skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't a Soviet but the 1913 Dublin Lockout probably deserves a mention too. It was a bitter dispute that involved about 15,000 workers and lasted around 5 months. It's arguably the most significant industrial dispute in Irish history, and many of the speakers mentioned in the poster in the article would have taken part in it.
This is certainly good for you, but take a moment and reflect on how difficult this would be for 99% of working people in this world.

Our need for labor should not be allowing us to harm the wellbeing of their laborers.

You are clearly in a very privileged position, but it's not a position I can disagree with, only one that needs to be universal.
Personal anecdote: I refuse to blog anymore because I can't find the right CMS to use. I have weighed the pros and cons so heavily over a whole decade and just can't decide what to use (And I've used them all). Posthaven, Wordpress, Ghost, WriteFreely & Write.as, Blogger, Tumblr and a few others.

Now I am aware of the phrase: 'If you wait until you are ready, you will never get it done'. But I've actually blogged professionally for about 3 years and saw what that meant. You had journalists cold-calling you in the middle of the night because your blogpost was going viral, traffic going through the roof.

Though the blog didn't go down because of the traffic, I was still paying for the CDN monthly which at the time because of AD revenue didn't hurt my pocket as much. Today I simply can't afford it, and out of respect for my users, I won't serve ADS. So the workaround for many in that situation, is to go with a free service like wordpress.com or Tumblr or Blogger etc. But they're all weaponized with ADs and tracking cookies, and I don't want to make my users suffer loss of privacy because of what I've written.

I used to self host, but then even that comes with caveats: can you harden the VPS enough to stop bots and bad actors getting in and ruining your blog? How does the CMS bounce back after the VPS has been rebooted? All these stupid edge cases can make you go insane. Then the CMS itself has to be configured the right way. Have you got HSTS turned on? Have you got your caching right? Are all your images optimized?

It's too much. I prefer to just lurk on various Internet forums since I can still reach a large audience that way, albeit even forums come with caveats. So far certain communities haven't had their Eternal September yet, and places like Tildes.net look promising. In the end, it was a good run, but it can't last. Maybe I'll take up blogging again, when I'm 'not ready' for it and DGAF anymore, who knows?
your point here seems to be that people aren't doing that

who is "they" in your opinion, because plenty of people and organizations do cite excess death stats

are you really so far removed that you need us to provide a citation on excess deaths, this far into things? this reminds me of conversations in May 2020, because this entire conversation was procedurally generated in May 2020. Have you considered the possibility that all your apps marginalized you in this niche where no other information is shown to you everyday for the past year?
I'd much rather spend time with the people I love in life before I die than the abstract busyness known as "work". But that may just be just me.
I hear where you are coming from.

But changing the blocksize is just a software change. It doesn't require outlay on a "bigger engine", or any new engineering. The "existing bitcoin network" could switch to it with a 1 line change in the code.

So it's not quite the same as some of your examples.
Adult cases are not fatal by a large majority. The highest number I could find said that adults were 25 times more likely to die from chickenpox than children.

I found a death rate of 21 per 100000 adult cases. That's not a majority. [0]

Also, it's better to never get chickenpox at all, as shingles is very painful. Shingles is the reactivation of the chickenpox virus. If you've ever had chickenpox, you are at risk of shingles.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/varicella.html
The virus is here to stay, vaccines or no vaccines. We need to learn to treat it effectively or accept vaccine boosters every 6 months
Kind of sideways, but I’m tired of CGI these days, no matter how real it feels, you “somehow” know it’s not real. That’s why I like Mad Max Fury Road better than Dr. Strange.
It's strictly equivalent, dishwashers with a separate receptacle just dump it in the compartment, too.
I think I picture "freedom to do what I want" as a studio apartment with a laptop, an internet connection and a library card needing something like $30K a year. So I think for every year I make $150K I can take ~3 years off.

Everyones situation is different.

Hope you get to teach some day.
Police in Singapore are deploying a robot called Xavier
You get to explore an ancient civilization that went extinct!
> while most dishwashers take cold tap water and electrically heat it

That's surprising. Here in the US, my dishwasher is connected to the hot water line.

Maybe it does vary from one region to another, but I can't see why it would make sense to connect to the cold water line. Typically, dishwashers are near the sink (so it's easy to load), so hot water should be available in most cases.
Tracking how many people die from different causes is easy.
Difficulty is tracking how many lives were saved with specific preventive measure.
https://archive.is/1DagJ
The influenza virus mutates faster than SARS-CoV-2 on a per infection basis. But over the past two years we've had far more people infected with SARS-CoV-2 so the total number of mutations worldwide has been high. Over time we expect the rate of new mutations to decrease as more people gain some level of immunity and the virus approaches it's evolutionary maximum potential. We already see that the Delta variant is fairly stable and is successfully out competing all other variants in the wild.
There are several states like Texas where most UTVs/sxs are legal to be driven on public roads. And several other states where they are street legal if you add a kit with turn signals and a horn. In Canada these can be legal at least in Ontario, I would expect they can be driven on roads in rural areas
Your last phrase is really what gets me. Why should any web delivery platform get "clogged up" by content? If this becomes popular, then it just gets slower and more painful to use in ways that aren't fixed by adding more infrastructure?

Also, what is the value add that can be explained to someone who just wants to use the web and leaving the jargon like permisionlessness and composability aside? What reason would anyone have to start using this as a consumer?
NetNewsWire and Vienna are two nice options but unfortunately only for macOS. Here are some other suggestions for Linux, haven’t tried them though: https://alternativeto.net/software/vienna/?platform=linux
I can also a recommend a 20-year-old Neff.
Which is an important point. While the vaccinated are still getting COVID, and even sometimes ending up in the ICU, they very often aren't ending up hospitalized or in the ICU. The vast majority of ICU patients are unvaccinated [1].

[1] https://www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-releases/2021/08/27/adult-...
That may be the target, but the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.
You could reduce the energy use per-transaction if the block size limit was increased.

That's not gonna happen at this stage however.
Surprised the heck out of me too, I would have intensely weird and disturbing dreams if I took a whole melatonin tablet (around 3-5mg). Slept a lot better once I started dividing them into quarters.
It is a weird self-fulfilling thing. People talk about it like it's a thing, so it's a thing, even if there's very little actual evidence of anyone sincerely holding this belief. People repeat that there's this plague of folks requesting that projects be re-written, and while it is literally true that I have seen two or three instances of this (you link to one of them, and notably it is not anyone harassing maintainers about their choices), it's been two or three.

I actually got annoyed with this enough that I started doing a quantitative analysis; if you look at the canonical repository tracking this, it's got 44 total issues, most of which are jokes https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR/issues If you search GitHub for issues with these words in it, you get some, but many are either obvious jokes, people making issues on their own projects to think about doing this, and things like that. I never followed through on collecting it into a blog post though.

I didn't think your writing was inappropriate at all; memes are memes, and I'm convinced that this one is just never going to die, because it's taken a life of its own, regardless of the underlying truth or not. It is always worth pushing back on this sentiment, even if I don't think Rust specifically tends to actually embody that sentiment very much.

(Also: I don't know why you're now being downvoted. Hacker News works in mysterious ways.)
Because I'm not nearly as good at any hobbies as much as I'm good at my job and being good at something is what gives me day-to-day satisfaction. Having a high wage but not enough stored wealth to feel invincible against an increasingly uncertain future, I'm spending more time feeling good about work than finding and investing in a hobby that'll make me truly happy.
The spec is quite clear (i was able to implement creating datamatrix codes of all sizes/shaped from the spec in C in a day). Take a look at it. It also covers how to decode them. You might be able to write it yourself and learn a lot in the process.

It goes into great depth on suggested methods to decode. See section 9 "Reference decode algorithm for Data Matrix" in ISO/IEC 16022 second edition 2006-09-15, which you'll need to BUY...

I've uploaded for you to view here: https://mega.nz/file/ctQCxDaQ#Y7-XyMeR2e8nJQ79cJfWKmlfwxPm2Q...

Because, fuck ISO for paywalling knowledge!
> It is a single, elegant standard for distributed systems.

is this some elaborate parody
Any ideas about possible deal size?
Consider, however, that being exposed to the virus after being vaccinated reduces your risk of death and/or hospitalization by a factor of 10-20x. The assumption that there are “no sterilizing vaccines” is a little questionable too - even against Delta, the FDA approved vaccines are showing 40-50% immunity against infection, i.e. sterilizing immunity.

Zero Covid countries like NZ and Australia that re-open to the world once their populations hit 80% vaccination will have prevented many deaths among their population.
Yeah, so did the ones behind Calico last decade. How's that been going, anyway?
Very innovative concept!
> "People" aren't bad at stuff. On average, they're about average at it, which is tautologically true.

That is absolutely not true, at least not in the way anyone means.

Humans are "terrible" at remembering numbers. The average-ability human has average ability, obviously, that is tautological. But as a whole, humans are not good at remembering numbers.

A reasonable question is, what does "good" even mean? Well that depends on context. We are worse at remember numbers than computers are. We are worse at remember numbers than the same human, but with pen and paper. We are worse than some animals.

Obviously, there is no objective "good" or "bad". We are better than some animals, etc.

But when someone says that humans are terrible at evaluating risk, they usually imply that we are bad at it as compared to risk evaluation done with real calculations, and that is internally consistent. And that is something that IS somewhat objective, and most humans fail as compared to this objective standard (e.g., lots of contradictions in risk decisions).
I agree that the public health messaging has quite a number of statements that may not be true. But they may not be false either. Instead of lies, scientists are erring on the side of caution for what they do know.

I agree that sanctimonious public health and politicians have created a lot of distrust. Their messaging is condescending, manipulative, and generates the direct opposite of what they are trying to achieve.
6 - 12 years isn't a long time for the ecosystems these protocols are attempting to build.
A lot of postmodern/neo-pop art is very pro-commercialism. And there are successful pro-capitalist artists such as Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol.

Having said that, many pro-capitalist artists who don't make it big in their twenties seem to transition to advertising or design.
OK, I'll bite.

Ontario had 554 new reported cases of COVID yesterday. Of these cases:

- 319 were not vaccinated (213 of these were 12+ and therefore eligible to be vaccinated)

- 56 were partially vaccinated

- 136 were fully vaccinated

- 44 unknown

In other words, roughly 16% of the population (eligible but not vaccinated) is driving close to 40% of reported cases.

OK, but reported cases are blah blah, who cares, right? Individual cases will vary in severity and everyone can make their own decisions about risk tolerance, etc etc. But the strain on our health care system is the biggest cost we all share in the pandemic regardless of personal choices, so let's look at ICU numbers instead:

- 113 unvaccinated

- 7 partially vaccinated

- 8 fully vaccinated

You can draw your own conclusions.

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/pkbgrz/ontario_sep...
Isn't it also the preliminary and ongoing background check. Essentially they're saying we can check you well enough to decide if you're a 'threat'.
I'm open minded to what you're saying but help me understand how both this

> The typical immune response produces 10,000-100,000 times more antibodies than “necessary” to fight an infection.

can be true, and how vaccines are basically 90% effective at preventing symptomatic illness (kinda sorta, leaning towards the high end.)

Feels like the numbers don't match up.
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> If vaccinated people do become infected at the same or similar rate to unvaccinated (and a whole lot of other assumptions)

They do not though. You getting sick from any virus is a function of your particular immune system, the viral load you're exposed to, the virus' infection mechanisms, and your manner of exposure.

Vaccines affect the first two points. They train your immune system to recognize the virus as something its seen before and it has ready antibodies to fight. Your immune system responds more efficiently to the virus and neutralizes it faster meaning that any point during your "infection" you've just got fewer virus particles to shed and spread to others.

If you're exposed to a high viral load you might become symptomatic, your white blood cells can only work so fast, with a breakthrough infection but since your immune system is pre-trained for the virus it'll be a shorter and likely a less severe infection than if you were unvaccinated.

The Typhoid Marys you're describing are the massive pools of completely unvaccinated people getting sick. The unvaccinated remain infected longer and end up producing more copies of the virus from their infected cells. If the virus generates a beneficial mutation (named variant) after a trillion replications and each unvaccinated person produces a billion replications (made up round numbers) then we'd expect a variant every thousand people infected. If a vaccinated person only produces a million replications then it'll take far longer for a vaccinated population to generate a variant. You may never even see a variant emerge if the infection rate drops below pandemic and epidemic levels.
Dedicated server from OVH I am renting for $175USD - 16 real cores, 128GB RAM, 2 SSDs
That's a valid response to being mRNA hesitant. But my impression is that those people aren't being called "anti-vaxx."

The concern I share with many other people is not as much about people who prevaricate about mRNA and get J&J, but about those who are armchair quarterbacking their way into believing things like science / all scientists are corrupt, we have no expert / collective knowledge of the various mechanisms by which vaccines work, there is a nebulous "they" that don't want you to know things, etc.
You really don't see anything wrong with, "It's illegal for you to do this but not your identical competitors with an identical product"?
> To improve our critical infrastructure we must improve the developer experience (DX) of systems programming, but rewriting everything is not the only answer.

I like Kristoff from what I've read of him. He seems like a leader who will take responsibility and not shy away from hard decisions.

On that quality alone, my money is on Zig winning systems programming over Rust in 10 years.
GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas
Some years ago when Ardour (a crossplatform FLOSS DAW) was being sponsored by SSL (famous for their large scale mixing consoles), I got to attend a meeting designed to float and discuss "blue sky" ideas.

Somebody who had been with the company for a long time predicted that the broadcast world was going to end up demanding a box with just 3 buttons:

[ That was worse ]

[ That was better ]

[ Try something else ]

Everybody laughed, but everybody also knew that this was indeed the direction that audio engineering was going to go in.

And now, 12 years later ...
They run a background check on you whenever you buy an airline ticket. The airline submits their manifest to the TSA to cross check with the no-fly list. The only thing that TSA pre does is give you a number that is unique to you (as opposed to a name that you may share with someone else). They could easily solve this by having you submit your SSN or Passport number whenever you buy an airline ticket.

I agree on Nexus, they basically do the entry interview ahead of time and then assume the answers are the same until they aren't (I have that too). That one actually makes sense.
Cloudflare is not neutral. They blocked 8chan after political pressure from MSM.
Yeah I think this is more of a Philly thing than a TSA thing.
Why is there always some smug comment about vaccine effectiveness? Comments about COVID in general have left me disappointed with this community.
Topics like this is why I'm against domestic vaccine passports like the Canadian provinces are suggesting we use. Temporary measures that become perm and dramatically change our way of lives - especially with poor risk / reward evaluation.
You assume that workload is binary you either work or you are just present. The intensity fluctuates even if you study for 1 hour. This isn't something exclusive to those who work more.
You were told correctly?

Brad Little of Idaho says greater than 98% of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are unvaccinated (link below).

Cases are probably the most unstable of those stats, but the point is unvaccinated folks are bearing the majority of the pain.

https://twitter.com/GovernorLittle/status/142593002008663654...
Massive cpu steal and poor storage io performance.
Those doors don't stop a hijacker from executing stewardesses until the pilot opens the door.
With ARC, Nim's memory management would be closer to Rust than to Go.
TSA Pre requires fingerprinting and a background check. You definitely give up some privacy in signing up for it. I mean you can unlock some computer devices with fingerprints.
Well, I'm referencing a "random" number generated in someone's head, not one generated by a CSPRNG. But with regard to CSPRNGs, an implementation can have a flaw, and we have seen these sorts of things happen, a well known example is MD5, a hash function, which are similar in principle to PRNGs, was broken.

My last paragraph basically amounts to if any of the axioms used for constructing any crypto are false then all cryptography based on them is breakable and this is not specific to any implementation. If they're not false, proper implementation works, and implementation details are more important. In principle, just using a provably random TRNG to generate a seed and then using a properly implemented CSPRNG to generate numbers from the seed, as long as the seed is provably destroyed the numbers are indistinguishable from random numbers. This is not true of "randomness" generated by the human brain. "You'd rather not bet on that being true" is exactly right, theoretically a human could produce a truly random number, but the likelihood is very low that no predictable external influence went into that process compared to using noise generated by the chaotic universe.
I know that the DES displays go up to 10.1", but I haven't seen displays beyond that size (though I'm unsure if they intend to make larger displays in the future). For the Sharp Memory Displays, I think I may have spoken too soon - looks like they top out at 4.4" currently, which of course wouldn't work for your application.

RLCD is an interesting option, I guess the sacrifice there is readability angles and paper-like-ness?
This is what happens to most decentralized services. They are hard and wonky to use. People need help using them, corporations need reliability. And hence come centralized services to help sort it out.

Examples:

* Cash -> Bank Deposit Account

* Email (host your own mail server) -> Gmail

* Rack your own server -> AWS

* Everybody is a DNS node -> Root Servers/ISPs/Cloudflare/OpenDNS, etc.

* BitTorrent -> Pirate Bay

* Git -> GitHub

* Bitcoin -> Coinbase
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See my sibling comment, the TSA does a background check on everyone who flies already. The difference is that with Pre you have a unique number instead of a possibly non-unique name.
It just doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
It's true that some have an enormous capacity for work. I felt my capacity grew year on year for ten years straight -- simply by working with enormously ambitious people. But it can also happen by other means. While at a megacorp, for example, I was collaborating and competing with colleagues medicated with Adderal, who had astounding focus and output. The bar is always being raised, and sometimes in ways that are barely visible. My takeaway was that it's important to identify personal limits and boundaries, and be careful how hard you compete.
Yes, but people break the law all the time.
On this note, HN users and several HC employees (including some enterprise architects) I've spoken to love to mention Nomad and how it's much lighter and simpler to run, completely oblivious that many with bigger names have tried and failed to go up against K8s.

Kubernetes has become a speeding bullet, it won't be easy to catch and it has to run through a lot of walls to slow down for a competitor to do any damage to it's dominance.
And I wonder how long the apps which make reddit still enjoyable incl. the one being discussed here would last as API blocking/restrictions are likely in the pipeline, Every other Ad based social network/community platform which initially had open API had done so.
This is a very interesting change of direction. Considering they and through their lobbying Japanese Govt. were pushing for Hydrogen cars.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/
How is oxide practically different from the application point of view than the vblock/vxblock/flashstack/etc. piles-of-servers-with-modestly-better-integration solutions?

I really thought they were going to do fully disaggregated clusters, but it looks more like vxblock-with-remote-management.
Too late to edit, but that should be 45,000 per DAY
Could have prevented this disaster if they not turned it on but taken it apart first.
if a group of people or organizations "pool" their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose

for instance, you can "pool" money to provide liquidity for trades on the ethereum blockchain via uniswap.