skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow Canadian here - I think the suggestion that restrictions were tied to hospital capacity is a bit off. Restrictions were largely political - driven extensively by polling - and changed frequently with minimal or nonexistent reasoning.

Here in Ontario, the McKinsey-driven "Science Table" frequently referenced hospital capacity in their reports, but their modelling often ended up being off by orders of magnitude.

While I concur that preventable deaths are unfortunate, I don't think there's evidence to suggest that most - all? - of the restrictions put in place had any noticeable impact on preventable deaths from Covid.

If anything, those restrictions very much enabled other deaths - from mental health challenges, isolation, depression, substance abuse, delayed medical screening - that very much were preventable.

While we don't have a full picture yet, it's telling that excess mortality remains heavily elevated even though most of the population has had Covid and been vaccinated.
> So can confirm basic sounds effects add a LOT to the experience. A lot more than I was expecting.

Good insight. Some folks trip over themselves to say “you gotta prototype something to see if it’s fun” but the reality is that a lot of stuff is not fun without the juicy bits
I very much doubt that cars are worse by most metrics, especially the metrics that count.
I doubt that's the case. And how would that work?

If we look at the economics of Uber and Uber Eats, we see that they have shifted to ride sharing and also delivery sharing. In that, it makes more sense to bundle up multiple people and deliveries into one. Doesn't that sound a whole lot like buses?
Come on, give to msft (linkedin) your entire professional networks, they need this for their prospect... be nice to them...
It doesn’t need to. The ~80dB of dynamic range that a human ear can theoretically heard is at fairly low frequency of ~2-4kHz. Dynamic range drops off considerably at higher frequencies.

In fact, the upper limit of ~16kHz is defined by the intersection of the “threshold of pain” power curve and the “threshold of hearing” curve. So the human ear has zero dB of dynamic range at the upper frequency limit.
I guess I just I wouldn't expect a local school district to be paying very much for a service like that, so I wouldn't expect that the results of who they hired would represent the best of the field.
>due to constant exposure that part of my body is more resistant compared to the pasty areas.

This is of course true, and it took me half a lifetime to realize I could get deep tans and stay out in the sun without any sunscreen, all it took was to "DCA" my way into sun exposure at the beginning of the summer. Concerted efforts to get 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 minutes of unprotected sun exposure that slowly increase but not to the point of burning.

I also realized that sunscreen does not need to be so liberally or frequently applied- particularly mineral sunscreen, the thinnest possible film is all that is needed for hours of protection if you aren't swimming or sweating excessively.
Oh, I see how it could read that way. I meant it in juxtaposition to a situation where I was not immersed in it, like if they had an easy way to make things accessible to me in my own language instead.

If my only options were "learn this new-to-me language" and "never speak to anybody again" because I was immersed in the new language, I could learn it. It wouldn't happen automatically, but I could do it.

And over 50 years, I can't imagine not doing it. It would be my very top priority after meeting my physical needs well enough to stay alive.
When the water is warmer than human body temperature - 102F in the article - guess which way that heat conducts.
Thank you for the transparency and the update.

I didn't mean anything negative towards MailChannels - I know this is a weak link in the chain for many people. I did know it was resolved and I should have mentioned that but I couldn't figure out the search query to find that post.
>that implies that I'm knowingly telling myself a falsehood

You are aware of a common fact backed up by mountains of empirical data, a strong physical explanation, and fundamentals of information theory, but tell yourself this lie:

>I'm convinced that we can "hear" frequencies well above the reputed 20KHz limit of human hearing

This is a lie. You tell it to yourself. You must see this.
German inflection: the exception that proves the rule (1995)
I have issues a few times a year with allergies and colds and while my adjustable bed is nice, sometimes it's much easier to be in a sitting position, leaning forward to sleep than it is to be on my back or side where mucus is going to sit in my throat and continuously irritate whatever section is causing me to cough. I have a neck pillow for this purpose that I just sort of use in the same manner.
Only Office can run in a cloud-based capacity. Think Office 365 that is able to be self-hosted.
Ugh... I can't get it to build under Termux on my phone.... I need gcc, and don't know how to get it installed. Walking around with a running VMS system in my pocket would be soooo cool. ;-)

My netbook has plenty of horsepower to run it... the phone should too.
I just uninstall the app between orders.
Minimizing road surface area and the like is not a very important issue compared to the land usage flexibility cars bring.
Thanks!! the gwern blog have some problems in the scrapping, should be fixed soon
> there is good immigration (all the people that immigrate legally, or are fleeing a genuine war next door) and there is the bad (all the desperate people that were sold a dream of a life without having to work by living off benefits,

I propose instead: deporting citizens who were sold a dream of a life without having to work by living off benefits?

In this awful world you want to live in, why should people born in one place get to screw me over while people born in other don't? There's nothing special about Greg from down the street, let's throw him down a well to drown if he's not benefiting me
Wrong. You need to read some more Shannon and Nyquist.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samp...
Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
Can you imagine the nightmare alternate universe of waking up to hear that Rowhammer is raging uncontrolled in the world, and the only way to fix it is to either return a data center full of affected products to the manufacturer or pay a specialist (who would probably be booked out for a long time to come) to come onsite?
Really?

I have a silent fanless MacBook Air running an Apple designed chip, with an Apple written OS where I can move my cursor between it and my iPad sitting right besides it and my keyboard and mouse can control both seanlessly. It also gets 16 hours of battery life.

And then I have a Windows laptop with piss poor battery life, sounds like a 747 at idle and runs hot enough that if I actually put it in my lap , it would endure that I don’t ever have any little Scarface’s

On the phone side, the day that Apple releases a new version of iOS, it’s immediately available worldwide for every iPhone that was introduced in the last four years. Is the same true for Android devices?
What you are referring to is a "screened bottom board" in langstroth (modern box) hive beekeeping terminology. Mites fall out of it when bees groom (if kept clean) and cannot return as they can only climb a certain distance (6" is what is generally held as being this distance). However, modern hives have other issues which may be more or less prevalent in different locations and some have argued they were primarily designed for honey production, not honeybee health. In my location, which gets quite cold in winter, the thin walls of langstroth hives have undesirable properties - being too thin to provide insulation, they get cold and then transpiration from the bees condenses as moisture on the inside of the hive, leading to mold. Other people see other problems - no hive design is perfect in all locations - many different location specific designs existed in antiquity, from the clay tubes of the Egyptians to the skeps of the English beekeeping and everything in between. I do note that in the wild, honeybees select a wide range of places in which to live, but seem (to many) to prefer hollow trees. Organization like boomtree bees and gaiabees encourage this preference by providing log type hives and report good results as well as evolved resistance to the varroa destructor, the parasitic mite to which you refer.
> if we can safely propel hundreds of people in an aluminum tube, 35k feet in the air, at hundreds of miles per hour ground speed, thousands of time day in and day out - why is safely generating power from nuclear so often dismissed as unachievable?

The level of safety is different. There have been plenty of total loss accidents in aviation; a similar number of accidents of that severity would be unacceptable in nuclear power. Nuclear power plants need (and, AFAIK, have) a much higher safety factor than airplanes.
The article says there were traces of pigment that could be dated. There are other techniques related to the layers of sediment or other clues. I think with a site like this they don't need to date every object. If they can gather enough data points they know when the site was in use. It's technically possible that the statue stone is older and was brought to the site and we might never know, but it's just highly unlikely.
It definitely used to be good and is still good in some respects: scholar.google.com and books.google.com don’t have comparable rivals AFAIK.

But for generic search DDG gives cleaner results, and Google is 2 characters away using !g
Density Functional Theory. It's the bread and butter of computational condensed matter physicists and materials science simulations, but are mostly used as simulation to validate experimental results, rarely are predictive.
I mean how would anyone do it? Can you tell AI and humans apart with no error? How could you allow any advertising online if any person could be deep faked and you were liable? What if it was just the text "I'm Bill Murray and I use Goodyear tires." Are you going to ask Bill Murray? Are you going to take a signed affidavit? Are you going to ban ads with people and opinions in them?

I hate advertising and I hate Facebook, but I think there's really nothing the platform can do to stop fake ads because—especially as deep fakes improve—there's nothing that any platform can do as an intermediary to practically prevent them.

That doesn't mean the advertisers can't be held liable (and they should). It's just wild to me to think that the intermediary should also be liable simply because they accepted money.
I know a few that have recognized how hard it is to make a living as a musician and, as an adaptation of sorts, wholeheartedly jumped into the world of “sync licensing” (or is it synch?), where they are actually focusing on writing music specifically to appeal to the commercial needs of “big shitty brands.” It makes perfect sense to me. It’s a way to use your skills to help someone else do what they want to do. It’s not like I’ve had the luxury of building whatever software I want for most of my career. It usuall comes down to what some product marketing douche is convinced will make money.
Pharma and Academia: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
>but in general they are NOT intelligent enough to be given an order like 'under no circumstances ever do X' in such a way that they can not be 'jailbroken' into breaking that rule.

I don't think this is really a question of being intelligent enough. Nevermind that people sometimes abuse this fact, Really what rule can never be broken under any circumstances?

For example, the very first time i heard about the famous Paperclip maximiser problem, while i did agree with the general, "what we optimize for isn’t necessarily what we get" message, for the specifics presented, i couldn't help but think, "Well that just sounds like a dumb robot".

What kind of general intelligence wouldn't understand that its creator race wouldn't want to be killed in the pursuit of some goal ?

Certainly a GPT-X Super Intelligence could still off humanity but at least we can be rest assured it wouldn't do it following some goal to monkey paw specificity.

It's possible such ruthless, goal driven intelligence exists or can be created but i don't think that aspect of its intelligence has anything to do with the level of it.
The first step is recognizing that cars are not ideal, and the second step is doing something about it. It’s not really a problem if it would take decades, as governments do tend to exist for decades and do plan accordingly.

But what we cannot do is pretend that cars are inherently superior, ignoring the unprecedented investment we made in highways to make that happen.

But it also isn’t the case that improvements will take decades. Maybe solving the problem completely would, but local governments can convert big dangerous streets in to walkable areas with safer bike transport in just a few years or less.

Solving the whole problem would take decades but then, governments do tend to deal in decades long plans when needed. If they’re ever going to launch new national rail projects, they’re going to need the public to recognize the value of alternatives to cars.
Is there one Windows laptop that can get 14 hours of battery life, fanless and that runs at a decent speed?
I'd imagine panhandling gets money that the desperately need. It's not an idle activity that can be replaced by "generate electricity" at no cost to them.
> Mortgage is not a cost accounting wise. Interest is a cost, but capital repayment is already "profit" which the landlord will keep at the end of the loan.

Only a small sliver of the first mortgage payment is principal. Most of it is interest and the escrow for the property tax and insurance. By the last mortgage payment most of the interest has been replaced with principal, because by then the landlord is the one who owns the property instead of the bank, so now they get what used to be the interest. The property tax and insurance payments never go away, they just stop going through the bank.

The question you have to ask if you think they're overcharging is, why don't more people do it? If it got higher returns than other investments, why wouldn't people sell their stocks and buy real estate? The answer is that they do, until it doesn't anymore. And then it doesn't anymore, because the price of real estate goes up until investing in real estate no longer has above-market risk-adjusted returns.

We have pretty good numbers on this: Here's a common real estate ETF, it's basically "be a landlord, but as a stock", 10-year average return 5.49%:

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

S&P 500 ETF, 10-year average return 11.86%:

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

If the landlords are making so much money, how come they're not making so much money?
So many of these scams start the same way: when the victim is contacted by a random person. Phones, email, social media, and postal mail tend to allow this by default (being contacted by a rando anywhere in the world). But maybe the default should be that users' inboxes and incoming "ports" on such services are locked down for the average user, such that only a few trusted senders, to whom the user has previously given access (maybe with a per-sender access code) can contact that user. Marketing and customer service departments, security researchers with honeypots, and adventurous individuals may want to leave such incoming "ports" open, but the average person probably doesn't need or want to have their communication network accessed or unwittingly expanded by others. They probably only want to communicate with their existing, trusted contacts and to be able to add new contacts organically, but don't really want or need to allow anyone to "slide into their DMs" without prior authorization from the recipient's end. (Special emergency protocols may be needed to allow verified, vetted incoming communication in the case of true emergencies, in order to give people the reassurance that they're not missing out by locking down their incoming "ports".)

Communication technologies have made the world small and flat, but maybe we need to enlarge it and unflatten it unidirectionally, on the sender's (and scammer's) side. Some people already do this manually on their phones, by refusing to answer calls from random, unknown numbers. Maybe such defense measures should be enabled by default for the public at large, with the option of carefully and partially disabling them, if desired.
I will never understand the use of Stata to achieve anything.
Other people, not just you, also benefit from your increase in flexibility.
Crazy how ‘our’ operating system(s) begin to exploit us, instead of serving as our tools; just as the modern web demands an adblocker, OSes require workarounds like this. On that topic, I can just see the dystopian future where this bypass and its ilk become “felony contempt of business model” (see: Cory Doctorow).
Who didn't see this coming?

At some point the software industry, of which I am actively a part, has to take responsibility for what we make. Hiding behind section 230 and/or "just following orders" (ahem, "requirements") no longer cuts it.

Professional ethics are demanded from accountants, lawyers, doctors, and physical engineering disciplines. There are real consequences in those professions when some fail to uphold the covenant expected of them.

Software engineering can no longer be solely about revenue without accountability.
I'm very conflicted on google.

When I am an actual customer, e.g. nexus/pixel devices, g-suite, google fi, google fiber, I tend to like their products.

But I have long since stopped using Google Search. I use Firefox as my browser. I'm slowly transitioning my @gmail.com to my own custom domain (still hosted at g-suite though. for now). They've killed off a number of products I've used over the years. Wave. Hangouts. Reader. And more.

Google could be a dozen or more companies and I'd be fine with it. In fact, I think it would be a good thing for it to be broken up along a few different lines.
Never said Microsoft would benefit. I said it was Firefox's failing to convince them of that direction.
I’m pretty sure they did an AI face replacement on real video. I agree, it does look strange.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...
I used to use Subsonic and one of the many clients. I don't know if Subsonic is still an option, but there are many server side
applications, including a few forks, that fill that role. There are others that work with those same Subsonic clients.

It will allow you to choose a codec for streaming that is different than storage.
These days I’d be worried about something like the libwebp 0-day; JS execution is well protected these days.

Also, 0-days are generally hard to come by in browsers these days, the libwebp one was initially developed by NSO for example; and tech support scams are not that profitable.
Ok, but what's the shape of those curves? I could believe that you can dither to adequate dynamic range and still have a high enough sampling frequency across the entire frequency range, but you'd have to actually do that calculation and show it. Also we don't just listen to pure tones - if I have a passage that includes both 12kHz frequencies and 4kHz frequencies with a bunch of dynamic range, are you going to be able to dither that without losing the high part?
Mind blown. No more copy paste for me!
That's originally the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign, cf. "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

If we did it once for cars we could do it again agin 'em.
Close Access Denial
Exactly. Moving to EVs was a huge mistake. We would have had to practically abandon personal vehicles at some point. This was that chance. Blown. These things will keep us in this same pattern for at least another 50 years leaving this problem for a new generation.

If anyone was serious about any of this, wfh for anyone that can is such an obvious solution with by far the lowest cost. Its a solved problem, we just don’t like the solution enough.
For individuals, it may not have been. Thousands of people going along to each game all with relatively low individual risk of contracting COVID.

But if after every hockey game 20 hospital beds get used up, that's as risky for the health system as allowing a restaurant to serve uncooked chicken for an evening.
No, Microsoft actually stole QuickTime code.

https://thisdayintechhistory.com/12/06/apple-sues-over-quick...

Someone doesn’t know their history…

Also, the look and feel lawsuit happened before Jobs came back and within a few months after he came back, he settled all of the claims.

Your memory is spotty
Give it some time to get there, I’d say. The strategy seems to be set start with “hyperlocal” transactions such as mobility, food/groceries, etc and onboard local businesses. If you (anyone) haven’t already tried it, I encourage you to try it out :-)

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/with-zero-com...

Once the kinks are ironed out and the platform scales a bit, I wouldn’t be surprised if the big players are eventually mandated to inter operate with ONDC, just like Visa/Mastercard got integrated into UPI a few years ago.

My personal opinion is that being a more ambitious (multi-sided) effort ONDC might take some time to bootstrap and mature — but I’m hopeful.
A variety of evidence exists on both sides of the debate on the need for treatment. Here is a book on the treatment free side: https://www.amazon.com/Treatment-Free-Beekeeping-David-Heaf/...
The last time I looked, irs.gov e-file site used Google Analytics, so...
> Civil society groups have raised alarms about a single private company handling so much personal data, especially one dogged by concerns that its software can be used for mass surveillance. During the Trump administration, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency used Palantir software to help find undocumented immigrants.

Not just _any_ private company, but one chaired by _Peter Thiel_ ffs. Short of actually naming the company "Unethical & Impulsive People LLC" there isn't a bigger red flag I can imagine of to indicate to the NHS that they should not be in business with them.
Could be, but I'm not sure how that dovetails with Google's search results being SEO dogshit.
It’s not just roads, it’s parking lots. Our most valuable land in cities is covered in huge swaths of asphalt instead of dense urban housing. This is a poor use of land. It didn’t even used to be this way. We knocked down buildings in cities in the mid century to make more room to park cars.

Roads of course are useful for economic activity, but we’ve gone so hard in to roads that every person has to have their own car. If we put more commuters on trains, we could still have roads for trucks and other things that don’t work well for trains. But with every person needing a car, way too much land gets swallowed by parking and road infrastructure.
Tenso. Service agnostic, just use the provided address.
Input signals are ALWAYS band limited for digital systems. If you don't do this and you work for any company designing such circuitry, you'd be fired.
And what may have been destroyed and will forever be forgotten.

This region is only a couple miles north of Raqqa, which was an ISIS stronghold only a couple years ago, and they destroyed innumerable historical artifacts.
Looks like OnlyOffice uses a ribbon UI that looks to be pretty well modeled on the MS Office pattern. Somewhat better preservation of muscle memory.

I am not saying that Libreoffice has a worse interface (or really 'unintuitive').. Just more different from MS Office.
No, it’s still a substandard “solution” and not exactly a great argument. I told you the devices I use with my AirPods.