skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find these observations both fascinating & concerning - it represents another subtle but important dimension to consider in our ongoing efforts to mitigate the pandemic.

Although not specifically mentioned in the paper, IMO farms and home gardens are a likely place for such pathogens to be exchanged.

Highlights from the paper (which is not peer-reviewed yet):

- "We evaluated 624 pre- and post-pandemic serum samples from wild deer from four U.S. states for SARS-CoV-2 exposure."

- "Antibodies were detected in 152 samples (40%) from 2021 using a surrogate virus neutralization test."

- "Seroprevalence for individual counties was highly clustered with nearly half of the 32 counties sampled showing no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure"

- "Several potential transmission routes are possible for movement of this virus into wild deer populations. [..] including captive cervid operations, field research, conservation work, wildlife tourism, wildlife rehabilitation, supplemental feeding, and hunting."

- "Wildlife contact with contaminated water sources has also been offered as a potential transmission route, although transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 from wastewater has yet to be conclusively demonstrated. Transmission from fomites or other infected animal species cannot be discounted."

- "Besides health impacts to wildlife, persistent infections in a novel host could lead to adaptation, strain evolution, and re-emergence of strains with altered transmissibility, pathogenicity, and vaccine escape."
This is an indication of the need for more people to get actual legal advice before assuming anything legal.
Worse yet, you can't actually scan your phone without jail breaking it. Without knocking down the financial wall, your phone is insecure.
You still have to deliver the new keys to the clients. As long as the client can decrypt the file, the client can also decrypt and dump it to storage. And if the top pirates keep their methods secret, you can change the keys all you want and not know how they are extracting them each time.
Fellow Ithacan here!
The same reason people pay $100+ for a pair of jeans, simply because of the label.
I remember seeing them as far back as 2012
It doesn't seem to be.

Simpler, more straightforward systems to reason about (both hardware and software) are easier to secure.
The article argues that Apple is "antifragile"

> thanks to a diverse mix of strong products.

That is not quite correct. That is robustness: it means the company can endure stressors in a variety of ways. (Other commenters have pointed this out, and I agree with them.)

But the article does hint at a real argument for antifragility: cash.

Apple's cash position, plus their diverse mix of revenue categories, means that in bad times they will be relatively advantaged over competitors. For example, the company spends $40 billion per quarter or so on advance purchases from chip suppliers---meaning that, when supply shocks happen, they will be better off, because they will continue to have what they need but competitors suddenly will not. What allows them to do that? Money. A giant pile of money. That money contributes to robustness, yes, but when sector- or global-scale stressors occur, it will mean that they can actually improve their competitive position.

I can think of counterarguments, but I think that's the strongest case.
Thank you so much for that.

Can I supply you with some definitions of commonly used terms that I unilaterally decide you don't know, or would you feel that was condescending?
Why would we care how CloudFlare handles that behind the scenes? They offer an amazing product for the value. Why shouldn't we take them up on it?

Besides its not like we're not paying them anything, our monthly bill with them is $1k+
This is why all tools should start as OSS tools
Fifty years is a heartbeat for an ecosystem.

England was deforested. And so was New England. People were burning wood and making charcoal.

Then coal and oil took over, and the forests regrew.

Edit: my experience in Northeastern Massachusetts is that it takes about fifty years for cultivated land to grow up into fifty foot white pines. In another hundred years the climax forest of oak, ash, maple, and beech would take over.
any company that told me the value of my work is tied to the location at which i accomplish it would immediately hit a wall with me being willing to work there.

it simply is bonkers they've tried to pull that line out.
Please explain. Apple devices last longer than any Android device, or for that matter 95% of all electronics sold
Thats 1 option, but I think there is more to explore than that.

E.g. to look at canvas implementation it appears CF delivers a Chromium render to canvas.
Maybe what helps here is standardisation.
That render wasn't sufficient during the browser wars of ole, but isn't a point of contention now because of standardisation.
There's a very very large gulf between "don't get banned from the entire country" and "actively support said country's human rights violations".

Plenty of game developers do not support the CCP, yet have their games available there. Blizzard chose wrong.
Back to the beginning, being forced to start again from scratch
I wonder if it's any better than hashcat?

https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
The future looks like what youve already seen. They'll degrade the battery/performance with every upgrade. When they get caught they'll claim it was for your benefit, someone will defend them, someone will accuse that person of shilling, and the discussion will fade into down voted history.
What app do you use? I've yet to find something that works really well with recurring tasks.
You can deduce a lot from reasoning. For example, you can deduce that in an endemic disease, a vaccine without close to 100% efficacy and deployed in close to 100% of the population, all it will serve to do is exert selective pressure on the virus to avoid immune response. This deduction doesn't take an epidemiology specialist to come up with, was thoroughly mocked for the past few months and, now, with the delta variant, appears to be occurring. Looks like the "armchair epidemiologists" were right sticking to their reason against a wave of social pressure.

You can use reason to deduce that cloth masks on the wall at the checkout line at the liquor store are mostly useless. You don't need to be an epidemiologist to understand the basic mechanisms by which pathogens spread and have a basic idea of how natural selection works. You dismissing everyone that disagrees with you on a topic is ego protection and nothing more, and, as we see with the delta variant, people like you are, to quote you guys the last few months, spreading misinformation that is costing lives.
For Q2, year-on-year is comparing against the first wave of COVID last year, when the world was coming to a screeching halt. Many other tech companies like Google are posting similarly outrageous figures, simply because the baseline is low.

As for who's buying, COVID relief checks will be at least part of the answer.
>hand-operated is fine...

May be it was.

You make a poor argument, because resources are limited, and "progress" will have to wait at some point. Human race can either opt into slower progress to match the available resources, or be selected out.

Indiscriminate growth is a hallmark of cancerous things. You can detect it, cut it out and attempt to survive, or surely die with it.
> ... have no idea how such a thing would work without a central entity being responsible.

Isn't this true of the entire internet? And that exists just fine thanks to a plethora of companies and nations.
People leave jobs for all kinds of abuse and never take legal action. Other people create legal but unethical workplaces. Still others create just plain nasty work environments. The legal system isn’t that great for sorting these messes out and plenty of poeple know it.
Agreed, market efficiency assumes buyers are looking for the global maxima rather than settling for a local maxima.
I recommend the movie "The Operative" -- its a good movie about the Mossad specifically infiltrating an Iranian electronic companies networks, selling them compromised chips, and enforcing the chip sanctions against Iran.

It does not have a "political message" -- its just a good spy movie.
PPP is irrelevant at a global level.
I find it deeply ironic and a little sad that you cite the intentions of the original designers of ARPANET and the Internet, then describe about how you've commercialized the Internet.
The most intense heatwave of the year is underway across southeastern Europe
Yes, my point was that the peer needs to translate a user’s insert of “insert f at position 3” into “insert f between ID B2 and B3”. To do that, you need the “crdt chum” - you basically need that peer to know the ID of every item in the document. This data compresses well, but it’s still annoying to ship around and complex to manage. OT doesn’t need any of that.
My point is that regardless of the country, one must assume that it has already gone "Full Big Brother." Any country that has done so is unlikely to make an announcement. Both motive and opportunity already exist.
Wow, I wonder how you got by. I'm useless when I had -2 or -3 myopia: couldn't recognize people's faces, couldn't read signs. With -3 I think your computer screen even looks blurry.
I won't say too much about pay scales because others have, but 21 days of PTO is not "incredible" by any means, especially if you make people use it for sick time as well. At least if I was looking in a strong market, that would reduce the value of your other numbers downward to me. I recommend explicitly creating separate sick time, or switching to a minimum PTO (making sure employees take that time off).
Yes, iOS and Android developer here. Switched my daily driver from iPhone to a Pixel 3a. Difference is negligible in everything except for cost.
> Why exactly is this such a problem? People have been making up bullshit stories to sell a narrative since there have been printed media

You've answered your own question. It's tough to get your bullshit spreading when you need to yell it in the town square. When you have instant access to hundreds of millions of idiots, it's far more dangerous.
Even plastic the ends up in a properly built American landfill is certainly much less harmful than plastic dumped into the river in a third world country. To the point where the comparison itself becomes a little bit ludicrous.

Considering it takes so much less fossil fuels to make plastic containers than to many alternatives, shouldn't we focus on proper disposal in poor countries and otherwise move on to much more pressing environmental concerns, like I don't know, climate change?
The external shocks to a process benefit the process and make it stronger. Eg your immune system gets stronger by exposed to some amount of bugs that it needs to fight, despite your getting sick while it's fighting them.

The distinction is whether it's "This is fine, we did ok through this" which is robust vs "This is something where we are now in a stronger position from being knocked about a bit."

A well made double brick wall may be robust and survive the cyclone looking good but is not anti-fragile.
> If we required that screen sharing tools were compatible with screen readers, we'd have to revamp many layers of abstractions. It would require changes to every operating system, every UI framework, every browser, and every screen sharing application.

Why?

You're basically putting half the screen reader on each side of the screen sharing tool. This requires a significant number of changes to the screen sharing tool, but shouldn't require changing anything else.

> UC Berkeley was forced to delete over 20,000 videos of lectures because their auto-generated subtitles weren't accurate enough

Compared to the effort of setting up all those courses, captioning services are really minor. I feel like they should have just fixed that. According to the document they even have an internal unit specifically for doing this.

When it comes to the complaints that the presentations themselves were done wrong, that seems more like a situation where "fix it or delete it" is a problem.
The majority of media-based DRM implementations are completely bunk and fundamentally broken. You — yes, you, reader — are able to take advantage of DRM implementations and break their fundamental premise without much effort. What's the point if someone with a faint degree of technical ability can redirect your content? I'd argue you're just putting lipstick on a pig.

The idea itself is nice; I get the point. If I'm a studio I want people to pay for the product. DRM doesn't encourage people do that at all. It's like the idea of media blackouts in local markets: you're just driving people to alternative sources, not to buy a cable package.
While we're on the topic, I have a question:

Are there large companies that have deliberately made their products less accessible to those with disabilities, because they're completely hostile to scrapers (and the open web)?

Is it even possible to make a completely closed/hard-to-scrape web app that is still 100% accessible to the blind?
I'd actually think it was a good sign to hear such a request.
I have this problem too. Also another aspect of creative coding which often pops up is how binary/static assets get managed in VC. I've resolved that setting the .gitattributes so that mp3/wav/wv will be treated as binary so the diffing doesn't get wild but its still suboptimal.
The point of the distinction is to signal oneself as a fan of Taleb.
I’m a techie so I’m not sure if the rest of the population thinks about this the same way, but I assume Android phones are spying on me much more than iPhones. Otherwise I’d be down with supporting an “open” phone, though I’m old enough to remember walking tons of people through installing Spybot Search & Destroy due to the, uh, openness of Windows. Also, I spend tons of time fiddling around on the command line and don’t feel the need to get my tinkerer fix from a phone. Maybe other people don’t want to move away from what’s familiar, or they just want to see the blue color for a fellow iMessage user to feel they’re using the same thing as the other iPhone folks. I’m also expecting to rely on various iOS permissions settings as my kids grow up, and Find My iPhone is very handy with my family’s devices.
Often they are European or Australian or some other country where they can go home and get free care if something bad happens.
I don't really see it that way. Training people is more expensive than hiring a senior dev for the simple fact that you have to use a senior dev's time to train the new person anyways.
The acquisition is entirely in stock, so very little actual cash is changing hands.

According to the Afterpay investor relations site, Afterpay's gross revenue for FY21 (ended June 30, 2021), assuming constant currency exchanges rates, was $978 million AUD [0]. If you subtract out the first half of FY21's revenue ($385.2 million AUD) [1], we arrive at an implied revenue of $592.8 million AUD for the second half of FY21. Convert that to USD (USD$1 = AUD$1.36) and we arrive at an annualized revenue run rate of ~$871 million USD.

Which implies an acquisition price of ~33.3x gross revenue. Which is certainly a lot better than 76x ratio. Moreover, that growth rate is ~53.9% ($592.8 million / $385.2 million) over the prior half-year which is truly astounding growth.

[0]: On https://corporate.afterpay.com/investors/asx-announcements, go to 'ASX Announcements', then find the 'FY21 trading update' dated 2 Aug 2021, $978 million is on the second data column of the second table on the first page.

[1]: On https://corporate.afterpay.com/investors/asx-announcements, go to 'ASX Announcements', then find the 'H1 FY21 Results Announcement' dated 25 Feb 2021, $385.2 million is on the fourth data row of the first page's table.
Dear hackers, please accept my apology. I didn't know how to post a link in the description. Here is the site URL: https://privateanalytix.com
How is zoning really bad ?
Reading threads is a poor metric. People are bad at reporting their usage and only the most vocal people post on tech fora.
This barely scratches the surface of what a complicated topic memory usage is. No mention of shared memory (which is very important for Android because everything is forked from zygote), no mention that Windows separates address space allocation from “committing” to provide pages (so you can’t OOM on a page fault like with Linux, but you can fail more often on allocations).

So you can have virtual address space “usage”, commit “usage”, and physical page “usage” (which can be shared between processes).

And that’s just anonymous memory, file backed gets even more complicated. Are pages that are in file cache but no longer mapped into a process counted as “usage”?

Anyways, for an introduction to a topic I would expect more links to background information, and you can go very deep trying to answer the question of how much memory an application is using. And the first step is to carefully define “memory” and “using”.
Yeah, but they only looked at neurons. Compute ability comes three things: switching speed, memory and communication speed. You need all three. If you restrict one there comes a time where you can't speed up no matter how much you increase the other two.

I'm not sure what correspondence neuron count has to those, but two other things looks like they would have at least the impact of neuron count, and there are synapse and axon performance and arrangement. Synapses I guess correspond roughly to memory, and axon's are the wires. To give a feel for the importance of these, the final maturation of the human brain that happens at age 20..25, turns a teenage brain into a adult brain, is apparently re-wiring those axon's and synapses.

They don't measure either, probably because no one knows how. But that means their comparison is pretty limited.
BTW some PS4s are made in Japan
Exactly. Real life Baelish being: ...
Thanks. I wish there was a way to extract data from these files that gave us playlists in plain text. I know that some of these uploads have the full playlist in the description.
I was going to post something longer, but I think I'll keep it short and charitable: you are clearly not a hiring manager.
As with the cyberattacks on US pipelines earlier this year, this is not an epic troll, but rather terrorism.
Rust is far more complicated in every aspect.
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Git's basic problem is that it has a really a good model for the data, but a really terrible CLI.
My guess is same argument as adding blood type to ID: it could help you in situations like emergency or accident (checking blood type is a few seconds anyway, but there might be situation where a test kit is not available when needed).
Why does it have to be made in the west? Imagine insisting on CPUs fabricated in the west...
I wonder how many people really enjoy that lifestyle. Sure its fun to go backpacking for a while when you're young but after a while the most rewarding part of life has been to live in a house close to your family where you get to know your neighbors, become part of the community and watch your children go to the local school and make lifelong friends. To keep travelling so much after 30 is unappealing to me.
http://battleblimps.com/lakehurst.html

Larry Rodriges chronicles his life as a blimp jockey in Geocities. His daughter keeps this running after he passed away. This is the good internet.
Years ago, I heard that Google made $800,000 per employee, I wonder what its at now?

This is why Amazon is as big as it is, because the vast majority of their employees are warehouse and delivery workers at low wages - so the margins they make per employee are insanely higher than Goog...
For years in the Toronto tech scene, Amazon paid top dollar. Not SV prices, but better than anyone else in Toronto. One or two other companies might compete, but they didn't many openings.

Now you've got Shopify, Instacart, Uber, Snap, Wish, and others, all of them strongly competing on total comp, all growing rapidly.
I found them

https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/video11.html
> "if they can't access the internet"

But they can. They just can't read the information because the software is not fully compatible yet. What if the screenreader software didn't exist or wasn't working? Are you going to make the same complaint?

> "People use cloudflare not because it is the best product"

Care to share some evidence? Are you just assuming you know better than everyone? The company didn't reach $35B market cap because of a free tier (which is also considered part of the product by the way).

> "says their PR is very effective."

Actually, I said PR should be ignored and you should instead look at their actions, which do back up what I claim.

It sounds like you're completely unfamiliar with the company and instead have some irrational vendetta against them. Not sure why, but it certainly doesn't lead to any productive discussion. Let's end it here.
enjoyed reading this. was in yerevan, armenia for work in 2019 and enjoyed the experience (thought i'd go back last year but no due to pandemic). particularly the train ride to lake sevan. they even let you in the driver's cabin to observe the ride!
Desktop wiki like Zim will give you flexibility to experiment with various workflows and task representations. Once I started using Zim, it quickly replaced all TODOs, HOWTOs, bookmarks, contact lists, calendars, diaries/logs, and other memory tools. Since this is desktop wiki, there's no save button. You just jump to relevant wiki page via search and enter free-form text, usually a list item. New workflows and exceptions to existing workflows can be introduced on a whim. No need to wait for new features or adapt to somebody else's workflow like in specialized apps.
Nah, the vast majority is trash to begin with or ends up as trash. Only a fraction ends up recycled.
Accessibility is important. Four months is not a lot of time for any large scale software project with a large team. Every little feature takes time. Why is it assumed that Cloudflare is not working on accessibility?
I haven't used MacOS recently, but my feeling on Windows font rendering is that it makes the fonts look too blurry. Once you get to a reasonable DPI it gets better, but my distaste with it started on a fairly low dpi, starting with about windows 7 (I didn't use Vista). Before then the fonts used didn't try too hard to use aliasing, and hence had sharp, single-pixel lines, which are much more satisfying to look at.
The rise of never-ending job interviews
Sure uh huh. Mac is great when I want to open up GarageBand on my M1 Mac Mini that's connected to my TV over HDMI. It yells at me to change the sample rate to 44.1. I can't do that there is no way to do that. I also can not control the volume using keyboard volume or system OS volume. Mac OS is great! Also the HDR is questionable unless you are using an Apple display which I am not.

Edit: basically what I'm getting at here is one is not better than the other and one is not worse than the other every single OS has quirks and honestly you should just be running one of everything in your house if you need it. Make sure to always have an up-to-date latest Mac and run WSL 2 in Windows 10 or 11.
FIRE, or any retirement strategy tend to rely on smart investment to generate income, and investment only makes the difference between how much worker is getting paid and how much they generate.

If we all become full time investors, who do we invest in?
I would love to be an architect. It's all concepts and not really implementation beyond proof of concept. Concepts and problem solving is right up my alley. Unfortunately I need to be at least a senior dev before they will consider me. Plus it's like double my salary. Oh well.
The internet was very accessible by default for a long time. Plain text is very accessible. Plain HTML written by humans is very accessible.