skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we have enough supplies of those vaccines yet, worldwide? Have we vaccinated sufficient people yet, worldwide?

Sadly, no and no.

Even in many US states it's also not enough yet.

And many countries must be looking at their situation regarding vaccine production in general, particularly dependency on other countries, and finding that to be something that they want to secure for themselves.

> for vaccinated persons means the virus is no longer a threat

I would call it a much diminished threat, which would be further diminished by vaccinating more other people, rather than "no threat".
Carbon taxes do not have to equal consumption taxes.
Lower income people would already be turning a profit. Anyone with lower-than-average emissions would get more in their monthly dividend check than they pay in total carbon fees.
LinkedIn is absolutely atrocious for sending unwelcome emails. I actually filter them all, at this point I’m motivated by pure spite towards the kind of companies that think they’re entitled to my attention as and when they demand it.

If I want to know about things on LinkedIn I’ll look at LinkedIn, I don’t need their crap in my inbox too which is 80% irrelevant rubbish anyway. Email has the worst signal to noise ratio of any modern communication systems in use today, I’d send it the way of analogue TV if I could.
> Well, you could paste a picture here :).

That does sound like a pretty nice thing to say! That said, i can't exactly recall seeing many "Show HN" posts about making furniture, though awesome stuff like that does occasionally appear in the comments.

I do feel like reaching out to some of the online communities for those particular interest groups could be pretty beneficial, though! For example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Carpentry/
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/

(just using Reddit here as an example, because it's one of the better known sites)
um, you should NOT be running debug=True.
When is eventually? In infinity years?
Web development suffers a lot from 'groupthink'. This leads to there being a lack of singular words to describe the type of webdev that is described in the article.
I first saw the quote in something by Robert Cringely. (The Internet claims that Cringely attributed it to Amara, but I couldn't find the original source. Maybe "Accidental Empires"?)
100% this spirit. I like how I can take an active role in my community helping with this kinda stuff. I ask business owners all sorts of missing details you can't add to the other maps. Some people have laughed when my maps are appear empty in some places, but when I show them how easy it was to meaningfully contribute and the aforementioned details, I hear comments of jealousy.
This has been the case for as long as photography has existed. It's particularly important for a free press and a functioning democracy to be able to take photos of unwilling subjects such as government officials in public.

Besides, it's not like they're breaking into her home to get shots. Everyone has a right to privacy in their home, but not in public spaces.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not making excuses for the excesses of paparazzi, but this doesn't appear to be one of those cases -- particularly if the photographer sent a takedown demand and she didn't comply.

Finally, jurisprudence isn't at issue here. Maybe you meant legal rights?
Pharma lobbyists gained enough control over FDA oversight to get a failed Alzheimer's drug approved.

I'll put my hand up to perform ethically at my job and not allow regulatory capture.
They are - it’s also a thing that corruption happens. There has been a lot more corruption than usual the last 4+ years in gov’t offices, and it will be a long time before it’s all identified.
iirc, because Chia mining only works with SSD and better
It wasn't worth it.
I keep thinking this is such small beans compared to global warming, it's hard to feel concerned about it. Even this article seems full of maybes with little major consequence. Am I missing something?
Apple's driving coverage has been improving and is now as good as Google's in the SF Bay area. Google is still better at walking directions (especially involving building access), and I'm sure their coverage is superior globally. Apple doesn't support multi-point itineraries and doesn't have depart at / arrive by functionality, which can be very useful.

Apple has generally copied Google's mobile UI approach, which has been devolving for a few years now (2018 brought the large and useless bottom "explore" panel IIRC). Google's iOS app is almost impossible to use as an actual map now -- it's exceedingly difficult to pan, orient, or zoom to inspect things. Everything you do has to be part of some flow that somebody designed, while it flashes surveys at you. Trying to do anything else just bounces you between flows in a loop. It's become and idiot app to the point that I wonder how those involved sleep at night.
African Swine Fever Virus
I agree - long, but definitely worth reading
Entropy coding in Oodle Data: the big picture
The allegation is that the "Linux Audio" consortium (linuxaudio.org, github.com/linuxaudio) is compromised, and therefore "dead". The new-session-manager announcement emails come from software@linuxaudio.org. new-session-manager lives at github.com/linuxaudio . The moderators of the linuxaudio.org mailing lists are banning non-session-manager messages. new-session-manager may be one project, but its leaders have infiltrated the Linux Audio organization.
I have a Unifi UDMP, which while I think is probably the best prosumer option right now, falls way short due to a PPPoE problem that limits fiber connections to under 500mb/s, and the lack of load balancing across multiple link networks (which I totally admit, is a first world problem).

I am thinking about building my own, but then comes the maintaince of all of the hardware / software. For me that would be fine, but for my family, it would be a total PITA to manage, and any downtime would be horrible.

So, stuck with UDMP for the moment, until they either fix their problems, or alternatively I decide to bite the bullet and build this on top of linux.
Frido: A to-do app to free you from creating endless to-do lists
I’m an introvert, but I’m also married with 7 children (5 still at home). Frankly I got too much human contact during the lockdown. When I would go into the office pre pandemic I could go to my cubicle, hunker down and not deal with anyone for many hours at a time. Not so easy when I don’t have an office at home and the kids are all doing school from home. However, I did find I was much happier and had much improved mental health by working from home. All things considered, the lockdown was fantastic for me. 10/10 would recommended again.
Ukrainian law enforcement close mining farm with 3800 Playstation 4 consoles
TypeScript: Use Generic for Strings
Kubernetes.

Sorry couldn't resist. It looks just as you said, a collection of resources. It's sort of similar to those "awesome" collections on github that sometimes get posted here.
Should the real estate board be able to take pictures of your house to include as stock photos of the street?

Should you not be able to take a picture in public if everyone in the area hasn't signed on?

You would never be able to take a picture in a city again unless you zoom in on a leaf.

Should all security cameras point at public areas be removed?

You are in public. Outside of your home. On the sidewalk.

The other question should you be able to profit off of photos of subjects that are not you and didn't have your permission? I would say yes.. as all newspapers, mags and a lot of books would become illegal.

Would you be able to revoke your permission later?
> The current stock price is always a prediction of future earnings

Maybe in theory, but in practice, at least currently, that’s not how the market is behaving.

The current stock price reflects the aggregated sentiment of past transactions regarding the probability of the actors being able to turn a profit now vs later. The person who is selling is either acting on the sentiment of cutting losses or realizing a gain, while the one buying is acting on the sentiment of the expectation of future gains.

Earnings might be one factor that informs sentiment, but it is not the only one or even the most important, especially for retail investors using Robinhood for example.
Dua Lipa being a public figure is irrelevant. If you take a photo of me - and I am definitely not a public figure - and I copy or distribute it without your permission, I would be committing a copyright violation.
I would believe Microsoft was blocking progress if only they were making operating systems or office suites or whatever it is they patent.

It isn't just a claim though - I pointed to an actual lawsuit. If there was a single eink competitor being used in products outside of China, I would agree with you. TCL claims to have something in the works, so maybe change is coming.
You should explain these issues in the repository, not in Hacker News comments!

A benchmark of 100,000 32 bit integers suggests that you will be comparing against algorithms that do well on that benchmark when it's not the case at all. The concept of stability doesn't apply when elements that compare the same are indistinguishable, which is the case for integers. And I think it's an exaggeration to say pdqsort has "killer inputs". In your benchmarks the patterned data always sorts faster than random, so the most you can say is that merge sort exploits some kinds of structure better (I have seen patterns where it does worse, but not by much). I expect timsort has some similar advantages over blitsort because of its ability to find natural runs while blitsort always starts at size 32—try an up-down pattern with runs of length 50 for instance. The absolute worse case for pdqsort is a fallback to heapsort. With pivot randomization it's pretty much impossible on large arrays unless they are engineered to make pdqsort fail, and you end up sorting the array three times slower or something. Not much of a DOS attack.

Having a fast merge sort is definitely useful in a lot of situations (my thoughts at [1]), and I've been interested in quadsort particularly for that purpose (blitsort seems to emphasize lower external memory usage which I've never had a use for). Half as fast as pdqsort on random data is actually somewhat better than I expected. It feels dishonest to see "Blitsort has exceptional performance" followed by selective benchmarks showing worse algorithms, and it makes it much harder to figure out what blitsort is good for.

[1] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/primitive/sor...
Agreed. AWS RDS instance types are just EC2 instance types prefixed with "db." and you're choosing either single-AZ or multi-AZ deployments so presumably AWS is just spinning up 1 to 3 EC2 instances with some preconfigured software on them.
Also feel free to play with EdgeDB in your browser with our interactive EdgeQL tutorial: https://www.edgedb.com/tutorial
What does that mean for the Covid vaccines?
Glad you liked it and found useful.

Kudos to your future projects.
Uber hasn't raised their base rates in my city for years now. I drive for Uber, and it's more profitable than ever.

This is because of surge pricing and higher volume. Even when there is no surge profitability is quite good as long as it's busy enough for back to back rides.

If you're patient and ride during slower times you pay a similar amount to what the price was years ago.
Sure, here's the one I've had experience with: https://addinsight.com.au/

They put powerful bluetooth sensors on poles or in roadside cabinets. They're pretty cheap to deploy so have become widely used.

Pretty much if you have two bluetooth devices talking to each other, you can be tracked by your bluetooth mac address. (Same as wifi networks and sniffing with wireshark etc)

Or if you have a device pinging with a non-random mac (ie your car).

If you've got an iphone and it's not actively being used, you get a random mac, no problems.
That is impressive! Did you do that on a 200A 120/240V service?

What is your load? Ac?
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I am not terribly attached to the term introvert but it seems the best available term that communicates a dynamic I experience. Maybe lean into that confusion?

Certainly, we would agree that to socialize one needs to try doing it and grow. Sometimes there will be failures and consequences.

I've done the work to acquire my social skills and would hazard a speculation that I might have more sophisticated social skills than many.

Having to learn a skill to use it is not the thing I am objecting to. That is unless by "skills" you mean willingness to meaninglessly spend my time and resources practicing the skill. To be more concrete, a normality in business is checking in with people about their children and other important aspects of their lives. I actually like that but find it annoying that very few people actually want to dig in to any depth and talk about the flows of their emotional journeys, their core intellectual advanced, the things that they've learned, or instructive errors that they've made so that we gain wisdom from the conversation. They're responding to incentives because having broad social capital has in many scopes become a gating function to prosperity. It is such that those who enjoy socializing voluminously have quite a bit of advantage. I would much rather build and create tools that solve problems, or use my socializing to really clearly identify the cores of problems so that they can be better solved. I completely appreciate the value of socialization and collaboration. It is simply that those who really enjoy socializing in and for itself will dilute conversations to make them less valuable and have created a norm of this that seems to me to carry a lot of opportunity cost.

We completely agree that sometimes we must experience and accept pain and struggle. There's a big difference between feeling our efforts and being self displacing.

Consider an engineer who gets positions because they are well connected and another who is an effective teammate and simply amazing at their job. Which one do you want to hire? You're more likely to hire the first. What if they're in the same team and the latter did most of the work? Often it's the former that gets the recognition.
A while back I saw someone implement pattrn matching over Rust/Haskell-like algebraic data types with macros in C99. Think it was called something like Datatype99
True. On general principle I would recommend folks invest in single mode rather than multimode fiber for permanent installs, as the price delta on SFPs is low enough these days. Multimode is a complete pain as it needs to be upgraded for higher speeds every decade. If it's just a couple of patch cables in a home lab, it doesn't matter, but if it's run through a wall...
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Government STEM positions tend to be under paid vs the private sector. A lot of these people are taking a pay cut because they want to serve the greater good or work on an interesting problem.
Would you be so kind as to share some of your top picks for build systems?

As someone who wants to understand what makes a great build system, I'd very much appreciate it
I saw a similar quote from Asimov or Heinlein or the like, in the introduction to a science-fiction anthology in the eighties.
Bicycle sidecars as alternative to cargo bikes (2015)
FDA's state of compromise goes a lot farther back than 4 years.

ref: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2016/09/20/approv...
Is that clear? I see all sorts of new and useful implementations of AI coming out everyday.
Maybe you can just chalk "failure" up as a superlative regarding the doe eyed gushing public perception of this developing technology.
Super MIDI Pak turns your SNES into a MIDI synthesizer
I've experienced 50 degrees Celsius in the Sahara. Hard to imagine hotter.
Apple Maps in iOS 15 will have leave at/arrive by. I've been using it in the beta
The Infinite Ugly Scroll
We never really let up from the quantitative easing implemented a decade ago, with QE4 being conducted in response to the pandemic.

Interests rates are already low, and it seems like a conscious choice not to raise them because of the potential negative implications.

Everyone seems to be buying assets, whether financial or real, as a result.
While I disagree about banning this research, I totally agree with the main point about this paper: it amounts to fitting several parametric curves to historical population lifespan data for several species.

This class of models is a simple extrapolation of historical aggregate lifespan time-series, and thus cannot model non-trivial pharmacological and genetic manipulations even in principle, unless these are a part of a large smooth sub-trend that has already begun.

One wouldn't be able to predict that some random flavonoid molecule extends lifespan of lab mice by 10-15%[1], and if we took the [overstated] paper's title claim uncritically, this research wouldn't happen. And yet it happened, and more than a dozen clinical trials in humans are underway.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197652/
It seems to me that aging is not as destructive as cracking an egg. It is certainly more gradual. So perhaps that is a more tractable problem.
That's in the shadows, right?
Thanks for pointing out that!

Here is the article about the COVID-19 and Bill Gates on the same page:
https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2021/05/10/unthinkabl...
New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes in Georgia to Tip 2020 Results
> That's not how that works... Any granular material, even sand, will spread the forces laterally. It's impossible for the full weight of the soil above to be applied to the steel structure.

Absolutely false.

The ground may be plastic on a long time scales (depends on the material) and over time full weight of it can be transferred to the structure.

Do following thought experiment: build a bridge out of clay over a scale. The bridge might not suddenly collapse, but it will slowly deform and over time all weight of it will rest on the scale.

If you have noticed, the top layers of the tunnel are made of clay. Clay is plastic and will creep over time.

It is the same basic principle as buildings falling due to ground giving under foundations.
@ARandomerDude, thanks for the sharing your perspective.

Then again, I created this library for people who create no-code tools not for who use no-code tools. Though they can also use this. I think, the title I wrote have given a wrong impression, that is, 6 or 9 the same thing. Ha ha.
Hey, after 1 minute of looking at it, it looks very interesting (composable etc), especially after reading recent sql rants like [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27791539
Rent prices are soaring as Americans flock back to cities
A WASM module basically is like an OS process, from security point of view.

So now think what might happen, when not used properly.

Some form of bounds checking should have been part of the design, like memory tagging.
The article focuses on megastructures for the clicks but it seems the actual project uses the more restrained term “technosignatures” (of which megastructures might be one, albeit a far-fetched one).

A more likely technosignature is the presence in a planetary atmosphere of a chemical that is produced by no known natural mechanism - and that of course would not automatically prove alien life, because we might just have overlooked a possible natural pathway to the production of that chemical.
I disagree, or at least would point to it being anecdotal. All the online game addicts I know that are still introverted, are less social then they've ever been regardless of whether they still play games. If anything they've become more so, either in games or with some other thing. These people don't have any problem with how much they spend gaming. However my online gaming addict friends, including myself, do have a problem with it, and deliberately choose not to on the basis that it encourages social isolation and destructive tendencies.
Is the cost added by the journals justified by the ultimate difference in output? It ultimately depends on your goals, probably. In my opinion, a good competing system would more or less completely eschew physical copies and save that process for anyone who is willing to take on the costs associated with that. And ideally, the peer review process would be independent from publishing, since that seems to be the invaluable service that publishing companies provide.
You’re implying that it’s either AGI or nothing and I can’t agree. There are plenty of applications and use cases for ML out there. Should that be called “AI”? I don’t care too much personally. Is it overhyped? Sure. But there is enough useful stuff there that I don’t expect another winter or AGI any time soon.
Love osm and osmand, but if I'm travelling in town then I go to Google map for real time traffic and public transit.
> Knowing an additional language doesn't have that effect, believe it or not.

This seems absurd. Being able to have a conversation is orders of magnitude more effective than the mimicry and hand signals that must be resorted to when you truly don't speak the same language.

> languages have political and aesthetic functions.

Right, but politics and aesthetics are also ideas that are transferred via language. It's really just a protocol. What was lost when most European languages adopted the Latin alphabet? Or when the Chinese empire standardized the writing system?

> Take a rhyme, for example

What additional information is transferred in a rhyme? What meaning?

> a reductionist misconception on your part.

What can you do with language that does not constitute the expression of a thought or an idea?
haha, agree but not merely for programmers but for technical persons.