skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference between yellow fever and covid is the mortality rate.
Covid is below 1% (hard to find data as everyone stopped talking about mortality rates when the number of cases skyrocketed without an increase in deaths).
Yellow fever is around 3-7%.

People traveling to Kenya will want to vaccine for their health and largely won't try to fake it.
> What I would have in mind is policy more guided by econ 101

I have a degree in Economics. The first they thing teach you in Econ 201 is to ignore everything that happened in Econ 101: it's useful to learn to read graphs, but everything is largely useless otherwise.

Also, why are you prescribing that we ought to follow Econ 101 then 2 sentences later telling us to instead ignore Econ 101 in favor of this other thing. This is contradictory advice.

> A perfect free market might never have existed, but good enough approximations do

Good enough is arbitrary. Go check out Anarcho-Capitalists, they want a very different good-enough. Furthermore, we're finding another contradiction: your pursuit of a free-market, yet you're offering up countries with varying levels of market and capital control. Estonia, for example, has highly market-distorting healthcare/insurance industries through a monopsony. This is, again, contradictory, as a monopsony is a market-distorting force--especially when constructed through government mandate. Or is this where that ideology safety-valve kicks in:
> The latter only by-and-large and with big exceptions obviously, since they are complicated real world places.

It's full of contradiction and arbitrary distinctions.
Ah, that's the loophole in Microsoft's bug-reporting. It's not just hard to file bug-reports, you have to find ways to exploit every bug in a way that make them security issues :-)

> and get Microsoft to fix it or even pay you!

That would be nice...
It isn't "unlimited", it is "unlimited with caveat". It is 5 TB soft cap after which upload limits apply, which get progressively harsh the more you are from that 5 TB soft limit. Just like I wrote in my previous post, and as they write on their website. For me, 5 TB in a privacy-friendly country is a bargain deal. Duplicati has support for Jottacloud, and they also provide an CLI for their API.

If I had an amount of 24 TB to back up I'd buy my own server and harddisks, and I'd physically set that server up at work or at home. Then, travel to the data center (I live in Amsterdam Area, so enough choice) and put the server there, again, physically. No need to "upload 24 TB".

RAIDZ et al. is about availability. Which makes sense for businesses, but for personal data an offsite backup makes more sense. I'd just go with a mirror of 2 different disks, with different serial numbers (ie. different orders).
What's the deal with using one-sentence paragraphs? Recently I am seeing this trend more and more, it always confuses me a bit.
I quite agree with everything you've said in this and your other post.

My development environment? : My own dual-booting Windows/Linux PC with 32G RAM and a few TB of SSD. Not to mention the Nvidia RTX graphics card for gaming...

I either spin up a VM to test stuff, or spin up a Python virtualenv. Postgresql also running on this machine. Whatever's needed. Need to emulate Stuff Happening From Different Servers? Why just spin up another few VM's - assign them the minimum resources required to get them doing what they need to do, set up your VM network etc. Any decently specced desktop machine can do that, never mind a noisy rack system - considering they're way better and vastly more powerful then the PC's we had 2-5 years before that, which themselves were vastly more powerful than the ones before them, and so on...

Result? Can develop at home to my heart's content, then when it comes to deployment spin up a remote VM on e.g. DigitalOcean and take it from there.

At the end of the day, "sErVeRlEsS" (I just don't like that term, for some reason it rubs me up the wrong way, perhaps because of...) just means "running stuff on someone else's kit" - the same as "tHe ClOuD", so if I'm going to be developing some system & software, I'd rather be doing it locally, setting up whatever's needed to get it running, and once satisfied, deploying it.

Like you, I see either the same people, or new people, simply Not Learning From The Past. There are many good reasons why things were done like they were - developing on a system you own, for example, rather than spinning up all sorts of Cloudy Things or "serverlessy things" right from the start.

Hardware is cheap - you don't need a supercomputer to run the beginnings of your latest Supah Scalable System[tm], you just develop and run it on a reasonably up to date box, and, sure, when you get to the stage where you need more space/bandwidth/whatever, that's the point where you deploy to some Cloudy Thing or SeRvErLeSs Thing.
It is still. Fedora 34 is currently being branched into RHEL 9 Alpha. In fact I spent last week unifying the spec files of my packages so they are the same in Fedora and RHEL 9 (as far as this is possible).

However the problem has always been that between RHEL being branched from Fedora and the first RHEL GA being released there was a gap - a really huge gap actually of about 18 months or more. During this time we released to the public one alpha, and one beta to partners, but essentially development was closed off to anyone outside Red Hat. During this time we are writing documentation, QA-ing extensively, fixing bugs found by partners. Plus partners and ISVs actually ask for a 6 month delay before GA which they spend porting their software and device drivers.

CentOS Stream is probably a poor name, but it fills that huge gap. Now CentOS Stream releases between Fedora and RHEL, and in front of every RHEL minor release, will be available to everyone, and we'll be accepting contributions from everyone too.

Dropping CentOS Linux (the rebuild) is kind of separate from all this. It looks like it's going to continue as a community project as it was before 2014 (https://rockylinux.org/) which may be better in the end because the community will be more aligned to the success of the rebuild.

Disclosure: I work at Red Hat.
> that fines by countries of big corps is just so routine

You get a fine contingent on not following the law, so... just follow the law? Fines need to be big for big corporations if they are to pose a risk worth avoiding.

> Do they go to the users impacted - nope.

As with any fine, it goes to government, which means that same expenditure requires less taxes. So it gets shared among all french population. Which is a good proxy for “users impacted by google cookies in France”.

> Do changes happen as a result - slowly if at all.

So if 2 companies are fined for not complying with a law, the problem is that the law is overly punishing / fining does not work? It would seem the other way, that the fine risk was not big enough!

> who ends up paying for it...the users/people..again.

Which are also the ones that receive the money, through their government.
Sales and Ops Planning (S&OP): best practices repo?
I'm about to join a firm that wants to revamp its Operations processes & is assembling a multi-function team. I've done this type of work before, but it would be nice to know of some best practices before I dive in.

Hardware/software platforms, B2B, SKU count probably in the low thousands range.

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

No they don’t. My point was we don’t actually know what the minoans believed. If it’s not written down it’s doomed.

>> The practices have lived on under a different name

They haven’t. That was the whole point. We don’t really know what practices they followed.

>> from cover to cover

Why does a written work have to be read from cover to cover in order to convey an idea?

If essential use was made of the written work even in part, your assertion that written works are not important is nullified.
You don't have to have a popup if you don't track people. Easy-peasy.
Not a lawyer answer: the latter. Note, though, that a law criminalizing behavior specific to one person or corporation could be considered a bill of attainder, which is prohibited by the same clauses in the constitution.
Marketplace Startups Are Turning Content into Revenue
Just to expand on this. You can have a hard limit.
For AWS, create a role/user that's essentially ~root like access. Make a lambda function that's triggered by a billing alert at your threshold to just turn off things from most expensive to least. So turn of the DB servers. So the apps error out and the users go away.
That's the point GP is making. I think they're responding to some other comments in this thread (and threads like it), not to the article.
Water futures are just a promise to deliver water at a certain price. You can sell the promise for money even if you don't have the water today but you know you will have the water tomorrow. If you sell your water on the day it is extracted then you are vulnerable to daily market swings. Sometimes there will be gluts, sometimes droughts.
Price transparency is the antithesis to the "cloud" and it's current financial success.
rockylinux.org
Billions would die without oil as oil pumps and pipes gives access to water among many other things.
There are hundreds of facebook alternatives websites already and dozens of Instagram and Messenger and WhatsApp. I guess tiktok will literally replace Instagram very soon (not because of this outage, but it will help).
I never understood why that EU regulation wasn't required at the browser level in the first place.
You can always choose BSDs. NetBSD foundation is NGO running since 26 years.
How and when will office workers go back to work after Covid-19?
Look into light field photography tech. It is possible to capture a ”volume of light”, within which bokeh & more can be adjusted after the fact. Issue is the amount of data generated and complexity of tech versus getting a ”good enough for most situations” image via simpler means (regular photo). Regular + depth images (Apple LiDAR etc) with help of AI can create something vaguely similar to actual bokeh, but they’re missing a lot of source data.

In the world of 3D rendering (content created from scratch) very advanced & realistic bokeh effects are possible, as an example see http://lentil.xyz for the Arnold renderer.
Cool! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
The spit tests aren’t all rapid - some are PCR.
Why do you not care about anti-COVID measures or fighting global warming? Those are serious issues that need to be addressed, no?
It's not complicated to add configurable hard limits for these companies but they don't allow it because the current situation is more interesting for them.

They want to suck the maximum money from consumers before they realize.

For one person that will complain wildly and having to do a gesture, there are hundreds other companies that will not notice or just pay without recourse.
Worsening Insecurity: Nigeria's Parliament Cracks over Reps' Summon on Buhari
Main difference is that Do Not Track was an industry incentive, not a legal requirement like the GDPR is. They could have made it legally binding, but they chose not to.
Where I live mobile plans include unlimited SMS.

Also I have a dumbphone and I am the only person my friend send SMS too. That makes me quite a unique person !
I think there's no difference between never saving cookies and blocking all cookies. Most browsers have the option to block all cookies (just checked Safari and it's in the Privacy tab in settings).
Hi BioGeek,

not sure, we never tested the Duckietown stack on a Donkeycar.
You can trigger events from alarms. And Lambda's only last 15 minutes. So still cheaper than 75K :D.
Buy a second hand "enterprise" server and buy some new HDDs. Set the server up at work/home, and physically put the server at a data center near your vicinity. If you already live in USA, hosting elsewhere doesn't get you much. The problem with hosting in USA is for sensitive data for people outside of USA (EU for example).
Yes, once they found the recipe for the vaccine, it should have become public right away unless someone wants to profit from this pandemic.
>Boston Dynamics paved a way with research and prototypes and some company will come along and commoditize it.

BD had already started selling its robots(Spot, Pick) commercially and had even had projected a plan for profitability[1].

Current sale is not really an indicative of its inability to make money but rather desperate situation of Softbank VF after string of poor bets, this must have been hard as Masayoshi Son is a self-acknowledged robophile.

[1]https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/14/boston-dynamics-ceo-profi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_name_suffixes

Hope that helps.
Interesting information. This is much better than the supporting information I had seen earlier (debunked story about HIV genes being spliced in, etc., etc.)

From what I've seen, the Chinese government has a very authoritarian mindset, and assume any hint of pushback is a sign of agitators. They tend to obstruct all investigation, even when they're not trying to hide anything specific. They try and get anything even mildly embarrassing out of the news as quickly as possible by stonewalling. I was in China 2 months before the melamine milk scandal broke, and even after the story broke, they tried to suppress information, even though I'm not aware that there were ever any government connections to the scandal. They just hated the embarrassment.
> Could someone try standing with a sign saying "A reminder from me" in the google offices reception for 2 minutes and then walk out with whatever wasn't bolted down to see if they themselves consider that an adequate way to ask for consent?

That would be hilarious. But I think they know what they are doing (i.e. using dark patterns).

I've seen this banner, knew it was related to the RGPD but haven't figured out how to opt out and to not accept.
My personal home office development environment at the moment, done on an ultra low budget, is a dell precision t5600 mid tower workstation PC (dual xeon, e5-2630) that I got for $350 with 64GB of RAM in it, upgraded it to 128GB, and put a $150 Samsung SATA3 SSD in. It's small and relatively quiet and sits under my desk tucked in a back corner with just a power cable and a few ethernet cables plugged into it.

Maybe some time in the near future I'll add a 2TB HDD that I have sitting around into it so that I can create VMs that have a 'fast' boot/root disk, and also give them some lvm partitions on a big slow disk.

It's running debian stable amd64 and is set up as a xen dom0 hypervisor, with 768MB of RAM assigned to the dom0 and the rest available for VMs.

The amount of capacity that's available there to create random PV or HVM VMs with as much RAM as I could want, is more than sufficient for my personal needs. If I need anything bigger I'll make it a more formal process and put it on a machine at work.
The World’s Energy Problem
AWS's margin is currently 30+% which is massive.

>AWS pricing is not obscure

There is a massive secondary consulting market because of AWS's price obscurities.
Actually being Polish I can say it is correct, at least for the cases mentioned (also correct for suffix -cki). However it is true that there are surnames that do not follow this particular inflection scheme.

Keep in mind that Poles are likely to use a single, male variant of the surname, rather than explain the intricacies of inflection in the Polish language.
Purification tablets are also not that expensive compared to the effects of crippling diseases.
You are right. I agree that it is correct to view ABB as half Swedish.

I was exaggerating a bit, as a counterbalance to the weird statement to which I was replying.

Nevertheless, while ABB is a great company, its importance as a semiconductor manufacturer is minimal. ABB sells electronic equipment, which is made with components made elsewhere, except for some high-power thyristors that are made by themselves.

Thyristors are the easiest to make among semiconductor devices that are still used. The only really difficult part to make are the high-quality silicon wafers from which they are made, but ABB does not make the wafers. Most likely they purchase the wafers from Japan, or maybe from Germany.
The larger services engage in predatory practices.

From the article:

"With deep pockets, the dominant app companies have devised ways to put pressure on restaurant owners to sign contracts with them, including downloading menus without restaurants’ consent and then offering their own delivery. Grubhub registered internet domain names of tens of thousands of independent restaurants. Legislators should curtail such anticompetitive practices."
That explains all the new Telegram contacts :P
There are millions of people who can provide at least as much insight as Pinker can ever manage. Let's listen to them instead of the creep who hangs out with rapist pimps.
Go to billing > cost analysis > filter by resource break down. Azure billing analysis is pretty amazing.
>"The secret to a stable sandcastle primarily lies in

the right proportion

of water to sand. Mathematically, the forces at play are described by the "Kelvin equation," first referenced in 1871."

[...]

"...the water acts as a kind of glue holding the grains of sand together via capillary forces. Studies have shown that the ideal ratio for building a structurally sound sandcastle is

one pail of water for every eight pails of sand..."

[...]

"When they added liquid to dry beads, they observed liquid "capillary bridges" forming between individual beads. Adding more liquid caused the bridges to grow larger, and as that happened, the bead surfaces came into contact with more water, further increasing the binding effect. However, the increased binding effect was canceled out by a corresponding decrease of the capillary forces as the bridge structures grew bigger. The team concluded that even if the moisture content changes, the forces binding the beads together do not change."

[...]

"Mathematically, this kind of capillary condensation—i.e., how water vapor from ambient air will condense spontaneously inside porous materials or between touching surfaces—is typically described by an equation devised by Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) and first referenced in an 1871 paper. It's a macroscopic equation that nonetheless has proven to be remarkably accurate down to the 10-nanometer scale, but the lack of a complete description that can account for even tinier scales has long frustrated physicists."

[...]

"It's similar to how soap bubbles will tend to be spherical because that's the shape that

minimizes the total surface area,

thereby using the least energy,

according to Daniel Bonn, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam who has conducted several experiments with sand over the years. Bonn has become something of an expert on what's involved with building the perfect sandcastle. "Likewise, a small amount of water between two sand grains forms a small liquid bridge that minimizes the surface area between the water and the air..."
I think they have done this as a means to get in the door and sell you a new DAC. It's not clear if they even included the drivers required for boards from other suppliers to function. Which is, of course, fine - they are a company trying to make money.
But if I understand correctly, it seems like the added bonus of Geforce Now is that you can still access that content in the same way as Stadia. The difference is you also get to own the games and have a potential way of playing them on your own computer if the service ever goes down, no?
People trying to explain to you why you are wrong is not the same as people gaslighting you. Your judgment seems to be heavily influenced by how you feel about people partaking in the stock market.

When you're done with the ad hominems, try reading and understanding what people are saying.
At the end of page 2, there is a good ass licking bullshit sentence:

<< It’s also a great company to collaborate with. The tools provided by Google are very developer friendly, have a great documentation (for the most part), and are consistently expanding.>>

He said that as an ex googler and as the beneficiary of a gesture, but this contradict the full history he told us.
If the doc and tools were so great, why he felt into this situation?
Because not all cookies are regulated (such as session cookies). It would be hard for browser to tell what the cookie is for.
Why is Go overtaking Node.js?
Love the concept but please could you show the domain name of the source websites? I use that as a filter for quality and it's time-consuming hovering over the source icon to see the linked URL in the status bar for each recipe.
“Halo a little too pronounced? Click here to see an image adjusted for your device” > Second page/popup/whatever > “I’m viewing on: iPhone, desktop, HDR, etc” > show appropriate image.

Points being: Don’t complicate the view for most visitors, but let the pros know that they are right to ask.
AR with SceneKit and Metal
A prominent practitioner should make an "applied cryptography syllabus" that sketches a coherent learning philosophy. Topics, level of detail, order, references.

Even just annotating the table of contents from "Serious Cryptography", "Cryptography Engineering", etc. would be enormously useful for motivated hobbyists.

Probably hard to monetize, but it would be a great service to the community.
Nevermind, found the answer and shared it here: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/49066/21328
If you push someone until you know they will break by being difficult and stupid to them you lose the ability to point to them and say "well that's unprofessional". Given that this is a company vs a person, odds are better than 90% that they just wanted to be rid of her and pushed her until they could.
i'm not necessarily familiar with all the services (or the specific dependencies) on that list, but a lot of it will be a knock on effect from e.g: fb login not working as expected

People will very often see it as "service x with fb login is broken"
Sometimes, people are burned out. First thing what manager should do, is to check if the underperformer took some time off. Burnout is a huge productivity killer.
Any guesses regarding the hackers? Russia? China? North Korea? Someone else?
Freehold
FREEHOLD
We have to learn how to manage communities in decentralised blockchain platforms. Freehold is a novel way that unlocks unused and manages human potential in a crypto environment.
Reviews I read suggest only a marginal difference in ANC area. My entire argument has been in the previous posts that the XM4 isn't worth the price over the already excellent XM3. That multi-device feature of XM4? Never had to use it. I might've as well purchased a XM3. Ideally at BF (200 EUR is a steal).
For everyone fond and nostalgic of any flash content, the Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations (using Ruffle https://ruffle.rs), games and toys in their software collection.

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...
Original author of CentOS just created "Rocky Linux"
The consensus is that giving women roles other than child rearing reduces the birth rat far more effectively than an outright ban. The other factor would be to pave all the damn dirt roads. Teenagers in Cameroon do dirt road maintenance as their summer job. It's a complete waste of effort but it encourages parents to have children.
> especially if we ever get to a point where some people can 'afford' water while others can't

Does the trading of other kinds of future cause this? For example, the fact that corn or oil can be traded.

> we don't need oil or gold for our immediate survival

gold, maybe not, it's mostly used by financial institutions as collateral, but I think we require petrol a lot.
There are ways to automatically show the right image, but the people who care typically get thrown off when “automagic” replaces choice