skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How slim can you really be when your stack bundles an entire web browser so you can push pixels on the screen? Focusing on performance probably requires running away from such bloat.

Remember: 25 years ago we were able to write relatively fast GUI applications. They may have gotten prettier, fancier, and screens have definitely grown larger. Still, computers are now much faster. And with M2 drives, starting a word processor or a drawing application should be instantaneous. Yet somehow it isn't.

You're right, the main problem is the lack of focus on performance. Here's the thing though: if we did focus on performance, we wouldn't have tolerated such bloated stacks in the first place.
It has to be said that I find the ties to the Russian government most disturbing for a "privacy"-focused OS, specially after I realized it's not actually OSS.

EDIT: Emphasis on the non-OSS part. I couldn't care less as long as it was actually fully open.
Miners will probably move to Ethereum classic.
To combat climate change, we should build nuclear power plants
Not a totally novel virus. The reason why vaccines were developed within days of isolating the virus is because SARS-COV-2 is not that different from SARS-COV-1 and all the vaccine research efforts carried over.

What was pathetic was the federal coordination - hesitation on travel restrictions, CDC response, recommendations against PPE… Lessons that could have been learned even from the 1918 pandemic were painfully ignored.
Interestingly, Abdul-Jabbar doesn't even mention LeVar Burton in the article. He knows that we know.
Bern waiting to check this out, but they've been "working" on their android app for what seems like 2 years.
What the hell lol.
Although my default is DDG and I am technical, but I still find myself heading back to Google in case DDG disappoints. and that happens frequently (although definitely not always)
Researchers develop 'nanopore-tal' that enables cells to talk to computers
Not sure if there's evidence for that but it's much more likely to be the case.

There's no solid evidence "chronic lyme" exists either. The only "doctor's" you'll see treating it are typically into the naturopathic stuff and all other sorts of unproven treatments for things the medical community doesn't even agree exist.
Work for a government agency (in the US). We're required by law to meet accessibility standards, and at my workplace, we often do so through the path of least resistance – not using JavaScript to reimplement features that are already accessible and thereby take on the responsibility for implementing accessibility ourselves.
The underlying problem is that you need to prevent sybil attacks, i.e. group X creates many peers in the network and so gets much more voting power than they "ought to" have.

The only known way to do so is through attaching a real-world cost to ~votes. The way PoW does so is through equating votes and hashrate, so votes cost real money because hashrate requires real hardware. PoS works in mysterious ways, but the basic idea is that votes are equal to prior balance by essentially putting some of that balance "into escrow" in order to vote.
How can you build something slim and fast on Electron? It's essentially Chrome running Javascript, isn't it?

For an example of what I think is slim and fast, consider Steve Gibson's DNS Benchmark tool[1]. I downloaded it a week ago and used it. It's 150 kB.

[1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm
Children are better-protected against quite a few diseases. Polio in infants is usually asymptomatic. Chickenpox is almost always a minor illness in children, but can take a dire course in adults without previous exposure. Similarly, Epstein-Barr is a universal infection, and if caught in childhood as usual, it is largely asymptomatic but caught in young adulthood it causes infectious mononucleosis much of the time, and can even, rarely, kill.

And no one knows why! Oh, there are hypotheses, some mentioned in the article. Like autoimmune disease. But they seem so unsatisfactory as an explanation. Kids go a decade on immunological hyperdrive yet they don't all get arthritis by 15. Would they if they kept it through puberty? Is it an interaction of puberty and the immune system? Maybe greater risk of auto-immune disease at that point? It's such a significant apparent disadvantage that there must be some good reason our broad and aggressive childhood immunity isn't retained. But I don't think we really have any idea why yet. Whatever the reason, perhaps there is some artificial way to keep those infantile superpowers around into adulthood without drawbacks?
If Apple popped up a list on install of search engines to pick from, 99% of people would pick Google anyway. Google is mostly afraid they will buy a startup and have their own or make the same deal with M$. At $15B of pure bottom line, it is an easy choice for Apple. We can only stop this with taxes on digital advertising. The tracking companies have become too good at fingerprinting. Even if everything was completely random and anonymized from the iPhone side, the carriers/ISPs can fingerprint you so much easier and they'll never stop (probably not even with regulation).
Carbon removal from the air sounds like paying of credit card debt by aquiring additional credit cards. Is it not the case that it will always take more energy to get carbon out of the air than it does to put it in the air in the first place? If that's the case, we will have to not only replace our current energy consumption by renewable sources, but add a lot of extra energy to drain the atmosphere. And we have to do that within decades.
This is probably a naive take, but that's what it feels like.
>Ticks carrying Lyme disease are exploding in Ontario, probably because of climate change.

Do you have proof of this?
> I didn't think the cookie law is actually an intrinsic part of GDPR

It isn't, the DCMS is being deliberately misleading to justify gutting UK privacy law.
>antivax talking point (and for the most part a load of nonsense

>>polio vaccine administered from 1955–1963 was contaminated with simian virus 40 (SV40). The virus came from the monkey kidney cell cultures used to produce the vaccine. Most, but not all, of the contamination was in the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Once the contamination was recognized, steps were taken to eliminate it from future vaccines. There have been many questions as to the effects on people who received the contaminated vaccine. SV40 has biological properties consistent with a cancer-causing virus, but researchers have not conclusively established whether or not it could cause cancer in humans. Studies of groups of people who received polio vaccine during 1955–1963 provide evidence of no increased cancer risk.

>>However, because these epidemiologic studies are sufficiently flawed, the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee concluded that the evidence was inadequate to conclude whether or not the contaminated polio vaccine caused cancer. In light of the biological evidence supporting the theory that SV40-contamination of polio vaccines could contribute to human cancers, the committee recommends continued public health attention in the form of policy analysis, communication, and targeted biological research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221112/

That sounds like a load of nonsense?

>sciencebasedmedicine dot org

>> This one popped up at that online repository of all things quackery, NaturalNews.com

lol, pot, meet kettle.

Why can't you trust the science?

Simian virus 40 DNA sequences in human brain and bone tumours

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9776221/

Sequence analyses of human tumor-associated SV40 DNAs and SV40 viral isolates from monkeys and humans

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9584955/

Human cytomegalovirus major immediate early gene product can induce SV40 DNA replication in human embryonic lung cells

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2173262/

Phylogenetic analysis of polyomavirus simian virus 40 from monkeys and humans reveals genetic variation

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15308725/

SV40 DNA in human osteosarcomas shows sequence variation among T-antigen genes

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9311596/

Natural simian virus 40 strains are present in human choroid plexus and ependymoma tumors

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7571441/
> Nowadays, it seems that companies care more about [...stuff...]

Yup, and thank god it's like that.

If you're expecting to just drop a tarball containing the output of your compiler and leave it out to some sysadmins, you're going to be a burden on your team.

However, in a practical manner: you're certainly expected to have some kind of familiarity with containers and a container orchestration system but you can pick most stuff up as you go.

Assuming you do some basic learning on your own before applying, most company will give you time to get up to speed as part of your probation time before becoming a permanent employee.

This boils down to companies moving away from siloed team and towards a devops (or devops-like) way of working.

You're expected to be able to operate the services you develop: you build it, you run it.

Containers are here to stay and you have to get used to it.
You can enforce it using trade bans, don't need military for that. Also, if this would be a global policy then the costs would go globally for everyone making it much easier to cope with since all the competition (on company but also state level) would have the same obligations.
If UK privacy law starts to deviate significantly from GDPR then the EU commission will not hesitate to withdraw its 'equivalence' decision on UK privacy rights [0]. This will hamper the flow of data from the EU to the UK, the costs of which to UK businesses will more than offset any "Brexit dividend for individuals and businesses across the UK" that the culture secretary is seemingly so keen on obtaining.

Of course, these kind of nuances tend to get forgotten by those who think they can secure better trade deals by spending £200M on a boat [1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/28/eu-rules-...

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c77b7aa1-cebc-47c6-a04a-d21eef2d1...
> I mean, look at the delta variant of Covid, the mRNA vaccines reduce the severity of infection, but do not prevent infection or spreading thereof.

I keep seeing that surface here. It is at odds with what I'm reading that says it /is/ effective at preventing infection[1] though not perfectly so. Are we looking at different metrics, or is my own ignorance of the field preventing me from fully understanding what I"m reading?

[1] most recently - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e5.htm?s_cid=mm...
I suspect that what people want with "No data collected" is too nebulous to be actionable, at $30/ month or any price. Youtube Premium is something actionable, "I don't want adverts". OK then, no adverts, done for the price.

If you try to take it literally it blows up immediately. Who aren't we collecting data about? We can't very well have data like login credentials for a user we don't collect data about, so...
Absolutely. If there's a fear of shortage, shortages will happen. There are also chain reactions to whole economy.
ComputeSharp – A .NET library to run C# on the GPU
Mypy allows that because initial versions of PEP-484 allowed that. This has changed; here's the current wording on the PEP:

> This is no longer the recommended behavior. Type checkers should move towards requiring the optional type to be made explicit.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#id29
You're right, I probably should.. I'm just a little bit anxious of the extra fiddling required to find decent compression settings for BDs, since I've got no experience there.
I don't want streaming services inside the TV. I have a media center PC for that purposes, that is faster than using the UI of the TV, and lets me play all the file formats that I want.

> No one I know (except my parents) watches channels anymore, they all just stream Netflix/Hulu/Crunchyroll/Disney. If there's something really niche I want to watch, there's torrents and videostream.

I watch TV channels in multiple occasions, form watching the news, to watching live sports events (that you don't find in streaming or you find with a lag), to watch all other good programs that still make on TV channels, at least in my country.
They've been firing staff and closing beds.
The us actually handled the 1918 pandemic even worse than this one.

Public authorities largely claimed it wasn't happening and wasn't a big deal as hospitals overflowed and we dug mass graves.

They even cancelled public gatherings but pretended it was unrelated to a health crisis. Health responses in the us were completely scattershot, and no one trusted information coming out from the government.

Compared to that this response was actually far better and more organized.
According to TSMC's chairman, the shortages are mainly due to:

- Covid-19 effects on production

- US-China trade war

- Increased demand due to the pandemic

- Increased 5G demand

- Increased HPC demand

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-he...

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2021/05/26/tsmcs-chair...
At my local school in the us social studies got replaced with social justice. This happens everywhere in the world
Even your definition has some problems though - how much is "repeatedly" and what's the level of "clear-cut"? And does everyone's rights immediately go to zero with "no more human rights than a rock"? We can sell both a homeless person who steals a bike or a CEO who defrauds millions for millions both into slavery? Do they regain those rights at some point, or should a juvenile delinquent be sent to the mining camps never to return? There's a lot of nuance required for this stuff, and I don't know if we can draw a line in the sand where people become pond scum.
Not an expert, but afaik there's been quite a few studies showing that natural immunity is superior to the vaccine-induced one - I'm also fairly sure that virologists have theorized to that end even before the data became available for the following reason: the vaccine is 100% focussed on detecting the spike protein, so changes to the spike can result in evasive variants. Natural immunity OTOH is developed against more sites of the virus and thus provide a more broad and robust response to variants, present and future.
The way I quit social media is to change my password to something I have no chance of remembering. Did this for reddit when they got all ban crazy a few weeks ago.
oh wow. that's gonna break a LOT of things. I hope they agreed the value of that removal has to be very high for that level of breakage, and decided it was... if decision-makers just don't care about breakage anymore, that would be disturbing.
Let's include the entire quote

>By 2001, with over 1·4 million Lyme vaccine doses distributed in the United States the VAERS database included 905 reports of mild self-limited reactions and 59 reports of arthritis associated with vaccination [29]. The arthritis incidence in the patients receiving Lyme vaccine occurred at the same rate as the background in unvaccinated individuals. In addition, the data did not show a temporal spike in arthritis diagnoses after the second and third vaccine dose expected for an immune-mediated phenomenon. The FDA found no suggestion that the Lyme vaccine caused harm to its recipients.

54,000,000 Americans have had some form of arthritis [1]. I don’t exactly find it compelling that 0.0001% of them also happened to have gotten a vaccine.
look for companies retooling their output - company toilet paper rolls are quite different than home use
> You couldn't setup an IRC client that fast.

You can't today, there's no reason you eventually couldn't.
the world of reaction is bigger than the world of action.

any sub that’s practical is inherently less active. There’s only so much good base knowledge.

Reacting to base knowledge is endless low value content.
I was a mod and drew the line when I got a death threat.

Most mods work as volunteers to keep a sub clean of spam and porn. When the only ‘thanks’ you receive is, ‘we know where you live, watch your back’ I’m done.

The cherry on tip is when you notify the admins that there is nefarious activity and they literally don’t return a response for 3 weeks.

Reddit’s voting system enforces group-think, the users think it’s a ‘democracy’ in that they get to make the rules and mods should just follow orders, then mods need help due to an uprising, admins are no where to be found.

The meme subs aren’t funny any more, pics of cats and dogs are tired. The anti-mask, anti-vax, the_donald, and so much more all incubated in Reddit under the watch of the mods, the admins, and Condi Nast themselves for nothing more than advertising dollars.

I understand Reddit serves a purpose for some but it, in part, is assisting in the downfall of society. By allowing people to downvote without thinking critically, without thinking about the affects of polarizing endlessly until right and wrong don’t matter as long as everyone is in agreement. And if someone isn’t in agreement, downvote them in to oblivion.
I feel like you may be suffering from the grass is greener on the other side.

First, work schedule. Keep in mind that, as another commenter pointed out, tradespeople often go through booms and busts, just like any other profession. The difference is that with tradespeople its a lot more obvious, since they still on a job for a few weeks, rather than a few years. On the boom, the tradespeople get a better deal out of it, because they get more work, whereas office workers of course only have the one job. In the busts, the office workers come out better, as the tradespeople have less work, whereas the office workers remain the same as they were in the boom.

Next, hours and vacation. I may be an outliner here, but my hours are the standard 9-5 and I get a fixed 30 days vacation a year, and flexible working (including working from home). As for unlimited vacation = no vacation, and 60+ hours is required, that seems more like a bad office culture/employer, no different than a tradesman would get a bad client. Again, its only more noticeable in office jobs because your there for a long time, whereas a bad client will only be a problem for a number of weeks (though potentially more if they hold off on paying). While we're at it, the same could be said of "their experience is respected". That's based on your employer, not your job.

Finally, standups, agile and office politics (assuming thats what you meant by BS). Its true, tradespeople don't need to suffer with that, but they do need to suffer through a hell of a lot of health and safety precautions and government red tape. Of course you can get some cowboys who don't bother with that, but that seems no different than the programming teams that don't do standups, agile or office politics (apart from the fact that one team is less likely to kill people). I would also mention the physical health issues that it can cause, but programmers get a similar thing through sitting for so long and you graciously didn't mention that.

I don't think being a tradey is a bad job, not at all. Its just not perfect, and like any job has its pros and cons. I too have fantasised about going into that line of work, but I imagine if I did, I'd end up fantasizing sitting in a comfy chair all day building software. As I said, the grass is always greener on the other side.
I don't think there's a world where apple switches to bing for its default search engine. But I don't think its outlandish at all to imagine Apple rolls its own search engine and uses that as the default here. In practice I suspect this is really just google paying apple $15B not to compete with its golden goose.
I never thought my pain threshold was low until I tried that device lol.

I genuinely had to google reviews about it, and then still check if 50C temperature is safe for skin contact.

Torture comes quite close to it, still I hate mosquitoes even more.

Even now I only use the 3 second setting and sometimes I can't stand it.
I feel like the American populis basically deserves this for endlessly electing the "practical" centrist candidates who don't have the political courage to change anything (or game show hosts, but Trump didn't seem particularly interested in dismantling the surveillance state)
Interestingly I worked at Credit Karma years back and part of the reason I left was I asked my manager directly, "Tell me exactly what I'd need to build to get promoted, it can be any amount of work, just set the bar." He said he couldn't.

I think some people would find my question profoundly fair ("OBVIOUSLY there's SOME amount of work that deserves higher pay"), and some people would find it profoundly unfair ("OBVIOUSLY a manager can only promote so many people per team"). I think this would be a good litmus test for employee-company compatibility.

Regardless, I was never getting promoted there so I work at facebook now.
I thought that the specific issue was that arrays could only directly contain strings of equal length. Which, yeah, that's necessary in order for array access to be O(1) and for any sorts of vector intrinsics or striding operations to work properly.

The way to get around that is by sticking the actual string on the heap somewhere and only storing a pointer to it in the array. This isn't a unique problem to Fortran; it's how basically every programming language does it. The difference is that Fortan doesn't automatically heap allocate them for you - you've got to manually box them with a derived type - and that most other languages don't even give you the option of strings without pointer chasing.

I would argue that, while this characteristic is certainly going to seem weird to anyone who's used to a higher-level language, in a language like Fortran where the primary use case is high performance computing, putting the programmer in charge of these sorts of decisions is neither a bug nor a wart; it's a huge feature.
Voice, video and text chat with unlimited bandwidth, streaming resolution and storage space all for free, and all much, _much_ easier to use for the average user than any other voice and video communication client ever made.
I'm very skeptical that the cost would be that low.

The facility in this article claims it will be able to pull 4000 metric tons of CO2 from the air each year.

Per the EPA, the average US driver produces 4.6 metric tons of CO2 per year. Let's call it 4 for ease of calculation. That's 1000 cars negated.

How much does this facility cost to operate and what is the cost of depreciation each year? $3.6M sounds impossibly low.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...
I have been a writing teacher, and sometimes the question comes out: why write?

This is why you write. Not to be famous, not to be published. But so that you can leave something for the ones who loved you. So that you do not just become a fading memory. So that people knew you where here.

None of my ancestors (including my Dad) kept a journal, at least one that I can get my hands on. So I know absolutely nothing about them. And that feels like a huge, huge loss.
This must have been tough, I can't imagine going through it.

The bill is eye-opening, thank you for sharing. I have no hard data, but I believe private medical care in the UK is so much cheaper, simply because there is the alternative of totally free health care from the state. It's not perfect, but any condition you have, they (eventually) do, and to a high level of professionalism (exceptions notwithstanding).

I know treating people requires highly trained, dedicated stuff, advanced technology and medication, and those aren't cheap, but I can't help but feel that something is broken in the US. One of the few things putting me off jumping across the pond.