skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However what is rarely discussed [...] It's absurd that this is almost never talked about anywhere.

Not all that rarely IME, and certainly not "almost never". It's popped up every now and then for over a year now; here on HN among other places. (OTOH, maybe that was you I saw. :-)
also, this is how brexit worked
FreeBasic may qualify? https://www.freebasic.net/
Yeah it's a big reason articles are written, as others have mentioned. I give some leeway for people shilling their own creative work
I read spillover a few years ago, which is all about zoonotic crossover events, would recommend it, even if it is a bit dry in parts.

The problem is, as an expansionist species we're naturally going to encroach on natural reservoirs for pathogens.

The smoking gun of people working at the virology institute may yet turn out to be nothing more than a red herring, if they live and work in the epicentre of where the outbreak started, it only stands to reason they'd also run the risk of catching it.
Why was gender chosen as one of the key attributes that makes you stand out? Why not where you went to school, which country/state you're from? Your family income while growing up? Your college degree? There are plenty of things that make you more unique than your gender.
Most browsers do support js modules today but it's kind of an awkward situation to say the least. And if you need to support older browsers you may as well not bother, you probably use Webpack and/or Babel (or TypeScript) anyway for other reasons. Especially if you're trying to do isomorphic stuff for an SSR app, as NodeJS then has its own pile of idiosyncrasies and baggage around module support.

This situation has been playing out for many years and it has only gotten more confusing.
to take your joke in another direction, people should blog about how hard it is to learn to write well! i.e. people's blogs would be much more fun to read if they first learned how to write.

OP author of the article we're reading about here is not a super great writer, but better than most and has actually learned the most important lesson of business presentation: (1) tell'em what you're gonna tell'em, (2) tell'em in more detail, and then (3) tell'em what you've told'em in summary.

you can read the first paragraph of this blog post and know what it's about. If you're interested, read the rest, and if you're not, you haven't wasted your time because you got the point of it.
Linden Lab, the people behind Second Life, may have made this mistake. They had leased data center space in Phoenix AZ, and owned their own machines, about 5000 of them. During 2020, the whole system was moved to AWS.

Most of the servers, each of which handles an area of the virtual world, run all the time, regardless of user load. This is very different than web serving.
It's the worst cost case for AWS, where the real benefits come from dynamically provisioning a changing load. AWS, used for dedicated servers, can cost 2x that of owning your own. One data center operator says 4x.[1]

Before the conversion, I'd asked the responsible VP if they were sure AWS wasn't going to be more expensive. He retired when the conversion was complete.
Now we hear rumors of the company finding out that AWS costs are higher than the old data center.

[1] http://www.happi.io/aws-instances-versus-physical-servers/
Technical Debt: A Software Epidemic
I really don't get that sentiment though, as a German citizen for example health care insurance is mandatory as in you pay a certain percentage of your salary each month towards health care insurance. So by any means it isn't the land of free healthcare some people made it to be. Also in the US there is the Charity Care Policy that applies when you make under a certain yearly salary.
Aurora is the one service that got us to migrate to AWS! Honestly it saved us 5 digits per month over another MySQLaaS. For us it was a very good deal. We could’ve dedicated engineering time to reduce db cost on the old provider but Aurora was drop-in awesomeness.
Do people in the US really talk about how much they earn? I had the impression that doing so was socially awkward.
I thoroughly agree about the event-based-computing model but telemetry (as per the current common definition) won't drive this far enough.
We need to take the telemetry model one step further and have the easy facility to insert shims at set levels (e.g. between the business layer and the data store) with open auth to be able to insert subscribers in an open manner to the entire payload.
This should then be mandated by any org implementing a product and especially any gov org to prevent vendor lockin and allow easy extensibility.
Same concept, but more data.
JSON or XML, using REST or websocket maybe? One request per "page load" is an anti-pattern in SPA's though - you should send all static data once, lazy load large assets like images, and sync only the dynamic non cacheable data.
If your theory about Linux's historic use means it is a better fit for modern desktop CPUs, shouldn't the same be true for memory? I don't see why Windows should be better (according to the theory) as servers have also been the place of most memory intensive applications.
The only question worth asking right there. It's the story of so many companies. We were doing something incredibly stupid, and in this five-part blog series we describe a slightly different implementation of an equally stupid idea.
This is true. My aunt chose to have all of her children by C-section, and this was over 30 years ago.
Microsoft BUILD Developer Keynote is genre-bending
You cannot predict chaos, period. What you can do is predict the potential behavior of the whole system, and project the limits of probable or possible outcomes.

We can be very sure a heat wave is not going to hit 500 degrees Farenheit, on Earth as we know it. We can also be sure that heat waves are going to continue to extend their RANGE of possible states in direct correlation with global climate energy increasing. And we are seeing exactly this.

We will also see that as the energy in the climate increases, our ability to predict into the future gets worse rather than better. Not because we got dumber, but because the chaotic system is becoming more chaotic as energy is added. The more extreme it gets, the more capacity it develops to confound projected outcomes due to chaos's sensitivity to initial conditions.

If you wanted the ability to predict more accurately, the only way to get that is to cool off the globe and take energy out of the system. It's the energy that's driving the chaotic behavior.
Am I the only one who feels like this is mostly a non-issue. I feel like the case of if this came from a lab for from a market is mostly taking a political side against China - if it came from a lab, or for China - if it was naturally developed.

If it came from a Chinese lab as part of a conscious effort of weaponizing a virus, sure, that's important, but I don't think anyone is saying that.

If it came from a lab accidental breach, it is important that the parties involved are aware of that, and steps are taken to improve security.

However, this is an event that happens every century. It's not a one-time thing. We had been warned it was coming. So now it's here.

If the source had been Belgium (just as an example), would the source be covered by the media at all?

Does anybody else feel this way? Yes, the WHO etc needs to continue researching to understand the source. But I don't believe the amount of energy the average person is expending on their "thoughts" really amounts to much at all. It's just the story of the hour.
However, looking at other Phoronix benchmarks, Windows beats Linux on Intel systems.
It would be nice if Mozilla used the LWN.net model for their premium content. That is, paying subscribers get the latest and most up-to-date content that took effort to write. A couple of weeks later that content is then made accessible to everyone else.

Following that model, students, hobbyists, people who are trying to break into the industry etc who may not be able to afford a subscription can still benefit from content. It also helps draw new customers. I would not have paid for my LWN subscription if I didn't already hold the content they published for free in high regard.
You call it the most interesting thing I've read all day, I call it boring bikeshedding, but I won't downvote it regardless.
I know different pedagogical approaches work for different people, but in my experience the fastest and easiest way to learn Lisp is to bite the bullet and jump right into it. I think when it comes to the parentheses of Lisp, the premise is straightforward; there just isn't a whole lot to actually learn. I believe most of the difficulty comes from people psyching themselves out before they even try. That describes my personal experience with the matter anyway.

Also with regards to prefix notation being unintuitive: We already teach something very similar to schoolchildren learning arithmetic:

1
+ 2
---

Here, as with (+ 1 2), the operator is on the left most side. The operands are arranged horizontally in lisp instead of vertically, but the supposed weirdness of the operator being on the left doesn't seem to bother people when it comes to arithmetic.
I’d argue that in some cases it can be more testable than code. With a small, strict subset of a turing-complete language and constrained input choices, you can often auto generate test cases for any valid expression in a given context. Static analysis of code is much more difficult and broad.

One thing code versioning doesn’t do well either is executing multiple versions of the same logic. With rules as data, you can store them as timestamped versions and keep applying the correct historical rule against some older business object or view.
Interestingly, this RFC is signed by two people, one from Mozilla and one from Fastly.

Wasn't QUIC developed by Google?
Real estate is expensive too, but there are "town square" doctrines in some states where presenting yourself as a public space means you must not discriminate on usage.

This goes further -- in some states where such doctrine does not exist it was kind of synthesized because some electoral districts have, say, 80% of the electorate in an apartment building which a judge ruled must be accessible to candidates who run.
> But it might piss off Google a little too much

Forget Google, you might just get blocked by UserAgent from a lot of sites if they know Firefox has ad blocking and the default config is to block all their advertising.

There's a fine line between the status quo, pushing the envelope, and jumping so far ahead you end up being counterproductive.
Story prompt: the kites of Chernobyl...
> What incentive would the US government have to lie about this though?

The US government hasn't even made any statement.

> They were funding research at that lab, I don't understand why they would want people to think lab leak is correct all of a sudden - if that's what you're claiming?

No they weren't? You need to either get off the internet until you turn 18 or learn some serious critical thinking skills. The fact you're even considering the theory that the US is covertly funding virology research in it's biggest geopolitical enemy territory is completely unhinged and is classic schizophrenic type delusion.
Well thank you, I keep my more wacky theories to myself :-)
"Recognized as a legitimate source of information" So default censor all non legitimate sources? Who gets to decide what is legitimate?

I don't care for the comments on that site but many times they've had scoops and been proven correct after time has passed.
I feel like this post just reached into my head and pulled out all my current thoughts about web development and the dominant architecture paradigm. I love it when someone articulates my thoughts better than I do.
To be fair, policing is generally a failure in the US. Citizen is not the solution, though.
Pretty much what I do, and I find it works quite well, mostly for three reasons

1) I actually give a damn about what I’m writing about, since I had to scrape the brains off of my skull for at least a few hours to figure it out and implement it.

2) I know what to write, since I just went through it, know why I did, and what it’s value was (for me, at least).

3) Since it took me so long, the answer probably isn’t available, or at least easy to find, online, so others are more likely to benefit from it.
Hardware is difficult, for sure. The managed services / proprietary services is another story.

Having said that, and please keep in mind that I do not have an idea much about hardware so this is a guesswork; more of a question than a statement..., I do think that the Graviton price vs performance might not have a direct benefit outside of AWS. It's cool for AWS because they have less stuff to manage at that scale and it might be cheaper for them to buy and iterate because only they use it. It looks great to the clients because the perception is that the value is better. But AWS runs 80 AZs in 25 regions so it benefits them at that scale.

Realistically, even if one had couple of hundreds of racks, does it matter at that scale?
And your on prem infrastructure people are free?
This is the entire reason the media took actions like banning the very topic from being discussed. Someone else mentioned it higher up in the thread but there was a huge overlap between people claiming to simply sincerely investigate the possibility of a lab leak, and the group of people who believed that the virus was a bioengineered weapon released on purpose by China to disrupt other nations.
The episode "White Bear" comes to mind.
I'll ask the obvious, did no one do the math on the expected difference?
Perhaps you should read the article before commenting.
>Decisions are made by people, who we hope are informed by evidence.

That hope is lost. It's really easy to get overwhelmed in how doomed we seemed to be because of it. People are believing things in spite of evidence, and are absolutely rooted in that belief to society's detrement. How much further could be be if beliefs were no longer held onto once evidence were present that shows that belief to just not be correct? Sadly, I don't think we will ever know.
Speed mattered a lot at the beginning because likelihood of winning was much higher (due to fewer people playing the game).

I don't know if it still matters or it's too late now.
okay i have rewritten parts of it. I hope you folks take it for a spin; it has a lot of nice touches in it; worked very hard on the balance between concision and readability.
I'm not sure how to parse these:

>"Camera data does not leave the car itself, which means the system cannot save or transmit information unless data sharing is enabled.”

>"Lately, the camera is being discussed more often after it was revealed that Tesla removed some owners from its FSD beta program after determining that they weren’t paying enough attention when using the system."

Did they share data and got busted or does the car share data by default despite Musk saying it doesn't? This is the most interesting part to me with Tesla's privacy history. Have anyone gotten access to data leaving the car and shared it publicly?
A thread that electrostatically traps things might have several other uses. Can it be spun fine, and sieve out particulates?
Female founders are less likely to be taken seriously and command high valuations by investors, because patriarchy.
React is famously not a framework though. Next is the relevant example here, which actually does work to address a bunch of the complaint points, including doing full page reloads when you’ve deployed a new version of the app.
Having done both, I think I mostly agree with you. And I'm a big proponent of having your engineering team focus their efforts on building and maintaining the product you are selling to customers.

Avoid doing undifferentiated work. Outsource it when you can. Focus on the core product. I think this is especially true as you're scaling a company in the current SWE labor environment. If your business is growing quickly, you probably have money, and can get more funding when you need it. But hiring more SWEs is always a challenge. That is your scarce resource. Don't waste it on undifferentiated work.

All that said, at larger scale and more mature businesses. I think the core thesis of the article makes sense. You may be in the slower growth part of the S curve, but you can still increase your company value and profitability substantially by increasing margins. One way do do this is to invest in cheaper infrastructure.

Then you're taking on some undifferentiated work, but in service of better margins.
Paying more for less because of marketing.

Life goes on. It happens all the time. The trick is to learn and be smarter next time.
Frankly the odds of a lab leak are much greater than a bat virus from a thousand miles away jumping across two species in a the Wuhan market.
It may be an urban legend, but I think Green Eggs and Ham was based on a bet that Dr Suess couldn't write a book with less than 50 words long. Fair to say that he would have won that bet.
Forgive the roughness of this reply.. but....

When I want to play games, I want to click on heads till they're not heads anymore, or think with portals, or race around a city with friends.

Not trying to debug why pulse audio is having issues and refusing to send audio to the front jack, again.

Maybe this has changed of late, and I'm just burned by these previous "adventures", but video/audio always felt like a bit of an afterthought in Linux to me.
Yes, but only if I can use a single 2FA app or token or whatever for most things together with a password manager. My bank e.g. only allows their app as the 2nd factor and the setup is rather lengthy, you get physical post with a code etc. and actually adds another password to manage too. My other bank account is the same but using their app. All other services use something that is compatible with Google Authenticator and implementations of that industry standard.

So 2FA yes, custom proprietary apps and "smart" procedures that actually lower your security in practice, no. Don't reinvent the wheel please, even if money is concerned.
US science academy expels astronomer Geoff Marcy following harassment complaints
I hate both the game and those who choose to play.
There's very little real reporting. Most of it is regurgitation of one source article for any given story. Very often that source article is fabricated for a purpose.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will check this out asap!

To return the favor, I recommend checking out the Lapham's Quarterly issue on "Epidemic" that collected historical writings across many instances of widespread plague and disease.
Practical Ways Writers Can Earn a Living in 2021
Add gopher://magical.fish and gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/bongusta

Can´t be more frugal than that. Add irc on top, and maybe some usenet client.
They do…
I agree and have experienced what you wrote, except I have no idea what your last paragraph means. What are you referring to / talking about? It feels like maybe an example of the phenomenon we're talking about lol
If you're worried about that type of security, I'd just get a cheap VPS to run it (they're like $3-5 nowadays).

Plus they'll likely have much better uptime/bandwidth than your home server will.
Just because the Europeans couldn't get past Bogador, doesn't mean the Phoenicians didn't.
And if you are using cloud just as an overpriced colo, you aren’t really getting any advantage of being in the cloud. You’re going up spend more money hosting all your own infrastructure on VMs, more time on maintenance, and does it add any business value?

Do you not use IAM? Cloud specific infrastructure as code (again TF has cloud specific provisioners), permissions, compliance, training.
Well, mostly idle. You can't win if you're not online, can you?
They do, and in circles where doing it is gauche, the signal it through other means. The more elite you are, the more indirectly you signal it.
Nothing changes regarding corporate taxes because the company is incorporated in Delaware.
In The Newsroom the crew of an evening news show would call their network’s control room and “break in” to the broadcast out of turn, when something really important was happening. If the term has any coherent meaning I expect it’s that. Worth interrupting other programming for. On a 24x7 news network, probably meaningless.
This is well explained in chia’s documentation. A server issues “challenges” and the harvesters respond if they have the answer to that challenge. Think of it like bingo but with a gazillion squares.

The trick is that calculating the response to a challenge takes a very long time and the server only waits for a very short time to get any valid responses. So it follows that the harvesters must compute the responses in advance and store them on disk, which serves as proof that you had that disk space allocated to chia harvesting.
I'm open to the lab leak hypothesis, but the intel around those scientists being hospitalized is pretty weak.
I am in Canada, noticed it was marked sensitive for me
This question has been asked a lot, in multiple threads, by various Stack Overflow users and the UI hasn't changed much.

Here's one example.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45597/how-can-i-lin...

To the people who downvoted my response, this thread is about what sucks about Stack Overflow, and my opinion is that it should be more apparent on how to link to answers.
I'd like to try using this at work for an internal tool but AGPL is a no go.
The initial QUIC (now gQUIC) was developed by Google, but after going to the IETF for standardization, a lot of other companies joined, including Mozilla, Fastly, Facebook, …
All of them. Even the ones of your enemies. Sometimes you need to know the other side’s angle to understand if you’re unknowingly biased.
Unless you're still supporting IE, which is a big gotcha for some I know, then modules are a go now:
https://caniuse.com/?search=modules

Vite is one of the first tools I know of taking advantage of this:
https://vitejs.dev/

"On demand file serving over native ESM, no bundling required!"

I just launched a small production site using SvelteKit, which now uses this under the hood.
"CPUs are a chump's game" - what? High performance CPUs which nevertheless use very little power are extremely difficult to design.

"AMD's Ryzen 7 4800u hit 4ghz over 8 cores" - It doesn't. AMD specifies it as having 1.8 GHz base clock, 4.2 GHz max boost clock. AMD's cores use ~15W each at max frequency. Since the 4800U's configurable TDP range is 10W to 25W for the whole chip, there is no way that all 8 cores run at 4.2 GHz simultaneously for any substantial period of time. In fact, running even one core in its max performance state probably isn't sustainable in a lot of systems which opt to use the 4800U's default 15W TDP configuration.

On the other side of things, Apple M1 performance cores use ~6W each at max frequency. It is actually possible for all four to run at full performance indefinitely with the whole chip using about 25W, provided there is little GPU load.

"Remember our friend the 4800u? It's integrated GPU is able to beat the M1's GPU in raw benchmarks, and it came out 18 months before it." - Say what? The only direct comparison I've been able to find is 4700U vs M1, in Anandtech's M1 article, and it shows the M1 GPU as 2.6x faster in GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins 1080p offscreen and 2.5x faster in 1440p high.

Granted, the 4700U GPU is a bit slower than the 4800U GPU, but not by a factor of 2 or more.

This isn't an unexpected result given that M1's GPU offers ~2.6 single precision TFLOPs while the 4800's is ~1.8 TFLOPs.

Literally everything you wrote about M1 being bad is wrongheaded in the extreme, LOL.