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What Is Headless CMS? History, Benefits, and Real World Examples
Hey, Thank you so mucj for your support. We dream of that world.
I wonder which way cause & effect goes.
I think we're having fun with it, not making fun of it. Surprising results are great.
But this wasn’t written to confirm that COVID was underreported, nor predict future results, it was written to estimate the mortality rate of the past year and a half. Your criticism doesn’t seem to hold here.

Also: The author cited the sources for their assumptions, specifically on COVID mortality classification.
If that was an issue, they managed to fix it decades ago. Itanium had separate return address and data stacks, and scientific computing was one of it's few competitive strongsuits.
in some US States, the elected representatives have close and vocal ties to the Pay-Day loan industry
My wife does this all the time. I didn't know there was a name for it!

By now I know to ask her what the actual problem is right up front.
Phil Schiller asked ‘is no one minding the store?’ after a rip-off app hit #1
>It's not known how much time has passed between the end of mankind and the events of Automata.

Doesn't one of the texts you pick up state that the last humans were wiped out some time around the year 3,xxx? (so like 8,000 years prior to the game or thereabouts)
This 'Study' post[0] points out a distinction in how SSD vs HDD are used within Backblaze:

> Keep in mind that the average age of the SSDs Backblaze uses is only 12.7 months old, whereas the average age of its hard drives is 4x older, 49.6 months to be precise. Also, Blackblaze uses SSDs as boot drives alone in its servers, so these SSDs could also have less of a workload compared to the actual hard drives where are constantly being used to backup client data.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075392
Sometimes the XY problem occurs because the fact that X is being worked on is a company trade secret and the reporter tries to turn it into Y, which can be disclosed. This isn't always successful.
It’s not the same use case. When your computer kicks the bucket and you need to transfer your data to a new one you don’t care about documents from 5 years ago. If your backup does not have your state from yesterday you’re screwed.

Time Machine is not a long term backup, it’s a safety net.
Yes, just add 'primitive' before record in the declaration.
Once upon a time I used WAMP as an IPC and routed RPC protocol between a bunch of _desktop_ processes. Like dbus but not awful to use, and naturally cross platform (because it's over TCP).
This is similar to the "faster horse" quote. If you care about helping someone, it's important to understand what they really need.

That said, I enjoy giving literal answers to things. Sometimes it's a fun challenge, others I'm just being a smartass, and occasionally it's a teaching opportunity. A few times I've done this to younger team members, then set myself a reminder to check on them to see if they figured out why that's not the best way.
Interested in the QA position here, but I didn't see it listed on the site. Do you have a link to it?
More importantly, it can only work as far as reducing all carbon emissions to zero in a world in which there are enough carbon removers to offset all the producers, so that every producer can buy enough carbon offsets (which basically means: every emitter of carbon can find someone whom they can pay to remove an equal amount of carbon).
Yeah, you're correct with that observation.
That's some kind of relativist argument I don't understand. Modelling and theory is an important part of science. We have something that is difficult to measure independently, so we build models to derive an explanation from things we can measure. And they did that. And the results line up with the hypothesis.

I mean, duh. Usually hypotheses are right! You're right that it would be more interesting if it showed some kind of confounding effect or whatever.

But it didn't. It turns out that the boring explanation seems like the right one: the anomalously high number of people who died of unexplained reasons in 2020 was just the giant global pandemic. Oh well.
Overfitting?

In my experience, people who have proven fairly to themselves that they're in an odd situation can prove it to others pretty easily. "I'm not doing $Z because..."
Someone who is 20 should be valued more than someone who is 60. Case in point, the deaths of the ~100,000 centenarians are going to be way less impactful than a disaster that wipes out the entire town of San Antonio.
This is all well-trodden ground.

First, if you are concerned about things like confiscation, then you take the recommended security steps such as running your own node. At that point confiscation is indeed difficult (not impossible) and blocking access is essentially impossible. A government would have to prevent you and anyone who could act on your behalf from having any access to the Internet in order to stop the transaction being propagated on the network.

As for savings: I stand by my assertion. In its early years, yes, bitcoin is going to be volatile. But as anyone who has held bitcoin for 3+ years knows, it retains and grows value over the course of years exceptionally well. Savings implies a medium- and longer-term horizon — think years, not months — and on that horizon bitcoin has always been a winner.

I think there are more people in this world who care about the harms of inflation and capital controls than you are giving credit to. I care about preserving my wealth from debasement, as do all of the people I happen to know who hold bitcoin. And I suspect I might have a better feel for the "pulse" of bitcoin users than your 99.9% estimate, which (forgive me) strikes me as being detached from reality.
Used in a couple of packages over the last few of years and it worked pretty well. Pubsub & rpc over web sockets.
It's an interesting case of "here's my idea for a product I didn't launch" ia likely inferior to an idea that passed customer acceptance testing.
If you're the one asking the question for the first time, yes, you should make it clear in your wording that you know about X and you really want Y.

There are two failure modes though:

1) You really want to do Y, not X. You are not asking the question, just searching for the answer, and find that "how do you do Y?" question, and the answer is "do X instead". Because you're a special case, these answers will likely dominate your search results.

2) You decide to ask the question. You make it very clear that you want to do Y, not X. Your question is closed as a duplicate of the one whose answer was "do X".
Reminds me of the classic stack overflow answer to "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags" [1]

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
> Never understood why people deem it has too many features

I'll start with one (key)word: `implicit`

I agree with your distaste for metaprogramming though.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I totally agree- humans are frequently careless and wont to ignore risks which don't slap us in the face

I'm saying there's a paper trail establishing joint American-Chinese gain of function research taking place in Wuhan, and if we're going to judge the lab leak hypothesis plausible, I see no good reason not to ascribe similar motivations to cover it up to the US government as well as to the Chinese
The 8008 instruction set was not designed by Intel IIRC, so the lineage ends at the 8080.

Independently the 6502 also had a downward stack. I think the only modern machine with am upward-growing stack is the HP PA-RISC.
Riboflavin!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpt.12548

The link to the mitochondria is through FAD, a metabolic derivative of Riboflavin, which is used in the electron transport chain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447943/
The romantic lives of Hipsidic Jews
Perennial Apple users are attracted to HN like moths to a flame. The typical cycle involves upvoting random articles with "M1" in the title, and then serial downvoting anyone who asks questions/criticizes the article or Apple. I wish I could say it was anything else, but given that none of them leave comments on these downvoted replies, it's hard to tell what their gripes are.
IMO, Route B is the worst part of the game. It's the most repetitive and boring. Plus I dislike 9S's gameplay (for the reasons the comment you're replying to point out).

The routes after that are better though, and you get to play another character which plays more similar to 2B. So I'd say at the very least tough through Route B. If you can't make it through the routes after that then I won't judge you for dropping the game and watching some Let's Plays or something to get the story instead.

EDIT: I'll add: yeah the gameplay of Automata is subpar by modern standards. It has a lot of rough, annoying edges like PS1-era games had. And the graphics are "meh". But please don't judge Automata by those metrics. I think it's a mistake to judge fans of Automata as if they don't know that. People praise Automata for its story, storytelling, and creativity. And, unfortunately, you can't judge the story until you've seen it all. And yes, that's very unfortunate, because some will come away from the game without the whole picture and have a dim view of the game and thus its fans.
Yes, the name is "Stack Overflow".
Nice! Here is another collection of ideas on improving code blocks https://co-pilot.dev/docs-code-block
It's never been a matter of ads, it's always been about tracking. Ads just happen to be the vector in which tracking is default included, as is well, other tracking scripts around the web and via mobile SDKs.

What Apple's doing here is trying to undercut in a serious way the ability for everyone to be able to do the kind of granular tracking we have today all over the place.

I'm not shocked they're building / expanding an ads division. The real key is this: will their ads be served up with the kind of granular, identifiable tracking we have today? My gut feeling is no, it won't be[0]

[0]: As an aside, I want to note the following:

When I say tracking or speak of it in this context, I do not mean simple metrics, like how many page views did this get compared to Ad B? That is the kind of, well, tracking, that can be done in a way that isn't privacy invasive (and should never be invasive), akin to A/B testing. Technically, error logs are a form of tracking, if we want to be pedantic. Instead, I to point out that I'm talking about granular tracking data that can be used to identify a person or granular set of data that can sort people into unique groups that then make it easy to identify them. The real quandary here of course, is that in some cases Facebook, Amazon, Google and others have enough data to actually be able to say oh hey, this is no_wizard, not some other person. Thats a huge part of this problem, however, its also not always the case that they can harvest enough data to be able to do that. The other, often overlooked issue by many (particularly those that don't follow this sort of thing. Not likely your average HN reader but probably most people you know, is that they also have the heustristic data that confidently sort people into little groups, and they are constantly continuing this narrowing. So instead of saying hey, this is no_wizard they can say, well, looks like someone who identifies as no_wizard believes in these causes, has these purchasing habits, and has seen these ads, along with x people from Y area, lets put them in Z group

I know people get upset (ever so rightly) about being personally tracked, but both issues need to be systemically addressed. Its not about ads, its about what ads became, and through that we now have this kind of detailed tracking all over the place, from mobile SDKs to CLIs to most popular websites.

I would welcome an Apple Ads platform that went against all this and could prove it
> ~5% of deaths had "covid only" while the remaining 95% had other factors with the average having 4 other factors

Well, I don't even know where to find this kind of data, but your hypothesis could be tested by comparing the number of deaths in 2020 against the number of deaths in 2019, broken down by cause of death.
Why would you enable it? What possible benefit is there in doing so?

The ads won't get better regardless of the data they have on you. They aren't exactly using ML or AI to help you get better ads. Its really just boring data queries in SQL or some graph language. That's the sum total of most advertising intelligence. Its not 21st century high tech. Its mostly relational databases with some NoSQL to make that table linking faster and cached. In cases where they do actually bring out that NoSQL it is to reimplement all the relational smarts just with extra steps. Then its at least shiny and cool.

The whole thing is really just about storing and gathering a profile on you as part of them building an asset they can later resell. Creepy technology for creepy uses. An asset full of subtle errors about you that can likely never be seen or fixed. Much later they will invariably then leave all or some of it on a usb stick or some poorly protected cloud server. After that your details will end up in the hands of some scammer or other miscreant to enable them to send you endless emails full of typos, lies, emojis and if you're exceptionally average like the rest of us: an interesting tale about long lost nigerian princes just needing a bank account. If you're lucky.

So, yeah, leave it disabled. There's really no point in doing otherwise.
This happens all the time, and no, not only in super exceptional special cases. Ask how to change the spark plugs on a Lotus. Nobody has a freaking clue, but their neighbor told them Lotus is unreliable, so you get half a dozen yahoos replying "you should buy a Toyota, it's more reliable." Thanks, geniuses, but I already have a reliable car, I also happen to like playing with my Lotus, which I did not purchase because I was tricked into believing it was a great value. I feel I should not need to provide a full inventory of my garage and driving habits to ask a basic question.
I so agree.
That's not my experience. A lot of the time there is a VERY straightforward answer, e.g. "here's this evil metaprogramming thing" or "here's where you access this legacy representation with bitey cornercases" or whatever, which is trivial to provide (but also harmful).
They can throw the F35 drawings in the trash
On the other hand:
"in many European countries there was a spike of excess deaths in weeks 31–35 during a period when COVID-19 reported deaths were extremely low. This period coincided with a heat wave and national reports of deaths due to the heat wave. We excluded these weeks of data from subsequent analyses."

I personally wouldn't have excluded these weeks - unless you're going to exclude historical (near-annual) heatwaves from the figures, this should balance out.

> All you can do is throw up your hands and go back to first principles: without prospective validation, statistical models are fiction.

No estimation is perfect, nor expected to be, and so your criticism is unreasonable. You're doing exactly the things that you are criticising the study for, and more so. You provide zero evidence to counter their sourced evidence, and ignore and dismiss points that don't match what you are trying to say.
Sure, but access to alcohol has the same effect and I’d imagine has the same level of magnitude impact in increased violent crime. There are a million factors, but singling our access to guns - which is way down on the list of factors - sounds less like a genuine interest in solving the problem and more like a gut reaction “solution” that actually solves very little.
When somebody asks me a question, I find it best to answer their question directly (because maybe I don't understand their situation as well as they do), and then give them the information that I think they actually need (because maybe they're asking the wrong question).

What I find very frustrating is when I ask a question, and get an "answer" that doesn't actually answer my question.
Sweden is not drastically worse than Denmark. [1]

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/TedPetrou/status/1390340398699192....
> I think the basic issue is that C++ want to spend a lot of time focusing on C++ The Language, while C developers mostly want to focus on developing the logic of whatever they are doing.

This is just libel, really. There are meta-nerds in C and C++, but there is also a great majority of programmers just interested in delivering good software.
Hey, seriously, check out riboflavin and see my other comment!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpt.12548

The nausea is most likely from high serotonin which cannot be metabolized by MAOA when in riboflavin deficiency.
Apple itself has the ability to reject apps with GateKeeper, without forcing everyone to use the Mac store.
It's mostly because it allows you to put code at a fixed address at the beginning of the memory and the stack at the opposite end. That lets the OS place the stack at a constant address (for MS-DOS COM files the stack pointer starts at 0xFFFE, with a zero already pushed so that a RET instruction exits the program; a similar convention existed in CP/M).
1. Deal with it being not only hotter, but also there being enough CO2 in the air to significantly reduce human intellect

2. Kill 97% of humans (or whatever percentage, as that’s not what the headline actually means)

3. Geo-engineering to deal with the heat, but keeping all the cognitive impact of the CO2

4. Invent something to suck CO2 out of the air so cheaply that it can be cracked into the carbon-rich fuels people want to burn for a lower cost than just digging it out of the ground
Your question, without explanation why you want to do Y, when obvious way is to do X, is then not specific enough to people who have XY problem and are not aware of it.
I've had a follow up for more information about a specific incident, but I haven't been contacted with concrete results of my reports.

I figure, if anything, my reports might influence investigations or prosecutions later down the line, along with evidence and reports gathered by others. I don't really expect anyone to reach out to me unless they want my testimony, and at that point, I'm sure there are better people they could drag into hearings or court.
Maybe there could be a shorthand for the await keyword. Such as instead of

await mycall()

Maybe

mycall()!

Or something. Or perhaps a flag you could set at the top of the script that would transform every call into an await call.
I work for a company that sells images online. I could see a technique like this being used for NSFW images that come up in our search results. It would allow you to have an idea of the image before clicking into the image detail page to see the normal watermarked image.
Line Wobbler: A Beautiful 1D Arduino-Based Dungeon Crawler Game with LED Lights
Show HN: Atuin, improved shell history with multi-machine sync
> If you hold them responsible, whatever that means, they're almost guaranteed to pass on the extra costs to the consumer, leading to reduced demand and less utility distributed to the end recipient.

This is precisely the point. Let's face it, most people will buy what's bad for the environment if the thing is convenient. If the thing is no longer offered, or too expensive, they will pay the premium or buy something else.

We can relearn to live without fresh fruits in winter, or cheap Asian clothing. It will be a step backwards for the comforts of our modern world, but also a step backwards from worldwide disaster.
Probably the repeated insistence on "force" and "forcing" this result. It's not a practical requirement or an enforceable one in the end unless nearly every government (and every government for every country with a significant manufacturing industry) goes in on this together.
Ready access to guns, also ready access to alcohol, ready access to knives, etc these are all part of the equation, but I contend that they are so dwarfed by the other factors that focusing on them seems disingenuous and otherwise random except as a result of knee-jerk politics.

So maybe cities have the same order of magnitude effect in increasing crime as guns do - what would you suggest we do about that? Should we lower violent crime by banning cities and banning guns, or should we focus on the root problems of culture, social cohesion, and poverty?

Also: Switzerland also has a ton of guns and major cities, violent crime rate is near the bottom - is suspect because their culture, social cohesion, and efforts to minimize poverty.
That's an important point, and I think those points should be included more when we communicate about these ideas, because it's very easy to turn people off when we imply that we need
to decommission all classic cars or ban camp fires or end air travel.
They’ve an ads business and have had one for years. App Store ads come to mind. And the iad network as well. I applied to a few ad related roles at Apple in the data engineering space.
To be fair, the words "Apple" and "sheep" are so closely associated in the tech world at this point that it's hard to fault someone for using it. I get what you're saying, but there's a reason nobody is in these comments defending Apple for being conscious engineers or helpful to third-party repair shops.
> No excuse

You're not paying him anything to read his website. He does not owe you a single thing.
It's likely they did this because it shows up as an alert in Steam for everyone who owns Automata, and they'd see that Replicant was about to be released.
>the global shipping industry is one of the bigger contributors

Well, what are they shipping? Goods that supply the consumerist chain at every level. We definitely did buy significantly less given that money velocity has plummeted in 2020, and I would argue this was reflected in the global shipping industry slowdown.

>Based on the current costs of other building materials in North America I doubt we've slowed that down either.

Current costs reflect the reopening boom, not last year's slowdown which witnessed a commodity drawdown!
You cannot address the call stack in WebAssembly, thus there can be no stack-smashing attacks (that overwrite return addresses). For languages that pass pointers into the stack, they must use a "shadow" stack allocated as a separate region and managed with an explicit stack pointer.
Interestingly, per my reading of [1], these attacks are now easily available again in WASM due to misplaced confidence in the security of the language. It's a fantastic paper.

[1] https://www.unibw.de/patch/papers/usenixsecurity20-wasm.pdf
If you're going to get super utilitarian about it, strict years of life lost is not the best measure. As nearly all of human history proved out, very young children, especially infants, are particularly easy to replace. It's losing people in the prime years that really hurts a society, why for instance the US Civil War and the two World Wars were so terrible, where huge regions lost a majority of 20-40 year old men. Although again, if we're being very utilitarian, men are a lot less valuable than women, which is at least one reason we've usually sent men to war. Childbearing doesn't scale nearly as easily as child seeding.
It's funny, you and I arrive at the same conclusion from different paths.

You believe Amazon is so bad at removing fraud because they are greedy and evil and are happy to have it. I believe Amazon is so bad at removing fraud because it's beyond their capabilities, and that nobody knows how to ensure trustworthy information on the internet.

But we arrive at the same spot: I don't really buy from Amazon anymore either for anything where the quality matters, because I can't trust anything on there. I use Chewy for pet stuff, Newegg or Monoprice for electronic stuff, Lee Valley for gardening stuff - etc.

In a way, I'm more pessimistic than you: I think good intentions wouldn't even help.