skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair question. In a sense, the evidence for vaccines is upfront, while the evidence for lockdowns required the careful accumulation of data. I would cite for instance the paper by Ioannidis and co-authors [0].

"In summary, we fail to find strong evidence supporting a role for more restrictive NPIs in the control of COVID in early 2020. We do not question the role of all public health interventions, or of coordinated communications about the epidemic, but we fail to find an additional benefit of stay-at-home orders and business closures.

The data cannot fully exclude the possibility of some benefits. However, even if they exist, these benefits may not match the numerous harms of these aggressive measures. More targeted public health interventions that more effectively reduce transmissions may be important for future epidemic control without the harms of highly restrictive measures."

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484
I am building a single socket server right now, I can't really justify more than twice the price of a 7443P for a marginally higher base clock and twice the cache. Does the cache makes that much of a difference? I thought these are already very large caches vs lots of Intel CPUs.
How to Turn Meaninglessness into Determination
You’re assuming the low pricing is profitable and in this case it probably is not (and it’s not that low). Stripe’s play here is to upsell premium services.
It probably depends where you are located. There are some less developed countries countries that jumped the gun on hard lockdowns without any sort of care infrastructure I which people have died due to inability to get food or care for births.

For a source https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

I don’t attempt to extend that to more developed countries however. And I can’t say they things wouldn’t be worse if they hadn’t locked down, but according to a family I know in Uganda, they were locked down before they had even one case. I haven’t done the research on whether that is true or not so take it or leave it.
The device angle can be used for fingerprinting. I suspect that resetting the “ privacy.resistFingerprinting” preference to “false” will fix the device angle website.
There are a variety of tricks to solve the over/under-fetching problems of REST. My default approach is JSON:API, which defines standard query parameters for clients to ask the server to return just a subset of fields or to return complete copies of referenced resources.

https://jsonapi.org/
Correct link:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-a-longdis...
i dont think i moved a target because i found the analogy disingenuous. You can also write your tweets in notepad, but what twitter provides is the distribution, not the storage of 140 bytes.

> a voice of violence and hatred against a minority group?

Then it becomes a subject or what is allowed by the legal system, which is a situation vastly superior than being at the whim of a few high ranking employees with no transparency.

> They used a 3rd party platform to do that.

That's like saying dostoyevsky didnt write his novels, he used someone's pen to write them. Sorry i find that absolutely weak
The point is to get free of resource modelling paradigm, the meaning of various http methods, and potential caching. And also not have the silly overhead of JSON-RPC.
Agreed.

I use a little python script that creates a curl command to upload to S3 for cases where I don't have the AWS toolchain on a remote box.

Not as easy as a single command, but at least I'm less likely to be sending files off to some random site for everyone to see.
I feel like this is rather shallow, and, by focusing so heavily on just the transport protocol, misses a lot of more important details.

For starters, REST and "JSON over HTTP/1.1" are not necessarily synonyms. This description conflates them, when really there are three distinct ways to use JSON over HTTP/1.1: Actual REST (including HATEOAS), the "openAPI style" (still resource-oriented, but without HATEOAS), and JSON-RPC. For most users, the relative merits of these three considerations are going to be a much bigger deal than the question of whether or not to use JSON as the serialization format.

Similarly, for gRPC, you have a few questions: Do you want to do a resource-oriented API that can easily be reverse proxied into a JSON-over-HTTP1.1 API? If so then you gain the ability to access it from Web clients, but may have to limit your use of some of gRPC's most distinctive features. How much do you want to lean toward resource-orientation compared to RPC? gRPC has good support for mixing and matching the two, and making an intentional decision about how you do or do not want to mix them is again probably a much bigger deal in the long run than the simple fact of using protocol buffers over HTTP/2.

GraphQL gives clients a lot of flexibility, and that's great, but it also puts a lot of responsibility on the server. With GraphQL, clients get a lot of latitude to construct queries however they want, and the people constructing them won't have any knowledge about which kinds of querying patterns the server is prepared to handle efficiently. So there's a certain art to making sure you don't accidentally DOS attack yourself. Guarding against this with the other two API styles can be a bit more straightforward, because you can simply not create endpoints that translate into inefficient queries.
I heard that Salman Rushdie came up with the "Naughty but nice." slogan for cream cakes.
> I was always very unimpressed with VR until I borrowed a headset to play Half Life Alyx.

The word "borrowed" stands out for me: I also tried a cutting edge VR headset loaned from a co-worker but did not then rush out and buy one. Because the experience felt like more of a "novelty", not a day-to-day thing that I would switch over to.
WhatsApp group chats are end to end encrypted too. You must be thinking of... Telegram, where only secret 1:1 chats are end to end encrypted
On Windows, the default theme now follows the OS setting. So if you turn on "Dark mode" for apps, Firefox will automatically go dark.
The Mysterious Math of Perfection
Thank you temp-dude for this viewpoint.
I did not think about it in this way before. Weighing the possible deaths of barring one of the vaccines against the possible deaths of a rise in mistrust towards vaccines seems like an impossible task.

However, the findings of blood clotting alone would not have sufficed for this argument as they really should be no cause for concern at this point in time. The knee-jerk response of other countries on the other hand makes this reasoning much more valid. Something something self-fulfilling prophecy
From the BBC's health correspondent: "The data supplied by AstraZeneca shows there have been 37 reports of blood clots among the 17m people across Europe who have been given the vaccine" ... "The 37 reports are below the level you would expect. What is more, there is no strong biological explanation why the vaccine would cause a blood clot."
I wonder how much classic survival bias plays a role in this.

Since most startups fail and the failure is usually due to lack of cashflow, startups that has the founder as a software engineer can have more bootstrap resources.

Which potentially increases the chance of these companies to cross the chasm.
> "The reply was... “It does not matter who holds it. Unchecked power always corrupts.”"

I would love it if that was indeed your reply. If your reply were indeed simply "It does not matter who holds it. Unchecked power always corrupts." I would upvote the hell out of that. It's true and eternally true. Well, almost, because when I am World Dictator for Life I will rule only with profound, infinite beneficence and enlightenment.

I'd like to refer you to this tweet: https://twitter.com/lofimandala/status/1371310164821774337

In response to someone pointing out that Dubai is built on slave labor, this person felt the need to say:

"And European cities weren’t? Don’t get me wrong, slave labor is abhorrent but it’s telling it only gets invoked when certain countries participate while the entirety of places like the United States were built upon imperialism, slavery, and genocide."

I am certain, if confronted, this person would point out the *"...Slave labor is abhorrent..." part of the reply, but it is nevertheless difficult for me to understand how the observation as a whole helps current slaves, of which there may be 40 million in the world. "Slave labor is abhorrent, but..." is a sentence that will not end at a good place.

Reeling from the disturbing sight of modern people defending or whatabouting modern slavery, I rebound into this thread. Just, please, you must criticize evil and corruption that exists now, in the present.
Cricut decides to charge for people to fully use the machines they already own
Banning mining = good. Waste of resources.

Banning trading = bad. The motivation being loss of control.
As I understood it, there will be official ads in channels. Channels already do ads, but Telegram will step in to be an intermediary and take a cut. So from the end user perspective, nothing will change at all.
> He obviously wrote a lot of Facebook's early code.

Have you seen Facebook's early code? It's very much "Early 2000s PHP spaghetti written by undergrad on a caffeine bender at 3 am". Facebook succeeded because of catching lightning in a bottle at the right place/time, and sure, later engineers built it to scale, but let's not kid ourselves that it was due to Zuck's coding genius.
How to Illustrate a 9,000-Year-Old Female Hunter?
I've been exploring ff ui architecture lately and what I've found is the css inside is kind of inconsistent and messy. I believe this change could be beneficial if that means they'll have a chance at refactoring it. Also, now that I think about it they could be also saving some resources on testing all the variations.
Since this tend to be a place of discussion and argumentation, maybe you want to expand your argument a bit, specifically with "why" you understand banning A but not banning B.

I guess you're for banning mining because of the energy usage? If so, wouldn't banning both mining + usage make the energy usage even less, so you should be for both of them?
I personally didn't say it was around the corner. What I'm asking is that is it dangerous to allow Tesla to do supervised training? For this FSD doesn't have to drive as good or better than a human driver. They just have to be safe in combination with the supervising human. We should look at miles driven and accidents/deaths happened per mile while someone was supervising a training Tesla. We also allow people to learn with a supervisor on the side.

If they are as safe or safer than your average human in a similar situation why disallow it? It will help us to get to FSD faster, whether it is in 2 years, 15 or 30 years, doesn't matter.

We don't know when it happens, but we can try our best to make the progress faster if it's safe and sustainable.
a cooling unit provides a delta between surface area temparature and the ambient temparature. Epyc chips are significantly larger and more spread out with the chiplets so the heat density of these chips are relatively similar. So the cooler doesn't have to provide a larger temparature delta and ony has to be slightly larger if at all.

Overall heat density on chips has increased due to litography changes so the chiplet architecture in a way is only a stopgap.
Agreed, Gates was a brilliant coder for any other faults. He'd probably need to catch up on tech, but could easily then get a very senior engineering job at Microsoft or anywhere else, if he managed to escape the ageism trap.

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, partly coded a CRUD PHP app before moving on to executive stuff. He would probably not pass a Facebook interview without several years of intense preparation.

Brin and Page fall in between those two. They at least have several years of academic coding and their early Google work.

Yes, they're all very smart, but that's not enough to get into most FANG software engineering jobs.
Seems like a fair comparison to me.
Was there any discussion about that experiment at the time?

Again, mostly curious as to the reasoning, as this kind of thing would tend to go against fostering a community, which is what the idea behind HN seems to be.
Microsoft Exchange Server 0-day attack: Malware found on 2300 machines in the UK
> Why bother using FF at this point?

Lots of reasons: familiarity, it works for your use cases, preventing a Chrome hegemony (though we're already there), their focus on privacy, important add-ons still work great. The fact FF isn't owned by an ad-run business who's main concern is figuring out a more effective way to make you buy stuff.

> Most sites don't work as well

Citation definitely needed. This is worded without precision, you could claim "work as well" to mean nearly anything. Do you have specifics, with data? Performance? Functionality? Features? DRM? What is it? I haven't encountered any broken web sites with desktop Firefox. But, I also don't look at all the internet, so I'm curious - what's broken?

What alternatives are there? Chrome is a no-go, Brave is off doing it's URL redirect and bitcoin weirdness (that I don't need in a browser) Edge is just Chrome. There's some de-googled Chrome options and I guess some weird special-build Firefox options, but really, out of all the options I see, FF is best for me.

I'm not changing because they removed one tiny feature used by a very vocal minority, and it's a mistake to assume that FF has no value or no "sell".
Checkout Crystal lang one (Ruby but fast), https://github.com/benhoyt/countwords/pull/21/files seems to keep readability intact and committer is saying it outperforms Go which is interesting.
Data virtualisation for enabling the data driven org
V8 Deep Dives - Understanding Array Internals
Wild assumption without knowing the details: you need a non-product-person on your team. If you are all implementers (PMs, developers, designers etc.) then you might not be focusing on the right things - you might be too focused on building. You might need someone who can get out there and start talking to people, without talking about solutions.
Why is this causing BTC to go down?

I would have thought that the ban would cause its price to skyrocket due to its coveted illegality (and maybe also people hyping it up to spite the government).
The future is now: on many systems there's fairly little GPU acceleration going on when runing eg a web browser and things work fine.
There will be no ads in the sense you're suggesting.
> which is currently fairly hard to discover, and we assume gets low engagement.

>We want to make sure that we design defaults that suit most users and we'll be retiring the compact mode for this reason.

>The word from Product Management is still that we should remove this, for the reasons listed in the User Story.

After tens of polite comments with reasoning in support of feature the FF dev throws up hands as Product says it has to go.

What happened to Mozilla?
From the article:

Compared to the status of 11.03.2021, additional cases (as of Monday, 15.03.2021) have now been reported in Germany. In the analysis of the new data status, the experts of the Paul Ehrlich Institute now see a striking accumulation of a special form of very rare cerebral vein thrombosis (sinus vein thrombosis) in conjunction with a deficiency of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia) and bleeding in temporal proximity to vaccinations with the COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca.

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As far as I understand it, the EU member states are not generally short on doses, more on distribution and other regulatory issues. If they pause AZ, they can use something else which is already being manufactured right now, and likely within the EU, quelle surprise.

I would not be surprised if this is simply a political and economic snub from the EU, one of very many the UK can expect over the coming decades.

The UK has spent the last half decade ENDLESSLY trying to score points against the EU on any and every topic. This sort of wrangling is part and parcel for the relationship the UK has chosen. Basically, if the current UK Government has gone anywhere NEAR this topic, don't expect the truth to linger. This certainly includes the chest-beating around the AZ vaccine, which the government were actually going to require be shipped with a fscking Union Flag on every vial.

Edit: My understanding was based around stories like this suggesting some delays, that AZ were "striving" to deliver, and more dosed being ordered after AZ testing not covering over 65s (at the time), some hesitancy, and general mud slinging. When I say "generally short" I guess I should say that I doubt even the chest-beating Brits will be fully two-dose vaccinated to 80-90% before Autumn. It's been a year and a month or two is second order optimization in my view.

If you are concerned about shortages, there are some other continents to consider first.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/24/astrazeneca-ex...

https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2021/02/18/EU-add...
> mostly around election denial, Q etc.

I m not american and i don't care at all about those

> nobody is completely deplatformed

I m pretty sure there are quite a few who have been chased out of the internet completely , without being illegal

> What if nobody uses the publicly funded alternative, because it's crap?

So what, public TV usually doesnt get high rankings but is still valuable. It's still better than having no platform at all

> don't believe you can say they acquired them all themselves

They should at least have a real way to get a copy of their audience, through some well defined protocol. The friend identifiers they get should be actually usable, enough so that they could find their audience in another platform.

Mastodon is actually a good platform to use for a public platform,
and i look forward to seeing publicly-funded servers.
Is it even worth the man hours to get rid of this?
"This is why we can't have nice things..." sigh
Maybe the quality of submission is not what's being judged, but whether or not the discussion itself is valuable. I for one prefer to read discussions in a positive tone...
In general I find tech to be a very welcoming industry, especially compared to every other industry. I think there's a human issue that is happening, namely, if you come in with a negative and accusatory energy people will be turned off by that, get very defensive, and mirror your energy back at you. That's not a tech thing, but a human thing. And yes, many people do feel beaten down with constant accusations of ill will. This is why the principle of goodwill and charity (i.e. assuming the best intentions of people) is so important for all sides.
> highest appreciating asset class in the history of mankind.

This kind of value proposition is exactly why crypto ads aren't permitted on many ad platforms. There are too many fly by night operators selling snake oil to the desperate and the greedy. Why would an advertiser assume liability for that?
Sad, and a deal-breaker for me. Have disabled updates and notifications via a JSON file, pending the possibility of a turn-around or other solution. When will the white-space mania end?
1. How are you blocking someone from uploading millions of files programmatically?

2. How do you know someone is from small audience of good-faith?

3. What if a file has virus and corrupt all the files on your end?

If you don't need auth, there are few measures you can take on your end:

1. TTL - Make these files temporary - They will be erased after x hours. Eg. x=1

2. Throttle - Limit number of uploads from a given IP/machine or control by uploads per sec

3. May be adding a malware scanner?
I think Spotify makes their ads purposely annoying to use it as funnel for paid plans. I have the feeling the ads got worse over time so stopped using the app.

I normally don't mind listening to the news and commercial breaks on the good old radio.
Because mining on the grid could impact the prices and create what is basically artificial demand for local energy production. Usage doesn't require domestic energy production.

Also not all cryptos are even mined. So energy usage is pretty negligible in that case.
>The fact that we're not having the genuine discussion around improving the efficiency, cleanliness, and resiliency of our infrastructure lays the true capabilities of my country and the intentions of those in power bare: we are a declining power managed by corrupt and power mad psychopaths.

While I agree that we are managed by corrupt and power mad psychopaths, I'm not sure infrastructure spending (or lack thereof) should lay at their feet.

It is a symptom of our elections that infrastructure and other non-sexy spending takes a backseat to large, mega projects designed to funnel federal and state dollars to localities. Politicians do not set the rules, voters set the rules. And the rule is that stability and planning are less important than flash and PR.

And it's sad, and I'm convinced that this shortsightedness will cause people I know to die from something that could've been prevented (not coronavirus, like cancer or starvation or war).
>If I give a medication, or get a scan, or whatever, and the patient has an adverse reaction, it's the medication/scan's fault.

What about the Hippocratic oath? First do no harm.
Yes, I understood and agree with your point. I'm adding that it's a distraction from a far more serious discussion and revealing in itself of deeper issues.
Cruise acquires driverless vehicle startup Voyage
> I guess as a customer I don’t really care why they suck, I just know that they do. I also don’t care about small business if they provide bad service.

I guess it depends on what you mean by bad service. If by "Bad service" you mean don't return calls when your service is down, then I agree. If you are referring to bandwidth or latency, you are likely getting the best they can afford to give you for the price. It's the price you pay for living in the sticks. (I suffered with crap small ISP "high speed" internet for years so I sympathize).

I'm not suggesting anyone should stick with an inferior product to bolster small business. Their run at being internet providers is coming to an end.
> Thats why everyone should be free to chose to get vaccinated.

Isn't that the case? At least in my country, there is no obligation to take the vaccine, and even incentives (e.g. being able to attend public events sooner) are seen very critically.
> How can you express your opinion then?

As you quoted they are well aware of the feedback, given that it makes little sense to spam the bug tracker anymore (at this point in time) as this wouldn't add any value for anyone. It wouldn't make them aware of the feed back (they already are) nor does it add anything constructive.

Or in other words, your opinion is already fully expressed through other people. (If you planed to only comment "me too" or similar.)
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> What are you basing your claim about lockdown causing death on?

It's pretty obvious there's a profound psychological, developmental (children), and economic toll of lockdowns.

For anyone that's below 60 or so, it's very clear they've got net negative effects on their life from draconian across the board measures that go on this long.

edit: wow immediately flagged? Is it verboten to mention the simple fact of economic trade-offs in any decision we make?

I'm not even saying that lockdowns are bad, I'm saying that they have profound consequences that can't be brushed away or ignored.

The fact that so many are reticent to even admit that is why I think it's so important to mention it.
Never a dill moment: Exploiting machine learning pickle files