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>These stable packages just postpone the inevitable technological debt and when you have to pay the debt, it's too late.

Easy or not [1], it's not the business of a video to do the differentation in behalf of the citizenry.

Not to mention that it being "easy" is a naive assumption, by people who feel that it's only the "other bad side" that's affected, which even if it was true, is something that can turn around on a dime based on the political climate, changing corpoate interests, etc)
Whatever happened to Anonymous? Pfizer have been involved in enough scandal and near-criminal activity in the past that I would have imagined governments championing them now as the new medical saviour is as big a cause as anything Anonymous has pursued.
Thank you! I'm pursuing engineering science. Until recently, I wasn't sure what I wanted to go into... but now I think I know.
Light bulbs and cars have significant marginal costs that software does not have. Some types of software (operating systems, DB, browsers) also have a network or platform effect, so people actually have an incentive to get other people to use or even improve their software.
Not a fan of smart home appliances, to be fair, particularly because there's no way to ensure privacy of data and security. There was a paper presented at the Taipei Web Conference 2020 earlier in spring, which looked at the ease of compromising privacy and 2 types of identities simultaneously in multi-modal IoT environments, and that has over 70% de-anonymization success.
Basically, majority of IoT devices for your home are linked to multi-modal environments. All details are here, if I remember correctly, including the Gibhub link: https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/deanonymize-device-biometr...

As I know of, there's only one company which made progress on security in IoT devices, it's called Teserakt E4.
A quick tl;dr on what they offer / propose:
- Integrated implant in servers of IoT manufacturers.
- Complex end-to-end encryption for devices and different data flows.
- Open-source code (soon available).

Bottom line: Won't see it anytime soon.
The libs in the steam-runtime are often times very old. The newest compiler for building inside the runtime seems to be gcc 5. I understand the need for stability, but why isn't this stuff updated from time to time?
No this is not possible. JS is too dynamic for that to work.
I agree that RH's move is selfish and counterproductive, but I don't really agree with the "betrayal" rhetoric, except in a very limited sense.

The core CentOS devs who were "acquired", along with the people from other RHEL-clone projects like Scientific Linux who merged with CentOS, are being stiffed here; but arguably they should have known they were making this kind of a risk when they agreed to be acquired with a governance structure that allowed RH to overrule whatever the CentOS Board did.

The users of CentOS have no right to be upset whatsoever. They've been benefitting from millions of man-hours of engineering time RedHat have spent making RHEL without paying a penny for it. Granted this all benefitted RedHat, but that's beside the point -- if you don't have a two-way relationship with someone, you don't have any right to be upset when they change direction.

Pre-2014, all of those users should have recognized that the group making CentOS might disappear at any time, leaving them having to switch away from their current setup; post-2014, all of those users should have recognized that RedHat might change their attitude at any time, leaving them having to switch away from their current setup. They chose to take that risk because it was free. Now it's time to pay the piper.
Natural part of being human is getting hungry, or having to go to toilet, or sleeping, etc. You don't get punished for any those - it doesn't make sense to do so. Murdering ourselves for this and that reason is not part of the daily routine and one can't just decide to go an murder rampage, because
- "meh, it's just that time of the day."

Murders do happen, it's a thing, but that doesn't make them normal.

Your smallpox example it's as sensationalist as the stupid article. Everything around us can be turned into a weapon. One can murder another with a rock. Are rocks deadly now? Do we need to ban fire, because it can be used in incendiary bombs to level down cities?

Compare this pandemic to other pandemics. What about this is so hard to comprehend? Don't compare it to states of war, because that is stupid. I know it's clickbaity and such an irresistible lure for easily influenced people that bite on anything without giving it an ounce of though, but it's so trivial to catch it.

Again - Compare this pandemic to other pandemics.
> I'm not sure that "colo is cheaper" is one.

It absolutely is (cheaper, and a good argument). As an example: we're in the process of switching from Digital Ocean to Hetzner for a project, that will increase infrastructure performance (roughly memory/cpu/storage) by 4x and decrease costs by 4x. And no driving to the colo center is neccessary, as it's their dedicated server, so their on-site engineers do the hardware replacement.

Also, if you are not okay with your site being down for a few hours, you can always buy two, like you would with a sensible cloud setup. It'd still come up way cheaper (+ get more perf if you can do load balancing for your usage).

Also, I don't look at it from "colo is cheaper" point of view. To me, it's "I can have several times more performance and hire a full time sysadmin to worry about it, for the same price".
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If they are similar this point, yes, they're not necessary, as they are totally irrelevant to the longbet in discussion, or to Pinker's work in general.

If Einstein was a serial killer on the side, relativity would still be a great theory...
Browser's UI for cookies is severely lacking though. It's been at least a decade since a browser asked me to store a cookie.
Why did Kissanime die but crunchyroll succeed?
Well, let's just say that this is not concordDance's first rodeo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23973572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24027727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23973572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23937157

and there are more of those. Regarding not to publicly posting controversial (vile rather) comments either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24194180

The problem is that as long as you're civil, articulate, and use euphemisms this is not spotted by the HN crowd.
Nice to have, but people want a throttle that shuts off dead at a certain number of dollars
In the US you vote on people, not policy. Most people can't understand all the ramifications of a policy, but a lot of people can spot a crooked liar if the know them a little, we do it every day. That is why I like the older idea of picking state legislators and letting them pick the president and maybe the senators. And up the number of people in the house. The idea is that you should know or know a lot of people who know the person you are voting for. Media won't come into it, civics education won't come into it. It will be like picking a plumber in your neighborhood.
1. Who defines whats „unnecessary“?

2. So going to the moon / CERN are particularly necessary? Besides that, a counter-argument to this doesn‘t work like: Lets pick some „good“ examples out of a big pool. This has to be viewed through the average and on average governments are beyond terrible at investments (some more than others)
France seems to pay IT quite bad. In Germany nobody would work for this in metro area.
Either you restrict it or you don't.

What is "vital" or not is highly dependent on circumstances.
I care. That's why I block them, of course.

But yes the popups suck. And of course there's an interest in ad companies of making the popups as obnoxious as possible.
Switch company may be better, because record of you being an underperformer gets shared between teams.
Just looking at the server lists. There doesn't really seem to that much geographical variety there. Although Google has not really given us details on where the services are running, at least the graphics in their announcements promised a lot.
> But the written bible needs to exist or the religion will fade out, correct?

By name perhaps, the same ideas will always live on under a different name.

> No one is able to adopt the practices of the Minoan religion. The Minoan religion is dead since their people have gone and they didn't write much, if anything, down and no one can accurately choose to adopt their beliefs.

The practices have lived on under a different name.

> Why differentiate between them reading and them being read to by a pastor for example? What's the difference?

A pastor has also never read the entire Bible to them from cover to cover; most haven't the faintest idea of what is in there.

> Christian churches often choose to host bible classes, why would they promote use of scripture to further indoctrination if it's not effective? Why would they read to the congregation from the bible?

You will find that they tend to omit the passages that are considered controversial, and that would lead to the Bible's potential banning.
How racist do you have to be to equate people in Chinatown with the virus? At a time when there were less than 10 cases in the US, the risk of visiting Chinatown was minimal.

And it's curious that you focus on Chinatown in February instead of 300 days of minimising mask wearing and calling for LIBERATING states from coronavirus restrictions.
Yes. On the half dozen times this story has already been submitted in the past week, those submitters at least included the "mice" part:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I wouldn't be too scared.
For AWS you get about $0.20 per 1 million requests on Lambda.
You can do quite a lot with a single Lambda function.
And a million of anything is a lot for a dev. Put a HTTP API Gateway infront of that with a CDN and you're hitting ~ a few dollars.

If you don't buy one coffee, or put a 20 dollar note in a book one month. Then you're fine. And if you have to use EC2, just use a t2.micro or a raspberry pi on your desk.

But really the first lesson you should learn in any cloud setup is Billing Alarms :)

If you're doing ML or CV work then it's probably cheaper to build on the desktop and port to cloud once you understand what the workloads are.
They are estimating infection rates by combining mortality stats specifically for the younger part of the population and seroprevalence studies.

So if you accept the known biases in the seroprevalence studies, and make the (strong, IMO) assumption that an individual’s risk of severe disease is not correlated to behavior that reduced their odds of infection before September (the cutoff in this study), and account for the age distribution in the as yet uninfected population, maybe you could get reasonable ish bounds.

I’m skeptical because a change in behavior probably changes relative risk of infection, and I think people with known risk factors are probably more careful on average.

Anyways, the first thing to do would be to check such an estimate against data for October and November
Because Trump was all about "business", America's prosperity.

Biden is all about things I personally don't care about, like anti-COVID measures, or fighting global warming, which will very likely destroy US economically. Emigrating to a country that's on a brink of the worst crisis in its history is indeed pointless.
Possibly your imagination and their reality are more related than you think. Many many psychedelic experiences don't really involve hallucinations as one might understand them from popular culture/discourse, and this I believe is the original commenters concern, that people like yourself who might very find lasting and very real relief from their mental health issues by a 'wow, that orange is really really orange, everything seems to be pulsing with a hidden energy it's easy to miss in modern life, gee I never noticed how many veins a leaf had before' type experience, and yet they don't because perhaps somehow this word 'hallucinate' with all it's scary connotations of loss of control and terrible visions has put them off. Sure if you eat a couple hundred micrograms of lsd your gonna see some wild shit when you close your eyes, yet never taking the time to experience a glass of wine with friends simply because you've read somewhere that alcohol causes people to strip naked and steal cars is far from scientific. Not to say that alcohol is for everyone, simply that many many people are able to benefit from it's relaxing and social aspects without ever consuming enough to experience it's depressive violent aspect.
Building an SRPM is literally only one command.
It's not only Facebook, a lot of services, Deezer, some operators in France... https://downdetector.fr/
What does that mean? I have an RX5700 card in my Linux computer. I'm not very interested in benchmarks but it works well so far. I mostly play simple games like Dead Cells, Caves of Qud and such.
Not sure but - as film e.g. captures actual photons from the scene, probably some kind of information is encoded through that.

Bokeh is a kind of of space representation, similar to how you can basically "see" through hearing a sound stage of instruments separated properly when someone has a really good sound system, or how dogs have "5.1/7.1" sense of smell.

How does one encode that I have no idea.
How do you know there will ALWAYS be enough water supplies?

There must be a real limit to how many humans this planet can support.
Yes NIST recently released a study: https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt_facemask.html
“If something is impossible to know you are better off not being very smart“

Alternative view: just about everything is impossible to “know”, and so the gift of intelligence is the ability to contemplate and then pass along insights and interpretations to others.
It's particularly amazing given those same people come out in droves to complain about voting machines being insecure on any article about electronic voting, yet the Dominion electronic voting system was used in all the disputed states.
> You have not actually provided evidence to the contrary

YouTube is arguing that I shouldn't be able to provide evidence to the contrary, which is the point.

I'm not arguing with the list of bullet points. I'm arguing with the very silly implication that there is an obvious "truth" that some MegaCorp should be able to hand down and enforce on this.
Might be an iOS issue, but for me its even happening when I connect them, turn the volume down and then start playing something. The instant it starts playing the volume is adjusted up to some previous level. This has never happened to me with other bluetooth headphones / speakers
That debayering sensor mod looks really interesting :) Nice way to quadruple the effective resolution of your camera, if you don't care about colors.
With so many people getting depressed over Covid lockdowns, economic hardships, it's great to at least see psychedelic research moving at a faster speed.
Ah, this framework looks perfect for a personal project of mine - shame I missed the sale!

On the "single site" licence, how does this work if the site never goes live, or if I decide to use the framework on another personal project? Considering it's just a side project it's a big investment considering it might not even go live! :)
Probably because it's not so simple on the backend.

I'm guessing there's a good chance a lot of systems are only eventually consistent, which could explain why billing takes a long time to update.

Aggregation of service usage for billing could also be an expensive operation, so it's only updated irregularly instead of being near real-time.

It would be a great feature, but I can imagine it being very complex. It's also probably cheaper for them to just wave away excess usage like this instead of building out a solution.
I agree. We will see if a new community wants to copy CentOS and maintain it.
> almonds use about 4 acre-feet of water per year

Q: What unit of almond measurement uses that measurement of water?
But at least they own their light bulb.
OT, but I feel people who care about this perhaps knows the answer.

Is there a browser that pretends to accepts all cookies but never saves them?
Perfectly well-said. Some developers wants the greatest and latest, but they forgot the operational costs can be higher (see: cloud and its tendency to cost more than others). At the end of the day, there are companies who needs to standardize on a system for a long time and CentOS delivers it just fine.
Everyone use Snapchat in Norway
The problem with the response is its own problem. Comparing two incomparable things is the object of my post and no sane logic can deny that.

Compare the negligence that allowed terror to flourish and eventually lead to the global War or terror to happen to the same negligence that allowed WW2 to happen.

Compare the response to COVID to the response to other similar pandemics.
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> That sort of crap is the reason we host all our stuff on root servers.

Having just started my own journey into building products for myself, pretty much the first thing I realised with my tech was I need to get dedicated servers instead of cloud just because it costs 100x less.

> Just grab a dedicated server for a few bucks and put a bunch of docker containers on those.

Exactly, if you really want kubernetes coolness to act cloud like, install kubernetes it's free and is super easy to setup.

And with the cost savings you can literally buy multiple spare servers and with kubernetes using them all while keeping the usage low allowing to scale up new nodes if needed.
The last thing I want to see on my 4K TV is film artifacts.
This is my worst nightmare. Lol. I guess now is a great time to give Azure a shoutout for sitting on their hands for 8 years without so much as a response to the community for half a decade [1].

At least AWS allows using a prepaid credit card so they’ll need to call me if things go haywire. I bet if that $72k charge went through it would have been much harder to get out of. “Sorry, we don’t have the money” is a much better negotiating position than “can we please have our money back?”

1. https://feedback.azure.com/forums/170030-signup-and-billing/...
Thanks for the mention. Mojeek CEO here and happy to answer any questions
> How many people can you reach with SMS?

Essentially no-one as we've all stopped trading actual phone numbers years ago.
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Everybody is so focused on 'cookies' as if the technology itself was regulated. The web developers (or marketing agencies or whatever) are also slow to learn what proper data protection means, and slap popups and banners on everything, making the web disgusting and regulations seem misguided.

A session cookie, especially after a login, may not require consent at all. Describe in your policy what personal data, if any, is tied to the session, and what you do with it. Most places collect and process only what is necessary to deliver a service and fulfill a contract. Let users read this policy and possibly contact you to make changes to their data.

Of course, this is not what happened here with Google and Amazon. In the meantime it is so unfortunate to see cookies becoming "illegal" taboo.
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> It's like if you lived near a public park with particularly aggressive geese that return every year, and watched new ignorant groups of people get chased by the geese every spring.

You're not really helping your argument here. Particularly if people have been attacked for over a decade and no one has put up a "aggressive geese" sign
The paper doesn't say so, but it seems there may be some process by which a the scenario where there are a large number of simultaneously infected individuals living in close proximity tends to produce worse outcomes in all those individuals.
That's not quite correct as stated. People usually try the local language first, if they can speak it at all. At that point they don't even know what each other's languages are. So two British people meeting for the first time in Germany may well start off by speaking German to each other. I've seen that happen a few times.

But I've also seen a German speak bad English to someone just because they looked foreign. They were foreign, but having lived in German for a while they could speak German better than they could English, and after a while they politely pointed this out. It was a bit embarrassing. It is definitely better to try the local language first.
When did “the Internet” become “the internet?”
There are lists in uBlock Origin to block these.
35k is the gross which encompasses a big part of that except office space.
"the best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social.".

Really? Really?? So, a knife, shoes, an orange, a god damn flower pot - the best versions of _every_ consumer product is the one that's social? My gym is probably "social" to some people, but I prefer it empty with just me there when I work out, that is absolutely the best version of that product for me. This guy is so ridiculously out of touch with people outside his bubble.

And why the hell "social+"? Why the "+"? i-dont-want-to-live-on-this-planet-anymore.jpg
I'm sure that was an important factor, but wouldn't this in any case just be a bill to a startup with no money on hand? It's hard to make companies (without money) economically responsible for anything I guess, it even seems hard to make companies with money responsible sometimes.
If you mean the new Google consent popup, good uBlock rules for suppressing that: https://daniel-lange.com/archives/164-Getting-rid-of-the-Goo...
I agree. But I rather pay a small fee for CentOS without support than a hefty fee for RHEL with support.
From that stat alone, not very much.

- Your best estimate on a do nothing strategy would be that total deaths would be 20x what it currently is,

(I'd assume everyone catches covid before herd immunity becomes relevant: here, aiming for herd immunity is a different strategy than 'do nothing')

- plus likely a whole bunch more due to overwhelmed health services, likely a large proportion of people needing intensive care would also have died,

- plus likely a whole bunch more people would have had a high viral load initial exposure and more likely to have consequential symptoms,

- plus likely a whole bunch more, reflecting a likely relatively safe age and risk distribution of people who have caught covid to date.
#11 out of about 200 countries.

What differentiates the US from the major countries in the top 10 is that the US has done very little to prevent spread of the virus in the past weeks, meaning that going forward, things will be far worse in the US. Compare the graphs of the major countries (i.e., not San Marino, Andorra, North Macedonia and other small countries) in the top 10, and then the US:

1. Belgium: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/belgium/#g...

4. Italy: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/#gra...

6. Spain: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/#gra...

10. UK: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/#graph-...

11. USA: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-...

In contrast to Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK, the US is letting the virus spread largely unchecked, and there has been massive resistance to even the most basic measures to control the spread.

Finally, it's worth noting that individual US states have been worse hit than individual European countries listed above. New Jersey and Belgium have similar populations, but New Jersey has had more deaths/capita. As the number of new cases continues to fall in Belgium and rise in New Jersey, that difference will widen.