skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't known blood clot side effects from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and J&J. These vaccines are intended to have effects, since that's how your immune system is stimulated to produce a reaction, hence reactive vaccines, but there aren't blood clot stories hitting the headlines.

The blood clot stories hitting the headlines are doing a disservice. If one out of a million of something happens, the human cognitive bias will make it feel like it's likelier than it is.

.. or do Europeans prefer to be locked down for the rest of their lives?

People should ignore the news media and take the vaccine for God's sake, it hasn't killed 40% of the UK, has it ?
I definitely agree with the music survivor bias thing. This is also very noticeable in the “computer generated imagery in movies looks artificial” meme: you just didn’t notice all the extremely effective and convincing CGI.

But I’m curious, what are the examples of great websites “back in the day” that have stood the test of time and would be considered good web development today?
Search for "Facebook Lite", it's their lightweight frontend for lower-bandwidth connections.
Easier to start an ISP and give away free internet than to rewrite Facebook.com to be more performant
I disagree, especially in the context of email attachments or web uploads. It isn't rocket science.

The problems occur when a file, that is said to be of a certain filetype, is erronously treated as something else.
Has it failed? Or is the current state that people prefer “native” apps to this kind of rich interactivity with long lived state? And instead the browser is a place that feels like it’s going to load a somewhat interactive document. The front end work here is often seen as grunt work on top of backend services and not a discipline in its own right.

So instead the awesome front end dev has switched from making something like Slack or VS Code work great in Chrome to building it in something like Electron for native experiences.
> Everyone says music "used to be better" but that's just survival bias.

Not "just" survival bias.

I think it's quite reasonable to take a position that there was more innovation and creativity in pop music in 1950-2000.

As the genre has matured, popular/commercially successful music has depended more and more on fewer and fewer producers.

Indeed, there are fewer commercially successful artists: the US Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 this week contains 3 tracks by Justin Bieber, 2 by the Weeknd, and 2 by Drake. That would have been unheard of.
It's really not helpful to say "Get. Your. Shot." in a threatening way to someone who's on the fence about getting vaccinated. It's a lot better to try to understand them and walk through their decision, and (gently!) question whether why they've taken the advice of a Facebook post over that of their doctor, or how they're comparing the (huge) risks of COVID infection against the (tiny yet highly publicised) risks of getting vaccinated.
Tesla: Carbon Offsetting, but in Reverse
This came up with my remote team recently.

A coworker and myself had the worst internet speeds in the company, but he recently got FTTH.

I went to replicate a bug, by clicking on a button quickly and excessively, and was able to add 5 duplicate entries into the DB.

The frontend dev could not replicate it until I suggested using the Chrome dev tools to simulate a slower connection.

I have Frontier DSL.
Philosophically I prefer the idea of "one tool for the job", and I don't like the idea that systemd has swallowed so many different services (from udev to dhcpd).

But practically? It just works. It is consistent, very well documented, and I have to say that it has saved me a lot of time - writing systemd unit-files is almost a pleasure.

So, while I understand some people have very strong views, I'm kinda OK with systemd having "won".

Maybe in 20 years we'll have something different offered, and people will be hugging their systemd and refusing to move away from it?
Depends if you think babies and moms dying is a morally bad thing or not.

Estimated 30-50% mortality rate for babies and 1% per birth mortality rate for moms (times say 12 kids). Lotta innocent babies gotta die to achieve your goals.

While this may sound tongue in cheek or a gotcha. I do think people underestimate how terrible, hard and brutal it was to live in those cultures as a human. We definitely create our share of travesties as modern humans (factory farms, anthropogenic mass extinction events, global climate change making the world uninhabitable). It remains to be seen if we can use technology to out pace some of these problems we've created, but I'm somewhat hopeful that we can, and find a path forward to live humanely and sustainably.
Why not? The argument is that someone sitting on a $2 million house isn’t “really” rich and shouldn’t have to pay taxes on their house. But they are “really” rich and can easily access that wealth. They’d just prefer not to.
You may not care about the +30% performance for a desktop machine, but for a laptop it means +30% time spending in a café without needing to bring your charger with you, and in a datacenter it means -30% electricity bills. I haven't seen the numbers, but I think desktops are getting less important market for CPU makers.
Sorry, you're right. What I meant to say was "Perl 6 started a bit late". For a while it looked very promising but then it went downhill.
I can’t wait until I forget to charge my brain reader overnight and can’t access my computer.
We're talking about an old farm with slightly above threshold levels of pesticides. At least that's what I could tell by reading the environmental report. It just strains credulity that it could be off-gassing that much.
I use the DDG browser exclusively, on mobile devices. Haven't noticed anything not working as expected. I ditched chrome years ago though, so perhaps there's some shiny internet whizbang I'm not aware of. I care about privacy more than I care about most things though.
From Cassandra to Scylla: 7x queries while dropping 98th by 100x
When I worked at Apple in the 1980s and 1990s, their payscale was not especially impressive. Based on what we can learn from public information, that hasn't changed much.

In fact, maybe it's gotten worse. When I worked for Apple in the 1980s and 1990s I lived in Cupertino and walked to the office every day. The last time they tried recruiting me, the offer was not enough for me to do that (Cupertino has gotten more expensive to live in). Maybe if the offer had been enough to do that, I would have bitten; I liked most of my time at Apple, and I loved living in Cupertino and walking to work. Some people I like and respect are reportedly still there.

I don't think big salaries are the draw at Apple. Some of what recruits candidates is moonbeams and fairy dust, just like in the games and movie and music industries. In the cold light of reason, that stuff shouldn't justify a discount on the payscale, but in the real world it apparently does.
Yes, CEN, an public official standards body recognized by the EU, and whose members are "all member states of the European Union":

CEN is officially recognized as a European standards body by the European Union, European Free Trade Association and the United Kingdom; the other official European standards bodies are the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
Can you embarrass them about this with a tongue in cheek marketing?
Hi, I'm the tech lead of Cloudflare Workers.

This article contains several misunderstandings.

If a Cloudflare customer has configured their origin server to respond only to Cloudflare IPs, then they MUST also verify that the "Host" header on any request actually matches their domain name. If they do not verify the Host header, then anyone can sign up for Cloudflare and simply configure their DNS to point to the victim's origin IP address, and requests will be routed there -- but will have the attacker's domain in the Host header. Workers is not needed for such an attack. This attack has always been possible and is common to basically all CDNs. Fundamentally, the CDN has no way of knowing if the origin server that a user has configured really belongs to them -- the CDN can only tell the origin (via the Host header) what customer it thinks it is serving, and expect the origin not to accept requests that were on behalf of a different customer.

Instead of IP-based authentication, we strongly recommend using mTLS-based authenticated origin pulls (with a zone-specific key pair) or Argo Tunnel, as these methods are much more secure.

As long as the origin server is verifying via one of the above means (IP+host header, AOP, or Argo Tunnel) that the request was processed by Cloudflare on behalf of the customer's zone, then the attack described in the article doesn't accomplish anything. If a Worker makes a request to a hostname that is on Cloudflare, then all of the target host's Cloudflare security settings will apply to that request the same as if the request came from an external client.

Additionally, as mentioned in the article, any requests coming from a Worker will have the CF-Worker header identifying the zone which sent the request. If a customer suspects abusive requests coming from Workers, they should report it to us.

~~The article claims that the X-Forwarded-For header can be forged, but this is not true if the target host is itself a Cloudflare customer.~~

EDIT: What I said about X-Forwarded-For seems to be incorrect. CF-Connecting-IP has always been the header we use to identify the client IP, and it cannot be forged. X-Forwarded-For seems to have more complicated and subtle behavior that I'm not familiar with. I'm investigating.
I would argue that that chance approaches 100% until we reach herd immunity, which will still take quite a while in Europe. Especially if people keep refusing to take the AZ vaccine.

And even if the chance is only 1/4, I would estimate that the numbers would still be higher for covid than for AZ for people in their 30s and above.
I'm perplexing to me, as well. Europeans didn't approve the vaccine but they also have strict lockdowns. Do politicians actively WANT lockdowns? Is that what people want? Aren't people desperate to be free again? They took forever to approve the U.S. vaccines, they also refused to negotiate beforehand, and were sticklers on cost. Now the U.S., Israel and the UK have run laps around the EU in preparedness.

When I was growing up we Europeans saw movies about the USSR, we heard news stories about Soviet citizens needing approvals to travel in their own countries, we saw checkpoints and checking of ID, and we patted ourselves on the back because we're Free. So - what happened?
Asbestos, AB somehow managed to get over their pride and stop fighting to continue mining asbestos. They’re still proud of the history and hard work that their town represents, but nobody there thinks it would be a better world if they were still digging asbestos out of the ground. (Heck, they finally renamed the town, too. It’s “Val-des-Sources” now.)

How the townsfolk there transitioned into that “doing it historically was good and necessary; but continuing to do it today would be dumb and bad” mindset might make for a good case-study. It’d certainly make for a more respectful and in-depth interview to do with them than just talking about the town’s name ;)
I am suggesting - vim + plugins or emacs + libraries that use those tools. All integrated as you say.

Your IDE also uses gdb or similar for debugging, common compilers like llvm for compilation / code indexing, common analyzers.

You will have references, definitions, code search, debug, completion, etc all within the editor (in my case emacs)

It all works great and much faster then out-of-the-box IDEs, works within terminal too... no x11 needed.

That still requires some fiddling initially to get it working but once you have your setup its a matter of just pushing it to docker.

Now... the drawback is the time spent to get it, but what i'm saying is don't be dismissive, try and imagine what's possible with old tools.

New tools are also nice in that they avoid that setup work, you can push these too in the docker container and use them the same way.
One of the suspicions is that AZ uses a non-stabilized form of the Spike protein, whereas Pfizer/Moderna change them a bit to make them stable.
NASA Perseverance rover drops Ingenuity helicopter off on Mars surface
Does that neighborhood also have better schools, police, and fire department? Are you absolutely sure its redlining or are you just assuming that?
HN seems to be pretty split on this issue. I concur with the linked tweet. Using the web beyond very simple pages like HN feels like wading through garbage.

Everything is slow, laggy, loads ridiculous amounts of stuff (I live in a country where traffic is very expensive at the moment, so this becomes more noticeable). Things are also flaky and need reloading whenever they get into broken states. The only way I use the web now is with uMatrix blocking everything, and then whitelisting stuff that pages want to run piecemeal. It's still terrible.

The larger a company is, the less usable its web stuff is also. Google Chat for example is unusable in very active rooms.

I hope that frameworks like Hotwire make server-side rendering "cool" again and that we can get out of this tar pit.
This is given they will remain sealed forever for the rest of the world.
Nothing has "failed" on a technical level. I'm sure if a company hired a bunch of highly experienced devs and said "build us the fastest, most user-friendly site ever, everything else is secondary!" you'd get an amazing site.

You get what you optimize for. User experience is not being optimized for. The ability to prey on users via ads, dark patterns, info harvesting, tracking and even malware is. This in turn happened because people discovered that, mostly, there are only two ways to make significant money online: 1. Be the first to deliver a revolutionary service everyone loves in just the right form for it to catch on. 2. Gather a bunch of users via some shiny object and then exploit the hell out of them.

For obvious reasons, #2 caught on, dominated the web, and will continue to do so until various regulations slow it down.
Older people are both less at risk from this type of clot (at least based on current data), and much more likely to die from COVID. So the risk of them dying from COVID in the time they have to wait to get an alternative vaccine is almost certain higher than the risk of them dying from a clot from the AZ vaccine.
Does the sputnik vaccine actually has a high production?

Trying to find number, but seems like so far there's been 30M doses produced. I think a few european countries are planning to manufacture it for Russia.

In any case doesn't really help, it's not like it's more easily available (and I guess costs are similar to AZ or J&J vaccines)
If this were a game of intrigue, it would provide plausible deniability for anybody who got caught with his contacts. Would have been fun to include that in the article.
I believe Twitter uses React? Although it’s possible that Twitter successfully served you Twitter-Lite while FB may have mistakenly sent the full version.
Wikipedia and Zombo.com haven’t changed much.
OK, let's do some numbers and statistics then.

Norway has 3.414.711 people under 50, of which 13 have died from COVID since the start of the pandemic. Approximately one per month. Source: https://dc-covid.site.ined.fr/en/data/norway/

Thus, if you're under 50 in Norway, your risk of dying from COVID in the next 3 months is approximately 1 in 1 million. This is even lower for younger age groups (e.g. the population under 40 is 2.691.048 and only 3 have died in the whole pandemic).

The estimates on the risk of death from these clots range from 1 in 100.000 to 1 in 1 million.

So tell me again, how is it that obvious from the numbers that, say, a Norwegian 25-year-old woman should get her AZ shot instead of waiting for Pfizer/Moderna/J&J to be plentiful in 3 months?

Note that I'll probably get AZ myself if offered (for several reasons, notably including that COVID also comes with other risks apart from death, and also I'm from a country with more incidence than Norway). But no, it's not an obvious choice. And indeed, that kind of arrogant attitude does cause distrust.

By the way, I would take a 1:10 that you're American because 99% of the arrogant posts lecturing Europeans to take our AZ shots come from there. Of course, it's easy to speak so categorically from a country where you don't even need to make the decision of taking AZ or waiting for a better vaccine. The FDA shields you from that inconvenience by not even bothering to approve it, and your doses will end up being sent to Canada and Mexico. So basically, you don't have to decide to accept or refuse AZ because your institutions have already decided to refuse it (and rightly so, any country would do it if they were swimming in other vaccines... but then let's not pretend that they are all the same).
Come on, these agencies balance things all the time. They have political interest.

All of these actions can be considered crimes against the safety of populations.

Just from this year:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-of...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/08/8724198...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/europe/europe-russia-vaccines...

https://www.bbc.com/news/55800921

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-52088167

They can’t be trusted to just stick to the facts.
There is evidence that the Pfizer vaccine is still effective at least 6 months later https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/01/pfizer...
Discord, Comcast, Kiwi, Numberly...

https://www.scylladb.com/users/

And Kiwi survived the OVHCloud fire with Scylla without a problem

https://www.scylladb.com/2021/03/23/kiwi-com-nonstop-operati...
Because it names and opposes the forever lockdown solution preferred by the HackerNews hivemind.
Making it worse, maybe not, but avoiding making it better, or doing it very carefully to exploit loopholes, absolutely.
>I can only think that modern front end development has failed

Well, one can just as well say "in-memory stores have failed" based on some impossible to meet criteria of their own device...
How long until programmers are forced to ditch antiquated methods of input like hands and keyboards in favor of streaming thoughts directly to your IDE? Can't wait to be forced by market forces to adopt such an interface and then promptly get ads streamed back or get brainhacked
That was the point, wasn't it, real estate investment companies dodging taxes with a bone thrown to Grandma.
Sputnik also has production issues, Russia has only 4M of fully vaccinated population as of today, how they can help other countries?
Btw, if you live in CA you can use https://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/ and https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov to search for any known environment risk in your area.
Parent:
> HN is a place for data

You:
> From personal experience...most...almost always...usually

c’mon, try harder
No, just that they keep their numbers under control until younger people are able to get an alternative vaccine.
> has the advantage of greatly simplifying the probate process

Which is why people do it.

I have seen no evidence that trusts can reduce inheritance taxes. It you have specific examples, I'd appreciate that. I've always been told by wealth management people that trusts are for managing inheritance, not for reducing taxes on it. Maybe I don't have good enough people.

Some of the articles online use a lot of weasel language. For example, consider:
https://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/estate-taxes-trusts-1...

It says:

"... An amount up to the estate tax exemption is placed into a trust ..."

Yeah - so not helpful!

Also says:

"... Shares of a privately held company that are assigned a low value are placed in the trust and allowed to grow, so that appreciation passes to the heirs tax-free..."

Yeah, but appreciation passes tax-free anyway. If your children inherit stocks from you, they get a cost basis step-up to the value of the stocks on the day of your death. The article is written as if this has something to do with the trust, but it doesn't.
I suspect that the idea here is that XFF is supposed to be trusted, because it is supposed to come from Cloudflare.
If you can avoid it, simply don’t give anyone your phone number. Then you can use security keys, hardware keys and recovery codes. Obviously some places require a phone number, but for those that don’t, avoid giving them one.
I mean there are people out there that speak Esperanto fluently. It’s a question of how many. A few people’s (very cool) hobby isn’t the same as a living language.

If you had to guess, what would you say the percentage of American Jews under the age of 45 who are not and never been haredi speak Yiddish fluently?
I am curious what the traffic breakdown for reddit is via the ‘old’ subdomain compared to the ‘www’ subdomain?

Personally I will navigate away from the new site and only use the old domain.
It is the first confirmed interstellar comet and so is the first under the interstellar comet classification, Unfortunate that the headline does not contain that detail however.
LFS seems more a tutorial than a distro, but I echo the enthusiasm and second the recommendation.
Anthrax was spreading through homes and factories: USSR blamed contaminated meat
I personally think these "news reporting" style articles aren't all that helpful in understanding the issues. Context matters a lot. Here's an article I strongly recommend:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/astrazene...

This is not a simple issue. The implications are serious in Europe in the short and medium term, as they're quite far behind in vaccinations compared to the US and UK. Then the implications for global health equity are even more worrisome.
Sunlight can inactivates SARS-CoV-2 virus in 10-20 minutes
Next stop: telepathy.
There wasn't really an aid anyway. The sputnik vaccine doesn't have somehow more factories to produce it than others.

It's not like the choice was between vaccinating with X or waiting, availability is similar (or worse).
Nervous system essential information you need to know
Nah, it works the other direction too. People expecting side effects from a placebo often get them- though you could argue that many side effects are common symptome now being associated with the drug. Still, the placebo effect beats no treatment per https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/5/1/15 or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12535498/
Vulkan is just overkill for 4k, apart from music most 4k's these days is just a 1(sometimes 2) shaders with a TINY OpenGL/d3d loader stub to kick them off (basically compile the shaders, and setup and render a quad over the full screen).

I was playing around with mesh-gen for 4k back in 2010 and you'd eat up most of your budget before even rendering, this is why SDF based raymarching reigns supreme for 4k intros (and are quite popular for larger categories as well).
Most energy usage isn’t residential in nature.

It’s likely our industrial needs will continue to increase even with a smaller population
It is quite measurably not, oddly - https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-th...

Essentially believing you have been given something that will make you healthier, can reduce the stress responses, pain perception and other issues that may be making the problem worse. In some cases it can be enough to allow the immune system to get better traction and objectively get healthier faster than with no medicine.

Pretty weird eh?