skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about a pure non-x86, but a hybrid chip that expose a legacy x86-64 ISA and a new and improved ISA for the future without all the baggage. Windows will have to target the new, and allow applications to use move to the new ISA at their own pace. With time they can make "Rosetta 2" style emulation with compilation to remove the old ISA all together.

That said I seriously doubt that the ISA in and of itself is the reason the chips are slower. After all, underneath is a state of the art architecture. Until I see a independent true cross platform benchmark in e.g. in dotnet be significantly faster and more efficient, I remain skeptical of such incredible claims.
Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine protects 94.5% of those who get it
Apple has banned GPL from macOS quite some time ago and has been pruning GPL apps. See http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/
Since I am running a URL shortener service https://blanq.io, my two cents:

1. I looked at https://github.com/nelsontky/gh-pages-url-shortener/blob/mai... and it is a basic script that does nothing more than redirection. A lot of URL shorteners on the web do a lot more. Premium ones can track users and route links based on client.

2. Most of URL shortening audience is non-technical and they usually like to pay and forget about it. Hosting and running your own service is an overhead.

3. Handling traffic at scale is challenging. So, if you have a lot of hits, I would not advise spending time maintaining the service.

4. Github can kill this anytime.

That said, this is neat solution for basic needs.
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No, the distinction is about as clear as distinctions go that you make in a HN comment as opposed to a scholarly article on sociology. If someone tries to influence you to make a profit for themselves (e.g. by getting you to spend money on their products) then it's an ad. If your government tries to tell you how to protect yourself or others from a threat then that's not an ad.
Microsoft calls their approach emulation, but if you read the details you see they are also translating instructions and caching the result (AOT translating).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...

Their current implementation only supports 32-bit code, x64 translation is still underway. It is not known how well x64 translated code will perform relative to native code.
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That looks pretty tough on New Zealand.
I thought the issue leading to this was AVIF decoding complexity but the goal of this project is apparently roughly parity with AVIF decoding performance. Is encoding performance of still images such a big deal?

I thought these problems were largely solved if they just gave implementations time to mature. Unless we’re talking wildly different concepts here.
indexedDB is the short answer. Whilst Mozilla has made efforts to make it harder, there is still a bunch of things that don't work the same way in private mode, which can provide a best guess as to whether you're in private mode.

indexedDB isn't implemented in Firefox's private mode. [0]

So if you can guess that it is Firefox, and can't use indexedDB, then you can guess that you're in private mode.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639542
Hyperloop solves those problems like I solve those problem with my fleet of magical unicorns.

The difference is no one believes me.

By some accounts/promises the hyperloop should be operating now or in few years.

By the looks of the demo it will be at least decade before they will build anything serious.

But, I can deploy my unicorns in matter of days just need few hundred millions to R&D magical stables to keep them under control. Its future tech invest in me. /s
What we still don't know for both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines:

"A vaccine that prevents infection entirely provides indirect protection to others. If I can't get infected, I can't infect you. But it is possible to have a vaccine that prevents disease but individuals can still be infectious." (1)

In that case, those at risk are only protected when they receive a vaccine, but still aren't when just those who they are in contact with received it.

"Most Phase 3 trials are measuring efficacy to prevent disease as the primary analysis" (2)

Not infection.

The whole thread with more details, already written in September, before both announcements:

https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613702476017666

by: "Natalie E. Dean, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at @UF
specializing in emerging infectious diseases and vaccine study design. @HarvardBiostats
PhD." (3)

1) https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613711808278528

2) https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613708557692928

3) https://twitter.com/nataliexdean
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From what I understood, Gatekeeper still sends an application specific hash/ticket when an application is opened, not just a dev certificate (e.g. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/catalina-executables.htm...). Did that change in Big Sur?
I've got cameras.. but these things don't happen in front of my house. I have witnesses, I've thought about pursuing the police option.. but I don't exactly see that route improving my popularity, nor do I expect the good ol boy cops around here are going to have my best interest at heart.

Up until July, it was legal for me to be discriminated against based on my gender identity O_O. I'm getting out of this area as quickly as possible.
why bother when you can beta test on the most popular piece of software in continuous use around the world?
I wish we’d apply this same level of effort to a better vaccine for Dengue. That’s a problem that’s only going to get worse as the world warms.
I believe that, in different conditions, we should reasonably ask that more people be tested over a longer period of time.

But Covid is wracking absolute havoc on people's health, on the economy, and on everyone's lives. Personally, I plan to take the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine as soon as it is available. There are associated risks -- but in my estimation, they are not as bad as the risks of Covid infection or the downsides of continued social isolation.
I reckon it'll be possible to "simplify" it even more for an end-user, by making a static site generator generate these redirect HTML files from markdown or a CSV.
That is quite interesting. Only issue is to rely on Github Issues for it (it might get messy with too many issues opened).

I had this same ~dream of hosting a URL Shortener statically, which lead me to create URLZap. The difference is that it relies on a config file and it can be used on any code repository service https://github.com/brunoluiz/urlzap
Why wouldn't the absorption rate have an impact? Seems like it could slow down absorption enough for your kidneys to filter out byproducts that can lead to gout. Interested to learn if you know something different.
> If the alternative is COVID, that's a pretty low bar to clear.

It's really not a low bar. A healthy 35-year-old has maybe 0.01% chance of dying, 1% chance of lasting side-effects from Covid. Untested medicines can be way more dangerous than that: thalidomide, for example, has a 50%+ chance of causing stillbirth or birth defects for pregnant women [0].

If you just vaccinate the old and sick, risky vaccines start to look more attractive. But those people also have a greater risk of side effects and are underrepresented in the clinical trials, and most vaccination strategies mooted so far for Covid are based on mass vaccination of healthy people. So it has to be really safe for that to work.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4737249/
What seems to be vague... They didn't contract Covid, but we're they exposed to it in a lab environment, or just set off on their way to be evaluated x months later?
Isn't that what "Greatness is a property of the person" is saying?
I agree that poker teaches many useful lessons about probability and weighing your decisions, but it's not just a moral panic to say that's it's maybe not the most appropriate game for kids. Poker is genuinely very harmful for a non-trivial number of it's players, and it can be a destructive force in a way that (say) chess is not. I've had more than one friend lose tremendous sums of money and had to go cold turkey on the game, lest it completely ruins their life.

Teach your kids Backgammon instead.
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Yes I agree - but I read this [1] today, which talks about "universal" vaccines.

"RNA and DNA vaccines are so far experimental, but trials have been promising and many scientists believe it could be one of those two types that will be the model that goes into mass production to protect against COVID-19.

The attraction, say experts, is that they will potentially offer a step towards something that has been the holy grail of vaccine design – the universal vaccine.

The vaccines being trialed by the team from Pfizer, which tests show provides protection in 90% of cases, and from Moderna, which shows efficacy of 94.5%, are RNA vaccines. If either proves to be the winner in the race for a COVID vaccine, it will represent a seismic shift in vaccine technology."

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-how-vaccine-research-...
" many of the people taking the most risks believe in some Bill Gates/Deep State conspiracy about vaccines"... oh, how many have you talked to?

Most people I know who are engaging in "risky" behavior when it comes to covid spread are either (1) just tired of being coped up and so being reckless (2) old enough that they don't want to spend 2 of their final years of life not seeing their family, and think the risk of catching it is worth it (3) young and relatively risk free (e.g. x3 flu mortality rate range) so don't worry about it for them or those they're seeing (others in the same boat).
even though this isn't really a constructive comment, most of that package-lock.json is build tools. If you remove those and only install production packages it's 27 lines: https://gist.github.com/StefKors/3b43896467d05cb1fb693ed0da9...
And don't forget regex uses!
The lack of fingerprinting information is, in itself, a data point.
True, but 120k deaths beats the hell out of the situation we’re in now.
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Quite a few things actually.

From President Trump in May 2020 [1]:

> Then, my administration cut through every piece of red tape to achieve the fastest-ever, by far, launch of a vaccine trial for this new virus, this very vicious virus. And I want to thank all of the doctors and scientists and researchers involved because they’ve never moved like this, or never even close.

> The NIH and HHS have also been working constantly with private industry to evaluate more than 100 potential treatments.

> The Food and Drug Administration has swiftly approved more than 130 therapies for active trials; that’s what we have right now, 130. And another 450 are in the planning stages. And tremendous potential awaits. I think we’re going to have some very interesting things to report in the not-too-distant future. And thank you very much to Dr. Hahn.

> Through a historic series of funding bills, my administration is providing roughly $10 billion to support a medical research effort without parallel. I especially want to thank Senator Steve Daines of Montana for his incredible work. He has worked so hard to secure additional funding for vaccine development. He has been right at the forefront.

He also goes on to discuss Operation Warp Speed [2] which, as far as I understand it, creates trials and determines a distribution plan.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

[2]: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...
Yes, specifically for cancer. I believe both Moderna and Biontech were working on it for cancer treatment.
This is fantastic news! There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are a very resourceful species and I hope that at the end of all this we learn to have a little faith and trust in each other. Sometimes it takes a crisis to force us to innovate but we can do it when we have to. I really think that when we get around to recognizing climate change as an actual crisis, we will deal with it as well, because we will have to, and we have always had the capacity.
Ah I see your point now.
In that sense GOG is a godsend, admittedly as it’s name implies, more for older games. Although they could theoretically lock your access to your library (which as far as I’m aware they haven’t done) you’d at least have access to what you downloaded.
Yeah, having driven on Italian motorways - my experience is the exact-opposite of what the law supposedly encourages.
Great library, i like it very much
They are in a similar stage - near reporting initial Phase 3 results but no exact date as to when that will happen given in public.
Ah, I suppose there was a conflation between (roughly) "business problem" versus "computer science problem".

It's completely true that all Turing-complete languages can solve the same set of computer science problems (e.g. recognising certain grammars, implementing certain partial functions, etc.). Of course, actually coming up with such solutions can vary between e.g. Brainfuck versus Java.

I was focusing more on "real world problems" or "business problems", e.g. allowing users to query a server, or adding a plugin mechanism to a game, or distributing an application across multiple locations, etc. These are not "computer science problems" (akin to, say, recognising a grammar) since they're underspecified; we're free to make various choices about what counts as correct, including the input format.

These examples are particularly well-suited to solutions involving a language (e.g. a query language), as opposed to something less expressive (e.g. a pre-determined list of options). For such "real world problems" our choice of language can be the difference between a trivial solution or an undecidable quagmire. For example, in the case of querying we could give users a pure language (with a timeout); that's trivially safe from effects, as well as being immune to many side-channels (no shared state, etc.). If we instead allowed users to write queries using Python, we'd face the impossible task of detecting which programs are safe to run on our server (unless we only provide a safe sub-set of the language; which is just a round-about way of saying we should create a custom language!).

> the concern I expressed in my original post is - at what cost?

Yes, there's always a cost for these things. In my experience, this usually involves explicitly encoding our reasoning/assumptions into a form the language will accept (e.g. type annotations, if they can't be inferred; refactoring some generic loop to fit a certain pattern; etc.). However, that's not all bad, since our programs capture more of our intent, and will warn us if we're wrong (either immediately, or after some refactoring invalidates our assumptions).

These tradeoffs certainly exist on a spectrum, and the location of the "bang for buck" sweet spots varies depending on the domain. It's usually not worth encoding a correctness proof into Coq's type system; yet it usually is worth encoding our control flow into structured programming rather than GOTOs. There's a whole heap of techniques in between, with varying tradeoffs, which make more or less sense depending on the domain, external constraints, etc.
I think you’re right about these desktop migration stories being similar to the docker, ansible, chef stories.

I would love to see them all go away for similar reasons. There never seems to be an honest exploration of the “why?”

Telling me you switched from macOS to Ubuntu is as interesting as switching from Cheerios to Lucky Charms... make a case for why I should care or I don’t.
I think I can use him to convert some interesting css effects into videos. I have this idea to make some animations into videos.
If you just want to just have fun I find bullet to be the best.
If you are willing to wait for years. Waiting a few weeks or months is just going to cause more people to die from the disease and isn’t going to make any vaccine more safe.
Starship is coming!
Would this work with ksqlDB out the box?
Yes but those are near lifetime immunities. Not said (that I'm aware of) with these two covid vaccines is how long they protect for. If it is less than a year it will be very hard to get and keep people taking it.
At the rate we're going now, many of the people taking the most risks will be infected with the disease, if they haven't been already. Prior infection has largely the same effect as a vaccine.

I agree with you. We're in for a rough winter, at least in the US -- but it seems that there is a bright light at the end of the tunnel.
The name of the clan is Clamparu. It is more of an international clan, strong conections with the outside of EU. They have Russian, Israeli and American connections. They use Romanian sites because the villages are hidden deep inside the forests of the Carpathian mountains. I'm surprised that they could find them. A huge success of British, Italian and Romanian authorities. The question here is who sponsored the hit? I want to say that the Clamparu clan is not your average "hit and run" heist makers, they specialize in extremely well thought out heists. Very, very expensive. They are also known for being extremely clean, I can't recall somebody ever getting injured or killed in one of their hits. As described by The Guardian, they used 13m ropes to climb down and they successfully dodged the alarm sensors. Gives me some Uncharted vibes, lol.
Hi, nice conversation going here :) . Let me just reiterate on a few points.

3. Correct, I'm referring to azure-storage-blob and azure-mgmt-storage. I'm not concerned with the unmanaged disks so much, which utilize the storage accounts (thank god, we're over that :D ), more with working with regular blobs. From the initialization of the BlobClient to the operations which are sometimes weird in their input parameters, it's not up to par with lets say azure-mgmt-compute.

4. This point is not related to point 3. I'm completely referring to managed data disks, which are first class* entity (like NIC, for example, not a Page Blob any more). Attaching them to an existing VM is a nightmare, and because of some features we do that often. Also they lack basic things like per-disk disaster recovery (but this is way out of the scope of the SDK).

5. Correct, we're doing it by ourself. The LROPoller is also there in other parts of the SDK, we also use (if it's the same poller), but I think we were not able to utilize it. Ny clunky, I meant the response itself sometimes has headers with redundant values, we're not sure which one to use so we just take from experience (if there are two similar) etc. I haven't looked at the docs recently, but the "raw" requests are not documented that well.

* - I did say that managed disks are a first class entity, but we found out the hard way that the managed disks and managed snapshots are actually just in some storage accounts on the backplane, and when something goes South, storage-level errors leak out to our logic :) . Also throttling, thresholds and quotas apply as if it were just another storage account, but even worse, we don't control how the disks are distributed between those backplane storage accounts, so we get funky issues from time to time. We solve them by being extra careful and conservative with some operations, but heh, talking about leaky abstractions. This is not an SDK thing, just wanted to point that out for someone reading.
I don't know about your views or any of the opinions you are referring to obviously, so take this as benignly as possible. Have you questioned that what you perceive as discriminatory may have a far left bias?
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All redirection is client-side. Even 301s are just instructions for the client to open another page, which they are free to ignore.
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Some, like the AstraZeneca virus, are old vaccines that they never finished developing, taken off the shelf and dusted down. That particular one is a modified SARS vaccine that never made it out of phase two trials, because the market for it disappeared. So by starting from here, they were able to save years of work.
That's only 2 apple pies, assuming you don't eat any of the crusts. I don't think that's uneatable other than the fact the crust is the best part.
Some of it is probably accident of history.

Some of it can be driven by external factors: javascript was the only choice for an important domain for a long time.

Some if it I think is due to attractive syntax, or tooling. Python for example, horrible runtime performance, but people were drawn to it for probably syntax and tooling reasons.

Comparing Rust and OCaml:

The OCaml syntax is a bit odd. I was quite taken by F#, which is a very similar language to OCaml, but with some of the cumbersome syntax removed. F# seemed quite nice, looking at OCaml it just felt horrible and I didn't want to deal with it. In practice I know it would be fine, just like you get used to Lisp and it's parens, but there is a real psychology there that turns people away.

OCaml has good runtime performance, but its not the kind of language that will draw in C/C++ programmers or work for domains where you need C or C++ currently. Lack of multi-core is a huge turn off for a lot of people. This is the era where multi-core is our only path to more performance!

Rust syntax is a little more familiar to people, the runtime performance is top notch, very good at leveraging more cores, and maybe most importantly the community has made a concerted effort to make the language as approachable as possible. With good/friendly documentation and community. Easy install process, decent editor support, etc. Go ask a question about "Which way is faster" in a C# forum, you get a lecture about how you shouldn't worry about that. On a Rust forum you get an deep dive into performance concerns and language design. This seems to have drawn in people from communities you wouldn't expect. A low level, complicated language that Ruby and Javascript developers are drawn to? An interesting result!
Capcom hack: Up to 350k people's information stolen
To be fair, pre-lockdown I use to have an hour long commute and that would allow me to study Japanese close to two hours a day and still let me a lot of time to look after my baby once home.
That is my expectation as well.

The other, arguably bigger, problem here is that the data is apparently being sent unencrypted, so regardless of whether Apple discards some of the data after receiving it, others might not.
> Apple said it decided it was better to offer iCloud under the new system because discontinuing it would lead to a bad user experience and actually lead to less data privacy and security for its Chinese customers.

Also very relevant that VPNs seem to be illegal in China.

And Apple forced the hand of Telegram to shut down the channels revealing the names of Belarus police.
This is not a hard requirement, but XFS is highly recommended for production.
That’s a very simplistic way of looking at things which isn’t supported by medical science.

Specifically glucose, fructose, sucrose, are worth treating differently for the purposes of diet management.
There's a lot of useful stuff to learn from this tiny example, providing you look at it more as a learning exercise than a production enterprise solution!

OP, how does this get around CORS?
You don't have to wait for years. Just months.
The latter. Exposing them willingly would be unethical since they could develop a severe form and possibly die.
I made another demo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUQ7KK6MhHw
We train a more robust model and works very well on video game clips.