skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The default GC has ridiculously good throughput with modest latency (10ms for quite large heap sizes), but there are also alternatives like ZGC and Shenandoah that optimize for latency instead, and they promise <10 ms latency, but in practice they are around 3-4 ms. At which point, not running a real time OS, you will get bigger hiccups from the OS scheduler.

Also, for very different use cases like soft real time, there are specific JVMs with real time guarantees.

Here is a great post about it: https://jet-start.sh/blog/2020/06/09/jdk-gc-benchmarks-part1
One other case where imo the 5% should apply: if someone goes to the store and searches for your app by exact name.

Ie if I go to the store and search "Netflix", the store hasn't helped me discover that product.
Sure, are they also subject to a lost profits fallacy, where if they believe an investment is good but don't invest in it, they would be entirely rational? I don't see it.
It's a bit like

> I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

But I can't find the original source.
To be honest with you, if you look at the technology as a whole, I prefer what we had in 2001.
Back then it was completely unusable (as opposed to now, where it's only borderline unusable), but at least it wasn't shoved down your throat by smartphone manufacturers and Google.
Almost all EU has banned AZ because of blood cluttering sideeffects. Happens in perfectly healthy humans.
Guess what, 90% of humans are also tools that a small percentage of other humans use to accomplish their goals.

Few people would argue that the job of “Amazon warehouse worker” is anything other than a tool for Jeff Bezos to become richer and more powerful. The person who has that job, from when they clock in to when they clock out, is functionally equivalent to a horse.

Amazon software engineers are the same, they just make more money today.
Enterprise apps are super complex, frequently a lot more complex than startup apps.

Someone basically comes with 1 thick tome worth of business knowledge plus 1 thick tome worth of legal restrictions and you're supposed to codify all of that, to the letter, in software. Some of the business logic can make you cry.

Software dev: "But that's not clean/elegant".

Business owner: "Reality doesn't care about elegant/clean, it cares that we build stuff our customers want and that won't get us sued, so we have to implement it to the T".
Oh man, Macromedia Fireworks was great. Folks made the most beautifully unique websites with it. I wish the app, and those design sensibilities could have survived. The web and app ecosystem today would be less monotonous and more fun to make.

Macromedia made the web a fun place on so many fronts. I really do miss Flash development (and Flash) too.

In an alternative universe we're all just using Macromedia tools and are being very productive and happy.
That's the thing, being at an influential and part-marketing position at a space company isn't inherently a lifestyle thing. It's a rare opportunity but I could easily see a world where some engineer's car went up instead.
I would even go to a lower level. I use Docker swarm and Docker compose. It is reliable, simple and very effective.
Why does Go need explicit pointers?
Not to mention Reddit literally has dead people some places, also lots of sex talk, so how are they exempt from being removed? People like sex, it's a fact, so why are they trying so hard to enforce stuff like this? Is it really that hard to have some type of age verification for NSFW apps?
Despite that, if you get sick, we will still offer all of you a hospital bed and try our best to help you.
WebUSB in general was crazy to me, then I found out there was a WebHID and serial port API available and suddenly something I was looking at making a kernel driver for could be a web app???
Damn, and this was the best hope due to price and once early lead. Let's hope J&J fills their void (Not all countries can afford $60 shots and have ultra cold fridges)
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> There's the climate crisis, which is the root cause of the migration crisis.

The driver of that is more like unfree markets which always result in mass poverty and misery.
Mixing practices considered harmful even if practices itself are not.

Every practice regimen has a bigger system in work so, mixing and matching can create havoc on your body.

Adding LSD and mushrooms on top of it is just lighting a big fire and calling storm on you.

I'm not against LSD, mushrooms or other practice systems, but never seen any positive outcome from these kinds of experiments.

Please, don't do it.
Honest question -- why does there need to be a "next step?"

It's been over a decade since I've worked at a company with managers. However, it was common for the top programmers to make more money than their managers there.
> Unfortunately, there's a catch. People can say things they don't believe, especially if there is a large amount of money to be made. If I'm holding a large amount of X, and can convince enough other people to buy X that the price rises (hopefully by a lot), I can sell my shares of X for a (large) profit. Pump and dump schemes have been common forever, popularized in the the 2000 movie Boiler Room as well as Wolf of Wall St.

Or most recently Gamestop investors.

> At the end of the day, the point is they're trying to sell their book, which is not the same as trying to sell investment X (although they may be very closely related).

My point it is almost never going to be possible to distinguish between good investment advice and self-serving investment advice. Sure, there is some fungibility there for people with different investment needs, like pension funds vs young income earners. But! we should think about what we would think if the reverse was true. If investors were advocating for investments that they weren't personally invested in, then I would be far more skeptical than if they did.
I seriously don't understand this.

How does J&J vaccine offer 50%+ protection, but AZ does not?

Don't they use the same technology?

Don't they target the same spike protein?
It’s infrastructure for SaaS apps to easily connect to all the different systems used in the enterprise, including Okta, OneLogin, ActiveDirectory, Workday, etc.
How so? There didn't seem to be much celebration of British achievements.
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It’s clotting, not cluttering. And that decision was taken by politicians keen to cover their ass, afraid of idiotic anti-vaxxers.

Here’s what the EU regulator says. The European Medicines Agency is 'firmly convinced' benefits outweigh risks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56411561
Oh, completely.
My Nexus 7 had a 7" screen, while the iPhone 12 Pro Max is 6.7", and the Galaxy S 21 Ultra is 6.8".

My Nexus 7 total size was more like 9" diagonal due to bezel.
A few more questions if you'll indulge me. First, how do you actually install ZFS on Debian? I understand you can install the ZFS package, but that in and of itself won't change the underlying filesystem on disk. Also, doesn't Ext4 also support checksumming? (See https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Metadata_Checksu...).
Understood. This was over 20 years ago. I've been recently picking up meditation practices again and approaching them unadulterated. Focusing on a particular type of buddhist meditation at the moment.
I’d say the little known pricespy. I barely even check product reviews any longer because the popularity ranking will always have the highest score for the best product and the filters are almost always spot on.

Before I’d spend weeks researching things, making my own spreadsheets. Now it’s just a five minute ordeal to find the best gift.
In the case of (2) there is a new bridge which increases productivity in the long term

In the case of (1) there is a no bridge

You've already disproven your "All expenditures stimulate the economy equally" claim with your explanation of (3)
I disagree with that blog post. It may be technically possible to hijack the classloader mechanism to make instantiating classes do dependency injection, but it's not easy or idiomatic, and it's not good for maintainability either; a reader can't tell the difference between a global service and a value object if both are just "new Foo()".

DI, in the sense of separating the instantiation of long-lived service objects from the classes containing business logic that accesses those long-lived service objects, is a great thing for testability and maintainability.

Autowiring mechanisms where you have some kind of global bag of (pseudo-singleton) services by type, and wire service dependencies implicitly by type rather than explicitly, are a legitimate tradeoff that's appropriate for some cases.

Don't conflate Spring with Spring Boot. One is a framework that offers some legitimate value even if it makes some questionable tradeoffs; the other is a fractal of bad design.
This is false.

Some countries have temporary suspended using it well they investigate a very small number of people who got blood clots, which very well might be random chance. Nobody has permenently banned and in all probability the clots are a coincidence (healthy people get blood clots sometimes) and the suspension will likely be reversed once it is fully investigated.
The EMA disagrees, and this is a really foolish move IMO which will directly lead to thousands or tens of thousands more people dying from coronavirus across Europe.
Ok, but how should we treat someone's investment advice if they are advising for investments that they are not personally committed to? I find far more reasons for skepticism there. If you see an opportunity to make money for yourself or your clients, and aren't doing it, then... what are you doing?

We should be skeptical of all investment advice. For a specific fact to make us more skeptical of investment advice, we need to consider the alternative where that was not true. I don't see situations where large investors advising people to put money not where their mouth is gives someone more confidence in their advice.
I would argue that the snippet is the thing of value being potentially abused, not the page.

So if I search for e.g. "specific breakdown of something something, in a unique breakdown format that only this website has", then the website owner has worked on, created unique/copyrighted material, and posted it on a page on their site, and Google just extracts that piece, then they might as well have "acquired" the right to host that piece of info on their search results "page".

Google "extracting" that crucial bit of info and essentially "hosting" it on their search results page could definitely be argued to be some sort of abuse of fair-use (and at this point - who is willing or big enough to take on Google on this to set a precedent? The EU, maybe? ). It's not like they're quoting a piece of a large text, they actively find the specific piece of juicy info that relates to your query and host it on their page instead of yours.
To anyone interested in reading more reports (and more nuanced ones, in my opinion) from experienced meditators, I highly recommend the streamentry subreddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/streamentry).
This is also just catching up with Apple by the way - https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s....

Very similar. While I have had reservations on people marching for third party stores in iOS, maybe it is not a bad idea. But what if Epic, FB and Google just create a new app store with their privacy invasive ways? This bugs me. Sure it is hard but a coalition can make it possible right?

Either way, we need to ask for better terms for sure.
A hundred years after EV's become commonplace, our descendants will learn about ICE in history class.

They will be told that their great great grandparents' generation dug holes thousands of feet deep in the desert and under the sea to extract the liquid fossilised remains of plants that lived on Earth hundreds of megaannums prior. They took these liquid fossils, refined them in factories, transported them all over the surface of the earth, and poured them one gallon at a time into machines that squirted precise amounts of the precious liquid into metal cylinders where the liquid was set alight to explode thousands of times per minute, in precise amounts calculated to release power to a series of mechanical levers, pulleys, and spinning rods which did for 4 wheels what horses had done in the even more distant past.
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If you are interested in hacking, you might want to look into DLT1: https://hackaday.io/project/164845-dlt-one-a-damn-linux-tabl...

It's not completed yet, but it's already looking awesome. Timon (a.k.a. Professor Fartsparkle, or just "professor") even managed to source a beautiful 2560x1600 10" screen.
As someone ignorant, and I mean no disrespect by saying this...

this thread reads like an H.P. Lovecraft or Dan Brown novel. Please keep this thread alive, it's fascinating!
Well this isn't ideal, its not like this means the vaccine is useless.
Different tech. J&j isn’t an mrna vaccine
Audi is a sub-brand of VW Group which owns 12 vehicle brands in total that share engines. I find it strange that an announcement like this would come from a sub-brand and not mention the other wider brands.
Actor who played Nog was 24 when DS9 started. Outside of a few very specific episodes mainly based around with his father or Nog, Jake was as boring as hell
Exactly why I brought up very early cars and my carb’d motorcycle. They go out of common use but dont disappear anymore than carriages or horses have. Fully urbanised and developed countries have them as a collection or passion project and do silly things like bodge or manufacture specialty parts and fuel blends while reading esoteric haynes manuals on carb tuning. Meanwhile they remain commonplace where it makes sense, small portable two strokes, aircraft, developing nations, etc.

The thought that civilization is going complete displace and lose hydrocarbon based engines and logistics in 17 years... Its optimistic I guess?
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+ ZeroTier

+ Homebrew

+ (DIY) Aliases in my shell profile (.bashrc, .zshrc, etc)
Using a car for a 2 mile "commute" sounds very US. That's a 10 minute bike ride tops.
Java apps are pure Java for the most part, they basically contain no native code, unless for some very specific OS API call (in which case portability is a non-goal) — and the JVM will run any class file thrown at it.

Android is special because it has many many special APIs, so I don’t see your point. Just look at the (unfortunately not too numerous) desktop java apps. The exact same jar from n years ago will just run on all three main OSs.
The J&J and AZ vaccines both use a similar viral vector with a modified gene.

They target the same protein but just like with the mRNA vaccine they usually do not encode the entire protein but rather target specific amino acid chains in various regions of interest on the protein itself.

Other differences in the vaccine would be the level and type of immune response generated in general which will be based on the specific viral vector used, dose and regiment, adjuvants etc.

The study which measured the J&J efficacy also used a different methodology to this one.

Overall this is a very limited study and should be taken in context.

Another key part is that the T-cell response for the AZ vaccine group seems to remain intact.

>Although the correlation between antibody response and vaccine efficacy is high, which suggests that the neutralizing antibody response is important, T-cell responses may contribute to protection from Covid-19 even in the presence of lower neutralizing antibody titers.32 In a post hoc analysis reported here, we found that in spike-specific T cells that expanded after vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, the majority of antigens and epitopes remained intact in recognition of the B.1.351 variant.

Until we have data on actual severe cases it seems that the AZ vaccine is still effective at preventing hospitalization and deaths. There were also no tracking of non-symptomatic cases in the study so the actual prevalence of infections in either group is unkown.
You jumped to a conclusion about what was said (the informational issue). Then you very combatively and rudely dismissed that idea.

It reads like you had a bone to pick with the information density argument, and just wanted to get into a flamewar when you saw someone who perhaps disagreed with you.
I expect people weren't downvoting empathy. I think they were down voting a rude attempt at starting an off-topic flame war.
Nor is AZ. The Pfizer is one with the mRNA technology.
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I suspect that there's a relatively large body of folk that read your comment and understood your intended meaning without offence, either agreed or disagreed with it, and adjusted their personal opinion on the subject appropriately without feeling the need to argue with you about it.

Good on you for investing smartly and/or getting lucky. Hopefully you use your good fortune to somehow make the world a better place, and find
personal happiness in the process.

It's seemingly a non-sequitur, but I just remembered reading a short story in primary school English class years ago. It was about a distopian society where attractive, athletic folk had to wear ugly masks and weights to encumber them. Did anyone else read that?
neither is AZ
Overall, I agree with you that Georgist LVT is nonsense, but overall, I think that an LVT would be an efficient way to raise revenue.

> Taxing people so they are forced to sell is forcing them out.

That's still very much overstretching the word "force." If the government taxes a cigarette factory out of existence, are they "forcing" the workers to move if they need to do so to find another job?

> You’ve yet to explain why the people who do live there have less of a claim to the house than the wealthier people who would buy it from them.

I view this as a meaningless philosophical question. There are so many ways that life can be unfair. Being taxed into selling your home at a huge profit is just not a concern I care about.

> Like how landlords pass increased taxes and maintenance onto their tenants?

This is completely untrue. Rent is solely dependent on supply and demand. Demand is elastic, and supply is very inelastic and even more so in highly desirable cities, so it doesn't get very affected by a tax. If property taxes get passed down to tenants, Prop 13 would have passed the tax savings onto renters, which it clearly has not.

> Its not at all clear that property owners benefit disproportionately from social services, and they also pay for those services through taxes.

Financially, a renter would be fine if their home burns down, becomes surrounded by used needles, or has a terrible school district. The homeowner reaps the financial benefit from these services, so they should expect to pay a share.
You can find some info here [1],[2]

Of course this was far technically simpler than "proper" video telephony, as they required dedicated point to point circuits rather than function over a regular phone line. Most of the effort to popularise video-telephony was not the concept itself, but solving the engineering challenges of making it work over the regular phone network and making the devices small and cheap enough. In that respect the booths at the '64 World's Fair would have been impressive demonstrations of progress toward that goal.

[1] https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/nazis-introduc...

[2] https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/before-second-world-war-na...
Again American market. parking your car indoors is weird in the UK. Parking on the street with no ability to plug in overnight is far more common.

"In England in 2018 – the last date for which figures are available – 9 per cent of household vehicles were parked in a garage overnight; 63 per cent were parked on private property (but not garaged); 25 per cent were parked on the street; and 2 per cent were parked in other places."
That's the "next step". In some companies the only way to earn top money is becoming a manager.
> And that decision was taken by politicians keen to cover their ass, afraid of idiotic anti-vaxxers.

It's more of the EU playing "well, we didn't want it anyway" after getting the short end of the stick in AZ vaccine production (the EU has been a net exporter of AZ vaccine, but AZ deliveries are lagging behind significantly compared to UK).
>Capital controls are populist. They shift power away from the wealthy to those at the political levers.

No? Capital controls in western history is hardly populist. When I think of populist economic movements, the Bretton Woods System doesn't come to mind. And it's clear China's capital control serve to keep power in the hands of the autocracy; not the other way around.

If the value of the dollar was spiraling to zero it's the Fed, and their clients, that would have the most to lose.
> You would report the fraud, and you would get your money back.

There's a time limit on this, though, right? So if you're not checking your account every N days, you could still get screwed?
Being hospitalized is not the only threat to you

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210219/a-third-of-covid-su...

This is a novel virus that attacks our lungs and nervous system. We still know very little about long term effects, even if you aren't injury in the short term.

Also, not getting severely ill yourself doesn't mean someone else won't get sick from you. Please be careful.
I clicked this way back link, and it reminded me of what the internet used to be.

It was so much cooler.
Algorithmic bias is not ONLY a data problem, it’s also a model problem [0]. The bias from model developers are coded via learning rates, network hyper parameters and objective functions.

[0] https://twitter.com/sarahookr/status/1361373527861915648?s=2...
On one hand, you are right.

On the other, even Sweden suspended it (Astra-Zeneca is a British-Swedish company). I wish HN would stop pretending everything is fine with this vaccine - it might really be problematic.

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-sweden-va...
30% of children in Germany have mental issues due to the coronavirus-measures and it looks bad in other countries as well:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55863841

This is a typical situation when the cure (coronavirus measures) is worse than the disease.
I'm not saying we don't benefit from it, or complaining about Epic's involvement. I'm just observing that this result came about solely because the interests of a behemoth (in Epic) happened to briefly coincide with ours. It's not like it was the result of a successful grass-roots campaign.

The App/Play Stores are borderline anti-competitive due to the huge imbalance of power. A 30%->15% reduction doesn't change that. So while it's nice, the fundamental problem hasn't been solved.

What do I want? Pretty simple. I don't want to run my business at the whims of two unaccountable monopolies, and I want the option of extricating myself from their ecosystem. Specifically, this means:

- My choice of store/payment processor on both iOS and Google devices

- a clear, impartial and independent review process that determines whether or not an app's removal from the "official" stores was legitimate.

Ideally I'd also like direct installation ("sideloading") to be as simple as desktop software, but that's probably a bit of a reach.