skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha we bought these servers for 5k, very op, but since we had a rack full of HW (that this one blade was managing) anyways, the server price/power consumption for a 1U was a drop in the bucket. Very strange world. I think the server was at 10% CPU consumption, and we didn't bother doing the erlang "turn off IO polling for modern cloud operating systems" option.
> There are only two clear, non-arbitrary rules: Search engines are only allowed to show a list of links, or search engines can show whatever they want.

Those rules are just as arbitrary as all the possibilities in between.
Although some things in Metabase seem a little too asynchronous, it inspires confidence to see it's written in Clojure! We run it on ECS/Fargate with Aurora Serverless, very tidy deployment.
If you mass produce these things you are going to leave traces of your logistics supply chain. Even if you brought them into a staging are one at a time your frequent trips would lead back to where they were made or by whom.
Another whining of a boy who didn't do much in Go.
> So long as their products are free, it’s hard to argue that consumers are suffering harm.

Is it? There's an increasing antipathy towards the amount of data Google collect, many people on this forum, if not so much in the world at large, would consider that harm. If Google's hiding from me a better service that's also free, or even has an acceptable cost, I'd consider that harm.

It's only hard to argue there's no harm if their product is identical to its competitors, which is basically never true.
I'm not saying to stick the middle class with the tax bill - just pointing out that taxes on the rich usually end up being paid by the middle class whether intended or not.

The better solution is to cut spending and the need for more taxes in general.
This is exactly the point. There is no $250 iphone. So unless you can afford a much more expensive phone, your only option is a privacy invasive google phone.

Being able to chose not to use google is a luxury here. Therefor google is a monopoly for these low income people and also a utility since having a phone and the services that come with it are essential.
Average users are more likely to think "WTF happened? Why does it look different again?"

...and to them, "dated" is more likely to mean a step towards having a relationship with someone.
mRNA vaccines were not "invented" to beat the pandemic, nor do the current vaccines use technologies invented in 2020.

The technology was there, and ready enough that Moderna even reportedly designed their vaccine in "2 days" in January 2020 after SARS-CoV-2 was fully sequenced.[1] There's a bit more to making a Covid vaccine than cutting off the ~3,000 nucleotides (~10%) that encode the S protein and printing them + packaging them into nanolipid particles, but the rest is mostly a set of known tricks to do things like keeping the mRNA from folding onto itself and increasing its GC-content for easier transcription.[2]

The ~11 months between January and December were spent testing and getting approvals, not developing new technologies.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7492076/moderna-coronavirus-vacci...

[2] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
> Why start a new company, if google can just take over everything?

It seems more and more common these days that people start companies specifically with the sole intention of being acquired by Google (or another large tech company).
FBI sold phones to organized crime and read 27M “encrypted” messages
+1 for metabase, I've used it all over the place
many people speculate that quantum computing would crack private keys in no time.

theres no speculation that this exists, but bitcoin wouldnt last in a commercial world of quantum algos
It's kind of weird you felt the need to post this whataboutism three times in the same subthread, especially being that your main complaint is that the history is a complete history... I don't think this is the kind of behavior we want on HN.
Because geographical and cultural differences in diet, that's one.

Because supplementation programs failed, that's two.

Because people most in need are simultaneously too poor and in areas that aren't well served by modern distribution networks, that's three.

What the target, people suffering from lack of vitamin A in among other places India, however, do have:

Diet that is heavily dependant on rice, that's one

Considerable access to rice as locally produced staple crop, that's two.

Don't need any new distribution or support in order to grow Golden Rice vs. existant local cultivars and have a supply network for it already in place, that's three.
i would imagine you can keep them, sell them, etc.

they're prob worth about $100 total, and shipping them would prob cost $300, so sell them or give them away, ideally to some poor kid.

someone at an acquired startup i was at said 'just keep it' about the macbook air i was using. nobody cares.
"perfectly good alternative"

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That's not sexism. It's contrary to the modern feminist idea that woman can do that the same as men and it's perfectly healthy for them. That's just an idea, not a fact, and personally I've come to doubt that it's true for most women. Maybe not for most men either, tougher to say.

It's reflective of the authors values, not sexist. It's not discriminatory towards women.
I sure expect a lot of them, hell it was one of the ways to use a plotter I had - same with printers.

I was just pointing out that COPY was not the only use :)
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Is that the right way to look at it? I don't believe this can ever scale to an amount that is even visible to Google.
I'm pretty interested in this timeline. China informed the WHO of pneumonia of unknown causes in December 31st, 2019 [1]. COVID-19 was detected in collected sewage samples in Italy as early as December 18th, 2019. [2]

With modern travel one can transport themselves from Wuhan to Milan in about a day. Whether or not it escaped from a lab or was borne of the wet-market, it feels as if it emerged well before December of 2019. Knowing the origin, and when it happened, can greatly help us understand how quickly things can spread, globally, from patient zero.

1. https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/
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>I felt the article was not very inspiring since it emphasised the tax the rich pay in relation to their wealth not their income. Which is irrelevant. Of course they are not going to spend all their wealth and pay tax on it.

They didn't though. They show how much they paid as a fraction of their increase in wealth over that period.

The real tax isn't calculated against total wealth wealth, but the increase in wealth over a fixed period.
>Umami flavor may be enhanced by loud background noises. It’s perhaps why tomato juice constitutes 27% of all drink orders on airplanes; people crave the umami-rich beverage on flights despite not drinking it elsewhere.

Friends in the airline industry confirm that people order disproportionately more tomato juice and "spicy tomato juice" than other beverages in the air. I wonder if this trend holds on all planes, or if it's actually more significant on planes with more jet-engine soundbleed.

Distant aside: Maybe wine bottles will start printing which soundscapes a wine pairs best with?
Are these on the same level as Stuxnet? For an amazing technical deep dive into each 0-day Stuxnet vulnerability watch this talk with Bruce Dang from Microsoft[1]. I really enjoy his natural speaking style (it's like talking about Stuxnet over beers with him).

[1] https://youtu.be/rOwMW6agpTI?t=409
right, the deployers are not the people creating the tools.

this is a true criminal SaaS, partly because its low risk, high reward for the developers and partly because its a russian funded op that needs to cover its ass in the nature of its attacks on democracy and corporatism.
I'm understand. I'm generally in favor of people being able to express controversial opinions held in good faith. But I've been forced to accept that some people just need to be shut up however possible. In this case I'm not saying he should have his blog taken away, but I am saying no one should amplify content like this.

In the abstract, something is toxic if it disrupts or makes impossible desired processes even in very small amounts. Trolling is obvious, conspiracy theories are closer. Some things inherently generate more heat than light, suck oxygen out of productive conversation. You don't have to be a radical leftist (I'm really not at all), you can just watch it happen here or any other forum.
different skillset. making equipment and running a profitable fab is like Apple and Orange.

Intel with its years of experiences in semis industry and yet Intel is not in the semis equipment business and Intel was in the very early stage of semis industry.
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We're happy to hear this sounds appealing even in a non-mobile context! While some of the friction and pain points that Runway aims to solve are especially acute for mobile, it's true that releases are often a problem area for web as well, especially in team settings. We definitely have the idea of applying Runway beyond mobile in the back of our mind!
OP here. Pondering this.
I've heard the same thing about C and why is C++ or Java necessary. Ultimately, I believe programming languages should strive to prevent mistakes early on in the lifecycle of a program. One easy way to do that in production software is to unify the control flow of happy-paths and error-paths (something go already does) and make sure that the error-path is acknowledged and not ignored (something it does not do).

The weakness in the current design is three-fold for me:
- I can "forget" to handle in error (ok this can be linted for maybe?)
- There is a lot of ceremony in propagating errors up the chain (a very very very common thing to do!)
- The convention of (ok, err) is not always conformed to and ultimately provides no benefit over more concrete typings like Result<T, Err>. Now I can easily grep for fallible operations or operations that call fallible operations!

You may be fine with it - I hear the same argument from my coworkers about checked exceptions in java. I think we can do better.
A few months ago I was looking around for a good personal CRM and I thought airtable would possibly be the way to go. One thing I'd like is to be able to attach multiple pictures to any given contact entry.
The US Navy is big enough to impose a fairly effective blockade on China for an extended period. All they have to do is drop a few mines near Chinese ports and shipping labels. Marine insurers will then decline coverage for all merchant vessels in those waters, making it impossible for neutrals to operate. The Chinese could still accept the risk and run their own flagged ships through but overall trade would be greatly reduced.
Not really luck, most of the western world realizes that having most of the world's chip capacity reside within the zone of control of a repressive regime with incompatible political and humanitarian values is not a good long term scenario. They have planned accordingly.
> since when is that a reason to disable a user-originated threat vector?

Since Google is operating at a scale where the majority of users use their browser, so a successful popular malicious extension scales extremely rapidly. This is basically a recapitulation of the decisions Microsoft had to make regarding the market dominance of Windows and the ease of attacking users via VBScript exploits. The developers of the framework have to make a trade-off between capabilities of the framework and likelihood that those capabilities will be used to attack the average user. It's a cat-and-mouse game where there are not obvious technical answers so much has move-countermove.

We even have the analog to Apple Computer during the heydays of VBScript exploits in this story... With its much smaller market share, Mozilla has the luxury of worrying less about these exploit vectors because successfully deploying a malicious extension in that ecosystem only impacts a couple percent of total users of the internet. Much as Apple didn't have to worry much about malicious AppleScript exploits.
Would be great if it had a richer whiteboarding experience:

1. Text. It has no ability for text other than drawing it. This might be fine for some use cases, but typing is much faster when you are on a computer.

2. A better set of tools for diagramming (including the text that I just mentioned). It can still be simple. See whimsical for a very good example.
Your mortgage is a low interest loan. Should we tax your mortgage as income?
Actually, quite hard. Mortar shells don't suddenly change direction.
I hate the obsession with grades as much as anyone, but most parents are often mirroring the importance we place on them as a society. Disagree with a number of the sub-comments here, grades matter. Not eventually and not on their own, but they provide optionality the same way race and wealth and other factors do: you can succeed without them, but it definitely helps your chances.
The designs are demonstrably viable. Hundreds of nukes were detonated unnecessarily to prove this point. Nations don't need to make new designs. Gun and super designs are common knowledge.
Yesterday, my Ubuntu 21.04 computer attempted to print a 14-page PDF over the network on a Xerox Phaser 6360 using some GhostScript driver. Somehow, the whole entire ream of paper was spat out, all covered in PostScript. I'm curious as to why this occurred, and wonder how Canonical's strategy for Ubuntu 21.04 compares with this one Fedora is looking into now.
Yep. Very telling when no one on the server can explain it and anyone who asks is silenced.
I just don't see that working in practice. I've worked hard to build a small company and can't imagine losing 1% a year. The longer I work the less I own. If this was the reality, people would find a way around it even if it meant incorporating in another country entirely. And lets be honest, it would start at 1% and go up from there. We pay almost 2% / year of our home value in property tax.
>> Remember that careless confidence you had as a kid when starting something new? That would be a powerful thing to recapture.

Indeed. Never lost it. Thanks for sharing.
They pay down the loan (which will have some hilariously low interest rate because they're good for it) with income, and then - to rub salt in the wound - they get to write off the interest paid on their income taxes.

These guys do have substantial incomes, but through "charitable donations" (to charities they control) and interest paid, they often pay little or no income tax on it.
> Google is stealing ideas and products, that they know are viable through the metrics they gather from the search data.

Doesnt Walmart and Amazon do that as well, looking at the data and then making their own in house products?
> It's reflective of the authors values, not sexist.

It’s reflective of the author’s values, which are sexist.
People who are mute still communicate. They're not merely listeners.

If you're not practicing output, you're not truly comprehending. Output, whether it be speech, writing, or signing, is how you get and demonstrate confirmation that you comprehend.
You're absolutely right. Still, I'd ask the same question about forward secrecy: is there a realistic model where they actually help? My impression is that people would generally keep their chat logs for as long as they're relevant, and so a message can only ever become unrecoverable by an attacker once it's irrelevant, in which case it's likely to also be irrelevant to an attacker. I guess maybe there are cases where someone is picked up and it's found they were also involved in some otherwise successful action years before?
The cost of both monitors is over $700, and I’d estimate another $200-300 in peripherals that are new and unopened (I used my existing personal periphs). That’s market price. Their price may be higher, so I want to turn them in properly or at least get clear permission before donating them.
Consciousness has no definition outside of our interpretation that certain behaviors indicate its activity.

That is perfectly OK.

When people suggest atoms and planets exhibit consciousness, that stretches the patience of many observers, but it is a matter of convention: here's what I mean by consciousness, and these things I observe have interesting consequences for it.

Nothing wrong with that, either.

But insisting that both refer to the same phenomenon gets nobody anywhere.
And who will maintain this fork? For over a decade CUPS is the work of a single developer. No one is exactly lining up to maintain buggy printer drivers.
Yes land/property. You can’t avoid it because the government can physically take it.
Are you really looking for a black and white answer?
I complain about mobile chrome being a hostile anti user shit show multiple times a quarter on the internet. it's an incredibly cursed thing that the place users need the most chance to improve their lot, they are given nothing.
So excited to see this released, congrats! Astro is the closest thing to what I wanted (and a bunch more) when I started to get back into web dev and started building my personal site.

While I haven’t contributed yet (besides a slew of comments on issues/PRs), I’m stoked to take another stab at a Solid renderer plugin.

Really impressive work y’all. Can’t wait to see how it grows.
Resources doesn't matter, what matters is intent only.

If somebody intended to steal something or to kill someone, he/she will still end up in jail.

Please read what I wrote about 9/11. Al-Qaeda's resources were a tiny fraction of what Hamas has, yet US started a full-scale war in the Middle East and ultimately destroyed Al-Qaeda and eventually assassinated OBL.

If you use Geneva conventions and so called "International Law", then I'm not aware of any recent military conflict which didn't had elements considered a war crime. I guess IDF is the only army in the world who operates according to these rules and has legal approval for every military operation.

The truth is it's only applied to a weaker countries, and never to [list of countries redacted], or UN "peace keepers" who frequently committed real war crimes like raping women they were sent to protect.
That costs more money
I've "muted" quite a few people on various social media apps who essentially just are reposting some quote or post from someone else who is outraged about xyz current woke topic. Almost daily these people will share some new thing to be outraged about.

Of course do they actually ever do anything beyond sharing a post and acting like a good person? Nope. I don't see these people volunteer, donate, or do anything except share crap. So when they are someone I know in some way I just mute them instead of unfollowing.
I should have specified the 96 treaty, as both the USSR and USA have violated the 1963 agreement as well. Still no violations by Iran though.
Good point, and it makes me wonder if it's just a personality thing. Some of the best people I know are never obsessed with anything, and try to maintain things in moderation, while I (and many others) find it easier to be obsessed and driven in a few things, often to the exclusion of other things.
I'm not sure where the advantage is there. When you're talking about significant inheritances (like, $25m and beyond) the estate tax on the stock is going to be more expensive than it would've been to just pay the un-steppedup capital gains. Unless maybe there's workarounds to avoid estate taxes?
Oh, are you simply existing here? Nothing else?

I am positive you are not blind to the parallels between your current actions and the actions of which you claim to be ashamed.

I imagine the distinctions matter more to you than the similarities, but I honestly cannot tell why. Are you now better than the twitter user because less people use hacker news? Or are you better because the people you shame are faceless rather than a specific individual? Or is it simply because you reached the top of the comments section rather than being the 10000th voice?

I don't condemn you. I believe you should be allowed to speak your opinion. I just don't support your condemnation of others, especially the fallacious comparison to a violent, physical mob.
> Researchers note that a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan isn’t surprising, because it’s a city of 11 million people in a broader region where coronaviruses have been found.

This reads to me like willfully neglecting Occam's razor.
Maybe, maybe not. You'll have to share with me proof if you want me to believe that.

I hope you're not just saying that on the basis of that one statement, that'd just be trying to pass ignorance off as knowledge.
> it's been downloaded 1B+ times

Play store download numbers are meaningless for a pre installed app. Chrome is installed by default on all Android phones and you cannot remove it. If you disable it, often some other things like webview do not work well.
Fortunately for all of us, you don't get to dictate the purpose of the 2A, they do.
I know its not that much of a coincidence, but on reading the summary of this book on goodreads I looked up to see a jumping spider staring at me from the curtain.
Most people don’t consider real property and intellectual property to be equivalent.
>. Now imagine their language lacks something more complicated, like a robust MCMC sampler package à la PyMC3 or STAN, and they have to roll that themselves. Yikes

CPAN predates all of those.
It's definitely a cynical take but I don't mean it as gatekeeping; I think people get hyped up in gaming devices pre-launch like the Ouya that are better done anywhere else and when they actually try it are underwhelmed and don't use it.
–CVE-2021-33742, a remote code execution bug in a Windows HTML component.

The only one that stands out as being a real concern, but who's willing to bet it requires JS to exploit (or even if not, the attackers prefer to obfuscate it using JS)? Turning off JS by default in IE is probably the single most effective way of preventing these attacks. Even if you don't use IE, it'll greatly reduce the attack surface. I've browsed the shadier parts of the Internet for literally decades this way.
Sounds like a problem with how inheritance is taxed, not loans.
> How would it help if both watches/headphones/whatnot point to the same record in the ledger?

The watch has an ID/serial number. The record on the ledger is transferred to the new owner. If both new owners check the ledger, only one of them will have been assigned the watch with the corresponding SN.

the payment could even be done atomically with the assignment of the (authentic) watch. As long as the buyer validates it, the only one who could forge watches would be Rolex.
Yup. I’ll occasionally still break out Perl for quickly parsing FASTQs/SAM alignments/VCFs on the command line when sed/awk/grep won’t cut it, but for everything else it’s Pandas, NumPy/SciPy, Torch, and TensorFlow.
I think this is the right analysis. If Bezos has sold all that stock the day before he died, he would have owed capital gains on it and the remainder would be inherited. That's roughly the same situation as described with the liquidity event moved a few days yet it's not "double taxation".