skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we need institutions to give us actionable information? That starting point contains quite a few assumptions that aren't obvious to me. It's obviously convenient if you have such an institution that's accurate, and there's some logical and cost effective action that comes with it, but if no such institutions exist then the right thing to do is not trust one anyway.

On the topic of consensus specifically, I don't believe that's actually true. Science is full of people claiming there's a consensus but often when investigated it turns out not to be true, and instead there is an ongoing attempt to cover up or suppress disagreement. A claim of scientific consensus always needs to be checked, unfortunately, although that check can often be quite an easy one of the form "does someone make some well functioning technology requiring this belief to be correct".

There is no requirement that information come from institutions, let alone that it be actionable. If you look at where the most accurate information has been coming from throughout it's been bloggers, skeptics, bands of anonymous researchers like DRASTIC and so on. It's not good and it's not better than having trusted institutions, but all such institutions have been hopelessly destroyed from within, largely thanks to ideology. I see no reason to continue genuflecting at their feet of their smoking hulks. Perhaps better institutions will arise, or perhaps people will learn how to filter information and make decisions without being told what to do. Or perhaps both.
> The stats of breakthrough cases are skewed due to the CDCs methodology of tracking covid infections among the vaccinated.

I guess, but the CDC isn't the only reliable source of information, and from everything else we see (international studies and natural experiments from things like hospitals testing all arrivals for all causes), the vaccine still has something like a 50-90% reduction in infection rate, depending on the particular variant and study. And beyond that, a 90%+ reduction in sever cases.

> There have been cases of covid infections among enclosed vaccinated groups

Yes, as the CDC website says, in bold "Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected". What we know is that the vaccines appear to be highly effective at preventing severe cases, and slightly less effective (though still pretty darn good) at preventing infection whatsoever.

Bayes rule would suggest that as the majority of people become vaccinated, we'll begin to see a larger and larger share of infections coming from vaccinated individuals. But, we'll also see fewer infections (and fewer deaths!) overall.

While we don't know precisely how delta compares to the initial variant, we do know its more infectious, and still quite deadly (from its impact in India). So we do know enough to draw the conclusion that Delta is dangerous, almost certainly more dangerous than the older variants, and we also have data to support the claim that vaccines are more effective immunity against delta than natural infection. That's enough information, or if it isn't, what else would convince you?
so its $14k to toggle a boolean? wow. if that's not the most efficient profitable piece of code ever written I don't know what is.
Sorry, what do you mean? Is this a joke or some other reference I didn't get?
Is there any large body of public C code that uses/used m4? I'd really like to see what the m4 equivalent of the original Bourne shell code or the APL Incunabulum would be.
What's that, 3 days of a contractor? I don't think someone could make that in 3 days.
Become a politician or support your friends with such desires.
You were technically correct, as Professor Farnsworth would say, "The best kind of correct", but he was named chairman by Trump. Until that point, he was, to quote Ford Prefect, "mostly harmless".
We had a fast one but Microsoft bought it and shut it down.
> Chewing on plastic, or popping it all over your face, doesn’t appeal to youngsters

I didn't realize that chewing gum was made of plastic. It seems I've been successfully hoodwinked by the manufacturers who refer to it as "gum base" on the ingredients list.
Maybe that’s not universal, but the way the notation was taught to me in school (Germany) was that the finite sum Σf(x)Δx is simply written as ∫f(x)dx in the limit. So dx is really just an infinitesimal Δx, and ∫ is the summation symbol, only written with a large Latin (as opposed to the usual Greek) “S”.

That’s useful to know because several integration tricks become easy if you keep that relationship in mind. If you can transform a sum, you can transform the corresponding integral. (With the usual caveats around degenerate cases.)

Similarly, for differentiation, the limit of Δy/Δx is written as dy/dx. Again, knowing this enables you to derive otherwise complicated looking transformations.
New Lightweight Rocket Fuel Tank Ditches Metal for Carbon Fiber and Plastic
Yes, it is akin to revealing the IP of a user on a social media site.
Historian recreates Thomas Cromwell’s London mansion in exquisite detail
from reading it docs in the past, it seems to have polymorphism over effects. I don't know if that's what you mean by generalizing over effects.
It does raise the question of "us" versus "them". But who was "them" really?

It's clear there were some stupid humans:

homo habilis

home erectus

homo naledi

It's clear there are some smart humans:

homo neanderthal

homo denisovan

homo sapien

And it's clear there are some that we are not yet sure about, in particular:

homo heidelbergensis

But what about:

homo antecessor

If you could wave a magic wand, and summon them now, it's likely that Sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans could learn each other's language and have a conversation. But would we be able to have a conversation with Heidelbergensis?

So the question comes up again, as strong as ever, who was the first smart human? We used to think they were Sapiens, now it is seems likely the first really smart humans came before Sapiens, and we are just one of several smart humans.

There was a species of humans that was unique to southern easter Africa, they had the largest skulls of any known human species, a recent article in the New York Times quoted one scientist saying they all would have been as smart as Albert Einstein. (I just searched for the article on Google and NYT but could not find it, it was an article that ran within the last 2 years.)

In an ideal world we could find more DNA samples, and eventually figure out what the DNA is trying to tell us, but DNA doesn't last 2 million years, so we will never have the full DNA story of humans, going all the way back to homo habilis.

So we are left looking at the clues and wondering, "When did us begin?"
While I might well agree it rubs me up the wrong way when the DNC announces a talking point like this and the New York Times instinctively cheerleads.

It's also, frankly, quite boring when media outlets exhibit such consistent partisanship. If a media outlet functions as a vehicle for party propaganda why bother reading? Why not go straight to the source?
> failing to supply solid evidence

How, if all data from Wuhan is off limits?

My complaint is that this letter should be addressed to Mr. Xi. But instead they make it sound like this is a global issue.

It is only China that is blocking all research into the origin. No other country has placed any blocks or limits on the research.
It's not showing for the example search (Rema 1000) for me right now, but I did a search yesterday, about a person/company and the result was news related content, and ended up with a site with the same image. However I can't find havfruen (mermaid) in my browser history so they must use other domains as well.
SysaCSS
Free And Open Source Responsive Modern CSS Framework.
It’s not funny anymore. Far-right extremists’ use of humour
Depending on how you count it, it's definitely within a small constant multiple. A ton of global land goes toward food production. In somewhat more detail:

It's about 27% of the way there (assuming europe == EU). Multiply by 7.8B people and you get 2.1B acres, compared with the 2.3B acres actually used worldwide.

Those numbers might look a little fishy (2.1B should be a hard lower bound, and the upper bounds were >2 acres per person), but the low figure of 2.3B acres in actual use is roughly explained by:

- 9% of the world is malnourished

- Meat and other high-land-use foods make up well under 20% of the global diet (on average more concentrated in wealthier, lower population nations).

- Not all of that meat comes from the land, skewing the exact metrics being used a bit.

I'm sure the 0.3+ acre estimate isn't perfect (back of the envelope calculations suggest soybeans can supply the requisite calories in 0.15 acres, and your other nutrients can be furnished in 0.05 acres), but it definitely appears to be in the right ballpark.
Thomas Cromwell’s Home at the London Austin Friars, Nick Holder

- Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 27 July

(full article)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00681288.2021.1...
The only problem with NAT gateways is that they are single-AZ. So if you're setting up multi-AZ in a VPC, you need one per AZ and you need the routing to be AZ specific.

If the NAT gateway was a service, then it could be multi-AZ transparent to the VPC.
Maybe I can clear this up.

The 'freedom marches' as far as I'm aware were mainly focusing on lockdown and vaccine passports. The former is a general liberty issue, but the latter is actually a really sensitive subject in Britain.

Since basically forever, it's been a point of principle that British Citizens Do Not and Will Not carry identification around. Even if you're pulled over by the police when driving, you are only required to submit documentation via post within 7 days of being pulled over.

Dozens of governments have floated identity cards for nearly the last 50 years, and it was a surefire way to quickly tarnish a party's reputation.

Vaccine passports are ID cards on steroids.
No, there should not be backdoors in encryption.

There is ample evidence of abuse by law enforcement and I think such mechanisms would be abused. No civil rights movement would have a chance because of asymetric access to information.

The access would be completely disproportionate like it is argued here.

Frankly, I think most governments have other problems with law enforcement right now and they certainly do not deserve the trust to give them access to citizen communication.

Sure, secure channels are abused by criminals. That cases of abuse justify encroachment on encryption is as wrong as it is for speech in any free democracy.

Additionally government have repeatedly violated laws concerning confidential communication, so giving them a backdoor should be off the table.
If you have non-citizen long-term residents, perhaps many, it seems a concern if they are disenfranchised politically or civically.

Zainichi. Literally "in Japan". Those who were born in Japan. Today mostly children (but increasingly grandchildren) of those who came as workers in the 80s. But some go back as far as the early 20th century. In some cases they only speak Japanese, went to Japanese schools, as did their Zainichi parents and they are partially assimilated in some communities. They marry with ethnic Japanese more as the world in general slowly sheds superstitions.

But they are Korean citizens and have no rights as citizens in Japan. They and their children have been granted indefinite residency, access to social welfare and a few other things. The right to vote comes up often as a subject of debate. Japan does naturalize people who are fluent and culturally assimilated and considered promising citizens, though not a great number. Zainichi are many of those. But neither country allows dual citizenship so the other must be revoked.

One must choose, as far as the historical laws and attitudes of both countries were concerned. The warming of Japan - Korea exchange (shipping if perhaps not affection) has made life easier since the countries are just... closer. Reforms in recent years to allow easier naturalization or dual residency. But it isn't fundamentally resolved. It affects Korea too in ways: should the Zainichi have the right to vote in Korean elections?

Now this is perhaps a policy that can sustain if such a population isn't already resident. Otherwise you get a disenfranchised population. Usually a rather small minority, at least at first. I know to some degree it is my cultural bias and blinders but this doesn't seem like a great social dynamic to have emerge.
> m4 is a core gnu utility

Actually, m4 is specified as part of the Single Unix Specification (IEEE Std 1003.1), GNU m4 being "only" one implementation of it, the original one supposedly being part of System V and published as part of OpenSolaris a couple years back (sadly, can't verify nor link to it as those resources seem to have vanished or placed behind paywalls/registrations).

m4 was heavily used (and I guess still is) for sendmail and DNS (BIND) configs. Don't know if it is actually usable as a grand unified mail config system over sendmail, postfix, and other SMTP servers, but in principal it could be.

For markup templating and static or dynamic site building, including HTML email templating, there are of course any number of much more specific tools as HNers will know. One that should appeal to m4 fans in that it's based on standards, and kindof is the least surprising giving HTML's history, is mighty SGML itself with full HTML-aware, injection-free templating.

Edit: and m4 is prominently used by autotools of course
AWS does that for you by auto setting up a default VPC in each region.
Presumably if illegal content is not taken down by the customer then the host cancels the service, right? Otherwise the host risks liability. That's different from revealing the IP of a customer which requires a court order.
But they don't, that's explicitly their stance. There is no line. They host everyone equally. To do the opposite would require drawing a line.
Ocean tech is cool, the oceans surface is 70% of the 2D earth so a lot of us will live there one day. As long as we are pushing limits and not repeating things using public money this stuff is cool. It's a cool looking 'boat'

The Fall of Warness info -

"The Fall of Warness is a tidal stream turbine test site offers developers of tidal energy technologies eight grid-connected test berths ranging from 12-50 metres in depth

Since the site was officially opened in 2007, ten tidal energy companies have tested 19 prototypes.

The Fall of Warness site lies in a narrow channel between the Westray Firth and Stronsay Firth, boasting high velocity marine currents which reach almost 4m/sec or 7.8 knots at spring tides.

As tides flow from the North Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea, they accelerate as they are funneled through Orkney’s northern islands"
There are no mountain trolls in Finnmark, they live further south as the mountains in Finnmark are not very big.
Looks pretty enough, but half the documentation is missing and 404s
The IGW is not the NAT gw. You need both for private networks outgoing public connections.
Temporary, Vendor or Contractor
Well, that’s ridiculous - an asset cannot be compliant - an organisation, and their processes and controls are what are meant to be compliant.

If just their data centres are compliant, I guess there’s nothing to stop their staff or contractors just stealing data, as they have here - as compliance purely around physical security for a data centre is 100% meaningless if you’re just ignoring cryptographic controls and human security controls.

I’m guessing their certification body isn’t themselves certified. Actually, the fact that they neither say who their certifying body is nor include a link to their certificate, suggests to me that they are lying - which is far more common than you would think.
How does one even know if they are using EC2-Classic?
Once the hard requirement on speed impacts the quality of results it no longer helps me as a user. I'd rather have the sites invest their time in good content and wait a few seconds rather than get fast but low quality SEO-ed results. Same with AMP, the quest for speed doesn't make my experience faster if I still load the original page (which is often still necessary).
On this topic I suggest viewing CPG Grey's video "Hexagons are the Bestagons"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
Synthetic division when the divisor is a second-degree polynomial
I too at one point suffered from a similar affinity towards 'minimalism'. Nothing good came out of it.

With things like go get and nix you can be more or less independent of package managers or even OS to some extent.
I am all for downvotes, but just like here you shouldn't be able to downvote anyone who comments your comment. This will just lead people to instantly downvote anyone who doesn't 100% agree with them.

Secondly all downvotes should be acompanied by a reason for the vote and those should be publicly visible both on the comment/topic and generally in the profile of the user. This way it would be apparent if someone is just downvoting based on ideology and should be ignored.
While I think the NPC part was funny, I really do agree that one should not mess with someone's income. If anyone records this I hope they blur the face (and any timekeeping devices) and change the voice to keep the worker safe.
Non-stick pans need to be replaced regularly because the nonstick coating is not permanent, it will come off eventually. As a bonus if you accidentally overheat nonstick pans (>~570°) you get toxic fumes that kill birds and make humans sick ("polymer fume fever")

Just get a steel pan instead.
AWS security groups allow rules to either be IP CIDR based or you can have rules that refer to other security groups, ignoring the IP addresses.
I remember John Sterman doing some system dynamics modelling on Oil Refinery maintenance vs actual fire fighting[1].

The results are just as you suggest.

Personally speaking I'd like to work at the software equivalent of Toyota. Where the whole organisation is constantly looking for feedback about development processes and how barriers to quality can be removed.

I think the problem is that how to get credit for the not having problems in the first place.

1. http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/maint.pdf
>Every company at this stage loses money

This is the most retarded silicon valley vc tech bubble comment I have ever. There are 11million companies in the US, many will fail making money let alone being 'strong' companies that drop $10 mil a year.

If the numbers are so great and they have so much money at hand why are the people who run the business selling some of their share? Possibly due to high market valuations of all kinds and a very attractive price to dump a well established business that you have milked the most out of to date?
IIRC, m4 was initially a preprocessor for Rational Fortran, as someone else said, many years before BSD and sendmail.
>>> "Liberty" isn't the freedom to put yourself at risk with no consequences to anyone or anything else.

>>> It is recognizing that there must be, at some point, a prioritization of giving people choices that might impact others.

There will always be a set of people who prioritize themselves over others and in the case of corona as we have seen it just takes 1 selfish person to start the snowballing effectt.

We are seeing actual Zombie movie tropes playing out in real life coz of this corona pandemic. even if 98% of people get vaccinated, the holdout population maybe enough to incubate and spread new variants.
There is lots of brilliant philosophy from a houndred years ago (or thereabouts). Try reading Bergson, James, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Russel and Husserl and see if that changes your opinion.
CLBs for EC2 Classic are going away, not CLBs in VPC.
Yep... and the "by continuing to use this page, you agree...".

"reject all" should be the default option.

But this was messed up horribly from the beginning. Cookies should be disabled (or deleted when closing the tab) by default at the browser side,, with a small button somewhere to enable them for that specific site, and a opup notification to enable them, if the browser detects a login.
Who puts their pans in a dishwasher, cast iron or not :o
I hadn't even thought of that - but I do have several friends whose offices are downsizing due to WFH policies, so I wouldn't be surprised. Surely you could just repurpose some of the buildings into residential real estate though?
To play devil’s advocate, perhaps they already know it’s serious but prioritise other things because on political timescales even “a decade” is the opposite of urgent.
I would be suspicious abount anything published by "one of the Conservative think tanks funded to overturn the environmentalism of the 1960s, central to promoting climate change denial"[1]. The article is also clearly written in bad faith, with their so-called "counter-arguments" being a case of selectively choosing the information that supports their agenda and discarding everything else.

Having said that: that article cites about one scientist a year, while we are currently getting one warning a week. No scientist in their right mind would deny that global warming is real and it's here

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institu...
Facebook Posted Strong Q2 2021 Earnings Despite Apple’s New Privacy Policies
How large does that body have to be? Autoconf consists of M4 macros, so all software that uses Autoconf uses m4.
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Google only recently started to totally butcher the Swiss search results. For some reason I could still find direct download links to movies and music a few years ago (kinda legal here).

Now such search results often don't even get a second page...
fzf has a script you can source in your shell that binds to the usual keys and provides much more ergonomic history search
Same here. This valuation makes no sense to me. I’ve spent a LOT of time optimizing ways in which I learn languages, and duolingo doesn’t do much.

Here’s what I can recommend:

- follow as many instagram account as possible to teach you the language. There’s so many “teaching chinese” instagram account for example. Every day when I check instagram I learn a few chinese words.

- check browser plugins to display subs in different languages simultaneously on netflix

- use memrise or anki or other app or real world flash cards. There’s a reason people always go back to the flashcards.

It’s all about input. You need to learn a lot of vocab, fast. Don’t even focus on grammar at first, and even less on output. Output will come naturally after a while.
The documentation is still under development.
But it will be complete in august.
I wish anti-vaxxers stopped trying to insert themselves into every discussion. It is tiring.

We are talking about procurement of new vaccines and whether this additional shot is actually helping or whether this is due to the fact that Pfizer is going to benefit from this.

What we are not talking about is whether to vaccinate. The case on this is closed and all governments are working towards getting their populations vaccinated because without this they know it would be an either apocalyptic event or forever-dragging crippling restrictions.
Unless it's the NZ society that's collapsing