skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a big fan of this, our home computers are all less than 2tb, at this point it looks like it’s cheaper to find someone else to do the backups who isn’t “unlimited”.

The biggest selling point to me for backblaze was set it and forget it + stable price.

Now they’re raising their price every year, and require that I jump through hoops to have the old price.
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Having contractors over to do work is a great way to spread a disease. The classifieds buyers are less of a big deal, but having shades of gray is probably unenforceable for any law like this.

Like how do you decide what is an acceptable violation of quarantine? Who decides? Who pays them to spend a lot of time deciding?
> made by a unethical company is keeping the web open?

There are no angels with the known contenders of "keeping the web open" unless you want to use SerenityOS's web browser that they made themselves.

Unless you are using a very exotic OS that has a browser, I'm not sure how you can begin to defend a chromium variant still derived by an unethical company (Because you have to update that fork) and then attack another unethical company for giving your data to them.
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So you would advise those people not to fear the Delta variant, because catching it is inevitable, and probably won't kill you?
>HTTP 400 level errors on their own do not indicate a problem.

...on the back-end, but they can help find issues with the front-end. For example: I have an endpoint my front-end calls in the background to update a preview for the user, I found out that some changes in the front-end made all calls invalid (but only in production), monitoring 400 errors helped me figure out the issue very quickly before a customer even complained about it.
Sometimes, "the client screwed up" because of you, if you have 90% of your clients messing up in the exact same way it may actually be your fault.
Any app that requires server side support like YouTube won’t work regardless if they allowed you to download the client if they no longer support that version of the API.

I noticed the same with the Kindle app.
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> "This is China wanting to stop foreign influence, and also more importantly protect their own companies. China has video sharing and micro blogging and social networks. Is it really evil intent that China allowed these local companies to form instead of ceding to foreign monopolies?"

what is a bit confusing to me is how they are crushing any company that gets successful. I invested in alibaba because I figured China realized having a strong and successful tech sector is critical to their goals of hegemony, but then they just crushed them and any other company that pops up. So when my friend said 'what about Didi', I was like stay away, china will hit them like the next wakamole, and they did within days.

I really don't know what their game is, but they are up to something.
> 1) Did that 1957-58 vaccine use existing tech? My understanding is that other RNA vaccines and therapies were already under FDA trials with ~10 year time-frames since the method is new.

Our scientific knowledge in 1957 was limited at best. The double-helix was discovered just a half-decade before. Today, we understand in-depth most of the mechanisms of action involved. There just isn't a comparison here. The COVID19 vaccine is far safer than what we put together in 1957, no question.

> 2) Why is sequential better, because it is considered safer?

It's safer to the original research subjects, but not to the general public. For general safety, you don't find out more by going slowly. You generally learn strictly more from a human study than an animal one, and you learn more from a large study than from a small one.

The point of an animal study before first-in-man is to not endanger a human subject. Small groups come before big ones to pick off things which might e.g. harm 10% of subjects. And so on. The decision was made to skip that step, slightly raising the risk of the subjects, in order to save millions of lives.

Part of that is we had pretty darned good reason to believe the vaccine was safe, and part of that was the grave risk.

> 3) Yes, short-term we know it is extremely safe. But there are zero people that have had the vaccine much over 1 year. Long-term effects are unlikely but it's just not scientifically correct to say that this vaccine is better studied than any other just because of the number of doses administered. Duration matters a lot.

Not so much:

- We have historical evidence. Do you know of any vaccine in the history of mankind which had long-term effects not visible the first few months? I don't.

- We understand mechanisms of action pretty well at this point. Your body gets all sorts of junk thrown at it all the time -- random polens, plastics from your water bottle, randomly mutating cold viruses, and so on. There just isn't any reason to believe a new vaccine is any more dangerous than a random bug bite. Indeed, we understand the stuff going into the vaccine a lot better than we do a random bug.
God, I'm so bad at judging business ideas. I read the post and was like "how is this a product of any kind?" and here in the comments it's seen as plausibly a billion-dollar company.

Maybe I should reconsider some of my ideas that end up at "oh, wait, that's just a shared calendar, and those exist for free with no more set-up than my idea would require, and I can't even be bothered to use that to solve this problem, so why would anyone pay for it" or "oh, but that's just a blog with an RSS feed, and those exist for free [et c.]", or "that's just a mailing list, but now you need to log in to something else to use it, which makes it worse than a mailing list", and so on.

Or all the times people tell me their brilliant idea for "an app" to serve some particular market they have insight into (say, it's their job), that'll make "a ton of money" and I search the store and there are 20 solutions for exactly what they want, that they just haven't bothered to even look for, let alone considered paying money for. Maybe those are still good ideas, somehow.
>So as the CDC link shows, the choice is clear: mass vaccination does indeed have rare side effects, but mass infection with the coronavirus (which is the only other choice) is absolutely worse.

Not sure I agree that it's so easily quantifiable or justifiable. The loss of life due to the virus is tragic, but has been mostly the old and infirm. The vaccination side effects have been rare, but mostly affecting the young and healthy. They're also only a year out in a massive rollout of new biotechnology. New, not in terms of time, but in terms of scale - the mRNA concept has been in labs for 20 years, but it's only been in labs. It's reasonable to suspect that there may be other side effects that have not yet manifested.

I'm glad we have the vaccines available for those who need them, and those who want them to feel safer. But if feels hubristic to state with such certainty that mass roll-out, including to children, is guaranteed to be better.
I recently heard the Economist interview Henry Kissinger. He is soon 100.
These quotes are even less coherent with whatever thesis you're trying to convey. Like... I'm pretty sure even Jean-Paul Marat would believe things are better now than pre-french revolution Paris, or say, reign of terror paris. Things are far from perfect, but they're definitely improving on many, many metrics. Wealth inequality is a (growing) problem, but I'd still rather be poor today than poor a few hundred years ago.
How you do your lifting can have drastic effects on how pumped up or relaxed you are afterwards. Lifting can be meditative and slow and systematic and leave you tired without being agitated, or you can do the full "Rocky" thing and get all pumped up and adrenaline flowing and grunting like the Hulk, and come out of it not just unable to sleep but unable to sit still.

Could be other things as well, of course, but that strikes me as one factor that might well produce those different effects.
A quick list of issues that early engineers had to solve with Loon:

1. Can you get wi-fi reception on the ground from a balloon? How big a transmitter, how big a power source, how long can you keep it going for, and how much weight do you need to spend on batteries for this?

2. Will your wi-fi reception cut out if a tall building happens to pass between you and the balloon? How do you mitigate this? Do you need duplicate coverage from multiple balloons? (Starlink is dealing with this now.)

3. How do you keep the balloons in one place, or at least control where they go? If one goes out of range, how do you make sure there's another covering all its receivers?

4. How much propellant/battery can you carry on the balloon for course adjustments? How long can it stay aloft before this is exhausted?

5. Where do the winds go in the stratosphere? If the balloons are not propelled, where will they end up? Can you use altitude changes to get into different jet-streams and reduce propellant use?

6. How do you respect country's airspace? How do you avoid causing international incidents? If a balloon does come down, how do you ensure it doesn't harm anyone and can be retrieved? Early in the project, Loon had an ops team of former navy SEALs whose job was to retrieve any crashed balloons without starting any wars.

And I wasn't even on the team - this is just what I got from a few lunchtime conversations. They had to invent new algorithms, first to model the wind systems in the stratosphere and then to optimize balloon placement given that wind. I know their CTO - he's got a Ph.D in stochastic optimal control (pretty appropriate for this problem). The math behind control theory, once you get past simple PID controllers, is hard.
There has to be another reason. Maybe Apple is polling weather data from another source that has a slight variation in measurements or something.

I refuse to believe they're tampering with the data just to avoid slight smirks by whoever thinks of a sex joke. That would be too moronic. But again, it's the same company that made Discord remove NSFW content for iOS users so... Not a nice thing to do Apple.
>Those autoimmune conditions will either manifest in 90 days or they will not.

Source? For the long term autoimmune effects of these vaccines, that is.

No? Well that's because that information is unavailable because it hasn't been studied long term hence it can't be known.

There are no long term studies. Hence the reluctance of many to get vaccinated. So that quoted statement can probably be banished to the world of pseudoscience for now. Or post your sources from subjects unrelated to the COVID vaccine that make you think that.
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> Covid discussion has become equivalent to politics

It isn't equivalent, it is politics. In the end I suspect the last 15+ months will be a story of:

10% disease mitigation, 20% intellectual error, 30% media fear mongering and 40% politics.
Normal election poling uses 1k sample size as a minimum and 3k is preferred.
This is just what it's like to work a repetitive desk job. I imagine it's similar for lawyers and accountants.
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You can be worried about both, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

I think Covid19 escaped from a lab and is probably engineered (to some degree), so I imagine it's also insanely messed up stuff.
It just depends which side you would like to put the responsibility on. Webhooks is mostly for owning it at source.
TFA explains this, although they never actually links the StackOverflow answer that they quote from.

> CPython’s list.sort is implemented in C (avoiding interpreter overhead), while heapq.merge is mostly implemented in Python, and optimizes for the “many iterables” case in a way that slows the “two iterables” case.

Going to the original StackOverflow answer, we can see the same user (ShadowRanger) expanding on this in a comment: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/464342/combining-two-sor...

> The selling point for heapq.merge is that it doesn't require either the inputs or the outputs to be list; it can consume iterators/generators and produces a generator, so huge inputs/outputs (not stored in RAM at once) can be combined without swap thrashing. It also handles merging an arbitrary number of input iterables with lower overhead than might be expected (it uses a heap to coordinate the merging, so the overhead scales with the log of the number of iterables, not linearly, but as noted, that doesn't matter for the "two iterable" case).
I dunno about "multiway merge". But your standard 2-way merge is SIMD-optimized by having a binary-search across the "diagonals" of the so-called mergepath.

Leading to O(lg(p * sqrt(2))) time for the longest comparison diagonal, where "p" is the number of processors. Including thread divergence, that's O(N/p * lg(p * sqrt(2))) total work done, or assuming constant-p, O(N) of work per 2-way SIMD merge (with a large "p" providing an arbitrarily large speedup: but in practice is probably limited to 1024 for modern GPU architectures. Since modern GPUs only really "gang up" into 1024-CUDA thread blocks / workgroups efficiently)

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/f15/GPUmp.pdf

This provides a natural way at allowing ~1024 CUDA threads in a singular block to sort a list at O(n * log(n)) efficiently.
It's less about cost of building and more about cost of running.

Polling is chatty when updates are infrequent.
only hang out with other vaccinated people

I assumed this was a typo given that it was in the section addressing unvaccinated people. I believe he means to say that if you are unvaccinated your risk is lowered by only spending time with vaccinated people since the data shows that vaccinated people are considerably more protected from delta infection (although less so than earlier strains).

That said, I wish more papers and studies would talk about rates for those who pulled through a previous strain of covid and how bad it was when discussing immunities rather than focusing only on vaxxed vs unvaxxed.
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Past TimSort threads, for anyone interested:

Timsort, the Python sorting algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196555 - Oct 2019 (131 comments)

On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17883461 - Aug 2018 (74 comments)

Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436591 - July 2018 (77 comments)

Functional verification with mechanical proofs of TimSort [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9778243 - June 2015 (1 comment)

Timsort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3214527 - Nov 2011 (27 comments)

Java has switched from Mergesort to TimSort - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752677 - Aug 2009 (13 comments)
If you don't mind an abysmal speed (due to small buffer size), then Windows Explorer can access FTP (but no FTPS).
It might not be a big deal if you get COVID but it would suck to be the immunocompromised individual (or a friend/family relation to the individual) who might get COVID from you.
Pushing back on a good idea just because it's compulsory is not logical. It's like pushing back on seat belt laws. Seat belts are almost universally considered a good idea. They save lives of the wearer who doesn't want to turn into a hamburger during a crash, and protects the people around them who have one less projectile to worry about. There are almost no down-sides to seat belt use. Yet, I know people (even in my own family) who to this day refuse to wear them, simply because They Aren't Going To Let The Man Tell Them What To Do. It seems like just a childish and immature reason to not do something when the upside overwhelms the downside.
RIF (Reddit is Fun) is a great android app for the classic reddit experience, worth mentioning for anyone looking for a better android app.
I believe the French government forbid Google from removing newspapers from the platform.[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator...
Are events and webhooks mutually exclusive? How about a combination of both: events for consuming at leisure, webhooks for notification of new events. This allows instant notification of new events but allows for the benefits outlined in the article.
>After growing tired of modern software development practices

I'm curious to know what practices pushed you over the edge.

I sometimes struggle to keep emotional distance from work, especially when I feel that others are making our collective effort less effective. I have to remind myself sometimes that I don't actually need to care. At the same time, I wonder if I would be happier starting my own thing, and calling the shots. Of course, then I would have to care.
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Meanwhile who are/were the syrian insurgents?https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/scientists-clash-ove...
Yes, of the 177 million doses of vaccine given in the U.S., there have been ~1000 reports of heart issues. Amounts to ~0.000006% of people who receive the vaccine (in the U.S.) having inflammation of the heart after. [0] As far as I can tell, no heart-related deaths have been evidentially linked to any COVID-19 vaccine.

Meanwhile, COVID-19 itself also causes heart problems with higher severity and on a much larger scale. In children, this usually is multisystem inflammatory syndrome that can cause severe damage and death. In adults, severe heart attacks are a known (albeit rare) side-effect of COVID-19. [1] There is also early, but not conclusive, evidence that the coronavirus can cause longer-term heart damage in some cases, such as scarring.

You're welcome to make your own medical decisions such as whether you'd like to get vaccinated, but all of the data I'm aware of suggests that by any measure, vaccination is probably a good choice for the vast majority of people (barring those with allergies to the vaccine, or other known issues).

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my...

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
40h/week of work leaves very little time for household, kids, exercise, side projects, and relaxing.

I think 20h/week is a more reasonable target if you want to enjoy things beside work.

Of course it's okay to work 40h/week if you really want to, or even more, if you enjoy it, but you should really think hard about whether that's really what you want, or if it's just what your employer wants you to do.
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And yes in practice. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

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He certainly seems to have kicked his mental health can down the road. Lots of signals that he is immature in his relationships and perhaps using them as a crutch.
"Stop Flip Flopping"

Politicians have to appeal to people who crave stability above all else, and trying to do otherwise will just get them replaced by someone who knows how to appeal to stability.
I have a long standing issue with crypto that's starting to bug me...

When i buy stock i'm hoping for two things. first that it increases in value but also that i get to collect some dividends because i own a tangible piece of a company.

When i buy ETH or XLM my only goal is to sell it on to someone else for more, i get nothing while i hold it and can't actually use it for anything. All i'm doing is searching for a bigger idiot to buy it off me.

What am i missing?

Edit: I get crypto is emotive and a lot of you guys are balls deep in the cult but it'd be nice to get some answers rather then my post just getting hidden.
As you said, details are yet to be debated, but i highly doubt grocery shopping will be on the list of restricted activities.

For the rest, PCR tests for free until the autumn will give plenty of time for everyone to get their two doses. It's not that complicated nor time consuming to take one every few days, it just requires anticipation. ( And btw did they specifically say PCR? I don't recall.. Antigen tests are quicker and might be an easier way out )

The timing is very short indeed, bordering on the unfeasible. I think that they're right in the approach, and maybe if they had given more time people would have been more relaxed and said to themselves they'll go get vaccinated once they're back from vacation, which might be too late to avoid trouble and new curfews, closings, etc.
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The Hope language would be a educational SML w/o side-effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language)
That “one of us will register it” is unlikely to happen. It’s easier to run a local server that handles the url or to hack the executable to ignore the check.
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I don't think the level of integration between tramp and other essential emacs plugins (flycheck, jedi, magit, etc.) is comparable to vscode. In vscode, entire plugins responsible for this stuff are sent over to run on the remote, leaving the local to run the UI - but also to keep all the settings and state.

In emacs I have to either add pretty complicated scripts to my .emacs just to get stuff to play together if it's even possible at all, or stay in the terminal and run it all on the remote (and put up with the lag, and re-mount/upload my configuration when a new instance starts).

For the longest time I used emacs on the remote and pycharm/jetbrains locally (and was a vscode skeptic) - that changed once I saw what the remote dev plugin was capable of (jetbrains doesn't have an equivalent). I still use emacs in the terminal on remotes for quick text editing, but for project work vscode works better specifically because it's easier to resume on disconnect (one-click restore of all state) and easier to configure. I use tmux in the vscode terminal to resume remote shell sessions.

More importantly, it's a lot easier to onboard others to vscode because the IDE as a whole is more discoverable, more user-friendly, and follows platform conventions more closely compared to emacs or vi.

The one big feature that I miss in vscode is tab key behavior/intelligent indentation. Emacs does this way better - tab just does what I mean, instead of inserting a useless literal tab or spaces.
Besides HN and similar small tech-conscious circles, I've never heard anybody complain about Google's privacy practices or Apple's walled garden.
Yeah looking at the all the features of the heapq.merge() version, I kind of doubt implementing it in C would speed it up much at all.

edit: Yeah I now see where the author mentioned the design philosophy of the python version. It was a bit burried, but it answers my question like you say. I personally find that to be the most interesting part.