skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If running an Ansible playbook [1] is "close to impossible" for you, then there are a few different companies who will host a server for you. Including the guys mentioned in the main article here.

Sure, Synapse's performance isn't great, but still. Last summer I was able to run Synapse on a 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM droplet from Digital Ocean. I had 100 copies of a bot running, each with their own room, constantly sending messages and replies to each other. With all 100 going at once, it was super slow. But with fewer bots, or with a lower chance of replying to a message, it worked pretty well. Not bad for like $10 / month.

Also, if you want light and fast, check out Conduit, the homeserver written in Rust: https://conduit.rs/

[1] https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
I'd add Bvckup 2 to that list. Simply a application for copying/mirroring directories but is quick with a simple UI despite having lots of options.

Bought a license years ago but still use it daily.
> I have looked and I cannot even find how increasing CT values affect the false positive rate for the PCR testing. If my understanding is correct a single increment of CT essentially doubles the sensitivity of the test, so difference between CT value of 35 and 40 is 32 fold.

I have never used this particular set of primers, but have done a lot of PCR. In general, at 30+ cycles, PCR is prone to spurious amplification. It depends on the primers, temperature profile, and other details, but at these cycle counts you need to be skeptical of your results. It's easy to get noise.

I've never been able to fathom how a PCR amplification at 30+ cycles with no downstream purification or gel visualization is considered definitive diagnosis of an illness. I strongly suspect that the goal was to cast a wide net (i.e. bias toward false positives) at the expense of accuracy, but then "cases" became some kind of top-line media metric...
The same if true on a farm. There's always something to do. It appears to me that it's even more true on a farm - the list of things to do is never-ending and many are tightly constrained by season and weather. At least with software dev, we can get up and walk away without a crop rotting or livestock starving or being eaten by wolves.

Plow a field. Harvest something. Sheer the lambs. Fix the irrigation. Repair a tractor. Update the books. Apply for government grants. Fix a fence.
I had a similar plan when I started my career, where the idea was to save and self-support independent endeavors.

13 years later: I can execute the "full plan" at any time, but I find myself to have sufficient autonomy and be comfortable enough at my current position.

This plan is certainly not the highest payoff in my case, as I can't buy the toys/houses my peers have. However work/life balance is great, and I still have the option to build things without needing outside funding.
How about mbsync?
Described in part of this blog post
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/17/aerc-with-mbsync-postfix....
I do not know if IBM will do this with the AI work.

but in many other similar circumstances they give the option
of buying Application Assist Processors.
That takes the work away from the main processor.

It is possible that IBM will offer some custom zAAP
optimized for running the AI workloads.

IBM also open up running AI in their cloud.
The Gulf Stream really throws off intuitions of how North America and Europe line up with each other.
So their argument is: everyone is already infected, it's no big deal?

Whereas the actual questions are: why are people going into hospital without having a Covid test first (assuming non emergency)

And: What percentage of the people who tested positive in the previous 14 days in hospital because of Covid. And what percentage of the people who weren't tested went to hospital because of Covid related symptoms.
Not necessarily. They could also score in the 70s in 2 areas, score 115 in another, and 90 in the last one, and get a score in the 80s.

Beyond that, IQ is not even predictive enough of job performance for a standard deviation to be a death sentence.
i appreciate your feedback. thanks!

we do have a feature where users can talk to a coach and get their problems addressed.
There are a lot of people in the ocean at any given time. This is exactly the type of scenario Starlink is designed for: providing access in very remote and rural areas.
Dealing with Out-of-Memory Conditions in Rust
Farming and aligned professions such as vets have an absolutely appalling suicide rate even today.
Any habit taken mostly by men will be demonized.
An excellent, in-depth overview of Webkit/Safari issue: https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/

Previous HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27019077
> the shame and guilt associated with this makes it very traumatic for some people.

It's laughable that you think the solution to a problem like this is to share one's own vulnerabilities with a faceless private company.
Yep, much of the wins look to be a matter of just recompiling, which is great. I'm a big fan of these pointer tagging techniques in general. I just want to be clear that pointing at CHERI and going "See? We already have memory safe C and C++" is glossing over some important details.

Best of luck with the research, I'm quite bullish on the work.
> IMO farming has an absolutely terrible work life balance

Depends on your capital investment. Like anything, if you start with a lot of money it's a pretty sweet gig. If you're having to work an off-farm job to pay the mortgage then that balance can tip pretty quickly.
haha. didn't quite get what you want us to automate?
I will always support a phone that keeps the jack; my current Samsung has one as well.

That said, I was wearing wired headphones recently while cooking and it was a shock reminder of how easily they get snagged on things around the house! Incredibly frustrating when it happens.

I've been using BT headphones for nearly a decade, so I had forgotten the sensation. Of course, this is a moot point if you're seated. Then, a good pair of wired headphones probably provided way better SQ.
Novalpina Capital, the private equity owner of NSO Group is to be dissolved
Unbelievable. It’s only five in the morning and I’m right where I work. And while the other poor sods struggle in on the tube, I’m going to get some milk out of a cow!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
What is this nonsense? Billions of vaccines have been administered globally. If all the vaccines were causing adverse health effects, ERs globally would be flooded with patients presenting rare illnesses. Just stop.
Yea, element has support for multiple profiles but you have to run multiple clients to use multiple accounts. It;s a bit like firefox profiles and it works but I don't really count it as multiple account support.
I’d cut the guy some slack. He’s clearly invested in this journey, literally spending thousands of dollars and decades of his own time.

Personally, I think he should be free to do something reckless if it’s only his life at stake. After all, stores sell paint and there isn’t a law against drinking the stuff. It sounds like the only thing he needs to complete the trip is an escort vessel in case the trip goes poorly. Maybe one of us can convince him to take us on his trip.
I imagine that these eventually become an “OS” that ties and links together peoples interactions through time. And the federation allows people to share timelines / information in a way that allows for new forms of collaboration- ones where it’s less focused on owner - employee relations and more P2P. Email me if you’re interested. I need some final designs made and am looking for developer partners - I have business cases and clients set up.
Another aspect is that the objective is to provide global communications over oceans too, e.g., for container ships, sail boats, planes, global surveillance, etc. The cross-satellite comms are not yet ready to essentially create a global mesh-net, but that's the plan.
It depends, how much did the software, and how the artist and is it an established software field or a new type.
If it is in the early days of the new software field, I would favor the developers. So as photo manipulation was a new feature I would hire the developers.
This is great. I used to support an line of Linux-based realtime audio products, and our engineers wanted me to include Scipy in the internal developer builds. It turned out to be a really tough ask, because of Scipy's build system. The result was a tech-debt blemish on an otherwise excellent codebase.

Scipy is very, very hard to cross-compile. Like, almost impossible. I eventually had to compile it on-target and store the outputs for inclusion in later images.

Distutils in general is wretched at cross-compilation tasks, should be retired.
The claim is not "the vaccines are causing adverse events in everyone who takes them" so you're arguing with a strawman here.
Where and what kind of horses ? In europe there's a sport horse shortage I swear. Prices are through the roof !
The writer could just say that in addition to this article being published in NYT, I will retain the right to publish it on aggregator A and B. I don't expect the newspapers to participate.

What's different about news and music is that there's not so much interest in the back catalog in news. So publishers could have less power than record companies.

Regarding streaming, again, that's only a problem if there is exclusivity.
Looks fantastic, thank you for sharing!

Here's a random favorite of mine, as a thank you: https://youtu.be/_4iswqa8r-Q

Not a business talk, but a design deep dive from a genre master. Existential breakdown starts ~20:30
True, I have had my Galaxy S7 since 2016 and the battery conks out after about 2-3 hours of use (Youtube, web browsing, Reddit). I keep it around for the small form factor, which is useful to test websites on.
I'm not sure of the point of this comparison. My grandparents had a dairy farm that they lived on their entire lives. It is a 6-7 day/week job and the days are long. If you want to take a day off you have to pay someone to come do the work.

It also has nothing to do with WFH. My grandpa might start the day in the barn, drive a tractor to a field a few miles away to cut hay for a few hours, come back for lunch, fix a fence, feed some calves, run the silo, then milk the cows for a second time. It's not like he was ever sitting on his ass staring at a screen. There is a hard fulfillment that comes with that life. And it's definitely not WFH.
>splay tree

Oh yes!

Probably my favorite data structure. In the past I've used them instead of arrays for performance (latency) reasons when constructing ordered sets from randomly distributed elements that came in multiple batches. Insertion into a splay tree meant that no sorting step at the end was necessary and the overhead was lower than first collecting everything into an array and only sorting after all elements were inserted.

Their amortized performance characteristics in general are close to ideal and the self-tuning character is intriguing. The only downside is the possibility of getting into a degenerate state, but that can be avoided by adding some randomness. Some paper I read even suggested that splaying only occasionally actually improves performance.
> We could pass a law and ban new code in unsafe languages

I can tell you exactly how this will end up: like PCI DSS.
CMake is two smaller systems in a trenchcoat, with a creepy stalker following along.

There's the 3.0+ CMakeLists.txt syntax, which is a nice declarative target-based system.

There's the *.cmake language syntax for finding dependencies and other scripting, which is a C'thonian horror mix of imperative and declarative bits that the trench coat tries to hide.

Then there's the creepy pre-3.0 stalker, the old syntax for both. Non-target based, imperative bits sneaking in everywhere, makes Autotools look sane.
support groups do help. it's proven to be effective with substance abuse addictions. we are helping people with a support group where users can share and help each other.
The doctors and nurses work with non-covid patients and covid patients, it could be that the state I'm in hasn't gotten the memo.
Based on which experience? My experience with now 2 young kids and their playground buddies is that whichever skills they regularly practice improve very dramatically compared to skills they don’t practice. The differences are not at all subtle.

If you get a few 3-year-olds and e.g. get one to practice kicking a ball for 10 minutes per day, another to practice riding a 2-wheeled scooter, another to practice hanging from monkey bars, and another to practice swimming, after a few months there will be a wide gulf between their abilities at those skills.
I think mining crypto currencies makes you a miner, not a farmer.
They say this in the article, so I'm not sure how it's "misleading".

The point (which the article discusses) is that it's fairly unlikely that someone being admitted for severe Covid has not already had at least one positive test prior to admission.
Oh boy, that memory bus... I'll get to that in a second. First, yes, IBM creates IP blocks that they then license. Maybe I'm weird, but I view that as software - and I also heartily dislike IP block shops. What makes matters worse is how IBM has an awful track record when it comes to these licenses - they somehow always pick a partner that ensures the tech seeing little to no use. For example, you mentioned their memory bus... guess how they did that: they licensed (or sold?) Centaur to a single party, Microchip, who lists[0] a single memory controller with no price and no apparent interest in actually selling the thing. Also, Synopsys - one of those fabless companies that I love so much, is somehow involved[1]... resulting in memory controller binary blobs. It is pretty awesome really, I don't think IBM could have more surely murdered their tech if they'd tried.

Now I'm pulling for them, I actually own a POWER9 machine. I think it is great that they want to get memory controllers out of the CPU - but they've done it in such a way that leads me to believe that it is an intentional sabotage, which would only happen if they genuinely had no interest in an active hardware role.

[0] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/PM8596

[1] https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/blob/6570112a...
Sure.

For the overwhelming majority of users, life on iOS is peachy.
I second this. mbsync+notmuch (JGI; hundreds of blog posts) is a great simple solution for storing and querying emails. Only caveat is that notmuch will basically duplicate the email contents in its database, so you’ll end up taking twice the space on disk.
Do you have any additional information or sources on the subject. Not that I don't believe you, but I grew up in a post-industrial small farming community and 12 hour days were the norm most of the year. If the crops didnt need attention, there was always a long list of other tasks, digging wells, repairing equipment, infrastructure improvement. It would be interesting to see what changed.
Come on, IQ 85 is only one standard deviation below the average, and correlates at around .4 with job performance. That means you'd expect someone with IQ 85 to be on average less than a standard deviation under the average at job performance.

It's definitely possible for someone with IQ85 or IQ80 to be better at programming than the average IQ100 programmer, and it's not even that unlikely. Let's not overstate this.
Naval Architecture
Seems to me a rather fact-based analysis as to possible geopolitical role of these silos. where is the phobia?
This is a very bold claim. There are a lot of projects and protocols to do so.

Matrix was not designed with that goal in mind.
They must be. Remember the farmers "hacking" their tractors with Ukrainian firmware, so they can fix their own John Deer machines?
Maybe it could mean journalism will be professionalized again, when trust isn’t as simple as taking a video on your phone or writing a blog post… if we’re lucky.
I find pom.xml much more readable than deciphering a giant script file like build.gradle or CMakeLists.txt. 99% of the time I automatically know how the build works because its convention.
Interesting - like a way to upload your contractor agreement and learn more about each clause or even learn more about other sample language from other contractor agreements?
From scratch yes, but increasing rates of extraction takes less time.
Intergenerational mobility over six centuries (2016)
> Societies characterised by a high transmission of socioeconomic status across generations are not only more likely to be perceived as ‘unfair’, they may also be less efficient as they waste the skills of those coming from disadvantaged backgrounds. Existing evidence suggests that the related earnings advantages disappear after several generations. This column challenges this view by comparing tax records for family dynasties (identified by surname) in Florence, Italy in 1427 and 2011. The top earners among the current taxpayers were found to have already been at the top of the socioeconomic ladder six centuries ago. This persistence is identified despite the huge political, demographic, and economic upheavals that occurred between the two dates.
I agree with most points made here. However, I wonder if it's as easy to predict the new high-growth/high-margin units as you suggest that Tesla has none.

Were most people in 2011-2015 aware of the "AWS / Ad explosion" that was about to come? Or did we know ex ante that Amazon was willing to shift their focus towards these units? Likely not, but the high multiples (despite the retail margins dragging down the gross margins) suggest that a large portion of investors were willing to bet that better units with protective moats (i.e. AWS) were coming soon.

I don't follow Tesla as much, but it seems difficult to dismiss that some of their business units won't follow high-growth/high-margin paths. What if their FSD software is licensed out? What if the supercharger network is shared with other EVs for a per-charge fee? Given Musk's personality, I can see investors taking on risk and betting that he'll be bringing something better than just selling cough regulatory credits cough cars. It makes me wonder if Tesla losing market share in the EV market will be the ultimate catalyst for this shift.

That being said, I agree with you that the market has "priced in" all these what-ifs for Tesla with extremely high expectations of success -- which did not seem to be case for Amazon. A slip or trip in car sales these days doesn't seem to move $TSLA much - investors that are long seem to be betting on other stuff and we'll see how patient they are in times to come.
This will only be a thing for a while. Why pay somebody's grandchildren when you can create a new face that's yours?
Lightning Farms (2007)
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I was trying to figure out why this comment rubs me the wrong way so much. I think it's how quickly it leaps to hostility and calling the user entitled, only because they shared their honest feedback. You say users aren't entitled to anything, which I guess is true, but what does that say about the value that this project purports to provide?

I guess what I'm trying to say is I read this comment and my thought wasn't, "Oh, I guess those problems are handled", it was, "Oh, this projects advocates have a lot of contempt for their users."
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If one really wants to stick to a strait line, Monaco is probably not the best. It is certainly small, but it is full of obstacles. For pure straightness, somewhere like Canada, Greenland or the UAE would probably allow you to walk a more-perfect strait line from one coast to another through open territory. Such a trek would be far more difficult but much more strait.
Google might be ripe for disruption. They've got a lot of talent, so they'll not go down without a fight, but this is a good sign.
to be fair, it looks like he's iterating:

> It was equipped with a satellite phone, a water filtration system, a solar array, neoprene wet suits and a stockpile of granola and ramen noodles for when he embarked from St. Augustine on Friday for what he expected would be a three-week trip.
Take Background Sync for example.

Mozilla considers the periodic sync API "harmful" because you could use it to track users IP and consumer resources when it's not clear they're interacting with the site

Their stated position:

> We're concerned that this feature would allow users to be tracked across networks (leaking private information about location and IP address and how they change over time), and that it would allow script execution and resource consumption when it isn't clear to the user that they're interacting with the site. We might reconsider this position given evidence that these concerns can be safely addressed, however, addressing them for periodic background sync appears substantially harder than doing so for one-off background sync.

But you could achieve very similar behaviour by using Web Push (which they _have_ implemented) and just sending periodic push message. So now as an honest web developer if I want nice background sync behaviour I have to implement some Rube Goldberg system of periodic push messages from a backend rather than just asking the system to wake me up every now and then.
Sure it makes sense, it means its easier to police/protect. If the aim is deterrence then in any case they launch before something arrives.
I wonder, why we don't just use these automated systems only as safety backups, keeping the driver in full control of the vehicle? If the driver falls asleep, or an animal or child runs out into traffic, or the vehicle starts drifting into oncoming traffic, the automated driving system can take over and take whatever action it deems necessary to avoid a collision, with an option for the driver to forcefully take back control if necessary. The driver can still use adaptive cruise control, and even lane-keeping for short periods of time (5 minutes), but all other aspects of driving (steering, navigation, signalling, braking, etc.) are the responsibility of the driver.

Best of both worlds then, with the goal of minimizing injuries and deaths. Is there a problem with this that I'm not seeing? Why isn't this the real goal?
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> You can also get free access to small vps running Linux on a mainfram on the IBM cloud

What's the point? VM with linux is hardly interesting to anyone.