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I don't get why you're being downvoted. Every time Unicode support or rich text formatting comes up on HN someone wants to show off how "smart" they are.
> * Badges on Issue tracking on the issues created by backers

This can be a slippery slope. It could easily be mis-interpreted as "Hey, I payed $3 last month so I want you to prioritize my bugs". Generally I think for these kind of sums it should be clear that you donate and pay as a thank-you for what's already there, not for what (in your opinion) should come. Using it to highlight issues would work against that IMHO.
Increasing the level of parallelism in DataFusion 4.0
Seems like a very well working system, with lots of redundancy designed in because of the criticality. Would be interesting to compare between countries. How many dispatch two ambulances, for example
And if the interviews on infosec podcasts are any indication, insurance also means complacency on a management level because "we have insurance", and the insurers don't require you to actually make your security better.

So being cyber-insured:

- likely to have money to pay the ransom

- probably not really implementing strong security policies

- management more important than reality, so engineering buy-in unlikely which also means backups and redundancies unlikely to be effective at the target

This makes you wonder who ends up paying for all of this (with time, energy, money, mental health).
if for some reason x86-64 will become incompatible with novel highly advantageous architectural decisions of competitors, AMD and Intel will ditch it, and make cpus with different/new architectures
Not rendered ineffective per se, but it's part of why you need a flu shot every year. There are a lot of strains and they mutate a lot, so we do a best guess of which current strains will be the most infectious in a given year and develop vaccines targeting those strains.

Generally the vaccines are moderately effective, but it's because we update them every year. If we didn't, they wouldn't be.

That being said there are efforts underway to make vaccines that would be more broadly effective against the flu and will be less susceptible to variants escaping ("universal flu vaccines"), and so this may not always be true in the future.

In the meantime, mRNA vaccines will likely be a huge aid for fighting the flu, because they can be manufactured rapidly for specific strains. Currently there's a six-month or longer lead time for inactivated- or attenuated-virus vaccines — which is what flu shots generally are — and sometimes new variants pop up or are discovered to be more infectious in between the manufacturing start date and that year's flu season.

Moderna apparently plans to make COVID booster shots that are also flu shots, although they may not be ready this year.
It’s not really a matter of what he “deserves” as the thread is making it about. Point blank: the project cannot sustain that salary and the original developer of Babel said funds were being misappropriated. [^1] Perhaps the lead developer of the project does “deserve” a competitive salary, but the project cannot afford to compete with Silicon Valley salaries, which for an open source project is not surprising. It’s a good first step towards funding, but clearly not ready to support competitive rates. This reminds me in a weird way of Vine’s demise. It was used by millions too, but without a monetization strategy, popularity doesn’t pay the bills (or salary in this case). They should take a look at Linux Foundation for inspiration. If there’s not enough industry support for that, then I think the market has spoken.

[^1]: https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522
A lot of previously elitist companies have discovered that top %1 candidates from most schools are pretty similar. And since hiring is much easier today, they're more open to looking around.
ClickHouse has support for block range indexes as well.
If you want to check open-source implementations - this is probably the best place to do it.
You are absolutely correct, however DragonFly focused since the beginning on x86, that was the target platform for a cluster and the architecture every dev had. Maybe it's time to rethink that.
"If The Lord of the Rings is about the rise of fascism and the trauma of the second world war,"

Incorrect on both counts. LoTR has nothing to do with fascism and if there's any trauma that influences the work, it's from the First World War not the second.
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I think the best way to convice cybercriminals not to ransom companies would it, to just drop a small tactical nuke on the site of the criminals if they are ever discovered... that may not stop ALL, but the risk for any aspiring new cybercriminal would go steep uphill.
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I think the best way to stop this "business" would be to make it as costly as possible for the "bad boys"... the course of AXA may be hard on some of their customers, but in the end it may be better for the net-society at whole.
Can it produce JavaScript runnable on Safari from iOS 9.3.6?

Those old iPads and iPhones just won't die... As well as a number of Macbooks that will never go past OS X 10.11.
For anyone not in the know, the ecliptic is the plane of the Earth's and most planets' orbit.
It might be the best approach is to offer a commercial license alongside the open source one, in a subscription model. It's just what fits into the preconceptions of a business. They get an invoice, they get a something in return, case closed. There's probably not even a need for extra support. Only thing necessary is some viable way to pay them. Then there's no need of developers talking to managers about justice, how things should be, and all this fruitless stuff. It really doesn't matter that you could obtain it legally and for free, often times.
> There aren't that many things that can go wrong in the home

Until it is something about electricity or, even worse, gas.
Yes. I've heard this argument being made by Christian Drosten (a German virologist specializing in coronaviruses) in his podcast a few months back.
Maybe that was true 20, 30 years ago. Right now outside of a handful of studios that release quality games the rest aren't that good or innovative. I find it hard to believe people are happy to work on games with heavy elements of microtransactions or reheated elements (e.g. Ubisoft games are basically the same)
I considered that, but as I understand it (this could wrong) the variants that are more prevalent each year are pre-existing and we just don't know which ones will be 'popular' ahead of time.

Another way of looking at this is that they're not new mutations that we scramble to develop and test vaccines for, we just roll out the same tried and tested vaccines, but we have to cobble together a different blend some years.

If the above is correct, then I guess the Flu example to answer my question would be: How often is a new variant of Flu (HxNy) discovered that necessitates a new vaccine being developed?
Row-store indexes (indices?) are used for both. The first few levels of a b-tree index can be used for discarding/narrowing ranges, the leaf levels are for pinpointing a specific row.

What I think you meant to say was that Snowflake does not offer user-manageable indexes, not that they don't use indexes at all.
I really don't like HTML emails as they very often break with my dark theme. Especially those in Outlook, dark blue on dark gray is not very visible. I'd like to have only plain text emails, but some website do not put text version of their mails (notifications...).
Pets consume more nutrients than Gates and Bezos combined. I'm quite sure that GP didn't mean it that way, but "the world" isn't a scale where you can simply ignore supply and extrapolate from current prices hoping that the result won't be far off.
Hi @pratio - thank you for the great questions!
1) How does this work? Whenever you encounter an interesting resource, say a podcast, a blog post, a newsletter, or a video, you can save it to your Shelf - either by using Telegram Bot from mobile or the 'Add' button from desktop. Once the resource is added to your shelf, you can assign it to a space, say "Neuroscience", in order to keep your resources organized. Finally, you can add notes to a resource in order to retain key insights, and share those with others if needed. For the v1 I focused on the 3 main pain points I had - save, organize and annotate resources - so that's pretty much it! Let me know what features would you like to see next!
2) What's the privacy policy? Every shelf is public for now. I believe in "open-source" knowledge and "learning in public". Knowledge is better shared than kept.
3) Is there a pricing plan at some point? Some users might adhere to 2) but still want private spaces. In this case, they could have to pay a small tax, say $2.99 for privacy (similar to GitHub's business model).
4) What's the limit? No limit! The beauty of technology is that, unlike our brains, it offers almost unlimited storage.
5) Send data using a telegram bot to a service? What kind of data can be sent? You can send URLs to Shelf Bot - those will be added directly to your Shelf and formatted accordingly (e.g. a URL for a podcast will be rendered as a podcast resource in Shelf)
6) Is this an alternative to pocket? Pocket is an amazing tool but it is almost 15 years old and quite abandoned by Firefox. This is a shame. I believe every user of the internet needs a place to save, organize and annotate information. Pocket could be 10xed.
Spam sent to different domains (especially in different TLD) tends to be different so experience can be different.

In my observations badly formatted spam exists, but have big intersection with the spam which is relatively easy to filter out. Nicely formatted HTML spam on other hand is hard to filter because the only difference with legitimate marketing email is lack of any consent from the sender. Sure I can hit an unsubscribe link and my be never will get spam from the same domain again, but spammer will know that this email is active and will include the address in spam send on behalf of other customers.
> Napoleon also is one the most successful, "best", military leaders in history.

The "best" most successful leaders don't get soundly beaten over and over again and eventually lose everything.

> Right up there with people like Alexander the Great.

Highly questionable, Alexander the Great actually won and won everywhere and didn't lose his empire until he died.

Napoleon is vastly overestimated in Western history. Not to mention that he left his solderers behind multiple times after his mistakes had gotten them captured over and over again.

He literally was the commander in control of the worst military failure in basically all of human history.

He had initiative and was a good battle leader at the helm of the most powerful country that was already very successful before he took over, but as all around military commander and strategist he had serious problems.

> Historically, most of the Anti-French coalitions were led, and financed, by the British. So they are as much guilty of the Napoleonic Wars as Napoleon himself.

The British are responsible French revolutionary armies moving into Netherlands, Norther Italy, Egypt and Switzerland? Britain is responsible for Napoleon leading 600k people into Russia?

After the Revolution the Revolutionary government including were seriously attempting to expand in all directions peace was very temporary. Russia tried peace with Napoleon but only subservience was good enough and that trigger an invasion.

> Do yes, Napoleon definitely is on of history's greats. Definitely worth remembering. And he would be even more so if he was a true class a a-hole. These people definitely should never be forgotten.

I agree he should be remembered, as most history should.
Well if us city dwellers will turn into savages due to lack of any food, the first thing we will turn into is go out to those nice farming communities for food. Obviously if your nearest big town is 500-1000km away then you're OK for some time. Maybe.
DIY Scanning Laser Microscope
I know this is an inflammatory topic that evokes visceral feelings but.. you should be aware that when you are trying to change someone's mind, aggressive arguing like this is much more likely to make the other person believe what they already believe more strongly (i.e. the opposite of what you want).
In an exactly same way,as all the energy companies went on to use green colour on thier websites,while anything enterprise software related was always blue/skye blue. Nothing really new on this front.
Lots of good stuff for me to think about. Thanks for taking the time!
Show HN: Volument 1.0 – A smarter take on website analytics
The problem is if you're competing with someone else, all things being equal, that invests the money you give away they now have a better shot at beating you. From a purely selfish perspective it's better to allow people like you to fund it while everyone else gets it for free.

Bear in mind I do agree with you, it would be better if we supported these libraries properly. But it seems like the majority are willing to allow a few to carry them. It makes the idea of running these projects on sponsorships seem unsustainable.
> All of us now have to live in that world, and none of us were consulted

No one consulted me wrt the existence of other nations (outside my own) and their laws either, I'm not sure democracy needs to extend globally for all things.

To some degree, I think the "more/less democratic" argument is a little "whataboutism: individual freedoms are the goal of democracy, not the other way around, and btc/e2e are a form of power and civil disobedience that might help get them.

> undermining our organized institutions

Many of those institutions are private banks - they are not "mine", even though they get bailed out by tax money on occasion. Is it antisocial to be antisocial towards antisocial institutions?

> you could say all the same things about e2e encryption

You could, and the reason is a terrible record globally wrt privacy rights. I don't consider it a matter of free speech - free speech (to me) is primarily about what you can say/promote in public, privacy (to me) is about what you can keep private.
It's not bullying to point out that some information sources are of poorer quality than others, and that social media selects not for information quality, but for flashiness and ability to enrage.
All FAANG companies pay 100% of the employee's health care in addition to the salary. When people talk about total comp for these FAANG companies they mean base pay + stock the 100% health coverage is just assumed. I will say coverage for the full family often isn't free but it's still pretty cheap.
He didn't actually. Feudalism had ended long before. Feudalism is usually consider for early to high middle ages, by the late middle ages and early modern period the social structure had already changed considerably.
Sure, some will probably do that but then they will have committed insurance fraud.
I was able to remove babel few weeks ago in one of my projects when webpack started to support class properties natively. The project in question only supports evergreen browsers. So nice to have super simple build config.

I have nothing against babel. I think it's great especially in maturing TC39 drafts.
Hey. I'm Tero Piirainen (1), the CEO of Volument. Here's a little backstory for this launch.

We released our MVP here in Hacker News exactly two years ago with this post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116

There was definite market demand, but unfortunately, the product wasn't quite ready for the load yet.

Fast forward two years. Now we've perfected the product with real users and it's now genuinely useful for them — even for people using goaccess or similar. The main reasons include:

1. Traction: Volument monitors visitors' viewport consumption on the frontend to reveal things like whether you are making a good first impression (stayed 3s or more) or if they are interested in the content (focused 1 minute or more). The metrics go up with great design choices and down with the bad ones (like fullscreen sales/consent dialogs). Eventually turning your website into something people enjoy using.

2. Faster A/B testing: Volument is an order of magnitude faster than the traditional A/B testing tools. It reaches statistical significance sooner by utilizing the huge mass of leading indicators (like the first impression) at the top of the conversion funnel. For every conversion event, there are thousands of leading events to learn from.

3. Privacy-friendly. Just like Fathom, Plausible, or Simple Analytics, Volument is part of the "privacy-first movement so no cookie banner is needed (outside Europe). We predict that all future analytics services are privacy-friendly.

We've built a custom stack from scratch so Volument is not just another pretty face for Google Analytics data. We have full control and the door is open for pretty much anything. That's why we are eager to hear your thoughts, particularly on analytics. What would be your "dream tool"?

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1: A little bit of myself: I'm a long-term frontend developer: the original author of semi-popular projects like jQuery Tools (2011), Head JS (2013), and Riot JS (2014). I'm also a co-founder of two other successful startups: Flowplayer (flowplayer.com) and Muut (muut.com).
From https://github.com/babel/babel/graphs/contributors it looks that Henry did work on the project heavily after the creator left/went inactive, but stopped being active himself after 2019.

There probably is more, but not going to speculate.
>but it's because we update them every year.

OK, this is the part I wasn't aware of. I assumed (dangerous, I know) that each year's 'new' flu vaccine was really just a new 'blend' of existing proven vaccines, for the most prevalent strains that year.

Edited to remove badly conceived question. New Question: How often do we have to develop novel vaccines for new Flu variants?
The U.S. Navy in the Indian Ocean: India’s ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma
What's interesting is that cow prions only turned up when cows were fed cows...
USBGuard is a newer tool, however the functionality has existed through udev or other integrations for some time.
It’s not a dumb tweet. It a little boring, sure. Not much of an insight, really. But my god there are so many actually idiotic tweets out there... this is actually an 90th percentile tweet.
Looking at the the commit activity of some maintainers, that seems to be correct:

7 commits in a year: https://github.com/babel/babel/commits?author=hzoo&since=202...

$110k invoiced: https://opencollective.com/left_pad/transactions
M1 is quite good at general-purpose workloads.
Ask HN: I like optimizing code and seeing results, what jobs should I look into?
Hello HN,

I'm currently in the second semester of my Bachelor in Computer Science in Germany, but I learned to program pretty early in high school.

I want to decide what I want to specialize in and I hope you can give me some recommendations or new ideas.

I enjoy building optimized software in my free time, working closely with the hardware. For example I worked on an application doing calculations and rendering on the GPU in Rust (I learned almost everything for that on my own. I really like Rust now).

This is also why I dislike web development (impossible to build well optimized web applications). Maybe embedded programming is something for me?

I've also always been fascinated by game development (I made a few small games myself), sadly it's not paid that well, but thinking about a concept, building a game around it (with help from a friend for art) and letting people play it is an amazing feeling. I hope to have enough free time next to my job to keep doing that.

I am also interested in computer graphics in general, for example algorithms like raytracing, raymarching, so I wonder what your thoughts are on working on a game engine or a renderer for movies.

My grades of the first semester were okay (2-3) in math (I am doing a math minor) and good (1) in computer science modules. I really like to learn and come up with algorithms and to prove theorems (I liked analysis and linear algebra). What are your thoughts on going into research?

Maybe AI, machine learning or computer vision are something for me, but from my research it looks like most of the job consists of collecting and cleaning up data and feeding it into an existing learning engine, not actually implementing or improving the engine. Also it sounds to me like "AI" is over-hyped.

So I think that sums up most of what I can tell you about me.
What computer science fields did I not see? What jobs would you recommend me to look into?

Thank you for your time.
Electricity isn't magic, and while it can be dangerous, so can lots of other things we use/do all the time, and people manage to learn to use/do those things.

I don't know what it's like in Italy, but here, it's arguably more dangerous to call an "electrician" because everything is "mai pen rai" (don't worry about it), including things you personally might actually worry about like, you know, having outdoor power sockets in a waterproof box, or sealing the underground conduit, or connecting an earth, or not just twisting wires together and taping them up, or turning off the breaker before connecting things to existing circuits. (Literally all things I've had to fix because "a professional" did it).

Besides the wiring from the meter to the breaker boxes (yes boxes, plural, because $reasons), and the wiring to the A/C units, there isn't much in this house where I haven't had to change/fix some aspect of the wiring. Occasionally just to do something different, but almost always that inevitably ends up involving a fix for whatever retarded thing the previous "professional" did.
Essential consciousness is the self appearance of free will. MWI still has randomness - how do you think you reside in one universe versus a different one? You keep sidestepping with erroneous statements.

Rules are not a source of real randomness and there is a consensus among physicists that quantum randomness is actually true randomness. Even if you put the source of randomness into some other thing like dark matter, you cannot explain its construct..because all you have is rules. You must forfeit and concede to nature a black box RNG library. This is clearly ludicrous. The more obvious and consistent view is that conscious beings (that feel they have willful decisions) are the manifestation of nature's RNG for quantum mechanics

IIT is an entirely different beast related to self attention, a different kind of definition for consciousness, that has little to do with will. Unrelated...

QM is unitary, but it is one to many. It's a giant branching rooted tree. This is irrelevant, it is not deterministic like general relativity.

Please step back in the element. These refutations are becoming exhausting.