skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to look into this, because I hear this bandied about frequently (i.e. "these death numbers aren't real because they count even if they incidentally had COVID-19"). Turns out, this isn't correct.

Here's the CDC site with that data:
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...

Here's the site with information about how a death is counted:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

In short, for a death to be counted as COVID, it needs to be listed on the death certificate (which only lists diagnoses directly related to the death).

For example, when I write a death certificate (which is a standardized form), it sounds something like this:
Cause of Death: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome as a Consequence of COVID-19 pneumonia

Guidance from my state (SC) specifically says: "The Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. The preferred term to use in the cause of death is COVID-19." So I can see possibilities where we don't know if it was the MRSA pneumonia superimposed on the COVID-19 or the COVID-19 itself, and we are supposed to report COVID on there, but the idea that a car crash victim would be counted in the statistics seems unlikely.
A quick search reveals Europe and the US are coded as different HP printer regions, despite having overlapping humidity profiles, and the humidity difference between Louisiana and Alaska is far greater than between New York and London.

It is clearly a bald faced lie, coming from the least trustworthy source. If they told me water was wet, I'd double-check.
No no. A land of ire. Seems apt here.
They do test a binary(16) field which is basically what you're talking about (and you could use a binary(32) for a 128-bit UUID).
I believe inheritance should be completely abolished as it leads to hoarding of money that should be used in the economy, not stagnating in offshore accounts. I would also try to close any loopholes such as trusts and businesses that can be passed from parents to children.
My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.
You don't need homeless to have upward mobility. That there are homeless means the consequences of failing are too high and the risk will have a repressive effect on society. People are much more likely to thrive and innovate when they have safe and secure living conditions.
nice post, you might have accomplished more than some regular full timers
Experience has taught me to never be surprised when you learn that MySQL does something incorrectly. Having used it since v3.3 it's not unusual.
There was a whole subspecies of climate change denialists who claimed modern society would collapse if we dropped below 13:1 ratio on this.

Fortunately for the future of civilization:

a) EROI is a BS metric which is basically meaningless.

b) modern renewables score much, much higher on this score than fossil basically ever did.
Loss of morale is what undermines the persistant efforts needed to make great things happen.

Having a healthy ego and doing objectively great things to feel good is not in itself 'toxicity' that must be 'killed'.
> The advantage of long-polling over websockets is code reuse and simplicity

I really don’t get this. What is simpler in polling than websockets? They both establish a connection via the same route and protocols, only WS can “long poll” after the initial payload for free. There is little reason to replace that with a comet/long poll implementation which is undoubtedly more complex and prone to break.

And what about SSE? Now that is simple.
> 1. forfeiture without volition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...)

Only if the authorities ceded their power to the blockchain, in which case this situation is unlikely to arise. If the sovereign power in the area says you don’t own it, a record on someone else’s computer doesn’t matter much.

> 2. title theft/fraud (https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/pyhjwv/home_fo...)

By replacing it with electronic fraud, which is much easier to do at scale and harder to disprove. If a good phish / zero-day gets you a house’s worth of money, even more people will try it.

> 3. Many of the needs for title insurance (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/title_insura

It only solves the question of transfers, possibly but currently not at lower expense than your local government. It doesn’t solve the analog problems which are the most important reason to have title insurance, such as surveying errors, and you also have new problems like the possibility of someone claiming a malicious transaction years ago.
Do you have any resources you can recommend about using the DB for more than just a dumb datastore?

The first thing I'd be concerned about is how do you manage changes? Code is easy to version control, deploy and roll-back. Database state and things such as triggers, stored procedures, etc, less so.
Yeah,I just don't get why we stopped contact tracing schools.

Well I do actually, it was causing so much disruption that it made in person schooling almost impossible.

HEPA filters seem like an obvious win, but there's clearly a bunch of RCT extremists in NPHET ;)
> When you see people walking around outside wearing masks, know that they have bought into a foolish lie completely removed from any form of science.

It's 19F outside right now. I wear a mask outside because it keeps my face warm. No idea why people haven't been doing this all along. That you just assume everyone wearing a mask outdoors is a rube says more about you than them. Your post isn't being downvoted by fools and cowards, it's being downvoted because it's rude and condescending.
That's the reason I've chosen postgres over mysql years ago and I don't use clustered indexes.
Brake pads and discs last longer yes. But brake calipers can seize if left unmaintained, especially in northern states that use salt on the road (and this may be worsened if they are used less).
Brake fluid is hygroscopic and should be replaced every 2-3 years regardless of use, otherwise corrosion can occur in the brake lines. There are plenty of hydraulic and mechanical items on BEVs to keep small shops busy.
> The government's commitment to not open any new coal plants predates the opening of Datteln 4.

That's correct, but more relevant is when the build started. There are likely all sort of legal reasons why they could not stop the plant going into operation at this stage. Saying that Germany is going back to coal based on this is a bit factitious though. Germany was in fact planning more new coal plans previously, most of them did not get built. https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/energiewende/kohleauss...

> They are still claiming a victory because they are opening one and shutting down multiple. Of course those four were going to shut down anyway, but by any normal meaning of words this is "going back to coal".

No it is not. They put into operation a plant that was planned 15 years ago (im not arguing that they should have done this, but they did) . Should they instead have kept operating one of the older plants just to say "we haven't build a new one"?

> The plan to eliminate nuclear by 2022 and coal by 2038 should have been swapped. And lignite should've been banned a decade ago.

Completely agree on lignite, and they should (and likely could) have phased out both coal and nuclear by now.
Ignoring the number. Unless you take precautions your wealth gets divided if you have children. They usually don't have the same luck/possibilities/grit as their parents so I would not be surprised if the wealth reduces over time. It's kind of hard to squander several 100 million or several billion within a generation though, so they can make plenty of mistakes and still be wealthy.
Wait until they make the eventual switch to liquid magnesium chloride. Amazing for roads and ice. Pretty awful for rust.
This is a great overview, and I think the global > local > execution timeline can be applied to all sorts of roles. Has anyone seen other checklists / roadmaps like this for roles outside of Product?
I was referring to technical solutions, not fines or regulatory measures. For example, before Bitcoin cryptographers published a mountain of research on designing secure and anonymous electronic payments, but relied on a central bank that issued and redeemed the money. The bank was constrained mathematically so that it could not link user transactions, unless some subset of users had cheated in some way (double spending). So there was a central party but certain forms of abuse were impossible, and those systems were overwhelmingly more efficient than Bitcoin or even a proof-of-stake approach ever could be (this is because transactions are "truly" peer-to-peer, meaning that only two parties do any work at all when a payment is made or when money is withdrawn from or deposited with the bank; moreover the work required to perform transactions amounts to verifying a few signatures/NIZKs). Another example is the use of oblivious RAM for secure cloud storage, which both protects user data and ensures that "most" of the access pattern (everything but the number blocks of data a user has accessed) remains private. There are also many examples of real-world deployments of secure multiparty computation that limit abuse by large/centralized parties in various ways while still allowing those parties to operate and even expand their business (without having to collect more user data than they already collect).
The point is, a uuid contains 128 bits of data, so a varchar(32) is still somewhat excessive
No one who grew up rich is going to live in 40k a year.
This was the part I latched onto in Moxie's piece too: "A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform. After 30+ years, email is still unencrypted; meanwhile WhatsApp went from unencrypted to full e2ee in a year. People are still trying to standardize sharing a video reliably over IRC; meanwhile, Slack lets you create custom reaction emoji based on your face."

In the Firefox OS days here at Mozilla, I was a huge believer and advocate for our desire to push web protocols & standards into mobile. But as it turns out, proprietary walled-garden mobile platforms move faster than web standards - who knew?!

But, I like the phrase you used - "hoping for an inefficient market". At this point in my tech career and looking around at what the tech market is doing in the world, I think slowing down and getting less efficient might be good for us?
20k miles a year is significantly above average, most car insurers in the USA were quoting policies based on 1000 miles a month or 10k miles a year this year, same as when I last shopped around in 2018.
You can choose the color of your message bubble, but you can’t choose the color of your skin.
All real Confluence alternative (Confluence is a b2b software not a wiki tool) Notion, Guru, Slab, Slite ... are supporting that since their creation.
A 10 million dollar estate should last three generations - the key is it must be managed properly and used properly.

The is obviously not easy, while it's extremely easy to blow through money.
The flu has a lot of possible not deadly complications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Prognosis
> They described the cloudflare service as a cache layer rather than a CDN.

Not sure how most CDNs work, but for Cloudflare, content is not actively pushed to edge nodes, it’s only pulled to an edge when needed and then cached there usually for an hour or two.

The caching is still distributed, and all of the tcp+https roundtrips are done to a local data center which makes things faster.

> what the source article describes is essentially just that it is cheaper to run a static website with a CDN than without - right?

Right. The cost savings comes from caching done by the CDN, and public static content is super easy to cache.

The distributed part makes things faster, but doesn’t necessarily save money.
How would this work? I can't gift a house or an apartment to my child?
So it wouldn't make sense for many commercial products, but why aren't health conscious people using it at home to sweeten their tea? Also, why aren't there "premium"/"healthy" products using glucose instead of plain old sugar as a selling point?
You're speculating a bit too much. The problem is with Allow Apple ID to reset your password. If this is enabled, Apple basically gets the ability to lock you out of your computer.

For this reason, I always leave it off, and recommend everybody does the same.
I agree that the 70% figure appears to be BS but I don't think social commentary is the goal here. I believe the article is targeted at wealthy people and is trying to soft-sell scare them into spending more money on preventing future generations from wasting what they built.

Note how it urges them to employ a "Financial Planning Professional" near the end. Googling suggests this puzzlingly capitalized phrase is an umbrella marketing term for CFPs and other people with financial planning certifications.

Source: I work for a company that is constantly marketing to the wealthy and I know it when I see it.
> That 1 million is $40k a year, which is enough to live. Especially when part of that 10m is a house which costs very little to maintain

This doesn’t happen. People with $10 million net worth aren’t living on $40K per year.

Expensive houses aren’t cheap to maintain or furnish or keep upgraded.

> Crucially it's a great safety blanket too, you don't have to work 2 full time minimum wage jobs to afford to live,

Why is this a comparison? Minimum wage jobs are actually extremely rare right now, but it doesn’t make sense that a family with $10m net worth would even have minimum wage no-skill jobs on their radar.

I think you’re looking at this from an extreme early retirement (FIRE) scenario for the entire family, but that’s not how people do this at all. Even wealthy kids get (expensive) educations and go on to have productive careers. Wealthy families aren’t just opting out of society and FIREing with $40k of spending per year.
Here’s a counter study from the DOL

“ The main focus of the paper is to examine the effects of inheritances and other wealth transfers on overall wealth inequality. The results reported below are surprising, unexpected and even counter-intuitive. We find that wealth transfers actually act as a factor that decreases wealth inequality rather than increasing it. Though we do not have hard empirical evidence on whether inheritances inhibit or spur intergenerational wealth
mobility, we infer that wealth transfers are likely to raise the degree of wealth mobility across the generations.”

https://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2011/pdf/ec110030.p...
Oh, absolutely. It was a childish prank (we were mostly 18-19 when we founded that business and most things were not very professional...), but satisfying exactly because I knew how annoyed I would've been if I was on the receiving end of it.
A couple of old threads with significant commentary:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644067 (84 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096576 (158 comments)
I agree it is possible to be frugal and maintain the wealth - however there will be great difficulty adjusting to living off 40, 80, or even 120k a year after a lifetime of having multi-millionaire parents. I think that is what the original author was trying to convey - they just left out my original point about the division of the estate.
Around half a million cases of child abuse are reported in USA [0]. It hard/impossible to find data post 2019 (if you have it, please share), but there are estimates that the number of reported cases lowered by between 20 to 40%, mainly due to kids not going to school and teachers not being able to report it [1][2]. Less than a 1000 kids ages of 5-18 have died of Covid [3].

Tentatively tens/hundreds of thousands of kids are being silently abused in their homes, and they have been prevented to go to school, where teachers can find out. I can't find a way to justify the policy of keeping children at home, which is effectively a transfer of health from kids to adults after we have vaccines, it's simply immoral.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/639375/number-of-child-a...
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/has-child-abuse-s...
[2] https://www.edweek.org/leadership/child-abuse-cases-got-more...
[3] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-...
The single biggest issue I'm seeing in the original post is 40% of teachers being out. All the talk of being corralled into study hall is the fallout from this 40% figure.

With this, it really does't matter if zero children 5-18 have died of covid - the school still can't operate correctly with half of its staff missing.

Solving "sending children to school" without solving "having teachers available" results in zero education, only free childcare. If that's the goal, sure, shove them all in study hall. If we actually plan to educate them, we need to figure out how to insulate the educators from the children.

Between vaccinations and the nature of the current variant, the mortality rate is essentially a non-issue. That's fantastic news. But it doesn't change that during a surge of cases, on-site schooling isn't really fit for purpose. "Probably won't die" isn't the only relevant metric.
> The vaccines will become decreasingly relevant, unless we can provide technology to update vaccines as quickly as they mutate. Even then, it'll be like flu vaccines. They'll help, but won't stop the spread.

Interesting, I haven't been following the pandemic as closely as I used to, but I was under the impression that the existing mRNA vaccines still work fairly well against new variants (including omicron), but that effectiveness goes down after 6 months (hence boosters). I'm not really sure if "effectiveness" is in preventing severe illness or transmission.
This was a partial view, yes, the viral charge is lessened when the vaccine comes into play, which is a good thing, but it does not help much that much the several hundred thousand people for whom the vaccine is useless, nor the ones who got scammed with a fake vaccine pass (and are now in limbo since they can enter places where the pass is required but not get protected).

Instead of a stupid pass, make the vaccine mandatory and work on transmission (better ventilation everywhere, which will be beneficial in any case, N95 masks, good planning to avoid spreader events, adapted plannings, burn openspaces, etc). Not working on transmission means the virus is free to mutate in he humongous pool of contaminated people (which is, due to statistics, a large majority of vaccinated), or even recombine with the delta strain which is still peaking in cases at the same time.
Don’t worry, they’ll find a way to make it subscription based. But also, making the mfg own liability for self-driving is a really interesting topic that will change automotive.

As an automotive EE, I’m much more skeptical about autonomous than almost every other person here, but I look forward to being driven to work just the same.
While great for its time that book has been thrust hopelessly out of date by technology change. I think some of MacKay's former students are looking to update it, since he is so sadly no longer with us. In particular, wind and solar and storage are dropping exponentially in cost, and it is no longer realistic to think that we could ever build nuclear within 20 years. The nuclear industry is in shambles, a collection of fuckups that can't build, can't ship, can't plan, can't even be honest, and results in jailtime for executives, whether they are from the US (can't build), or South Korea (can build, but faked the safety inspections).

The renewable industry is in contrast an incredible engine of technological advancement. Even enhanced geothermal systems, which have progressed perhaps the least, have advanced since MacKay's time. Ramez Naam has a great concise slide deck on this ongoing transformation:

https://t.co/2WnIrtuLpN

I would like to refute your assertion that my statement was imprecise. It was extremely precise. And it is not overly optimistic, either. The amount of energy over-production will be determined by how cheap storage in relation to the costs of generation. If storage gets really cheap, then we will have less over-production, because it will be economical to store the production. But if zero-marginal-cost renewable energy continues to get cheaper faster than storage gets cheaper, it will be less expensive to have massive overproduction than to have lots of storage. Napkin math leads to predicitons very similar to RethinkX's prediction, which "traditional" energy wonks discount, but traditional energy wonks also accept ridiculous projections like the IEA's uncritically (sees Naam's slides for just how bad those are)

https://www.rethinkx.com/energy

The UK and Japan are probably the two most difficult geographic locations to power with just solar and wind. But the dramatic drop in cost of off-shore wind is changing that dynamic. As are longer-term grid batteries, like those coming out of Form Energy, that are designed to be profitable from day one on the grid but with only occassional discharge.
Well that's not going to work.
This can really depend on your use-case and audience.

Things like gitbook (& docusaurus) can often be better for focused topics or when serving product documentation to users.

BookStack tends to work better as a mixed-topic, mixed-user platform. Along the lines of an internal wiki shared by different teams. I've seen people attempt to use BookStack as a replacement for GitBook but struggle due to the structure being different.
Lots of ways - there are hundreds of articles about this, but here's a recent high profile dispute: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/06/02/the-epic-...
You can also pay someone else to work on the GIMP for you. You don't have that option for Photoshop.
I'd just use a prism with two textured faces, and the edge of the texture smeared around the curvy edge.
Even if I'd have done that, with the type of things I now and again end up accidentally thrown into vim for, that would hardly matter.
I believe strongly that other people shouldn't try to stick their hand in my pocket and dictate what I do with my money.

Moreover I find it distasteful to rob a corpse and steal from their children.
> to close plants when their lifetime runs out

That’s not as simple as it sounds. The initial lifetime given to nuclear plants is extremely conservative. And given proper maintenance it can easily be extended by decades. Closing plants because they « reached their lifetime » often means closing a perfectly good plant, and it’s a political act, not a rational act.

I don’t know if it was the case for German plants but it was definitely the case in France with Fessenheim.
In this vein, there's a pretty good playlist on Spotify called "Microtonal Bangers". It includes, among other things, psychedelic rock (KGLW), a blend of traditional Mauritanian music with pop music (Noura Mint Seymali), prog rock (Brendan Byrnes), jazz influenced by traditional Egyptian music (Ibrahim Maalouf), and electronic music (Sevish and Sungazer).
This example seems a bit pessimised:

head_of_loop:
load_var x
push_int 1000
less_than
jump_if_false :end_of_loop
load_var x
increment
store_var x
end_of_loop:

I'd more expect a stack engine to be something like something like -

load_var x
head_of_loop:
jump_lt_keep 1000 :end_of_loop
increment
end_of_loop:
store_var x

in the sense that anything that can figure out how to populate and use r0 would likely also be able to figure out it can wrap the load/store calls around the outside of the loop.

(I'm far from an expert on stack versus register VMs though so I may be missing several somethings here)
Disagree. Finding those mistakes is the whole point. When I miss one in someone else's PR, the resulting problems are my fault.