skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%). ... In people < 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%."

https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
Developer ergonomics is worth the cost to companies. Same reason standing desks, catered meals, gym, and other amenities are offered. Why not spend an extra $1000 or so over a few years for high end hardware?
Glad it was useful to you!
Privacy is also a concern.
The thing hardware engineers are missing here is that people don’t want to use their improvements to improve speed. They want to use them to pay for more expensive abstractions that allow them to develop software faster.

Unless you have a performance issue that’s really pathological, speed really doesn’t matter for most applications. I’ve developed dozens of python web applications. Python is slow as hell, but I can count on one hand the number of times hand where I found the RoI of optimizing a performance issue to be more valuable than feature development (and all of them were problems that couldn’t be solved with more hardware, which is the default best-RoI way to approach most performance issues).
This is so unbelievably sad to me on so many levels.
People get fired for picking fights all the time. You say that's not reasonable, but what's reasonable about subjecting all the other employees at a company to somebody who picks fights?
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I didn't say people should be forced to make something.

I was responding to the other person's argument that you can simply not buy products like Apple's to show you don't like their lack of openness. My point was that all of the available products have different drawbacks so its not so simple as "don't buy Apple" when there are only a few options left from monopolies and they all have similar issues.
Thank you. I’ll try to add a beat.
> No feature, no matter how great, could ever justify a slowdown to start-up time? That seems like an absurd position to take.

This is actually the WebKit project's policy. Performance regressions are not allowed and you can't commit any without adding an equivalent progression.
I also expect that a large part of the average intelligence that has changed would be due to improved nutrition.
Just to be clear. I am the OP. the real title is "These are called opportunities". I used one of his cites [1] as title because the original was not catchy enough. The article was submitted a couple of times with 0 upvotes [2]. The big apple logo doesn't help either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffabiensanglard.net%2...
This seems like a lot of work by Chrome developers and the community, for little gain.

What's wrong with just using the OS trust store and code/logic, perhaps with a whitelist/blacklist for anything particularly problematic where the OS trust store isn't updated quick enough?

Is Chrome going to decide that NTFS file operations are too slow next and implement their own ChromeFS in a little Chrome partition? No... Use what the OS provides...
In a Catholic majority town in Kerala, India, an IVF clinic plastered the town with ads featuring a photoshoot of a couple and their octuplets. I assumed every Catholic would be kind to treatments that begat.
Great summary. We indeed switch to Websockets for a few things that we would like to have (eventually) used HTTP/2 Push for.

To give an example of an issue with this, is that we would like to receive updated resource states when they happen. Receiving these via websocket unfortunately means that they can't really interact with the browser cache, which led us to implementing our own Javascript caching layer.

There's many small examples of this where the ideal approach doesn't exist yet, and we're left to imperfect workarounds.
Are those lotteries with daily drawings though? They seem to list lotteries, but not specifically those with daily drawings.
> People want 100% guarantees, but such a thing is impossible in the real world. There have to be compromises [...]

I wouldn't mind IF people were aware they're basically alpha testers AND if vaccination isn't mandatory.

The way I see it they're not going to force vaccination, but most of the places you want to go will require it: you want to travel, go to the restaurant, watch a movie? Where's your vaccination card?

I'm the kind of guy that waits at least 1 year before upgrading my OS, I'm certainly not going to get something injected in my body before all the bugs have been ironed out.
Apparently no one on HN has read Metamorphosis or has a sense of humor :(
You can simulate a slower machine with a VM, or by disabling extra cores and memory on your dev machine, or by running your app off a slow external drive.

It's not as easy to do this as it could be, but it's not that hard either.
The financial crisis was there before COVID.
We're big Cagan fans at Kitemaker. In fact, most of our thinking around the product is tied into empowered product teams. Cross-functional, autonomous, self-organizing and impact-focused. We want Kitemaker to be the best tool out there for such teams.
Are you implying that all tech leaders and financial leaders (read Blackrock ceo comments to the bank of England, PayPal CEO) lately recognizing bitcoin as a potential global store of wealth but you are more right? Interesting tip: the creator of the forum you are reading this PG, all YC and all a16z leaders see crypto as the next frontier. But again, you know better.
thats... not math.
No. You said "just don't buy it" if you don't like it. But I need a smartphone. So I'm going to buy one. My point is if they all have different drawbacks (this one is better for "openness", that one is better for privacy, this one is better for security) then saying people should just not buy Apple to protest one decision isn't helpful. Because by doing that I would probably end up needing to buy an Android phone which means I would give up other things like privacy. And then if I mention that you'll say we should have just not bought Google phones.

Well yeah. But yeah they control the market. So you buy the least evil product you can that is fairly priced and works with all your other stuff.

Or just blame the consumer cause they didn't choose the mythical Linux phone with great battery life and no spyware.
Yes and no. WebAssembly itself has no IO except for its linear memory. So many programs will then have to have a component in a system-native language (e.g. to write files).

So technically I'm not sure how much you can abstract away for performance.
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I think distinguishing between client-side and server-side speed matters. Python and Ruby are fast enough, and as you say you can scale them horizontally for a long time before it gets cheaper to optimize or rewrite in another language.

But if a UI is slow, that does matter. Delayed keypresses, unacknowledged but registered interactions, or the worst, delayed layout changes, are completely flow breaking.
Our Macs tend to be replaced in specific cycles, the same applies to the Windows laptops, regardless of what is hot in the market.

If we happen to get a customer laptop from their IT for accessing their internal network instead of some cloud instance, you can bet it is most likely fitted with 8GB and a regular HDD.

It is only on HN and Reddit bubbles that I get to see people using the very latest and greatest.

Ah, and I was part of a project a couple of years ago, where teams focused on Windows machines and literally timeshared iMacs and the respective iDevices for testing their hybrid apps.
The most charitable interpretation would be something like "I'm underrepresented and I never felt like I was part of the out-group"
Could you, you know, simply link to the Deepmind blog post you make such excited reference to? I'm honestly curious to read it.
> Looking at HN, which uses js for voting, can be replaced with the olde-school form submission method (at increased page reloads etc), so clearly JS is doing us a favor.

The JS here is is an optional enhancement that does the vote in the background. Disable JavaScript and voting still works, it just causes the page to reload. (Aside: it works by using links, but forms so that it’s a POST would be better.)
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What are your future plans for your framework? Will you spin it out into a startup? Will it only be used for writing future papers? Will it be released under an open source license?
Does exogenous vs endogenous work in a vacuum either? It’s exogenous with respect to some things and endogenous with respect to others.
This smells of self-marked homework used as thinly veiled advertising to potential investors.

If rogue access points are a legitimate concern, proper network controls (PNAC, mac whitelisting, etc) would be better options.
Bannng crypto is like banning internet. Can't and won't happen. It's global.
No need for contemporaneous software, for many people a 20-year-old office of some kind is more than enough, plus email. :)
If you have the time,would you mind expanding on this with the detail that you mentioned?
it's not a mRNA, but they are using a technique never commercialized, and never used at big scale same as the mRNA.
It use some virus recombined, which in this case is to put a gene of the protein in a chimp adenovirus. It become an OGM.

Personal point of view, I will stay away from this one even more than the mRNA
It's about security and ease. If it were secure to install arbitrary code on a computer, we'd have more apps. If it were easy to compile across platforms and handle every weird OS call, we'd have way, way more apps.

Browsers are essentially a translation layer with some security guarantees and even there, on both counts they aren't perfect. They're merely better than the alternative.

If you ever want to disrupt the entire industry, make something that is easier to code for and more secure than a web browser. If it's faster too, then that's gravy.
New shiny libraries, frameworks, and platforms draw in developers. Those new things are typically not well polished or optimized. By the time they get optimized, developers move on to newer and shinier things.

Java, PHP, .NET, and Javascript were all slow until they got fast (although with Javascript, things got really complicated and slow again).

I say this as a developer that uses all those now-fast things and avoids the shiny and new for these reasons (and more, including lack of tooling).
...but it sure reads like one.

> If Soviets dismantle all SS–20s, we are willing to airbrush out Gorbachev’s birthmark in US photographs
I would call behavioural heuristics of WiFi ‘attacks’ dubious at best. Knowing the specific software the attacker is using has minimal/no value in actually fixing the issue either.
It is already almost uninhabitable and has been for a long time. Nevertheless ~10M people live there. Technology is solving this, either the root cause or the symptoms
>I'm not sure what can be done to fix it.

Regulations which require engineers or their union representatives to sit on the corporate board of directors.

(Such as in the deplorable communist countries Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, France and Denmark.)
The kubelet can talk to containerd's cri endpoint, yes, but there's one additional bit of complexity.

If someone wants to use kubelet + docker so that they can, for example, ssh into a node and type 'docker ps' to see containers, or have something else using the docker api see the containers the kubelet started, that won't work after re-pointing the kubelet from docker to containerd.

The difference here is namespacing[0], but not the linux-kernel-container-namespace, rather the containerd concept by the same name to allow "multi-tenancy" of a single containerd daemon.

In addition, I don't think you could have docker + cri run in the same containerd namespace since they end up using different networking and storage containerd plugins. I think that terminology is right.

So yeah, repointing the kubelet to containerd directly works fine, but it won't be the same thing as running docker containers.

[0]: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/9561d938/docs/...
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It's the brake disc. Some rust on the surface is not a big problem, but if it starts digging in to the metal mass it will cause reduced brake capacity. In Europe a car with lots of rust on the brake disc will not be certified for use (mandatory checkup every two years) until the brake discs have been replaced.
Simply run your app in a VM, that should degrade performance, customizable as well.
> because our fraudsters aren't dumb enough to pick sequential numbers

That is quite a claim you make there!
> Why do they want it?

Because every obersable event you trigger has to go into an add machinery
“This move makes it clear that Google has no commitment to Ethical AI as a field”
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Lol give me a break. You have no idea what was in the email she sent and what she asked for. She gave them an ultimatum. They rejected it. Its at will employment
How does she think that's acceptable? You don't slander your boss in public unless you think you're untouchable or you want out.
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The point of crypto is not cashing out but using it as money to buy services. You are talking about speculators.
Your premise is flawed: keeping our human rights intact naturally won’t result in the hospitals overflowing.

If the virus is life-threatening (and I believe it is) then there is a natural disincentive to not taking necessary precautions and individuals will act accordingly, creating a positive systemic outcome. This is the basis of liberal democracy, we trust our citizens with freedom and this in turn results in better outcomes (esp innovation).

Freedom isn’t something we do just because we’re “selfish” or it’s a luxury, it’s literally a better system.

I would imply that you should have payed more attention in civics, thus insulting your intelligence but I prefer civil and respectful discourse. Ideas matter.
I didn't see anything in the post you're replying to about a draconian government takeover.

Government has been intervening (in some industries) in these ways for decades. It works. It's not arbitrary.

It's not perfect of course, but it's far better than allowing large companies to get a complete stranglehold.

It seems to me that if you want to claim some version of "leave the marketplace alone and it will self correct" then you have to make a pretty strong case. It's not a self evident truth, history tells a different story.

Sometimes the marketplace takes care of itself, sure, but there have been lots of examples where it hasn't. In those cases, when government has stepped in, the outcome has generally been positive (if sometimes short lived).
From what I have gathered from Wikipedia, East Timor has not been governed by the UN since 2002. However the UN still governs the Cyprus Buffer Zone, part of the Golan Heights, and Kosovo. In the past they have also governed Western New Guinea, Cambodia, and part of what is today eastern Croatia.

Their administration of Cambodia in the early 90s seems particularly full fledged:

> The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)[3] was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in 1992–93 formed following the 1991 Paris Peace Accords. It was also the first occasion on which the UN had taken over the administration of an independent state, organised and run an election (as opposed to monitoring or supervising), had its own radio station and jail, and been responsible for promoting and safeguarding human rights at the national level.
Not much really. She had a really good PhD research paper but besides that she seems to just be playing racial politics.
I mean, isn't that (one of) the point(s) of the corporation as a legal entity: to allow people with capital assets and a joint enterprise in mind to coordinate their resources and act as a single entity for the purposes of pursuing that enterprise [edit: which of course includes purchasing labor in all but the smallest undertakings]. One of the original motivating theories behind the drive for labor unions organized within companies (rather than earlier forms of labor organization like guilds and professional societies which predate modern economies) was that the unification of capital interests within a company necessitated that labor similarly unify, since the alternative would be that the individual seller of labour would lack any kind of bargaining power when negotiating with their employer.

Unless we abolish corporations as a concept, how exactly do you effectively propose that we "outlaw all cartelization" in a way that isn't just outlawing unions while keeping capital interests unified?

tl;dr: unions complement the inherrent concentration of capital interests in modern ecconomies and are no more inherently like cartels than the corporate form itself.
Well it certainly is not a state secret. Just google 'China business tax reform' It was a hot topic back 2, 3 years ago because businesses complained about the high tax rate.

Average Chinese may not think about paying tax for each sale because it's not printed on the receipt. But the price they pay do include all the taxes incurred to the business.

It's been a while, I remember that the receipts I got from IKEA and 711 do print the exact tax applied to this sale.
Here's a couple of articles on the subject. I've seen a few other links posted by others in this thread that might be of interest.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/1/21544501/facebook-rules-p...

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-thr...

In terms of groups and pages, The Intercept reported on this. And I've seen this directed at groups that were not explicitly antifa but were more socialist in nature. Some of the groups were targeted with a large number of user reports. I live in a red state. Some of the local groups & pages I followed were hit with many complaints from local conservatives. Which led to some of those groups disappearing.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/facebook-bans-antifascis...

In terms of conservative popularity on Facebook, it looks to be partially organic. A mix of an older userbase and many conservative groups heavily targeting the platform. But the skew in the algorithms and the laxity regarding the rules also has a role to play.
That's Simplified Chinese

And I recommend people willing to learn Chinese characters to learn Traditional Chinese to be less confused and easier to remember on the long run.
You're fired
...or "crazygringo's" 1000 per day guess could be way, way off, and anybody, like "mrb," accepting it blindly as a basis for their own calculations is guilty (of failing to think critically) by association
The increasing complexity could open a can of security worms in web apps
I would argue, that the urgency shouldn't be a reason to rush out a new (not new in development but never commercialized) way to make vaccine never tested at big scale.
Especially if we can make vaccine the "traditional"(Inactivated virus) way which we can.
I can still remember the name of the woman in the porn mag I found from my dads cupboard 30 years ago. Haven't seen that magazine in 29 years.

I keep forgetting the names of my friends wives and children. I talk to them weekly.

The only birthdays I remember are mine, my wife's and my kids. I kinda remember the season my other family members birthdays, maybe the month if I really strain. Couldn't tell the actual date even if you waterboarded me.
calculating C(50, 6) is, as is everything that follows.
So... you editorialized the title in order to get some traction? I hate to be that guy, but the HN guidelines ask not to do that

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize

I should have checked the real article title, it’s much more reasonable. I see that it has been changed here, now.
> Chrome also had these. But when I saw it boot nearly instantly instead of the five seconds it took to Firefox, I immediately switched and never looked back.

It really was incredible how fast Chrome seemed when it first came out; and not just in terms of startup speed; rendering speed was superb compared to the competition. Now Firefox seems much closer to Chrome in terms of rendering speed, and for certain web-pages (some company web-pages with huge tables at least) Firefox renders them noticeably faster.
The problem is that it gets exponentially harder to fix something the later you do it. Even if you wait a few years it could be easier to rewrite from scratch than fix a large bug.

Btw, people bring up a features vs. speed tradeoff here and I don't think it's true - in my experience perf issues come from stupid random bugs more often than they're fundamental parts of new features. There is definitely a development time vs speed tradeoff, though; the best way to save time here is to have really good regression tests.
there is also sincos(), which is useful when you need both, such as building matrices.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/sincos.3.html

https://home.deec.uc.pt/~jlobo/tc/opcode_f.html
> It's not like Boeing has a warehouse of 737-MAX's sitting around.

Actually there's a total of almost 800 grounded 737 MAX airplanes:

- Boeing has 400 undelivered and parked around their factory.

- customers owned almost 400 grounded planes.

The backstory is that Boeing contracted with Spirit Aaerosystems to make the fuselages, and Spirit continued making and delivering them long after the grounding.

> They are ordered and delivered as they are finished.

Sure, when there's a backorder of certified aircraft, not when your product is uncertified and nobody wants any.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/01/boeing-737-max-spirit-aerosy...
The used to call things Google Labs Foo.

That idea was canned...
Ask HN: List of Blogs Without Ads?
I find that I’m tired of either infinite scrolling through headlines or getting bombarded with divisive content because it gets the clicks and the site has ads.

Which are your blogs of choice?
I'm not sure I fully follow here, but I would like to be able to. Created a video response:

https://www.loom.com/share/4539869f41cf47c5a154a342308584de
> given the choice in examinations between log-tables, slide-rule, or calculator, we all made the same choice

Students would benefit greatly if given a slide rule instead of an electronic calculator for their exams. The former is an effective teacher which viscerally reveals crucial insights, while the latter is pedagogically almost useless; using an electronic calculator to solve problems consists of nothing beyond punching keys and looking at the result, given as a disembodied string of digits entirely out of any context. The slide rule probably even ends up slightly more efficient for the type of problems students typically see in high school, after a bit of practice. Precision is more than sufficient.

Any assigned problem which needs a calculator would be more effective if the calculator were removed and the numbers involved were simplified to the point students could manage them mentally or with a trivial amount of scratch work.

Where electronic computers really shine is in their programmability, and for that students should be working with a full programming language and a real keyboard.
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It recently (last few generations) went down and then up again because we thought it'd be a great idea to give the whole world lead poisoning.