skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the most likely explanation is just age-distribution. The vast majority of our covid-fatalities are older than 70, most are 80 or older. To make things worse, many of them live in retirement homes which turn into death traps once the virus entered. That's all fairly unique to Western societies and is definitely one explanation for vastly different IFRs.
on a similar note, most people only get to experience "future stuff" after it has been relentlessly optimized for cost to the point where it can be economically deployed at scale. a lot of the coolness has been stripped out at that point.

on a couple occasions, I've flown in small GA planes. a bit bumpy for my tastes, but there really is a sense of wonder and awe when you can just ask the pilot to fly anywhere and see what stuff looks like from the sky. I don't get the same feeling on commercial flights; I just experience being stuck in a metal tube with beige plastic trim for a few hours. I'm still amazed by what computers can do, but to most people they are just "the thing I use to browse instagram".
I'll just leave this here...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-...

Take what you will from it, but if the purging of opposition political groups and mass control of media sources (through shadow corporate ownership and willing partners) from 1930s Germany doesn't sound like what is happening in America today, I am not sure what to tell you. I maintain a neutral political mindset, but the failure to reflect on world history to give context to modern day events is a tragedy waiting to happen.
Interesting choice of technology, but you didn't completely convince me to why this is better than just using SQLite or PostgreSQL with a lagging replica. (You could probably start with either one and easily migrate to the other one if needed.)

In particular you've designed a very complicated system: Operationally you need an etcd cluster and a tailetc cluster. Code-wise you now have to maintain your own transaction-aware caching layer on top of etcd (https://github.com/tailscale/tailetc/blob/main/tailetc.go). That's quite a brave task considering how many databases fail at Jepsen. Have you tried running Jepsen tests on tailetc yourself? You also mentioned a secondary index system which I assume is built on top of tailetc again? How does that interact with tailetc?

Considering that high-availability was not a requirement and that the main problem with the previous solution was performance ("writes went from nearly a second (sometimes worse!) to milliseconds") it looks like a simple server with SQLite + some indexes could have gotten you quite far.

We don't really get the full overview from a short blog post like this though so maybe it turns out to be a great solution for you. The code quality itself looks great and it seems that you have thought about all of the hard problems.
I work for VMware, via the Pivotal acquisition.

My purely personal view is that VMware's second act has begun and it'll do well. Pat deserves some of the credit for accepting that Kubernetes would be the future of the business and throwing his weight behind it.

There are aspects of Pat Gelsinger's leadership that I dislike, but they're orthogonal to his management style and foresight. He's been effective.
You say that like it is going to be written once and for all with an instruction manual. America uses a common law system and case precedent over time.

You seem rather concerned with college admissions, where is your concern for the fact that many if not most elite public American high schools would be out of reach for racial minorities even if their child has has perfect grades since Kindergarden. These kids can't simply 'apply' to whichever high school in the country they please.

In Europe it is illegal to label a wine Champagne if the grape is the wrong color or not grown in a particular bespoke part of France. Yet, you are baffled the line for racial equity in America is somewhat gray, absurd.
That’s a terrible product to sell in today’s world
Expenses alone don't tell the whole store. I replied on your original comment.
Telegram Founder in Talks to Raise Debt Amid App’s Explosive Growth
Maybe also part of the success of Rails? Similarly an easy to engineer veneer atop a database.
I thought we adequately addressed all those points in the article? Search for ORM and dockertest.
One technical point that I disagree with is his characterization of exponential spread. He is mentally modeling it like every person is the root of their own tree in a societal forest. While the number of infected nodes in an SIR model on a network does grow exponentially in early stages, at some point the growth slows as many of your contacts have already been infected. This may not happen until some constant fraction of the graph has been infected, however. Of course as we all have heard the equilibrium state is "herd immunity" when the infection dies out or remains contained to small components, but even before this I believe the growth rate slows. I should know more about this considering it is what i wrote my doctoral thesis on, but i've made room for other things.
I disagree but thanks for at least shedding some light on your voting decision.
Can an an O became a C in this example?
I feel it’s really pervasively good marketing, and maybe the performance was better back when the WiFi link was not usually the bottleneck. (Ref: Bufferbloat, hard to verify because Ubiquiti flouts open-source licenses.)
Yea, I believe telegram "secret chats" are E2EE and also have auto-destruct capabilities.
Most risc-v cores to date have been more on the micro-controller side of things (ie without an MMU). The cpu on this board has one so it can run Linux.
"There are lots of smaller tech businesses that could make a good living for a few hundred folks, but are extremely vulnerable to FAANG"

I would disagree strongly with that. FAANG is not interested and actually has trouble competing in sub $100m markets.
One way I look at democracy is that it’s the will of the majority + the rights of the minority.

It gets a little.. speculative.. once that minority in this case is “(future) victims of covid”. Not sure how to fully and clearly articulate the principle behind why we should give up a little impatience now, in a somewhat unpopular way, and how that is compatible with democracy, but I believe it is.
I could see that, my biggest gripe with Erlang has always been around the "softer edges" - easy to grok tooling, easy to read documentation, etc.

And something to work on for sure.
https://github.com/jukefoxer/Signal-Android/tree/feature/wa-...
Yep and also keep in mind that FBI/DOJ capitol breach presser yesterday the FBI dude basically said “it’s hard to tell who is shit posting and who isn’t so it takes some elbow grease” which I take to mean that it’s OK to shit post. Just you know, don’t use computers for anything you want to keep secret.
I think it should be

(of lisp (hole rabbit))
I prefer to look at the history of who founded and continues to run the Signal Foundation... Moxie Marlinspike. Moxie has a long history of improving security in all kinds of tech and fighting for privacy.

The Signal app itself is opensource as well various pieces of the tech stack. You can audit yourself what is being sent and how their protocols work. The protocol itself has won awards due to its security and elegance.

There is a lot of good things to say about Signal and you can easily find it all. They have made some annoying or less than ideal features that are opt-out instead of opt-in but they're not sacrificing privacy for them.
Sunday Bloody Sunday is a well known song, don't forget. It wasn't that long ago that the IRA was putting bombs in trash cans. I think this is far more known in the US than you'd think, especially given it's intra-Christian violence.
Txtai builds an AI-powered index over sections of text
Can you go into more about what these problems are? I've always used databases (about 15 years on Oracle and about 5 years on Postgres) and I'm not sure if I know what problems you are referring to. Maybe I have experienced them, but have thought of them by a different name.

SQL - I'm not sure what the problems are with SQL. But it is like a second language to me so maybe I experienced these problems long ago and have forgotten about them.

ORM - I never use an ORM, so I have no idea what the problems might be.

testing latency - I don't know what this refers to.

dependency - ditto
This is just not true, for Open Banking in the UK. API standards are published and banks must implement them.

There was a get-out, but it was a bad one for the banks - if any bank did not provide a compliant API by a specific date (IIRC sometime last year) then they would have to keep their web sites entirely unaltered in order to support scraping.
Mikie Sherrill said other reps helped group case Capitol before raid
Except most people don't already spend 40h per week reading books or practicing their crafts.

If they spent 47h per week doing it, people would call it unhealthy too. (or dedicated, if they have no sense of healthy temperance at all)
Praise the Lord, to me the the person writing the article seemed to be making fun of himself a little bit. Like a disgruntled but loving grandpa who has his ways, acknowledging how some things elixir does may actually be better, giving a congratulations to his grandchild as the central point.
> In what country, what laws make it illegal?

I'm pretty sure it's not illegal in my country but I dunno about the person I was responding to. I was just pointing out that it's SOP in some industries.
I didn't really play with QoS on it, but it has a dual core 1.8 GHz CPU, so may be it can handle it.

In the worst case, you can just make your own custom router that runs Linux using x86_64 hardware. What's harder to find is a good MIMO WiFi cards for parallel connections. Qualcomm supposedly has some with open drivers (recent Atheros - ath10k, ath11k).
KeePassXC 2.6.3 Released
As someone who really love Elixir, I agree with you and share your sentiment.

I always found Erlang syntax, much different but once you get use to it, very simple.

Docs, on the other hand, truly not the greatest thing :).
Yep. One spring in Colorado the high water in a creek normally about ankle-deep took out a couple of bridges in our suburban neighborhood. They were never rebuilt--a long story.

That is one of the curious things about Colorado--creeks that are about shin deep 11 months of the year, bank full for a few days, and then subside back to shin deep.

But guess what? It isn't just in snow country that people love to build in flood plains. Have a look at Houston.
If you’re chaining more than three or four things together I think you’re definitely doing something wrong but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone do that in Elixir.
An "Industry Working Group" is an elite consortium and rarely acts in the interests of the people. A grassroots organization can focus on Google or anything else it wants to do. If it needs to broaden its umbrella slightly that would be better as its more sustainable.
> and a tailetc cluster

What do you mean by this part? tailetc is a library used by the client of etcd.

Running an etcd cluster is much easier than running an HA PostgreSQL or MySQL config. (I previously made LiveJournal and ran its massively sharded HA MySQL setup)
A privacy first e-signature and PDF merging tool
Wrong math. 61 percent of the US average. Not 61 percent less.
Honestly, it's really hard for me to tell from the documentations if this is something that is self-hosted, is run locally or is a SaaS product. The phrase "open source" shows up nowhere I can see for example.

As best I can tell it's an open source version of comet or wandb that you run locally (or I guess host somewhere). Is that right?
pretty cool, especially top questions, thx
Likely that it supports the Supervisor execution environment from the riscv spec [1]. This means it can run the typical ring 0 and ring 3 for kernelspace and userspace respectively, and importantly the board supports virtual memory.

[1] https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/riscv-privilege...
Freedom of Speech Under Attack (Medium)
I write my opinion about politics, sports, and other news:

https://seangatua.medium.com/parler-tragic-tale-of-freedom-o...

My NAKED thoughts:

https://twitter.com/seangatua
Virtualize Windows 10 for ARM on Macbook M1
Richard Stallman uses the title 'Doctor' with only an honorary doctorate - people seem to think it's fine for some reason.
Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder who can code [Details Inside]
I have spent a few years working in e-commerce and I have a solid idea that I would like to execute. I understand code and technology and do a fair bit of coding which I've taught myself over the years, but I'm by no means an expert. I understand the level of expertise required to build a scalable application and MAINTAIN it in the long run requires someone with good experience and command over full stack development.

I have semi-implemented this idea for a client already (not fully automated though) and I know there is enough demand for it to be able to turn a profit if we do it right. It's not the first of it's kind idea, there are a few competitors already in the field and people are definitely trying. I believe there is room to grow and possibly new markets to create. I would like someone to bounce off ideas with who can also think in terms of whether or not a problem is adequately solvable by code they can write. Hopefully if not, they you're willing to learn/do some research.

There might be a little bit of an investment required once we launch. Some sort of affordable + reliable + robust hosting will need to. And somewhere between 500-2000 USD (I'm not from the US, and the customers can be from anywhere) might need to be spent in a few months on some marketing activities (unless we can find a third co-founder who would be willing to help out). It's not a world changing idea, not yet anyway. I believe if we can create enough of something that takes care of the bread and butter, it would give us the creative freedom to innovate though.

I'm completely fine with splitting up equity using the formula here - http://foundrs.com/, after adjusting for the weight of any upfront capital investments. I can do market research, placement and other business stuff. Email is in my bio. Send me an email with your availability for the next 72 hours (try calendly maybe?) and let me know if you'd like to have a discussion over google meet / zoom.
No need to assume when we can define ;p
It would be difficult to form. Not every customer is even close to equal. The customers who buy the most from Google already have massive leverage. If anything, participating in a union would dilute their demands amongst the mob. The union has no forces keeping it together.
A lot of these things are made more difficult due to lexical substitution as it's metaprogramming primitive.
"the guy" is usually very helpful in the community forum. He has also answered my questions a couple of times in the chat as well even though he has probably heard then 100 times already.

So that was definitely not my experience.

One time when I needed more consulting for a greenfield project, my company paid for one hour with him which was well spent as well.

I don't see how you can be productive and giving support for free with such a small team at the same time.

* I am not affiliated / not a paying customer. Just a happy user of the open source version.
> I'm not sure how read-only API access would benefit scammer

Information leaks are always useful to scammers, extortionists, blackmailers etc. It's one reason we protect financial info.

Like the other poster said, VC money isn't really needed, though the process of getting accredited with the FCA is more than just paying for a license. The Open Banking Implementation Entity (or just Open Banking Ltd, whatever they're calling themselves at the moment) may be able to help you go through the accreditation process if you approach them, they were certainly talking about doing that for people a couple of years back.

And before that you can sign up to their public sandbox service as a "Technical Service Provider" to start developing against the ecosystem, for nothing (I've done this though I've not really used the capability for anything).(You may need a Ltd company for this, can't remember off the top of my head)
Do we have something intrinsic in us that causes us to make those hand prints? What is going on? Why is it the same print all over the world?

And always done the same way I presume. Someone holds some red ochre+water mixture in their mouth and then blows it over their hand against the wall. It’s incredible that people were doing that all over the world for thousands of years!
zerotrust has nothing to do with p2p, zero-trust is about making sure that this user is authorized to access that application at the resource level not using some decades old segmentation/network level policies. Zerotier also claims to be zerotrust but it's technically not. Cloudflare, Citrix, PulseSecure have zerotrust offerings, but many others sadly just claim to be either by ignorance or dishonesty.
This, the existence of Nash equilibria is practically guaranteed according to game theory. And of course switching implies frictional costs, activation energy, and so on in addition to the actual change. If we define “functional, competitive markets” to mean no strange equilibriums then they certainly don’t exist on this planet.
For that specific comment, "us" refers to people who do not like racists or anyone in support of storming our nation's capital. Can't say I like parler either. However, I will defend their right of free speech and expression.

> For example, I don't recall FOSTA/SESTA and its ramifications generating anywhere close to this level of breathless outrage on HN.

You shouldn't rely on memory. It tends to fail everyone. Search engines are better

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22202110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16655494

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23636487
I agree. I think it's a combination of factors-

The people who are currently on a good WFH salary are seeing their savings grow thinking they are doing well for themselves because soon they will buy a house but what they don't realise is that eventually they will have to pay for the 400k people on the pandemic unemployment payment, the 5 billion that was lost this year in tourism, the 10 million we are spending weekly on PCR testing. This all adds up and with only 2.3 million wage earners in Ireland they are going to be stung for a lot of tax to pay for this.

There are people with short term or part time jobs who are happier to be paid 350 per week for staying at home. Why would you want to work a menial job if you didnt need to?

Like Prof. Johan Giesecke from Sweden said, the western countries got themselves into a lockdown without thinking of a plan on how to get out of it and no one wants to be seen as the person who made the decision to kill loads of people.

There's also the vaccine angle which is sure to make those companies lots of money this year.
I'm not sure I necessarily see this as a bad thing. I'm happy to be able to buy the absolute cheapest version of stuff I don't really care about so that I can have room in my budget for high quality examples of the things I do care about. maybe I min-max my life to an unhealthy degree.
Students also sit and daydream in the classroom. In college, you have to physically walk to class and take notes/do exercises. Nobody will help you or make you do it.

I've seen many students who studied hard to get in to college then drop out due to poor work ethic as there's less direction.
The joys of being a reserve currency.
Front page ads in Indian newspapers WhatsApp respects and protects your privacy
Maybe we're using different definitions of "strong case", I'm imagining it in a court of law, a case for going one way is "billions of dollars and market dominance" - that's a strong case. The case for changing direction is "in 30 years, giving your stuff away will be less legal trouble". That's true, but it's not a strong case for changing direction, it's a minor shrug. Strong meaning enough to overturn the competing arguments and push a different decision, not just "isn't wrong".
SQL is fine. We use it for some things. But not writing SQL is easier than writing SQL. Our data is small enough to fit in memory. Having all the data in memory and just accessible is easier than doing SQL + network round trips to get anything.

ORMs: consider yourself lucky. They try to make SQL easy by auto-generating terrible SQL.

Testing latency: we want to run many unit tests very quickly without high start-up cost. Launching MySQL/PostgreSQL docker containers and running tests against Real Databases is slower than we'd like.

Dependencies: Docker and those MySQL or PostgreSQL servers in containers.
Sad for the people involved, but not surprising.

They restricted syncing to 3 devices only. And the only way to remove that was to pay some exorbitant price (I think it was like $20 a month). So I switched to OneDrive. And ended up paying for the extra space (at $7 a month) which also included office.

They really did not think their plan through, even after people complained.
That's because they're not really trees, and the above ground portion of the plant is more accurately a pseudostem. The actual "stuff" is underground as a corm.
If you think giving a drink a tasteless name is bad, the reality is a lot worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/0...

Through the 70’s and 80’s much of the money and many of the guns came directly from the US.

Thatcher, Reagan and to some extent Tom Clancy ended that.
Show HN: A Heart Rate Monitor App Written in Vanilla JavaScript
Do you get decent speeds from Mullvad? Friends were reporting that they moved back to PIA due to worse speeds on Mullvad. That and the lack of a chrome extension (which is occasionally useful) has prevented me from switching away from PIA even if I'm unhappy about being in business with Karpeles and Kape.
Does this give AWS any ability to block/censor or influence access to segments of the internet that they might not politically "approve" of?
It looks like the list "Build your own X" https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
Social Media Ruins Relationships
I can find thousands of the same thing on Twitter from right and left people. When does Twitter get cancelled.
I'm sure you can successfully sell anything from coffee to yoga classes that helps with fertility. Just takes the right pitch and the right mark.
The US government is based on the idea that "citizens" (note: lots of problems with the way they defined them at the time) elect people who make decisions on their behalf. It was designed to have more and less democratic institutions so that there would be block on the popular will.

They believed that the purpose of democracy was to be able to remove the people who ruled you, to ultimately prevent autocracy. They didn't believe every decision should be a plebiscite.
$120 is not cheap, not to me.
You're not a potential customer. They gave up on consumers and focus on companies. Cannot blame them they don't want to lose money on individual users like the competition.
Of course. But it could be a lot simpler, too. For example, USG doesn't have PoE (only the EdgeRouter X does, I think), and the AC itself doesn't have a power adapter. Both things would have made things simpler.

My wish is for a prosumer wireless router that's rock stable. I've burned through numerous routers that all have had weird issues. The closest I've gotten was my Microtik AC Lite, which I loved, but it doesn't have an external antenna, so its range was questionable.