skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok did recently slip in automatic collection of fingerprints for your voice and face. Not that Facebook isn't doing similar, but legal or not, it may still be wise to encourage friends to not use it.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-pe...
In GPU we can start talking about kilo cores.
What is content caching on Mac?
sounds like a beefed up unix philosophy, I think command pipes in the shell gave us something very similar to this idea way back, except that it doesn't really lend itself to complex programs like I think you're suggesting
I graduated in the early 2010s and was told the same thing. Either “everyone” is a software engineer or it was all going to be outsourced to India, causing a race to the bottom in salaries.

The field to look at was cognitive science or neurology, which in fairness makes some sense given where machine learning is today.

Today, people are trying to get into tech companies, and those who take one boot camp course call themselves “software engineers.”
I'm not sure about Alpha-gal Syndrome, but thankfully in Idaho you won't contract Lyme disease from tick bites.

I'm originally from Idaho but recently moved to Virginia. I've been far more cautious about ticks here than I ever felt the need to be in Idaho because you just don't get Lyme disease there.

When I go hiking here I treat my clothing with permethrin, wear long sleeved shirts and pants, and use 100% deet on any exposed skin. So far I haven't seen any ticks on my body.
Around 1990, OSI looked to be winning, TCP/IP was a workstation-only thing.
No, it really sounds like a server room down there. You don't hear much of the APU, which is at the very back of the aircraft, ~60m away, with the exhaust pointed away.
I would argue against your final point. They may support some features that Terraform does not, but on the whole I would expect Terraform to have a more complete feature-set than CloudFormation.
While the M1 can beat laptop i9s (from older MacBooks), it definitely cannot beat desktop i9s like the one OP had - https://techjourneyman.com/blog/apple-m1-vs-intel-core-i9/.
>There’s a complex interaction between the tick’s saliva and the human immune system that activates this allergy.

"It's complicated" isn't really an explanation. Do you have any links that explain the actual interaction? I've been googling and can't find anything.
I had such high hopes for Chromebooks, I actually moved so much of my day-to-day onto some digital ocean droplets, scrapped my windows pc and bought a $150 intel-based chromebook.

I thought all I ever really did was VS Code, so I got code-server installed and everything else was mostly online anyway (Office 365, Exchange, Wordpress, etc), but the biggest pain point was the lack of a native terminal and ssh.

Even though VSCode has a great terminal built in, it seemed so wasteful to load into it just to open a terminal window.

After a couple of months, I just switched to MacOS, and still use my code-server install instead of VSCode, and 100% prefer it.
Huh, I guess I kinda beat this article by a couple years when I set up my in-laws old CRT TV with a Roku Express+. It comes with composite out, so no need for an external downconverter.
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It's more like someone buying a normal Hyundai that can keep up with the Ferrari, even when racing on the freeway.
I tried using another search engine, like Duck, but they are horrible. I don't know if it's because I'm not in the US, but it's BARELY usable.
It's not just the Mittelstand. It's also that Germany doesn't have financial markets as sophisticated as those in New York, London or Tokyo, so the DAX doesn't have companies whose centre of gravity is outside Germany in the same way.

As an aside, "sophisticated" sounds like an applause word which is not intended: I think overall the benefits outweigh the harms for Germany to have its business decisions made more by industrialists than financiers.
What I don't understand is, why do countries require all that for people from countries which have pretty much the same number of infected as they do (per capita)? If chances of a local spreading the disease is the same as for the tourist, because both countries have eg. 95positive/100k people, why bother?
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Expanding the money supply is making inflation worse, because that is the definition of inflation- expanding the money supply. Prices do not inflate, money supply inflates.
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I am not sure what you want to get at but if someone wants to be treated like being vaccinated, they should have to proof that they actually are. Anything else incentivizes behaviour that undermines the efforts to get a grip on the pandemic (i.e. it would let the unvaccinated flaunt the rules by just claiming that they no longer pose a threat to others and the pandemic would happily rage on).

We do not implement these measures here (Germany) at the moment. Anyone can visit stores or e.g. retirement homes without having to show a negative test result or proof of vaccination. Before easing the measures, people with proof of vaccination were treated like having a negative result in general, i.e. they could do all the things that others also could but without the hassle of having to be tested.
Not everything DARPA does is going to be a hit. Don't forget they're responsible for virtually all of the funding that helped build the myriad technologies that comprise the Internet.
Oh wow - I haven't thought of Tierra in 25 years. There was a time in the early 90's where I was super fascinated by genetic algorithms, artificial life, and chaos theory. I think it was all kicked off by James Gleick's Chaos and following threads in the bibliography.

I think Tierra was featured in Steven Levy's book Artifical Life.

In another thread on HN, people are talking about where programmers of the 90's thought we were headed and your mention of Tierra reminds me that I thought artificial life was going to be a big, big deal.
I believe DARPA is a national treasure, and has driven a ton of otherwise neglected innovation, but let's not overstate their contribution to Moderna. For exsmple, AstraZeneca did a deal with Moderna including a $240MM upfront to another $180MM for potential milestones six months before the DARPA money. That is all on top of a pile of venture money and other corporate deals over those few years. The value of the DARPA $25MM wasn't the money per se, it was the incentive for Moderna to keep a toe in infectious disease, which was a hobby for them (and the industry) at best before COVID. I believe the platform would have been established with or without the DARPA money.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
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Not speaking to the other points, but I did notice many stores completely reconfigured the checkouts in my area; before the pandemic there were few very tiny self checkout stalls, and there was always a long line of people with just a few items.

Now almost all the aisles are self-checkout and are friendlier to larger cart-fulls like I buy (having a few kids means there's no such thing as a quick trip with a hand basket anymore...).
Is there any indication that the WHO vaccination passport will stop to be good enough?

It seems to me this is just a question of convenience.
Can you please expand on your dislike for drive letters? Why should we prefer to not have them? What will be in their place and how will it improve things?

Genuine question, trying to imagine how/why I would not want drive letters. Maybe each device should just use the uuid set by the manufacturer? But then that's too ugly to display in a file explorer.. and often I don't just have 1 partition per physical device, so multiple mount points.. and other times I have 1 mount point with multiple backing devices (mirrors/raid).
No server is involved in scanning/verifying the QR codes, the only privacy violation would possibly be the people scanning the code taking the name/DoB for themselves but that would be a GDPR violation and I'd guess no legitimate business would try that.

I'd be showing my ID/vax record to those restaurants either way so it just seems like a technicality in the end. If you don't like it, don't use it, like all covid apps in the EU.
That's kind of what GPUs became, wasn't it? They do have thousands of cores, just not in the mega range
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When I was in college (~2009), I built a blog engine[0] on Java EE. It's still running[1], and here's what I built it with:

Payara[2]: I tried Glassfish, JBoss (Wildfly), and possibly others back in the day, and I found Glassfish the easiest to work with. It was still kinda buggy, but was good enough. When I saw that someone forked it, I gave it a go, and liked it better.

Postgres: Because it's Postgres. In the past few years, I've been loving its full text search and trigram features.

As for actual frameworks, servlets and JSPs run like bats out of hell. I've used Struts and Spring at some jobs over the years, but I don't have any particular attachment, and wasn't at those places for any appreciable amount of time.

[0]: https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet

[1]: https://theandrewbailey.com/

[2]: https://www.payara.fish/
Does the GDPR have an exclusion for legacy industries?

It's a little incredulous to have "hope" for Audi. This is the company that had self-driving cars in the 1980 that could drive from your garage into the swimming pool through the back wall. I did see a 10-cylinder Audi once but it my heart Audi is like Yugo or Trabant, not a premium car maker.
You can get tested instead of getting a vaccine.

(Also, a vaccine is not a "genetic treatment". Not even an RNA vaccine.)
Ironic, because responsiveness might inherently make it undependable because if you really needed to know where you are right now, that multiple-second delay isn't going to help.
I think it's very fair and valid for you to feel however you want with regards to shelter-in-place/wfh/lockdown, but to me it seems somewhat unconscionable to be smug like enjoying your time alone is a huge win against extroverts.

I feel like it's a pretty ridiculous over-statement to say that introverts feel like they're in a pandemic normally. I'm an introvert and don't feel like that. I suspect the only people who could reasonably feel like that are people with anxiety disorders or phobias.

I don't know, I'm not saying you can't express your opinion or feel how you feel. But I want to express I'm a bit grossed out reading your post, as you seem just a bit too gleeful and smug at this whole situation.
There are hundreds of millions of acres of food production in the USA and we are to move it to Boring Company tunnels...?

Edit; I guess the video says most countries, but this idea still seems ridiculous for so many reasons.
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In the video, the voice starts shouting at the robbers that they've dialled 911. But when they leave it tells the cashier to do it - then also tells him to follow the armed robbers outside to get the license plate number. Is that good advice..?
I regret following this advice in 2018. I have way too many SaaS applications that, 3 years later, still don’t support Ed25519 keys. The errors are never helpful, and each time I’ve had to troubleshoot the issue, it’s cost me at least half a day.
One week in addition to normal holiday allowance.
I'd add to this - if you're ever in DC and doing the tourist thing (or just have a free day), attending a hearing at the Court can be quite entertaining.

As noted, the justices are wicked smart. The back and forth with the lawyers is great. And the language used is usually comprehendible by non-lawyers.

Same comment applies to Congress, but most hearings aren't nearly as entertaining. But, it's worth it just to see how the sausage is made. And catch a ride on the Senate's private subway.
Really embarrassing and shortsighted decision.. As a person whose views align with Sanders, I chose to vote for Trump in 2020 since he's the first world leader to do something meaningful to stand up to China (and quite frankly, Biden had a horrendous China record throughout his political career). I had been cautiously optimistic about the Biden administration when they didn't immediately return to kowtowing to China like the Obama/Biden administration (I even became hopeful that I could finally vote for a democrat again), but I guess it was just a matter of time before he would shoot us in the foot by "playing by the rules" against an enemy that will cheat at every turn.

The democratic approach works great when you're dealing with honest and trustworthy nations that share similar goals and hopes for the future.. but the moment you're dealing with authoritarian dictatorships then the system will fall apart.. it wasn't a big problem before when the authoritarian countries were weak and unable to compete, but we've reached a point where China can easily copy pretty much everything the developed nations are capable of - now add lower wages, 996 work hours, forced labor, support from a government that won't hesitate for a second to block their competitors from entering their billion+ users market, a government that will threaten to do x and y if the country doesn't do z to support their company, etc.
I'm an extreme introvert as well, my wife is all the social interaction I require, and I'm a giant homebody, but I'm still super tired. Work wise I've been under pressure for a fair bit this year and there were no experiences to balance it out with. I miss a lot of small indulgences - quiet brunches on a Wednesday morning or going to get coffee. I may even miss the movie theater occasionally.

I certainly don't miss working from the office, but I miss the variety of downtime. A camel doesn't often need water, but they still need it.
> Because covid was an incredibly hard period for all of us and we as humans need a break.

While true and a good thing, i cannot simply take a step back, look at the whole picture and feel this feels a bit awakward. The op (guessing) is perhaps a lucky few that got to keep their jobs through the pandemic, spend more time with family and were baking breads and indulging in gardening etc. This while millions lost their jobs and health insurance, relied on govt assistance or pick a job like a cashier where you constantly met people during a pandemic, while day cares and achools were closed. And feels like we expect the rest of the world to move on like nothing else happened while feel like I need a month's break.
I've always had a hard time understanding the benefits of supervision trees in today's world.

Either the thing you're scaling / respawning is stateless, and then anything from kubernetes to amazon ecs will do.

or it's stateful with a state that you need to persist somehow, and then frankly the hardest part clearly isn't the way web server scale, but rather how the data storage and retrieval mechanism works (along with handling the potential transactionnal behavior requirements).

What am i missing ?
> Increased physical and social distance from other people

I believe for many people, this is more because "everyone else does it" and the general "miserable office atmosphere" in our industry. I'm not accusing the OP of anything by the way.

I would have said that I was in the group of "you've said hello, that's enough social contact for one day", yet after 15 months, at least according to friends and family, I'm more friendly, more sociable, and more outgoing.

I think really for a lot of people that are enjoying WFH for the last 15 months, what they're really enjoying, myself included is not sitting 2 feet from someone who is not family, that talks, fidgets, coughs, sniffs, slurps, and eats food at their desk 3 times a day, and being in an open plan office with 10-100 other people.
The big one is I thought 'visual code' and visual GUI building tools would continue to advance and play a lot bigger role in the future.

I also thought we'd see new paradigms in GUI and desktop design take over, probably involving 3D.

Everything related to how the internet has developed has been both awe inspiring and deeply disappointing.
Thank you for not responding with hostility. I do believe the goals of the Chinese government are nefarious, I mean this quote is pure insanity:

> Together with the Public Security Bureau, Huawei will unlock a new era of smart policing and help build a safer, smarter society

Maybe moves will be made in the future and I’ll look dumb for questioning this. In the mean time I guess I’ll go back to work so that I can pay Uncle Sam to perpetuate the glorious US war machine.
Yeah if this is the future then maybe the occasional robbery isn't so bad.
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you're right. I guess X64 and X86-64 are synonyms, more or less?
I don't think that's what they meant but it's a good point! I've seen embedded developers write some...truly terrifying code though.
Something left out of the podcast: Apple has spent over US$400B (400,000,000,000) buying back stock since 2013Q2. The buybacks started around the same time Tim Cook apologized (April 1, 2013) and have continued, without pause, since.
Are they taking the app down? Because no matter what people think even that "serverless", "cloud", "automated", "containers", "super-redundant" thing does not run without engineering and ops.
What's the difference between a "controlling stake" and just owning the company?
In a factory setting I would have thought existing robots would suffice.

Looking at the wider group, I would think there's lots of roles for robotics in construction. Delivery of heavy items across uneven terrain or up stairs - may be something like a robotic hod carrier.
What if they think the cashier triggered the warning?
Yes, I should have typed "clean code". It's exactly what you and also what the parent said. It's about patterns/architectures/abstractions that we consider to be good/beautiful, but with very little regard for performance ("just throw more or better hardware at it, that is not our problem"). What really rubs the salt on the wound, is that the people that advocate them are quite loud, they seem to be growing in numbers and there is a massive lack of evidence for the supposed benefits, while the drawbacks are clear and easy to measure.
Softbank said they were purposefully selling things off to do stock buybacks and cut debt earlier this year. They supposedly paid $100M for BD, so selling it for $880M would be a nice way to do that. I think the ping-pong is just coincidental timing of both Google and Softbank wanting to sell off R&D type things.
Can you name those destinations where you can travel to/from without tests?

If you have to fly, you have to do PCR test and again on return.

PCR tests in most cities are 80-130 Euro. Only if you live in Bavaria, you may do it for free.
I care.

Many are skeptical of a vaccine passport combined with a digital wallet for CBDC. The historical background of those promoting this program is concerning. Even without that, the historical parallels to other atrocities is concerning. Together it seems obvious to those who are willing to examine it.

Unfortunately, there's a distinct lack of "intellectual curiosity" surrounding these issues. People are scared. Once again, they are looking for authorities to help them. Dissent is demonized as always.

In this case, concerns are framed as dangerous propaganda preventing us from reacquiring our pre-pandemic freedoms. For those true believers, I ask: When has government willingly returned freedoms ceded under the pretense of emergency?

The banality of evil marches on.
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Awesome thank you for this, will dig some more on this, kinda interesting to me. Anything else you may want to share with us?

I use storage spaces on Windows 10 on 1 machine with 2 drives to mirror them.. so basically a software raid. It's pretty interesting and it just works, I don't have to babysit it. Same with Zfs mirroring. Wonder by how much these two software mirroring techniques differ from each other.
Clear and thoughtful introduction to how developers with different levels of experience onboard to Elixir projects of varying kinds. Strong evidence for Elixir being nice to use.
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The vaccines have regular approval in the EU by the EMA, the US approval is the odd case here. And there is no reason to expect a significant risk for side effects that only appear after several years, for vaccines they generally appear reasonably close to the date of the vaccination.

And you're seriously downplaying the risks of COVID-19 here, of course it is relatively harmless for very young people. But it is seriously dangerous for a large part of the population that is older.
Seems so: https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools/tree/main/migrate...
Which is how much...?
It looks like technically bogus to me.

A technically sound proof which doesn't require online access is like this.

The authority encrypt some private information(name and birth date for example) with the private key, and encode it to QR code and give it to the customer.

On entering the pub, the customer show the document(passport, driver's license etc) which prove his private information. Staff then decode the QR code and decrypt it with authority's public key. Check the decrypted text.
Walter's point is by even C's own standards, the behavior of automatically having an array be treated as a pointer when it is passed to a function is unexpected and a mistake.

Given he authored the D programming language, he is absolutely aware of the benefits of managing memory allocation, runtime checks for boundary overruns, etc etc...

It turns out when developing a kernel extremely fine, granular control, over memory is very important. And there are a lot of complexities that fall between the cracks of various architectures where a compiler and language having an extremely long track-record of behavior is helpful. The Linux Kernel folks have even gone as far as restricting the use of VLAs that were introduced in C99 due to unexpected side-effects and complexities that came from it:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ki...

I'm definitely interested in RUST, but it seems like everything is viewed through a RUST looking glass these days, and all answers and roads lead to RUST.
Not offhand, but you've probably inspired a lot of creativity with this across the internet... and a lot of copy cats. I'm looking forward to seeing what gets made.
As a (currently, sort of) introvert, I agree with both you and the parent. I also had a great time during the pandemic. But I was behaving exactly as I was before, when I was depressed. The difference is that now everyone else – even celebrities and Instagram party girls – were suddenly living my lifestyle, and that gave me a sense of comfort. It meant that I no longer felt like I was letting the world pass me by, because the world stopped.

But now it’s back on again, frankly, that feeling is coming back. It was nice while it lasted, but that’s clearly not sustainable for anyone.
That's exactly right. As of today, some virologists think that we are already seeing early signs of convergence among virus variants, i.e. the same mutations appearing in different variants.

It's early speculation and there is no guarantee, but it's certainly not given that there will be a variant that forces us to start from scratch.
It seems it does: https://onezero.medium.com/id-at-the-door-meet-the-security-...
No worries. This stuff is all as clear as mud, and different jurisdictions take differing approaches. There's a few competing standards, lots of noisy people, etc.
Agree bitcoin is a highly speculative asset. Is bitcoin also a reflexive asset?
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What an impressive build!
Same here. It was just sending text across a network, how boring!
Also the developers who worked on the Web were using scripting languages like Perl, not real languages that had to be compiled.