess, because they're located in areas with little development or use for the energy otherwise.
It seems from the website that OpenBoard is software for actual interactive boards, not for a computer. Is that not the case?
they are often rejected because 2,000 dads have posted youtube videos about how to reject delivery because of millimeters that can be adjusted at any time
I actually prefer a world with multiple alternatives rather than single instances.

Life itself works that way and it has proven to make life very robust, even when individual life-forms are very fragile.
Tesla announces record deliveries of over 305k Q4 vehicles, 936K for 2021
Looks like drone-mounted GPRs are en vogue nowadays. Gotta scale out to reduce labor costs.
Housing has always been a "life or death" need for everyone, everywhere.

Like the people who were already living in those places, long before you-know-who tried to move there.
It is very good for also downloading and keeping track of PDFs. It is primarily targeted at academics. And for many of us, it’s a great tool for keeping track of what papers we are currently reading, or want to keep for later. It can be hard to manage citations, PDFs, etc… in a text document. I know some people do, but I like being able to use a bookmarklet/extension to add a new paper to my lists.
Roots of Progress: 2021 in Review
Hyperthymic Temperament
The Caveman Diet (2005)