skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voting bloc that considers themselves "climate change skeptics" or whatever label they identify with is neither fictional nor small. I simply pointed out that there are going to be several people who throw this "climate emergency" piece out immediately because this magazine has a history of supporting left-leaning causes. It may or may not be a good strategy. That's it.
You started the thread talking about not having a FANG salary. Yet one of your most recent comments talks about your Mac, multiple Homepods, Apple TV, possibly more Apple products. Saying you don’t have FANG salary money then demonizing someone else as privileged because of the price of a random non super pricey stock doesn’t exactly jive with having thousands of dollars of Apple products.

Same with being privileged enough to want Facebook shut down if it was your choice. It’s an incredible privilege to have Facebook be so unimportant to your life that you can have it be shut down and be happy about it without any loss of QoL.

I don’t understand why you have to attack people personally in the first place. No one is a saint on HN any way.
As others have pointed out, measuring latency from an AWS Lambda function to a co-located single node in-memory non-durable key-value database (Redis), or to a co-located single AZ eventually consistent key-value database (DynamoDB), doesn't have anything to do with measuring client-observed latency from the browser to a globally distributed ACID-compliant document database.

A similar process co-located with a Fauna region normally can also perform simple reads in small numbers of milliseconds.

Similarly, a browser client querying a lambda function multiple times from the other side of the world will also be quite slow, even if the lambda "thinks" its queries are fast because its database is right next to it.

It is not completely clear to me what else is going wrong, but the basic premise of the benchmark is invalid, and there are other errors in regard to Fauna. For example, index serializability only affects write throughput; it has nothing to do with read latency. The status page reports write latency, not read latency, etc.

For a more even-handed comparison of Fauna to DynamoDB, see this blog post: https://fauna.com/blog/comparing-fauna-and-dynamodb-pricing-...
> Those bonds are nothing to be understated though... Other people see those differences and talk about making lists.

Yes, exactly! I think you nailed the core of it. The communal drive to pursue curiosity is, for now, stronger than the communal drive to make lists; in comparison, there are many large subreddits where you couldn't expect the same thing.
Dump x86 if MS wants my $$$
You are okay with the state deciding you can only watch 30 mins of TV per day and 30 min of playstation?
You seem to think once we decide what is useful energy use and what is not, only the things you deem not useful will be affected.
> If you leave it up to each individual to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate, and provide them with the tools to block content they consider inappropriate, that's a burden on them, because you're not taking care of it at the community level.

The assumptions behind having individuals decide what's appropriate or not are:

1. The majority of the community would make the same choices

2. Those posting what most feel is inappropriate content would not get any responses because no one would see it

3. Because of the lack of response, those posting inappropriate material would move on elsewhere and no longer post.
Vivaldi has been my daily driver on Linux, Windows and Android for years now. It's just super efficient to work with.

- vertical tabs
- tabs tiling, stacking & 2nd tab-bar
- full page screenshots
- notes
- page actions (including a very useful CSS debugger, focus & hover highlighting, a freaking PAGE MINIMAP)
- sync
- mouse gestures
- all Chrome extensions work
- easily disable any Google services
- ad-block (i'm using it in addition to uBlock origin, uMatrix and Pi-Hole)
- no serious performance issues yet

What I DONT care about is the Email client they are working on. I'd rather see them focus on the browser features.

I don't use Vivaldi for any Google services, except search sometimes, for that I keep a Chromium instance around instead.
Similarly, I wrote "hunter2" [0] to manage my passwords, for places where I'm still forced to use passwords. Although I didn't know of "pass" when I wrote it, it accomplishes the same goals. One difference is that it doesn't rely on PGP keys but just uses bare RSA keys from a smartcard. This is because the vast majority of authentication systems I work with use an X.509 certificate with an RSA key pair, hardly anything uses a password any more (since doing so requires a lot of paperwork).

[0] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hunter2/
This could be great if they had a version that could be installed into the standard stereo slot that many cars have. (Is that still a thing?)
> we require seat belts and safety standards, and speed limits, but don’t demand that cars be unable to exceed the speed limit.

That isn't how cars generally work. Without advanced electronic controls, it's not possible to build a car that can't exceed the speed limit. You can try to limit the acceleration but not the speed. It's basic physics. It's worrying that the author used it as an analogy (metaphor?) but doesn't seem to wonder why cars really don't have speed limits.
Sure we will get natural immunity, the difference between other diseases respiratory or otherwise is its effectiveness in killing people combined with its transmission. It is in the Goldilocks zone for deadliness and transmission , highly deadly diseases like Nipha or Ebola are easier to keep from being an pandemic precisely because they are so deadly. They still require a strong and immediate response to keep it in control and local.

The annual flu shot is not just for you, it is also to prevent you transmitting what is probably harmless to you but deadly to immuno-compromised like the elderly, they don't have ability to get natural immunity. Pneumonia is significant cause of death amongst senior citizens.

If 600,000 people dying U.S alone in the last year, does not convince you to stay masked and safe and follow some simple instructions for few more months until everyone is vaccinated even if you don't believe in them personally, nothing is going to.
That was Signal - he took the Facebook money and made Signal with it.
The tournament organizer chooses the rules.
Lol.. please comment after taking an actual human anatomy class
Then work supports it. However great or poor that they do is up to them.

If I let my phone simply run out of battery...

Well, it is my phone. I can if I want to.

If I don't upgrade for 6 years and nothing accepted supports my version of OS...

Well, it is my phone. I can if I want to.

As soon as you make my phone a part of your business, it is no longer my phone.
Use your world view to your advantage. Optimize for testability and leverage
AWS cost saving pro tip: Save that 10c per minute Fault Injection Simulator charge by running in us-east-1...
In my pass files, I put the password as the first line, optional username as second line, then I format the rest of the file as a YAML doc. So you can decrypt the file, scan for the first "---" and then everything after that is YAML (or multiple YAML docs if you have more "---").

Regardless, cool little set of programs you have!
If you read the code [0], the author is using the phrase "Linux text console" to mean the Unix tty interface (/dev/tty, ANSI escape sequences, TIOCGWINSZ ioctl, etc). So it probably is portable to other Unix-like systems such as *BSD, macOS, Cygwin, etc, without much effort.

[0] https://github.com/dmsc/emu2/blob/master/src/video.c
The DoJ's Advanced SysOps Team strikes again! We upgrade what no one else will!!
South East Asia had something of an advantage: it was already culturally acceptable to wear a mask; acceptable to consider someone else's health over your own appearance.

Of course, I'm not sure how we can build such a culture of acceptance around masks in the West, where masks are seen by some as an attack on personal liberties.
Don’t forget about the sync time if you left it closed for a long time. On my new laptop it's not so horrendous but on my old computer I just gave up using it there.
System76 makes decent laptops that run linux really well. Ive had zero of the notorious firmware issues of trying to linux-on-laptop.

As a software developer, I wouldnt ever use Pop_OS again. Vanilla Ubuntu is way better, and less complex, and has way better support. All I recall from Pop_OS related issues, on System76's behalf, are tumbleweeds.

Oh and Ive had 4 of their laptops, used primarily for software development, since 2016.

For a physical machine, its been a great experience, albeit slightly too expensive (and for that reason Im not buying them anymore).

At a software level, I am forever disinterested in whatever it is theyre offering. Even the marketing language describing this "Cosmic" thing is has hard to parse and understand as my experience with Pop_OS.
It allows you to connect from multiple devices simultaneously and you don’t need to have your mobile charged and connected. That’s second only to actually be able to send messages to me.
Planned obsolescence is not a conspiracy - it's a business decision.
I'm curious if you had followed someone's instructions on this.
If you don't call clone() then a clone doesn't happen...
+1 on HP Omen. Fits most of your demand except for the 4k screen. I have the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H version and it's significantly faster than the beefiest macbook pro you can buy.

Linux runs great on it. It costs ~$1000
As a primarily C++ dev who's been using nodejs on the side for about a couple years now - so forgive me if this is naive - but am I wrong in seeing Deno as a potential Electron replacement with standalone binary builds + webview?

If so, the introduction of interactive permission prompts is pretty cool.

I see a few comments from more experienced web developers that are quite negative about Deno that seem to generally be centred around the fact it offers very little compared to nodejs, and isn't worth the effort to learn.

Does it have potential as a safer, lightweight Electron alternative? Or are there better options than Deno in that regard?
If it was known it could have just been low priority since it's a weird bug that doesn't even apply to the built in competitive mode.
It's six bloot clots, and only ONE death, not six deaths:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ey2oowQWgAApGnK?format=jpg&name=...
Good Luck! At this point I would hope they would get innovative and try different options for their electricity or defense needs. Why are they getting so stuck on enriching uranium ? Why not try something else ?
> I must've heard an out-of-character, anecdotal individual French person scoffing at PB who doesn't speak for everyone, or they were being sarcastically-ironic. I also recall a French acquaintance in Mountain View laughing at PB. I like food from every country, there's always something good. Maybe like there are always different kinds of people anywhere, there are those with narrow minds and cool ones who will try almost everything.

FWIW, I love peanut butter and banana sandwiches, but it is not an habit I took in France. Also, as I mentioned elsewhere, I love some African dishes that use peanut butter. It’s just not traditional in French cuisine and a bit of an unusual taste.

> If it weren't for cheese, I would be vegan. So like I'm half French, maybe I'm half vegan. Which half is a guess. ;-)

You might just be vegetarian then.
Someone said that “every man has two countries - his own and France”, so you are probably half-French ;)
(Although often misattributed to Jefferson, it was actually from a more obscure playwright, Henri de Bornier).

In all seriousness, humans tend to like cheese in general.
Some issues with your comment chain:

- these are vaccines, they aren’t gene therapy (ie they aren’t changing cellular DNA)

- saying a portion of the population has herd immunity is non-sensical. Either there’s herd immunity (virus can’t spread bc everyone has antibodies) or there isn’t. It happens at specific thresholds of population exposure/antibody presence that varies based on the R of the virus. It was estimated at ~70% for the ‘original’ virus and with the UK/SA variants now looks to be north of 80%.

- even with exposure, there are case reports of reinfect ion which makes sense in the history of coronaviruses which aren’t considered to provide long term immunity (ie antibody titre falls off and may not provide immunity in some short term horizon, ie 18 months)

- therefore, return to normal relies on elimination of community spread, by herd immunity, which likely will require vaccination; which will hopefully provide longer term immunity than infection with the virus itself (not sure on the evidence on this)

I agree that population that has low statistical risk shouldn’t be pressured into vaccination, and I see the dangers in vaccine passports etc.

To another point you made, regarding long term risks and generally the history of misguided attempts by the medical community to do something that has severe deleterious longer term effects that were unforeseen: I am signicantly less concerned about the risk of ie long term stroke risk being raised in this population, because the emerging evidence points to a HITTs-like antibody mediated condition.

In Heparin induced thrombocytopaenia and thrombosis, removal of trigger removes long term risk and I would think that no further antibody triggering thrombosis should be produced after the acute period in those affected (and indeed in that very large fragment of the population who don’t develop CVTS or vaccine mediated thrombosis, which does seem confined to those who had vaccine via adenovirus vectors), then it should be a non-issue because the autoantibody was never produced in the first place and there are no memory cells there ready to pump it out again at antigen presentation.

Of course, I qualify this with its possible, and you’re free to dismiss my confidence, but we have a plausible mechanism that is relatively well understood so I think the risk of there being long term risks is very low
So they're the same if you overlook the tiny detail of where the antigen is manufactured, either via a totally novel method in the body via instructions encoded in mRNA versus synthetically in a lab somewhere.

Yeah totally exactly the same 9.9
> However, behind this simple and intuitive API there is still a massively complex and mostly unintuitive system

And that's a good thing! You can't expect such a complex use case to be resolved by something simple.

Having such an easy, consistent and coherent API to abstract away all that complexity is truly a godsend.

K8S on single node cluster, or hundreds of nodes, it just work the same. Moving from one company to another, you don't have to relearn everything. What works on your local kind cluster will most likely work on GKE.

What other system do that? And would that system be "simple"?
If you add “fuck” to your keyboard dictionary that will ducking stop.
Why don’t you use Gnome Classic out of curiosity?
Not mentioned below, but ebikes are very expensive at least in the US. $1000 gets you cheap chinese junk from Amazon, you will have to shell out more for something name brand. Even the name brand celebrated ebikes on reddit use pretty junky bike hardware, so you are spending $1500 for $150 of bike and $1350 of electric components that are usually proprietary to these tiny ebike companies that appeared suddenly 5 years ago (and might dissapear just as suddenly). They are also so heavy, some of the ones on amazon are 60 pounds which is to heavy for some.

On the other hand, anyone can hold a scooter with one hand. They go about the same range somehow as most ebikes I see on the market that are below $2000 (~20 mile range), and cost generally around $400 or less if you go on craigslist.
They actually do have sandboxing which would help. I'm not sure of the full extent though. See:

- https://snapcraft.io/docs/security-sandboxing

- https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html

However, in my (limited) experience, apps that actually do a lot of things have most of the sandbox features disabled anyway (network, disk access, etc.).

Note that AppImage is similar, but contains no sandboxing.

I've taken to running steam and other untrusted software under a separate user account. It's probably not ideal, and it's annoying to switch accounts to use certain software. But at least it may help limit the damage if the software is hacked as everything is contained within the throwaway account.

I'm sure one can do a lot better with selinux/apparmor/firejail, but it would probably take a lot of work to get it set up properly.
Why is VR and stationary bikes not a big thing right now? Those two things seem like a perfect match.
(Pretty much) previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26374788
> a) every site you visit loads some Google/Facebook/whatever JavaScript to track you. That are not all sites.

Right, but it is, to a first approximation, all of the sites that are going to be showing you personalized ads.

> Another bad thing about this system is that is integrated inside the browser, meaning that for a closed source browser like Chrome only Google knows how it works and what exactly it does. While classical tracker scripts that uses third party cookies are implemented in JavaScript, minified and obfuscated, but still you can in theory read the source code and understand what they do.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. The setting and reading of a cookie by a client, yes, will be written in JS. That doesn't mean that you can know what its doing (there are likely cookies on your system that contain encrypted payloads that you can't read). The system that "actually" reads those cookies is hidden behind an API, so you don't have access to even the binary code.

From that perspective, FloC is no worse, and is usually better, as the payload itself is generated and managed on your machine.

Tangentially, FloC is similar to but probably more privacy preserving than the way Brave Browser does advertising today, and that was heralded by many on HN as a huge privacy improvement.
But they clearly should, because people find scams in they all the time.
Side effects can be a problem.
Source was the worst thing to ever happen to North American CS.
Isn't that now owned by Zoom?
This was gold at a time where using fixed point long calculations made sense. Today you'd probably just calculate with doubles and division and be done with it.
No pictures of what an actual French Taco looks like in the entire article. There is a drawing at the top, is that what it actually looks like?

Can't believe there are no pics
To play Signal's advocate, MobileCoin is one of the only cryptocurrencies that meets their requirements. The only other cryptocurrency that I know of that might come close is Grin.

The details of the distribution are lacking but as a beta it meets the experience they're going for - it's not as if they'd choose something that doesn't meet their requirements for the beta.
# pipe an arbitrary file into pass
cat ~/Desktop/test-image.png | pass insert -m test-image

# get the arbitrary file out of pass
pass show test-image > /tmp/test-image.png
Here's what the warrant says

> The presumptively U.S.-based Microsoft Exchange Servers, corresponding to the
approximately [redacted] web shells in Attachment A appear to be located in five or more judicial districts, according to publicly available Whois records and IP address geolocation
This comment has been shown every time a thread related to WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal is posted..
> How would e.g. a company like CloudFlare run Deno instead of v8 for it's serverless infrastructure?

Raptor is an example project which does that: https://github.com/littledivy/raptor

deno_runtime crate provides high level abstractions which you can use to execute code for deno. It is used in the cli. You would still need to bring in your own transpiling layer for typescript support.

As for getting started, you can go through the manual: https://deno.land/manual
I have that issue, I managed to make it a lot better by disabling almost every touchpad gesture on my mac.
>Of course, I'm not sure how we can build such a culture of acceptance around masks in the West, where masks are seen by some as an attack on personal liberties.

Don't worry, natural selection will take care of them in due course.
They haven't done it for the many years that people have been pointing this out; I see no reason for them to start doing it now.
Clubhouse gives invites to current members fairly liberally. Checked your comment history. You can email me if you want one (somewhere in my profile bio) I think I have to invite you with a phone number of yours though.
I don't find there to be much replay value. I played it once, speedran it a few times, and then played it with the developer commentary. I am looking forward to their next VR game and hopefully they don't shove smooth locomotion it last second like they did with Alyx.
WhatsApp never had a real business model. Its peak revenue, disclosed by Facebook at the time of acquisition, was ~$1.5 million/year, and this was when they had 500 million active users. It was always running on VC cash.
Nope, it's still flamebait.
Climate change not an emergency or existential threat, eh? Are you completely unaware of the opioid epidemic, retreat of people into their phones/virtual worlds/video games, people having fewer friends, decline of community interaction, decline of home-ownership, more single people, fewer people having children, increasing rates of depression and suicide,

Maybe you don't see the millions of people struggling to pay rent, afford food, and the million or so living on the street, under bridges, or in their cars, which didn't happen in the past with the frequency it does now. Also, economic inequality is worse than ever.

Dog in a house on fire This is fine. Please get out there outside of your own filter-bubble and try not to knee-jerk dismiss what you don't understand.

Edit: why was this flagged? I want to know what's wrong with it. The parent appeared to patronize the ever-harsher conditions of the lower-rungs of society.
The complexity is in what is a service, pod, job, etc. not in the CRUD model. It's like describing driving a car as "the accelerator, brake, and clutch are all pedals; you press them to activate their functionality; pretty intuitive"
Interesting. I’ll check it out. Too bad it can’t be a daily or regular thing. A bit late for east coast.
If I don’t ask this well, please be kind. Are you saying there is evidence hotlines back people off of dangerous levels of intent, or that there is evidence they play some role in dismantling the means—convincing to remove weapons and pills, for example, so that the strong suicidal desire is less likely to lead to action? Either way it’s good news.
Interesting precedent. Will they bill Microsoft? If not, I'm curious if this could mark the start of externalizing security and cleanup responsibilities to the federal government.
And many of us switched to Signal due to bad-faith money-grubbing behavior of a certain other company. There was an illusion of free, safe, "by the people for the people" and by implication, commercial interest and profit wasn't the driving force.
Sigh. The question was about why it should or shouldn't be surprising that a vaccine generates a stronger immune response than a real infection. And tetanus was cited as an example. And it was dismissed as being unrelated. And that was WRONG, because the immune mechanism is basically the same and the only difference is where the antigen comes from.

To wit: tetanus and covid vaccines both generate stronger immune responses than the virus they are designed to fight, and for very similar reasons. Do you actually disagree with that statement?
Not only put it together, but make it really good too! Idk how they work but it doesn’t make sense to me.