skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google must not, and cannot implement FLOC without it being a cross-browser standard; that is to say if anyone of Microsoft, Apple or Mozilla veto FLOC, it's dead. This is how standards are supposed to work.

This isn't how internet standards work, or the how they have ever worked. Take the development of HTTP/2:

[2009] Google researches how HTTP could be improved and develops SPDY: https://blog.chromium.org/2009/11/2x-faster-web.html https://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper

[2010] Chrome implements SPDY, and they start gathering real world performance data.

[2011] Several rounds of iteration to make it faster, more reliable, and fix bugs.

[2012] Major websites built out support, Firefox adds support, the process of standardizing it with the IETF begins: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mbelshe-httpbis-...

[2013] More and more sites build support, CDNs enable it by default

[2014] Safari adds support.

[2015] Standardized as HTTP/2: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7540

Standardization follows cross browser support, and cross browser support follows single browser support.

This is the path FLoC is following: it's currently incubated under the WICG (https://github.com/WICG/floc) and Chrome is developing it. Other browsers are paying attention and evaluating: that's what this Mozilla article is about. If at some point we get to a version that other browsers are happy with and choose to implement, then it could potentially be standardized.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
I can’t answer all your questions, but for the 5th: the spike protein is most definitely cytotoxic and my guess is that they are not at all attached to the membrane (as nor is covid particles remain attached), effectively solving 1 and 2 of your questions. As for the cytotoxicity, they are made in a locally high but overall very low level compared to even a mild Covid case, so the effects of that should be less than what covid would have been. About 4 I read that basically every foreign protein in the blood stream can potentially start platelet aggregation, so there is that.
Have you ever seen how stressed out drivers behave?

We've all seen that person in a Honda fit who's so terrified of being on the freeway during rush hour they're driving like an overloaded scrap hauler and generally causing a problem in whatever lane they're in.

That doesn't make the roads safer.
I've had servers running in a 35°C room for almost a day. Curiously 3 years later only one hard drive died. And they are >6yo machines. Recent machines are supposed to handle 35°C air intake according to Anandtech and special servers can take more https://www.anandtech.com/show/7723/free-cooling-the-server-....
There is sugar coating it, and there is exaggerating it beyond what is likely true in a way that will enable even more evil without actually making things any better.

Let's not pretend that it's because people have said similar things before as part of a push for war. It's because the same people, and literal defence contractors, are behind much of this information, coinciding exactly with a push for war.
Baseless speculation.

And it's always the right time to test backups everywhere.
Sorry about that. Vacationing in Miami Beach right now so I might not be 100% in my descriptive capacity. Anyways, yeah, that obviously could work, but I'm kind of trying to make this all just run in memory because I'm already persisting all the data separately.
Free Cooling the Server Side of the Story
> People seem to think their own personal rights are more important than the rights of society as a whole.

To me this reads like an epitaph. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Maybe you really would be happier living in a place run like China is.
Definitely agree. Blocked ads since 2003 or so, when they started going crazy. I even remember the name of the site I used for CSS ad blocking - https://www.gozer.org/mozilla/ad_blocking/
The probablity of survival from taking the vaccine more than 99.9%, so the benifits of vaccine is larger than the risk.
The Trump administration forced Apple to reveal at least two Democrats’ data
I didn't say it made the projects themselves unreasonable, I said that projecting those expectations on other projects is unreasonable.

Those are all inspiring examples of projects that went truly above and beyond the norm and achieved great success as a result.
The "we saw this problem at X place" always brothers me.

I'm old, I could come up with endless such stories that would require epic solutions, but in not sure there would be much gain. Tell me why we will hit that issue and why we can't fix it any other way... not just the vague notion of a problem someone else had for who knows what reason...

And the reason I want that level of detail is because I've failed to accurately predict such issues time and again too ;)
BRB. Going to go update my FMEA
Calling Haskell "glacially slow" is grossly misleading when there are languages like Python and Ruby in common use.
Is heart inflammation serious? News outlets report “increased risk of X condition” usually without any background on the seriousness of the condition.
> Cases were going down significantly in the USA before the mass rollout of the vaccine.

This is a very vague statement, so let's put some numbers onto it:

Total US vaccination rates exceeded 1% on January 2nd 2021. The US 7-day rolling average case count peaked on January 11th 2021. At that point, 2.7% of the population was vaccinated, and 632,000 people were being vaccinated every day (again, 7-day rolling average).

Cases were almost certainly going to trend down (albeit to a lesser extent) anyway, but I would argue that mass rollout was concurrent with a ~94% drop in case count.
Elixir, like Erlang, is functional so there are no statements. Everything is an expression, which evaluates to some value when executed. The “return” value is just the value of the last expression evaluated in the function call.
>And yet there aren't many people building ICE cars from kits. Why not?

There is basically no market for kit cars because if people want a particular kind of vehicle it probably already exists. If they want a particular kind of powertrain it probably already exists. So it's just a case of getting them and combining them. And there are kits that make the most popular combinations a bolt in deal.
>the OP employing manipulative communication.

> ... it's an effort at highlighting the manipulation—with references—so that vulnerable readers are informed and inoculated against it.

as i've already shown (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467720) you invented the "manipulation", ie. you generated misinformation, and you're clearly acknowledging here that you're using that misinformation in order to affect "vulnerable readers", ie. for propaganda purposes.
Which isn’t related to what you are replying to. We are talking of legit newsletter that offer 1 click unsubscribe.
This is GOOD. Drivers run over children so frequently that they need this system. We should not be putting drivers in a machine they can not safely operate.
This seems... good?

Ultimately I feel the responsibility for this sort of monitoring and punishment should lie with Congress, as difficult as it is to successfully write laws about things as nebulous as online slander.

But in the absence of them doing so, and the internet still being basically the wild west, the responsibility must lie with the service providers, and so Google taking steps seems positive to me.

Edit: It's also always nice to see investigative journalism having a positive impact on society.
vi/nvi/vim has the :ab command with does literally that on typing.

In ~/.exrc/.vimrc

ab qalpha α
ab qbeta β
ab qup ↑
ab qall ∀
ab qnot ¬

Also, for rlwrap users:

https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/apl-inputrc
Reddit will no longer display trending subreddits at the top of the front page
The vaccine’s matter is in your body for a day at most. The immune system is known for quite some time, and the immunization do happen. In what way could someone develop a side effect long after the vaccine? Of course medicine is data based, not necessarily about mechanisms, but at a point Occam’s razor has to apply. And either way, we would have seen by now any side effect since it has been injected into many millions for quite some time now.
Sure, and that’s not spammy at all
Pre-pandemic I used to occasionally do this with my coworkers and my boss, it was nice. Of course now all my coworkers and many people I knew have left the city and moved out of state, so this won't be possible again.
Looks like they were trying to make a clone of Atari's Stun Runner but couldn't figure out a storyline on outfitting hamsters with lasers.

https://youtu.be/U6CPtjyr19M
I would never pay for something that requires a “donation”.
Is RISC-V at Risk? Intel Might Purchase SiFive for $2B
Anti-vax on LKML... I wish it's just dislike about DEC VAX.
I am pro-permanent wfh, but do we really need to have the exact same discussion 4 times a day on this?
Having an abortion is not just about individual consequences, but it affects another life. And this life is absolutely defenseless.

One can argue that those who like to protect themselves can do it, regardless of whether folks around them have been vaccinated or not.

Therefore, the vaccination scenario cannot be equated to that of a suicide bomber, whereas the abortion scenario can.
The “Lab-leak” inquiry at the State Department
Bosses love the idea that they capture your time and part of your soul with work - you are theirs, “full-time.” Their intention was not just to hire you for a task within an organization - it was to trap you and your production in the office, and on some level divorce you from your labor while extracting it, in exchange for the “protection” of full-time work that rarely if ever defends you from layoffs or firings, especially in at-will employment states. That’s why Shayne’s statement is so powerful - it is not about work, it is about ownership.

How many of y'all working full time signed a contract that says anything you make, on or off the clock, belongs to The Company? How many of y'all noticed that in the contract and tried to negotiate it out, how many who did succeeded in that?
I find it weird how Chrome threads turn into an attack on Mozilla or rant about Firefox.
Firefox does not hide the full URL. Never has done in my experience.
> When did we ever live in age where "facts and science and raw data are used to drive decisions" ?

IMHO that was the case from something like the 70s to the 00s, but it could be rose colored glasses.

> How do you know this?

Without taxes there are no Police. No schools, no publicly funded roads, water, electricity or anything like that (street sweeping, snow clearing, etc.). That's just the very beginning.

No EPA. Nobody making or enforcing any kind of order. Nobody even making sure the food for sale is some kind of food.
I think it's safe to say without taxes society as we know it would fall apart very rapidly. Sure, would there be LaMOE's (Last Man On Earth) defending their Idaho ranch with all their guns... but in the broader sense everything we know today would stop.
I used to work 60-80 hours a week in the summers and 60+ between a full credit load and a couple of part time jobs. I went to bed twice a day for a couple of years because I was working swing shift and going to school.

I now have a 9-5 office job. I am apparently capable of working at least twice as many hours but I choose not to because I don't have to.

There are already people making twice as much (and more) than I do in as much or less time.

I don't think a 20 hour week for knowledge workers would have the effect you claim.
> The elderly and immunocompromised people you are related to, spend time with, and care about. Or, hell, even those that you don't, but just happen to come in close contact with.

No they aren't, because I can and do limit my risk to such people in other ways. And they can and should limit that risk as well themselves, in other ways than getting others vaccinated. Why?

Because the space outside your home isn't some "safe space" where you won't ever get infected. As a general rule, you are responsible for your health and safety, nobody else is. There are other people with different health strategies out there, even people who are not afraid to get infected.

> We vaccinate not to protect ourselves, but to protect society

Society changes, and it does not need protection via compulsory vaccines, except the 1984 kind. People and their rights need protection.
Original source article that the video is referencing:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-10/chipmaker...
Would you consider roads to be experimental too? Governments have sovereign immunity, they can't be sued for damages you incur due to poor road conditions unless they willfully allow themselves to be sued.

The definition of experimental has no relation to the ability to be sued.
Insulation usually resist at must higher temperatures.
> "BitClout uploads your keys to their server on every API request. Any employee with access to that server can steal all the money on the platform at any time"

!!
3g+ HCQ and 1g+ AZM greatly increases survival in Covid patients on IMV
I think it makes it easier to tick off the list of cases that need to be tested: one for each head.
Actual numbers from the article:
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There were 283 observed cases of heart inflammation after the second vaccine dose in those aged 16 to 24 in the VAERS data. That compares with expectations of 10-to-102 cases for that age range based on U.S. population background incidence rates, the CDC said.
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The population for this is 130 million people who had one or both doses.

So, the chances might increase from one in a million (or possibly one in ten million) to as much as two in a million.

OK. I don't think about one in a million risks, even though they happen to about 8,000 people a day. It's not reasonable.
Airbnb Support Is Shit
I got bug bites at Airbnb. Doctor says its bed bugs. Host kicks me out same day leaving me stranded for the night and changes the locks, but says will refund. Next day he says he didn't find any bed bugs, so he will not refund, oh and plus cleaning fees! Airbnb support is just going back and forth, doing nothing. The trip is still "Current trip" so I'm paying for a stay that I'm literally locked out of.

I am truly shocked by Airbnb's incompetence and lack of real sympathy for guests. If I'm ever in serious trouble, I know I can't count on them. All of their support is electronic... and S L O W.

They have little interest in truly helping guests. They offered NO material support when I informed them I had been locked out at night? How about providing a hotel for a night? -- even shitty airlines will do that!

For the bed bugs, they're saying don't book another airbnb- book a hotel, so your bugs can go to a hotel and not one of our listings. Do wash your clothes in high heat, and throw away everything else. And oh, just to be clear, we won't be compensating you for anything you end up throwing out.

They made these conditions while suggesting they will refund me. After I agreed to the above, now they're backtracking on the refund even.

Lesson learned: think twice before booking Airbnb!
> why don’t we start vaccinating for it again?

Because vaccination isn’t 0% risk. Very few people are going to acquiesce to vaccination for a functionally extinct virus nor should they. Perhaps those who want to should be able to but that’s another discussion.
6:54 PM PDT

Starting at 1:18 PM PDT we experienced connectivity issues to some EC2 instances, increased API errors rates, and degraded performance for some EBS volumes within a single Availability Zone in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region.

At 4:26 PM PDT, network connectivity was restored and the majority of affected instances and EBS volumes began to recover.

At 4:33 PM PDT, increased API error rates and latencies had also returned to normal levels. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally. The root cause of this issue was a failure of a control system which disabled multiple air handlers in the affected Availability Zone.
These air handlers move cool air to the servers and equipment, and when they were disabled, ambient temperatures began to rise. Servers and networking equipment in the affected Availability Zone began to power-off when unsafe temperatures were reached. Unfortunately, because this issue impacted several redundant network switches, a larger number of EC2 instances in this single Availability Zone lost network connectivity.

While our operators would normally had been able to restore cooling before impact, a fire suppression system activated inside a section of the affected Availability Zone. When this system activates, the data center is evacuated and sealed, and a chemical is dispersed to remove oxygen from the air to extinguish any fire. In order to recover the impacted instances and network equipment, we needed to wait until the fire department was able to inspect the facility.
After the fire department determined that there was no fire in the data center and it was safe to return, the building needed to be re-oxygenated before it was safe for engineers to enter the facility and restore the affected networking gear and servers. The fire suppression system that activated remains disabled. This system is designed to require smoke to activate and should not have discharged. This system will remain inactive until we are able to determine what triggered it improperly.

In the meantime, alternate fire suppression measures are being used to protect the data center. Once cooling was restored and the servers and network equipment was re-powered, affected instances recovered quickly. A very small number of remaining instances and volumes that were adversely affected by the increased ambient temperatures and loss of power remain unresolved.

We continue to work to recover those last affected instances and volumes, and have opened notifications for the remaining impacted customers via the Personal Health Dashboard. For immediate recovery of those resources, we recommend replacing any remaining affected instances or volumes if possible.
The problem is trying to accurately quantify value. If there is a metric, it will be gamed.
> The tough questions were “dead key problems”. How do you write the following program, if the following keys are broken?

I've never heard of this style of programming question. It's fascinating that we've gone through so many styles of interview over the decades, from pair programming against unit tests to Google-style whiteboard algorithms to early-2000s Microsoft-style brain teasers and "why are manhole covers round".
I cannot recall ever reading an admission that all the star-gazing we do is looking into the past. The very distant past in many cases. The IR from Dyson Spheres, alien radio, all that, could be on it's way, inside our light-cone. Articles like this (apart from being very interesting and not focused on my peeves) seem to equate abscence of evidence with evidence of absence. I get that there is no universal clock, or maybe I don't. What am I missing?
Was there some work after to add other inlets?
I think observed only along the axis of the increase in remote work as a percentage of available software jobs this may true, but may not properly account for the continual geometric increase in demand for highly skilled software developers happening alongside the other shifts.

Or in other words, I suspect demand for developers is going up faster than remote is addressing supply.
How are independent western journalists going to ensure correct reporting? Independent western journalists lie and lie often, they're not much better than the rest of journalists.

So what happens if half of them find a shoe factory and half of them report something else as part of a governmental push for fabrication of ground for war and soft power?

We already see factually incorrect information in Western media, and Western journalists repeatedly lie in similar cases. So knowing that it only takes one story to set a narrative, how is your proposition any more conducive to finding the truth?

When war and empire are the driving concerns, truth is simply impossible. All you can do is reject unfounded information and be skeptical. Yes, that may mean that some atrocities will be successfully hidden. But more lies will not get through, and ultimately those lies can cause way more death.

How many deaths came from the gulf of Tonkin incident, and how many would have died if it is was real but not uncritically believed? How about the Nayiriah testimony?

Besides that, we live in 2021. It's really difficult to hide things. Proof of this was the unauthorized video evidence of a prisoner exchange in Xinjiang done with a drone. It could just as well have been a camp. But in the end it didn't show anything except that prisoner exchanges are done by train.
Apple Accidentally Confirms Powerful MacBook Pro Upgrade
I’ve seen how fungible email lists can be for marketing departments.

I’ve seen cases of “I very carefully opted out of your dark pattern, and then your automatically opted in my account after the fact”.

Unfortunately a lot of companies that will take your email for verification/password resets don’t keep that list away from their marketing department.
Website Analytics of Our Dreams
Exactly, piping a bunch of ! functions is the way.
Other question, are there Halon detectors that tell you when it is safe? Or just like in MRI/NMR rooms simple oxygen meters.
Ignoring your comment about a ficticious guy, I don't disagree that individuals have rights.

But if those individuals want to live among other people, they must obey by the rules and behave in a manner that is acceptable for all, and doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights.

Although "god" created us without any clothes (if you believe in that kind of thing), you can't walk down the street right now naked. You can't take food from the store because you're hungry (or even pick it off a tree a-la Eve) and you can't even just sleep wherever you want.

Individual rights are not the be all and end all when you live in a society.

If you don't like it, you're perfectly free to go live extraordinarily far away in the wilderness and never have anything to do with society. I lived in the Yukon. I know quite a few people doing that. It's a perfectly valid option. They hunt their own food, grow their own vegetables and go into town at most once every six months. They despise it.
Sounds like this: https://mobile.twitter.com/yodoctoryo/status/137127533820710...

This doctor might be able to help, he’s been doing a lot of research to long covid.
Why, counter-hack of course.
“I don’t think the vaccine is having much of an impact at all on case rates," Tom Frieden said in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” “It’s what we’re doing right: staying apart, wearing masks, not traveling, not mixing with others indoors.”

That's the former director of the CDC. Do you disagree with his assessment?
Lot's of Mazda's have HUD. And generally good usability.
any one can be a carrier, vaccinated or otherwise
the probability is just lesser [1].

My understanding is that vaccination is supposed to reduce the severity of the covid-19 disease, if you were to contract it. It does not prevent you from the viral infection itself.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/vaccine-q-a-can-a-f...