skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For cases as clear-cut as this motorcycle accident, my wild speculation would be 2-5%.

That seems higher than I would guess, but lower than I thought you would guess. So even at the high end, and if you think perhaps 40% of COVID deaths are gray area (and so let's split that 40% and say that 20% are on the "wrong side" of gray), that would make 75% of a very large number of deaths fall into the "legitimate" zone.

> A better analogy would be if there were solid evidence of a provisional ballot cast in your dead great grandmother's name, and there just wasn't any evidence as to whether they counted it or threw it out.

I'll bite. Is that evidence of widespread election fraud? (And if so, perhaps we disagree on what "widespread" means, and whether fraud and attempted fraud should be treated separately.)

> But I think there were way, way more "gray area" cases that all got recorded as COVID deaths, e.g., people with advanced cancer who caught COVID and then died not long after.

> I have not [had experience with death certificates]

I think these two thoughts are related.

The death certificates I've done include multiple causes of death, usually a primary or immediate cause and secondary or contributing causes.

When a patient comes into my emergency department and dies of a heart attack, I am going to list the heart attack as the cause of death -- not the decades of untreated diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, smoking, and obesity that some opine "really" caused the death. I may list those factors as secondary or contributing causes (if I know about them -- sometimes, as an emergency physician, I know nothing about the person's background and may not even have time to obtain any testing before they pass away).

I would bet that a very high proportion of well-meaning good-faith physicians would do likewise -- that is death from the primary or immediate cause of "heart attack." There is no dishonesty there.

When a patient with end-stage cancer comes into my emergency department and dies of COVID, I am going to list the COVID as the immediate cause of death, not the cancer.

When a patient with alcoholism dies in a drunken car accident, what should be the cause of death? I would argue "car accident," not alcoholism, or COVID.

However, it seems that many people who cling to "cancer" as the cause of death don't bat an eye when someone dies of a "heart attack." What about having end-stage cancer makes Monday-morning quarterbacks forget that having COVID is a legitimate cause of death?
People took the useful ideas and tossed the rest.

The whole idea of embedding links into the data that describe available operations was not seen as useful, because most web pages already do that. That was not a problem that needed to be solved.

But the concept of resource-oriented architectures which leveraged HTTP verbs to act on data with descriptive URIs was extremely useful in an era when interactions with web servers would look something like POST /common/backend/doActMgt.pl

Books like RESTful Web Services came out in 2007 and focused almost entirely on resource-oriented architecture. There's not really much mention of hypermedia in it. It's mostly about building API endpoints.

It also referenced AWS S3 (wow, S3 is old) a lot and treated it as a reference implementation / proof of concept that the idea works and is scalable.
> who they are talking about when they say "the elites" b

Not the OP but I understand as "the elites" the people who hold the reins of power in the West (I don't know that much about the Chinese or Indian elites, to be honest). That would be multi-billionaires, some national-level politicians, the higher-ups of some supra-state entities (things like the World Bank, the IMF, even the European Union), some recognisable "artists" who are used mostly for propaganda material (think Hollywood actors like Matthew McConaughey, Di Caprio and the like) and last but definitely not least, members of the defence and security apparatus (even though I have lately started having my doubts about anyone higher-up at the Pentagon or at NATO actually thinking for himself). Ah, I had forgotten, also some media people, too many to name, the most recent that comes to mind is this marvellous Guardian journo named Simon Tisdall that just this weekend had proposed that the West should attack Russia [1] so that we'd all get, well, blasted by nuclear strikes. But the journos are mostly tools, truth be told.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/putin-...
it's not just that the question suggests a long answer, but it is that i like writing and i have a story to tell, so i want to tell that story. i would not even want to write a short answer because i already know what the short answer would be, and it's not very interesting so there is no point to even bother to write it down.

what i am trying to say is that, for me at least, the prompt itself would have to limit the scope to today or maybe this week. (but then i would not be able to write anything for this particular prompt)

maybe prompts like: what made you happy this week?
what made you sad?
what was a challenge you faced this week?

if you come up with a dozen questions like that, and then randomly rotate through those, one each day, i think that might produce interesting results.
I was hoping that Aristotle would tell us to join an improv club in college or randomly take comedy lessons in our 30s, but instead we should become one with the metaphor.

In all seriousness, I believe comedy improv both short form and long form can help writers in many different ways. How to heighten, what is "heat and weight", understanding formats like the Harold, callbacks, "Yes, And", and many more.

These all complement "metaphors".
I'm guessing that paper records were not especially rigorous in Greece in the early 1900s.
Check out Maven and Teachable. They have a ton of great content on building an audience & how to create a course
The law against abortion still exists regardless of what Google does. There's no law that that says Google must collect data of who searches for abortion clinics (I presume/hope). It's not Google's responsibility to enforce or facilitate a law.
if we cared about higher levels of innovation or research, we don't need to have a trillion babies. we just need to educate the ones we have already, and give them the opportunity to do that kind of work.
Reckoning with the history of racial marketing of menthol cigarettes
> This system of course is built 100% on governments/employers not wanting to guarantee financial security of elders and offload the risk to the individual.

The growth obsession phenomenon also happens in countries which demonstrably put more effort into caring about the elderly and the poor. They still get left behind, albeit at marginally lower rates than in a country like the US.

It's the juiced economic statistics and obsession paper growth that's the core problem, not necessarily "rich people have influence"
My parents talk about how getting a new telephone in the UK went from a month-long process to next day once it was privatized and there was profit to be made.
No. Telus was formed from the privatization of Alberta Government Telephones. MTS was previously a crown corp for telecom in Manitoba but was later privatized and then bought by Bell. Saskatchewan still has their telecom crown corp SaskTel, although there has been rumblings of privatizing it.
I believe, their history of messaging apps, makes it very difficult to rely on Google in this area. Organizations that are already in Google's ecosystem will probably use it, but I doubt it will have any significance otherwise. As long as you don't have a need to use it towards other organizations it should work (but don't ever expect Google to implement a feature that is requested by their customers).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/so-nice-they-killed-...
They can sufficiently well model the film grain to add it back on the client side, and ... then they add it back on the client side rather than just letting their compressor remove it
tl;dr: AWS teams seem to mostly build technology and building blocks, Azure seems to mostly be a continuation of business products and Microsoft-to-Business contracts that happen to be tech-related.

It is after all not a "Datacenter emulation as a service" like Microsoft Azure is. There are a handful of 'enduser' SaaS services from AWS, but most of it, as you describe, are primitives used to build other things.

This is also where AWS originated from: just an internal system that was built to supply object storage and compute to internal teams. And when you start supplying commodity systems as a service it's just a matter of adopting and adding new services as they become more generic and more commodified. (RDS, container-based compute, FaaS, Load Balancing to name a few very common things that really are the same everywhere)

A lot of people are used to specific services like GitHub where you pay for Git hosting, or Salesforce where you pay to get CRM, but those are not building blocks, just like Azure is mostly just "things that windows servers in datacenters used to do" in varying degrees of being managed. You can get a Windows VM and run a MSSQL instance on it, or you can get an MSSQL instance, or you can get a shared SQL partition, it's all the same service but with different contractual obligations, and that is exactly what Microsoft likes to do. That top-down difference is what feeds al the other differences between Azure and AWS (and GCP).

This is not to say that they don't have Infrastructure building blocks, or that they don't have anything non-traditional, but it's mostly just pandering to the existing customer base on a business level, and not on a technical level. Same reason some people are stuck with MS Teams, not because it's good, but it was part of the MS contract that was essentially grandfathered in from legacy on-prem Office and Exchange to hosted versions to Microsoft 365. They mostly got people that way because of their failure on the intermediate step (Exchange Online from MS sucked), by simply hosting Sharepoint and Outlook for you, integrating everything else on top of that.
Erf bad luck people of Iceland. Remember folks cost + shareholder profit will never be less than cost alone. Privatisation will never make things cheaper.
> Because there are a fuck ton of actions and power on the side of increasing gdp at all costs.

Like what? The most basic thing you can do to help GDP growth is try to promote families and childbirth, and keep energy prices low. Right now birth rates are plummeting and oil & gas industry has become politicized, and people see the result at the gas pump.

If there's some big heroic effort to actually grow the economy in a real way I'm not seeing it. You see what happened to the last guy that tried to do that. It did not go well for him.
Isnt that a response to companies buying old unused domains, slapping robots on it and thus killing whole archive of this domain going back 20 years?
Why are politicians so eager to do this? Is it because politicians get bribes, or because they represent the investors some how?
I think the bigger question is why you want to find such founders? In most cases, if those founders need anything, they will ask for it/search for it (funding, infrastructure, services, etc.).
Nice to meet a Marxist who thinks we are closer to communism than ever yet I am left thinking that the future he describes is more post-human than post-capitalist.
This happened in Mexico around the 90s (IIRC) in a deal that was heavily criticized within the country. The guy who acquired it later became the richest man in México (also worldwide for a few years). So yeah, these are lucrative deals.
The comparison between an artificial system (an economy) and a natural system (the growth of individuals) is as valid as that between the neurons in our brains and the "neurons" in the neural network, that is, it is wrong.
Senescence and then death do not result from failure to grow, and this is empirically found in any organism. Most fish continue to grow after sexual maturity (indeterminate growth), but still die from natural causes, from the accumulation of damage in their biological systems.

In the course of the organism's life, energy is allocated to different functions; after sexual maturity, in most species energy is spent in directions other than growth, because it is reproduction that determines species' persistence.

It may be interesting to note that in aquaculture, salmon are selected for late sexual maturity so that they can spend more time growing and thus be more valuable to the aquaculturist, who can see their resources going to tissues that can be sold (e.g., meat) and not to tissues (e.g., gonads) that cannot be sold.
I'm not sure I like the idea of a film's photography potentially looking different based on the decoder used. I would much rather dedicate additional bits to preserving the noise that was present in the original film stock or added during post-production.

Storage and bandwidth are only getting cheaper.
Serious egyptologists correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Egypt not change at all between 3000 B.C and the Bronze Age collapse almost 1000 years later? Is that where we're headed: perpetual stagnation?
You have misunderstood what it is that they decided.

For example consider the affordable healthcare act (aka Obamacare). A decade ago, the Supreme Court upheld it. This is one of their "healthcare is a legitimate area for Federal lawmaking".

But read their decision at https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf and that isn't what they decided. What they decided is that all of it fell under the power to regulate Commerce EXCEPT the individual mandate. However the individual mandate falls under the taxation power. None of this adds up to, "Congress can pass legislation because it is about healthcare." All of it is of the form, "The legislation passed fell under enumerated powers that Congress has."

Here is a sample passage from page 3 about why the individual mandate cannot be supported under the Commerce clause:

> The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers.

Now suppose that Congress passed a law mandating universal access to abortion, while Texas has forbidden the same. By the reasoning that I just quoted, Congress' ability to regulate commerce does not extend to compelling Texas to allow commerce where none currently exists.

This does not mean that Congress is powerless. The next legal battleground is going to be over people leaving one state to get an abortion in another. Conservative states would like to ban it. As https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/can-states-punish... says, it is a tossup about whether such bans will succeed. But if there was specific federal legislation to allow crossing state lines for the purpose of abortion, that pretty squarely falls under the Commerce Clause. Because it is interstate commerce, in a commercial activity which actually exists.
Are you implying that everything done in the name of protecting children is always a Helen Lovejoy kind of overreaction?
Elite pretty much means anyone with political and economic power. Politicians, billionaires, lobbyists, CEOs, etc. It's not a particularly fuzzy honorific.

Of course they dont like all the negative attention so sometimes they will try to designate elites as "anybody with a college degree" as one of many means of rhetorically disguising their power. For example, the economist does here:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/c...
>> happily stab you in the back for their next promotion

That means you met intelligent people who did not imbibe good virtues & values in life, hence their attitude was not free from cunningness. Hence they did not possess any great intelligence!
More than 10-to-1 hot than cool records as Europe, US brace for dangerous heat
>> Snapchat was a constant struggle for me (Gen Z) to operate before I stopped using it
I am not gen z but I struggled with the anti-intuitive and weird interface. I grant that its quirkiness may be part of its appeal and the kids seem to love it. Could you not open in active camera mode though? That was just one annoying feature, I could list the things that just drove me bonkers.
Arguably what people “want” is also extremely impacted by the “elite”.

The way we consume media and culture is controlled by a very small group of people.
Article TLDR:

Cancer cells often grow in hypoxic (oxygen-deficient) environments. The researchers discovered that oxygen is a limiting factor on the biosynthesis of fat molecules, which are essential for creating cells and driving cancer growth. As a result, cancer cells are often dependent on importing fat molecules from their environment since hypoxic conditions throttle lipid generation. This vulnerability offers potential avenues for therapy.

Paper Abstract:

Production of oxidized biomass, which requires regeneration of the cofactor NAD+, can be a proliferation bottleneck that is influenced by environmental conditions. However, a comprehensive quantitative understanding of metabolic processes that may be affected by NAD+ deficiency is currently missing. Here, we show that de novo lipid biosynthesis can impose a substantial NAD+ consumption cost in proliferating cancer cells. When electron acceptors are limited, environmental lipids become crucial for proliferation because NAD+ is required to generate precursors for fatty acid biosynthesis. We find that both oxidative and even net reductive pathways for lipogenic citrate synthesis are gated by reactions that depend on NAD+ availability. We also show that access to acetate can relieve lipid auxotrophy by bypassing the NAD+ consuming reactions. Gene expression analysis demonstrates that lipid biosynthesis strongly anti-correlates with expression of hypoxia markers across tumor types. Overall, our results define a requirement for oxidative metabolism to support biosynthetic reactions and provide a mechanistic explanation for cancer cell dependence on lipid uptake in electron acceptor-limited conditions, such as hypoxia.

Paper URL:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-022-00588-8
Thanks. Wow, did not notice that you have to click not the globe button or share button, but the three dot 'hamburger' button at the top right in order to see this.
WebSub (née PubSubHubbub) can work well if the RSS feed supports it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
This would be a better point if actual REST was something widely used. Then we would have lost a useful word.

But personally, I think I have never seen any actual REST that wasn't just browser-oriented HTML. So using the word for the API pattern is quite ok.
The manual shifting is a big improvement at least, I didn't realize it was officially supported. Back when I had the bike almost 2 years ago there was the 3rd party Moofer app that supported it but Van Moof the company was very adamant that even installing this app would void your warranty. Which was another decision that makes me feel negatively towards the company overall.
Among the many reasons I choose not to own a cell phone.
This bill relates to manufacturing chips and AMD, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Apple don't manufacture chips; they are all fabless, meaning that they design chips but use third-party chip fabrication to physically manufacture chips for them.
Except with a mailing list, every conversation is grouped under a subject and all the replies are somewhere in the thread.

On Slack, there's no such thing as a discussion-level subject, and people frequently end up replying outside the thread, or at a minimum there's other context outside the thread that people don't bother linking to because they think of chat as ephemeral, not that they are constantly building up an internal wiki.
Shouldibuytwitter.com – A tiny takeover arbitrage model for TWTR
Inspired by Matt Levine's awesome reporting on the Elon/Twitter purchase fiasco. Just a little app to model the arbitrage (gamble) opportunity.
It's not quite China yet

What do you mean with this, specifically? Do you mean that China has a more comprehensive data collection apparatus, that the Chinese government has easier access to commercially collected data, or maybe that they exert their control more overtly than the US?
Incorrect. Saskatchewan (SaskTel), Manitoba (Bell MTS, now sold), and Alberta (AGT, sold) maintained crown corporations for telecom.
Did you mean: People took the useful ideas and tossed the REST ? ;)
TRIZ from mechanical engineering is full of cute anecdotes like this one. Acronym for "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving" across a language gap.
Yeah, I can’t see any way this will go wrong…
Well that was an interesting read and entirely unsurprising.

I would never consider building a new product on .Net. It’s an insane proposition at this point.
In the 1800's the US government paid for the building of its transcontinental railroad by offering cash plus land for every mile of completed laid railway track, with competition for completed miles coming from the other side of the country. That worked incredibly well. If you can find a good documentary on it, it is a fascinating story. There was an unbelievably intensive effort to get that project complete in the quickest possible time, including blasting tunnels through the Rocky Mountains - nothing stopped those companies from delivering the completed tracks.

You'd have fibre to the home if the government paid by the home tested to have symmetric gigabit, with competition between telco's to complete the available homes.

Instead, governments pay for things other than the outcome.

No surprise they don't get the outcome.

Pay close attention to the attempts to build semiconductor manufacturing in the USA. This will fail for the same reason - the government is paying big money, but for the wrong things. It should be paying the big money when the first production quality wafers are delivered in real products. There's a big fail coming up there because they don't heed the lesson of the railway.
Glad to see this up at the top. Here is another article that specifically talks about Sardinia and Okinawa, 2 of the identified "Blue Zones", and really puts it down to poor record keeping: https://www.vox.com/2019/8/8/20758813/secrets-ultra-elderly-...
Just root with Magisk and add the app to the DenyList. Poof.
“the dawn of everything”, or you can find papers they’ve published
By this logic, who isn’t an “assembly line worker”? I’ve had a few careers, hobbies and view into various different fields due to extended family. I’ve been an architect, an artist (pencil drawings mostly), and pursued medicine for a while. Software development uses more brain power than all of them combined (in my experience). Is everything other than phds “assembly line work” in your estimation?
What law is Google ignoring (in this instance)?
I have a couple always free VMs on Oracle cloud. They are actually free.
The kits are frequently sold out, so I assume the demand is decent. It could be that margins aren't great so producers aren't eager to keep stocks high, but I've never looked into it. I just know that when I want them, they're sold out.
How's your Icelandic?
And yet what we're seeing post Roe, are absolutist, logically consistent moral positions in places like Idaho, where 1 party rule has resulted in a political platform that allows no exceptions whatsoever, even for the life of the mother.
Canada has similar in the TFSA and RRSP.
Helped building it or actually built it... Impressive just the same!

Congratulations on your new role. Two Sigma seems super-exciting.
Maybe, but in that case they could just say "married couples live longer".

I really think they're referring to the communal feeling of religion. Forget about the religion itself, it's an incredibly effective way to get to know hundreds of people, which enriches your life.

We're social creatures and religion is social on steroids.