skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that got me annoyed was the bold claim that it‘s the fastest terminal emulator even though many people reported that other terminal emulators were faster. For instance, urxvt was 3 to 5 times faster last time I checked (in addition to also being rock solid).
The notes about SPARC hardware performance are not accurate; there were significant performance improvements to SPARC in progress before the Oracle acquisition and some after. Oracle made significant investments for a time after the acquisition. I don't know at what point that direction changed, but it must have been somewhere between 2014-2017.

For anyone that got to use a T3, T4+, etc. performance was obviously and substantially improved.

You're also ignoring significant innovations such as ADI.

Regardless, it doesn't matter anymore.
Notably, however, a competitor need not target the same level of profitability.

Now, whether asking users to pay for a social network at all is a viable business model, is another question.
It's just a stylistic tradition in academic papers, similar to the royal "we". It's just a shorthand for "an author, or a group of authors, or the whole team/organization behind the research presented in this paper". You may think it's weird, but all traditions are weird when you think about it too much.

Also, your second "we" isn't even that, I think that's just good old-fashioned generic pronoun (because English normally doesn't allow a sentence without a subject). Basically the same as in sentences like:

> In Elbonia you are not allowed to drive after dark.
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I was just thinking that Facebook would seem to fit into the sort-of-standard pricing of $5/mo, or $50/yr. If they'd opt you out of ALL advertising for this, that would be something worth considering. They could charge this, and actually make MORE from paying customers. But I'm pretty sure that they would pull the cable stunt, and eventually let ads creep into paying accounts.

I deleted my account when the COVID nonsense started. They'd have to pay ME to get back on, and watch morons bloviate about anything involving math or science. I have plenty of my own moronic bloviating, thanks.
A government could easily mandate block lists. All legitimate businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies would be required to not consider "blocked" coins as valid. I can even realistically envision broad support for such a change, when some "character" who is sufficiently evil becomes known (via non-stop media targeting I suspect) to be empowered by a certain cryptocurrency.

I suppose there are some blockchains where it is not possible to follow balances between transactions. I'm not sure what would happen with those.
I don't know if this is the real reason, but it's more natural for stack-relative addressing to have the stack grow downwards, because you can write e.g. [rsp+10] instead of [rsp-10].

Apparently on PA-RISC (hppa) the stack grows the other way, so it is arbitrary.
Is there a more recent common crawl data set? 2019 is a long time away.

Reason I ask is I'm trying to get all subdomain a of a certain domain. So I want a reverse host of unique hostnames under a certain domain.
How would one even figure out which countries, on average, would be more likely to have cultures like that? It's not like one can just Google "countries with machismo culture" and get meaningful results with studies that attempt to quantify it.
Maybe I'm not that smart : ).

I'm very familiar with how advertising currently works, but the field is also one that seems to evolve quickly (no doubt why: lots of money to be made).

Am I smarter than all the engineers and startups and existing firms whose revenues depend on tracking? Most likely not.

The other more mundane reason is just I'm lazy and tired. I just want a phone that works without wondering about patching the OS or whatever. Maybe you enjoy doing that, I don't.
It looks like Florida is two shades "better" than California in the diagram, which would put the total Florida death rate as better than California. That would be interesting because Florida did almost no lockdown.

How could that be?
Medicare pays out 20% more to the hospital if a patient is Covid-19 positive. So there's actually a strong financial incentive to report every possible Covid-19 case in the US.
I also think there’s an element of balancing investments and returns. If Amazon is missing out (or “losing”) $50 million per year from eroded trust, then they should invest $49.9 million in fighting the fraud regaining that trust. But they need not invest more.
A new idea is a beautiful and fragile thing. Attack people, not ideas.

Explains those attacking pg instead of his ideas. I guess.

Reasonable domain experts sometimes keep proposing the same idea, because it would be so cool. e.g. onlive, gaikai, stadia. Investors overlook the latency problem (BTW starlink might solve this) because of its compelling business advantages. Aka wishful thinking.

Analogous to Chesterton's fence (reforms should not be made until reasons for the current system are understood), paradigm-breakers could say upfront what new insight makes their idea plausible. This also makes for compelling and exciting marketing.

I really like the section on paradigms, particularly how they "vacuum up the trail of crumbs that led to them".

On the one hand, becoming proficient in the current paradigm makes it harder to see other ways (in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few), not least of all because of its cognitive load. On the other hand, without that proficiency, you can't stand on the shoulders of giants.
It was #3 in 2020 even though widespread testing only started in March. Seriously frightening stuff. Imagine if we went from zero heart disease or zero cancer deaths to present numbers in the span of one year...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm
The species of bats allegedly involved are not near Wuhan.

Bats — aside from the few blood-drinking bats which aren't implicated, and aren't they New-World species anyway — don't tend to interact much with other mammals or with birds. Without human intervention, there's not much opportunity for them to infect humans or any other animals. Carnivores (raptors, felines, to a lesser extent maybe even canines) do eat bats, but not commonly, and they're unlikely to spread disease further due to their lack of social behavior.

Neither bats nor pangolins are factory farmed (it seems some people have tried with pangolins, given their delicacy status, but they're not easy enough to raise in captivity to make it worthwhile). Bush meat and wet markets create other disease risks, but not the concentrated disease reservoir effect you're pointing out as a problem in factory farming, i.e. typically swine or fowl. There are many reasons to reduce factory farming (meat consumption per capita); disease risk is just one of them. Diseases in factory farms can be monitored, particularly these days with cheap DNA/RNA sequencing. Diseases from wild animals sold in wet markets... no surveillance... greater risk.

Given the bats are the most likely original source, and given that Wuhan lab scientists travelled and collected bat virus samples from where those species of bats actually live, the obvious most likely theory is that there was an accidental leak of a natural or derived virus from the WIV (or at least from WIV scientists on return from one of their trips if you cling to the theory that SARS-CoV-2 is of entirely natural origin).
Honeywell reported their violation to the government. It is in the governments best interest to not overly punish them as it could lead to companies being incentivized to hide violations instead of reporting them as soon as they become aware of them. Although I do think $13 million is a bit low even when accounting for this.
Global rich must cut their carbon footprint 97% to stave off climate change
I use safari when I want to check FaceBook on my iPhone. You have to request the desktop version to access messages, but it works well enough. It's much better than trying to using web version of Reddit at least.
I'm sure it could be in theory but it doesn't seem to be in practice.

I think the logistics would just be harder -- it's relatively simply to put a leaflet in the product advertising "leave a 5-star review, then e-mail us and get this bonus product/warranty/whatever."

Whereas to locate a specific review to mark "Helpful" would need to be via e-mail with a link to a specific review in question, coordinated across several of them, with so much volume that it outweighs the naturally "helpful" ones. I don't know, but I've never seen it happen.
>Something to consider if you see anyone trying to downplay this.

Most of the downplaying I've seen has revolved around the idea that those who died would have, "died anyway" from some other ailment or that hospitals are finding any reason they can to attribute deaths to covid.

So, while you have a great argument, I doubt you'll change any minds because those who disagree flat out reject your premise.
It can be done in theory, but the JVM does nothing of the sort right now.
The organization that published these numbers apparently a. Doesn't know how to use certbot and b. Is primarily funded by organizations who are anything but impartial on the subject
The apps cannot track if they have no permission to access the respective APIs that give them data they are tracking. What are they going to send via the network? Only things that the users specifically give to the app.
> a new breed of full-text search engine

The following is a stupid question, so bare with me.

I have been using search engines for about... 26 years. I have attempted to make really crappy databases and search engines. I have worked for companies that use search products for internal services and customer products. I'm not a search engineer but I have a decent understanding of them and their issues, I think. And I get why people want full-text search. But is it actually a good idea? Should anyone really be using full text search?

I actually work on search products right now. We use Solr as the general full text index. We have separate indexes and algorithms to make context and semantic inferences, and prioritize results based on those, falling back to full text if we don't get anything. The full text sucks. The corpus of relationships of related concepts is what makes the whole thing useful.

Are we (all) only using full-text because some users are demanding that it be there? Or shouldn't we all stop this charade of thinking that full-text search of billions of items of data will ever be useful to a human being? Even when I show my coworkers that I can get something done 10x faster with a curated index of content, they still want a search engine that they know doesn't give them the results they want.

Is full-text search the junk food of information retrieval?
I’ve seen this sort of reverse clue signified as ‘clue for gegs’ before.
The article mentions it was for specific parts that are commercially available. The headline makes it sound like a whole plane's schematics were leaked.
good idea to make it public, companies often use fear to illegally collect money, but they themselves are afraid of public opinion and the possible shit storm that might follow. Injustices must always be exposed publicly, it is the only weapon we have left against the corporations.
are your competitors using java?
When i remember correctly he came up with the robotaxi pitch when tesla went through a difficult phase. Autopilot feature was going well enough. This came handy to position Tesla as „far ahead“ in terms of technology. Now that every other OEM jumped on the hypetrain it does seem to no longer matter if those bold claims ever become reality or not.
>1. Market makers who buy IOUs at a discount and swap them for _their_ IOU which can be more trusted.

Doesn't this go against decentralization? Why would anyone want rojeee IOUs when they can instead trade US federal government IOUs (aka. US dollars)? What's the advantage in managing IOUs from a bunch of different entities and having to pay market makers every time you transact?

>These parties could be fully automated (think like Ethereum DAO) and transparent

This is a bit handwavy. How does the system know how much rojeee IOUs are worth? Your ability to repay is based off a multitude of factors that can't be captured on the blockchain.

>2. Insurance or a credit derivatives market so people can hedge against counterparts defaults.

>4. Securitisation markets. Package up IOUs into tranches. Traders can speculate on various levels of credit quality.

All of this is going to increase complexity exponentially, and for what benefit?
Yes, my livelihood depends on customers discovering products and services and then paying money for those things.
We used PERFORM to implement calls. Whether or not implemented with a stack, it acts the same as any call/return. So to implement a simple loop to count records in a file:

PERFORM COUNT-ROWS
VARYING COUNT FROM 1 BY 1
UNTIL EOF.

And the callee did:

READ INPUT-FILE
AT END MOVE 1 TO EOF-FLAG.
Data has a way of being used in ways other than the one for which it was ostensibly originally collected. Especially once you let data scientists get in there and start having fun with it. (Source: I should know, I am one.) Or maybe you've got a unscrupulous employee who uses their access to the data to dox people. (Source: I used to work at a company where that happened.) And since, in a country like the USA, they are not subject to any particularly effective data protection laws, they're also really easy to sell to just whoever, or maybe liquidate at a bankruptcy auction, or whatever. The buyer may or may not intend to use it for better or worse purposes than the original collector. There's no real way of knowing.

There's also the security question. Data breaches are real and happen all the time. I think that the crackers' perspective on this subject may be, if I may misappropriate the famous IRA statement, "remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

In short, the mere existence of these pools of data is a threat, not only to people's privacy, but to their personal security. Even when you can't demonstrate that a specific harm has occurred yet. It's like hazardous waste: given enough time, it will leak out and cause damage.
Newspapers used to make 80% of their revenue from advertising

I'm not disputing this, but adding a bit of information.

I worked for two very large newspaper companies during the time when the web started becoming big. It basically broke down this way at those companies:

Subscription and newsstand revenue paid for printing and distribution.

Display advertising paid for the journalists.

Classified ads paid for everything else.

My observation was that it wasn't people getting their news for free that killed newspapers. It was Craigslist. Classifieds were the near-zero-overhead cash cow of the newspapers we owned. Once classified advertising imploded, the money had to come out of the other buckets.

However, a paying customer is worth a lot more to an advertiser than a free customer so newspapers kept charging.

A lot of newspapers experimented with free editions, usually aimed at commuters. These papers were used to boost official circulation figures, since they were "editions" of the main paper. The same way a bulldog edition is counted along with the paper that lands on someone's front porch in the morning.

For whatever reason, most of the free editions went away, even before people stopped commuting.
Seems like EventPipe is the C# equivalent? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/eve...
ActivityPub is more than lightly used, it just isn't used by people you want to associate with. You pretty much have to either accept radical leftism and hang out with tankies or you get to hang out with the actual Nazis that are blocked by the "mainstream" leftist servers

Yes yes, there's radicalization for everyone! God forbid you want to use social media for something besides political fighting though
Perhaps look here (at the 7:52 mark): https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/matrix_pinecones/
Florida aggressively locked down visitor access to nursing homes pretty early on, which is where the vast majority of deaths happen.

Wearing masks on beaches and in restaurants etc may slightly impact the case count but really doesn't impact mortality in the same way that an outbreak in a care home does.
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To add to this, looking strictly at deaths, neglects the long term affects and people with severe but none-fatal cases. Not to mention the capacity issues associated with Covid.

"cAsE fAtAliTy rAtE iS oNlY 1%" is a horrible metric to base any policy off of.
I still don't understand why Zuckerberg is scared like this. Did they do some user studies to gauge the repercussions from this? May be they did and so are scared for a reason. IMO, a vast majority of the users don't care about privacy and that they are tracked. Users wants free much more than privacy. Once they are addicted to FB and Instagram they cannot quit. I am sure there will be an initial lull in activity but am sure it will go back to the regular volume almost immediately.
This isn't a "study", it's a statistical model. It reflects the assumptions put into it. To wit:

> Our analysis follows four key steps. First, for all locations where weekly or monthly all-cause mortality has been reported since the start of the pandemic, we estimate how much mortality increased compared to the expected death rate....Second, based on a range of studies and consideration of other evidence, we estimate the fraction of excess mortality that is from total COVID-19 deaths as opposed to the five other drivers that influence excess mortality. Third, we build a statistical model that predicts the weekly ratio of total COVID-19 deaths to reported COVID-19 deaths based on covariates and spatial effects. Fourth, we use this statistical relationship to predict the ratio of total to reported COVID-19 deaths in places without data on total COVID-19 deaths and then multiply the reported COVID-19 deaths by this ratio to generate estimates of total COVID-19 deaths for all locations.

And, what, you may ask, are the biases of the models' authors with regards to the percentage of excess mortality due to Covid itself? Excellent question:

> Deaths that are directly due to COVID-19 are likely underreported in many locations, particularly in settings where COVID-19 testing is in short supply. Most excess mortality is likely misclassified COVID-19 deaths.

> Given that there is insufficient evidence to estimate these contributions to excess mortality, for now we assume that total COVID-19 deaths equal excess mortality. For the reasons presented in this section, we believe that this is likely an underestimate.

As someone who has now spent the better part of his life creating statistical models, when you assume something is true, your model is likely to confirm your assumptions.

This is why statistical models are worthless without prospective validation. If you haven't shown that your assumptions are correct for the future, you're just making castles in the sky.
Third, we build a statistical model that predicts the weekly ratio of total COVID-19 deaths to reported COVID-19 deaths based on covariates and spatial effects.

Given how disastrously wrong most modeling/forecasting(1) has been during this pandemic color me a little bit skeptical that their model is somehow better. Models give wide latitude to fiddle with parameters.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447267/
Death certificates can record both a primary cause and contributing factors. It's often a judgment call on what to consider as the cause and how far back in the chain of causality to go. There's no statistical manipulation there, just a lack of consistent standards.
At it’s simplest, the protocol for social media is RSS with feeds for each of your contacts.

And I guess this is sort of how fediverse is working.

Protocols don’t make much money compared to walled gardens selling max data possible.
Blocking ads and serving up new ads are entirely different procedures. It would be entirely technically possible for brave to show brave ads in addition to the existing ads on a page. It is also possible for users to turn off ads entirely (including the brave ads). You can't just lump these two separate steps together, they are independent, and the only part of it that might directly harm the original site/page creators is blocking the original ads. Serving up new ads is no different than what the site creators themselves are already doing for their own work.
> How is any of that true for lions and not true for humans? I eat to survive as well – if I did not eat, I would die. I have also evolved to eat meat, as lions have.

The difference is that humans can process plant materials into what is needed whereas lions cannot. The humans/lions analogy breaks down because most of us do not live in the Serengeti fighting for survival.

The ethical dilemma is: are you eating to live or living to eat?

In the past we needed to eat animals to survive, so there was a purpose for animal farming. Now that we don't need animal sourced proteins we are consuming mainly for ignorance or human pleasure.

As we improve the technology and the fidelity of plant based and/or synthetic products improve it will be more clear that we don't need to keep killing animals to satisfy our taste buds.
Heart disease and cancer aren't even singular diseases.

Hell, even the Flu is a combination of diseases: TypeA, TypeC, etc. etc. Even Flu-TypeA is a combination of different diseases: H3N2 (Bird Flu) and H1N1 (Swine Flu) are both Flu-TypeA.

For a singular disease + minor mutations (COVID19 vs B.1.1.7 vs P.1 extremely similar and covered by the same vaccine) to cause such a death count is pretty remarkable.
You can keep the type-ahead functionality while also implementing proper full search like every other OS available does. It doesn't need to be a one or the other type deal.

File Explorer in the last 4 major Windows releases has a search box in the top right of the window, while also supporting a type-ahead search as well. There's no reason why GNOME can't also do that.

I don't think you'll ever be able to improve the speed of a full search to a point that it'll match the performance of a type-ahead style search.
More generally, there is no universally agreed way to record all the factors that contributed to a death at the time of death or certification.

This is why excess deaths is the real metric by which the toll of this pandemic will be measured, at least in countries with reliable records about whether deaths happened at all.
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In fact, Apple and Google won't accept apps that use both exposure notification and location APIs.