skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"but Delta is an unknown" right in the title of your link! Are you unaware that there was a sea change in thinking around transmission and the Delta variant within a week after this Nature article was published? Also, household studies do not have adequate controls as there may be a significant number of confounding variables at play.

Here's a CDC study of a prison outbreak which found a 93% attack rate for unvaccinated and 89% for prisoners vaccinated more than 4 months prior: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e3.htm

"No one cares about transmission" until the point they want to make the case for mandates, because it collapses if one acknowledges that the vaccines are not very effective in reducing it.
You do understand that the price of living in a society is that not everybody just gets to do whatever they want, right?
Gave you really seen that happen a lot? I can't think of many examples off the top of my head of open source project heads being hired by a company and given free reign to continue working exclusively on their project.

I don't know how you would see the evidence of the company imposing their will on the project - that's not likely to happen in public. It's also very likely to happen without any explicit influence taking place at all.

If a company hired me to work full-time on one of my projects, and I had to pick between two competing priorities for my time, I would naturally take my employer's own preferences and current challenges into account when making that decision. I wouldn't even consider that to be a bad thing.
Vaccination provides immune system training for exactly one viral protein. Recovery from natural infection provides immune system training for all proteins present in the variant that caused the infection.

Vaccination only provides an immune response for the spike protein, not a broad response.
> What's the difference between whispering "fire" in a crowded movie theater vs. yelling it out loud?

both are protected speech though
I think I agree with you on your first sentence: If YOU decide not to wear a seatbelt, then YOU are the one that might to go out flying through the windshield. Your choice.

Now vaccines, if YOU don't get vaccinated, you might cause the death of one or more people who you get infected directly or indirectly.

One is a social good, the other is a personal choice.
anti vaccine people are indeed close to as evil as nazis
I suppose to the extent these channels of communication recruit and radicalise, if they are shut down they will not be able to recruit and radicalise. The act of shutting them down might infuriate regular users of these channels, but they’re already radicalised anyway.
I’m not really sure what kind of problems you expect peer review to solve? https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1441040475826184194?s=21

There’s plenty of bad/fraudulent/wrong stuff that gets through peer review, perhaps even a majority.
Isn't this the technique used in Black-n-White Newspapers. I used to help compose Newspaper layouts in the early 90s, and dithering of images were done for similar reasoning -- printing flat colors are bad, so dither them.
"By censoring the debate on youtube, you're basically confirming to the wacko conspiracy theorists that there is in fact a conspiracy."

This is an excellent point. My view has been these are wackos but you can't silence wackos without giving someone in authority the discretion to decide who to label a wacko. But as you point out, having the discretion to decide someone is a wacko and has ideas too dangerous to be heard, at a large organized scale, actually is a conspiracy.
I am wary of the situation developing.

But I'm also wary of this idea that "well you just give the people tools to sort it out".

Mostly because:

1. It seems unrealistic as expecting people to peruse their own source code... That's a huge pain in the ass for most folks and they're just as likely to pick a bad filter or service to do that for them anyway.

2. Did that change anything about how a situation where GoDaddy and Google refused to manage the domain registration for the Daily Stormer?

I don't think it did....

Aren't we back at the start with these suggestions?
Any organization can be staffed by people with ulterior motives and turned against its official purpose.
Netflix doesn't use S3 as-is but with a wrapper on top which means they couldn't use off-the-shelf solutions.

aka ...the cloud storage system where packager stores its output is a custom object store service built on top of S3 with additional security features.
Can you point me to the specific sections of the PPC platform that are anti-vaxx?

Are you sure you're not conflating anti-vaccine-passport with anti-vaccine?
Are you aware of how often science and medicine has been used specifically to repress non-white populations? I'm not saying that's an inherent trait of science, but it can easily be employed in that way if people aren't actually aware of the biases people hold implicitly.
Inability to answer “what next” causes these platforms to unilaterally move forward.
This is huge. If SF tries to house its homeless, it'll attract homeless from Oakland (and probably even further). Since Singapore has border controls, it doesn't have to worry about its neighbors taking advantage of its charity.
Is Node.js Still Relevant and Worth Learning?
If you are a fan of Gil's work, and the entire phenomenon of coordinated omission, this is right up your alley.

https://www.scylladb.com/2021/04/22/on-coordinated-omission/

Also, yes, P99 CONF (https://p99conf.io) is sponsored by ScyllaDB, but we're very glad to have speakers from other NoSQL vendors like Couchbase and Redis, as well as folks from across the industry — streaming systems like Kafka (Confluent), Pulsar (Splunk), Redpanda (Vectorized). Plus storage systems like Ceph, Crimson (both Redhat) and Lightbits LightOS.

For the P99 CONF I recently conducted a quick poll of what people consider "acceptable" P99s. For some people it's <100 µseconds. For others, its <1 ms. And for some it goes all the way up to 1 second. But "acceptable" is use-case specific. An in-memory database or cache will have a very different expectation than someone writing data to SSD or even today, HDD.

33.3% of respondents expected <1 ms.

37.5% were okay with 1-<10 ms

20.8% were okay with 10-<100 ms

Only 8.3% were okay with 100ms - 1 second

(The <100 µsec was a "write-in" comment. But I am sure if I had included it, and we had a broader sample poll, you'd see it as a prevalent and vocal minority.)

https://twitter.com/P99CONF/status/1440197863875629057?s=20
But vaccination can't be as binary as that it's "safe" and that it's "effective" for each and every individual. As a layman I can't accept binary beliefs given like that. Nothing is truly safe. These words are meaningless to me. Everything has trade-offs and risks associated. Claiming something can be "safe and effective" to me throws so many red flags.

How can I tell if the research done on the subject and conclusions of it are in my best interests? For me easy example and what concerns me about both covid and vaccines are the long term effects, like brain fog aka "long covid". If vaccines can cause similar symptoms to what covid can cause, then can vaccines cause "long covid"? If spike protein can reach brain for example can it give you brain fog indefinitely?

I've seen several anecdotal reports where people have had brain fog, fatigue, lethargy and other long covid symptoms after vaccines for many months, some claiming they are still not over those. Reading Pfizer study for instance, I don't see that this was researched at all. All everybody seems to be caring about is short term hospitalizations, deaths and side effects. But where can I find data on how large percentage of people have long covid either from vaccines, or covid or breakthrough after vaccine?

There was a study done according to which 19% of individuals who had taken a vaccine and got breakthrough after had long covid. I definitely would like to see more information about that as I definitely don't want to get brain fog lasting for many months.

The study in question:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072
It's a tricky line. I'd err on the side of "disregard that rascist", but that's me.

If you find yourself taking about how BLM is bad alot, you're probably dealing with some racism that you can't see in yourself.
Enough. This sort of large-scale systematic suppression of human rights (in this case the right to the free exchange of ideas) is fundamentally evil and needs to be stopped.

That it's "for a good cause" is no excuse. Neither is the fact that the perpetrator of these mass-scale human rights violations is a corporate oligopoly rather than a government, nor that the target of these abuses is "them" rather than "us". All of that is a distraction. They. Are. Trampling. Your. Rights. This cannot be allowed to continue.
And they will continue to do so until directed otherwise by the White House, in this administration or the next (or the next, or the next...).
The reporter's slant and choice of words is irrelevant.

It looks a lot like you are looking for reasons to ignore the evidence. No one can help you if contrarianism is your end goal, and you can harm others plenty.

And, this is exactly why youtube is banning speech right now.
Sorry, we are discussing shared memory multiprocessing. I'm certainly not advocating unrestricted use of pthread_create, but even more structured way of parallelization still rely on shared memory.

But of course, for security address space separation is pretty much a requirement.
Thanks for posting here. I was getting ready to post something about the resolution, but... dang, now I'm excited. Good luck and god speed!
I fit 4 chairs and a dining table in a Jetta. Only took the legs off the table.

It can be done, and it is done all the time all around the world. People just want to use their extreme case to justify both ways. We are saying “I fit my whole house in a fiat 500” and they are saying “I eat for 25 people every week so others must need it to”.

The reality is that people drive suburbans and Tahoes and they don’t even have kids just because they can. I hate to say it but the best thing that can happen to the US culture is expensive fuel. And I say this as someone who races cars as a hobby and would like cheap fuel.
So, instead of the abstract textbook word "democracy" one could rephrase this more concretely as "damaging to the present political situation in our country"?

When put like this, this statement sounds truly conservative (small c, no necessary relation to parties); but I am hearing this phrase from people who are fine with the disruption of the political arena in the name of what they consider to be progress.
Seems more like an article on dithering generally rather than how to optimize your website

If you just want small images, a lossily compressed image will probably look better than a lossless dithered image
> I've heard of exits for companies without a business model or revenue, but how many companies have an exit event (e.g. get acquired or IPO) with no product at all?

Depends on your definition of "no product at all" but it happens all the time in biotech.

Most biotech companies don't have a product until FDA approval because they can't legally sell anything (unless it's a product other biotech/pharma companies can use for their own R&D).
BEEVO- missed opportunity.
There is merit in your points. How does the world discover these alternatives when everything outside the current treatment regime is heavily censored?
Not only your comment is unsubstantiated and has no evidence, it had already created a flamewar and caused the whole thread to go off topic which is exactly what the HN guidelines I highlighted to you is supposed to prevent as the topic gets divisive.

Can you please read the HN guidelines again? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

People already that far down the rabbit hole aren't going to be made more or less hesitant whether YouTube or others leave the content up or take it down because at this point they are already believing things that have been shown to be untrue (or at least highly unlikely to be true).

But taking it down might stop a lot more people being drawn in to the conspiracy theories and becoming that hesitant in the first place and further perpetuating the problem by forwarding on the misinformation.

Taking the information down saves a lot more from the misinformation than it pushes in the other direction. Not that I think we should abandon the latter of course, but they are going to need some other form of intervention anyway, whether this step is taken for the benefit of the others or not. We can't fix all the problems with one action, but needing other actions to help those more deeply entrenched doesn't mean we shouldn't perform this action to help those who are not yet there.
i'm glad you have the balls to say this. Not being vaccinated is close to becoming a stance against authoritarian rule.

I'm vaccinated (almost regrettably now) but I support anyone's choice to not get vaccinated, i feel like you should because it's been shown to dramatically reduce your risk of getting seriously ill but I absolutely respect your choice and will defend the right to choose.
This is called AOT ;^)

You may want to look into TruffleRuby from Graal, with the "--native" flag. Particularly some of the writings Chris Seaton (project lead/founder) from Shopify has about it:

https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby
Images serve to make a website beautiful. Dithered images are not - in my mind - beautiful. There are other ways to optimize a website speed and bandwidth. Let's serve devices the image resolution that they can handle and not an XL image just because we can. Let's minimize JS cruft, minimize excessive renders. Sacrificing image quality would be near the bottom of my list.
This is one of the most underappreciated features of Unix's interoperability. Back in college, I carried around a wimpy tablet PC running Linux, but "ran" most of my applications on some random Solaris box in a lab.

This was invaluable to me, because otherwise I'd have had to fork out money I didn't have for MATLAB and the like - or sit in the lab all day, like everyone else.
Well, most of it is just trash that won’t make anyone less rich if lost. It’s like putting a script of Antigone and a sex advertising graffiti in Pompeii on the same level.
> causing a national health crisis that doesn't need to be happening anymore

This just isn't true, it's never going away and nothing can stop it, this is it for the rest of your life. It'll get less deadly over time but you will get covid at some point in your life and you will get it again and again as it mutates over the years. Same with flu it was initially deadly, now it's just bad but it's never going away.
*May

The word May is doing a lot of work in this paragraph.
> Anonymity and pseudonymity have played important roles throughout history, from secret ballots in ancient Greece to 18th century English literature and early American satire.

Sorry, I think anonymity is valuable in the world we find ourselves, but to suggest it was prevalent more than a few decades ago is really stretching things. Yes there are examples, but ordinary people just wouldn't do it. Now, to have say an email which is your actual name is a rarity even if you wanted it.
>I think you're maybe confusing the Packager with the Encoder. Transcoding (encoding) happens before packaging

The way I used "transcoding" was to refer to Netflix's Packager process of converting (in their words) "codec-specific" elementary stream format to "codec-agnostic" with extra frame metadata. I should have used a different word than "transcode" to encompass that (especially if the input and output files are the same "codec" but just different containers) ... but whatever the underlying process is, it implies (some) cpu constraints because they're only processing at 83 MB/sec throughput from SSD disks on S3. My laptop doing a simple "mux" type of operation with ffmpeg or MKVMerge can concatenate streams into another container greater than 400 MB/sec.

>You wouldn't have to read from S3, you could just push your encoded chunks to your CDN instead and use the edge server to virtual package them.

The Netflix blog says the Packager is scanning/analyzing the input file for exact frame start and stop times and storing that knowledge as extra metadata to enable future clients to randomly skip around the video. Just focusing on that one algorithm tells us it's not something we want to do repeatedly (and virtually) on all the edge CDN servers.

(I'm reminded of analogous situation in mp3 vbr format that doesn't have exact time frame timestamps built-in for random seeking. Therefore, skipping to exactly 45m17s of a 60 minute mp3 takes a long time as the audio player "scans" the mp3 from the beginning to "count up" to 45m17s. One can build an "index" for fast mp3 random seek but that requires pre-processing the whole mp3 that's more cpu intensive than a simple mux operation.)
I'm glad you liked the article. If you want something more "official", here's a link to the IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-half-century-ago-better-transist...
Their point is probably that improving the reception in your location is a political rather than technical issue. I.e. it can be solved.
We Ditched DynamoDB
There's a problem and solutions with consequences. Every law limits freedom in one way or another. It's a case of how probable and sever is the problem compared to the consequences of the law.

In Germany the problem is Nazis and a choice about how to stop them doing it again. We have seen that such people can convince nearly an entire population (so the problem is likely) and start a world war (so the problem is extreme). Why would anyone debate the need for a law that limits a freedom in a case we consider pretty unworthwhile anyhow (limiting the freedom to deny the holocaust).

As for vaccines it's again a calculation where we know the problem is extreme (huge economic losses and deaths) and the likelihood increases based on how many people don't vaccinate - or whether people in specific jobs don't vaccinate. The calculation shouldn't be that hard.
Great question - and you're right about that page not including it due to the audience. It's an STM32L4. (L443 specifically). I went with it since it's a versatile, well-documented MCU aimed at low-power, non-RF uses. I almost had to delay launch due to a shortage, but I got lucky when F5ing Digikey before they went out of stock again! Using a QFP footprint, although may switch to QFN on a future revision to avoid bent pins, and solder bridges high on the pins.

A blog article I posted a few days ago on the website goes into some detail about Rust, with a focus on STM32.
> But on the vaccine front, it has become increasingly clear that good speech, backed by overwhelming evidence is insufficient for a significant minority to come to a reasonable mindset.

The problem isn't the evidence, the details of which many people wouldn't understand or care to know, it's the credibility of the people making recommendations based on that evidence, and the way they have conveyed those recommendations.

The public-facing people championing public health have long since lost credibility but they aren't being replaced in an effort to restore public trust. That's the problem.
Or revenge porn, entrapment, white slavery, etc., etc.
The paper studies trades made on financial market indexes, so over the periods of time measured I wonder if the random strategy they used is about the same as investing in index tracker funds and spreading your buys / sells out in order not to time the market.
Next-generation solar cell technology reaches space
From my limited experience I did have a pair of Intel SSDs in RAID 1 fail within 2 days of each other in the same way. Thankfully the first was replace and recovered before the second failed.
I feel like it's a pretty sad person who gets steaming mad about being told about something that's good for them. Very childish
"People who wear seatbelts are losers who don't get laid".

Now I've seen it all.
Once again YouTube is standing against free speech.

Yes, most of you will cheer for it just as you did when Twitter banned Trump. You will say it's a private company, they have the right to do that. Don't expect people like me to support you when you complain about YouTube banning e.g. Russian activists.

Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the speech you don't agree with.
Seeing no milk at the supermarkets across the country does indeed mean milk shortage.

Btw congratulation on your Goebbels level politicians. Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport: "Not only are there very large and even larger shortages in other EU countries like Poland and Germany, which clearly can’t be to do with Brexit, but actually because of Brexit I’ve been able to change the law and alter the way our driving tests operate in a way I could not have done if we were still part of the EU.". Somehow no gas shortages in Germany/Poland to speak off in the real world.
Partoo Migrates from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
> does not bind the amendment to apply only to the establishment and protection of a body designated as the militia

It does, but only because US code says that there's two militias. The organized militias (the National Guards), and the unorganized militias consisting of every able bodied man 17-45. Since the 14th amendment was written later, that bit of code is now interpreted to mean all adults.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/246
https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions is your subscription feed, you can get there by clicking "subscriptions" in the left pane.

The feed on the home page is recommendations. That may, by chance, include things you're subscribed to but it will also include other recommended content and possibly not recommend things you are subscribed to as it's not meant to be a second copy of the subscription feed.
What's the best off the shelf inside-out tracking system you can get now? Does anything compete with Quest yet?
Electron alternatives aren't platform specific, they're other xplat toolkits like JavaFX, Swing, WxWidgets, Qt, JUCE, Flutter...
So similar to how vaccine laws may free you from lockdowns, seatbelt laws may free you from having to drive 25 mph everywhere. It's really people's reactions to death that constrains your freedom, and we try to pick how.
It isn't different. Those were scummy too.

A lease arrangement that is upfront about the terms is one thing. Intel is not leasing these CPUS, just part of them; and "complicating ownership" as i said elsewhere is what im objecting to
Honestly, not sure why people care so much about the GIL in languages like Ruby, Python or JS.

Let's face it, nowadays when you deploy software it's over multiple machines, nodes, whatever you want to call it. So you're almost always talking about spawning processes. Which any language can do, GIL or not. Removing the GIL to enable parallel processing on a single machine adds more complications than it's worth, especially when any Python workload is either going to be forking C processes or forking Python processes.

Not every language needs the same kind of control over OS threads of a C, C++ or Rust.
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter all suggest this content to people.

Anything they do passed this point is just them trying to cover up the fact that they pushed extremism onto the world.