skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if I was to accept that 150k deaths was plausible (which I don’t, since that would show up in excess deaths and other gross statistical measures), that’s still more 10x safer than being unvaccinated (we’ve vaccinated far more people than have gotten COVID, and at a much lower death rate). If the high estimates by someone openly against this vaccine still tell you it is far safer to be vaccinated, what does tell you about what I think of Steve Kirsch?
I've been using this myself for a month and it definitely cut down on the time I spent on Youtube.

You have fine grain control over what gets hidden, including comments, suggested videos, the frontpage, playlist, infocards and so on.
Extra layer of complexity. More development time. More tech dependencies. Don't use it when not needed.
If you pay somebody anonymously, how do they know that the payment they've received is yours and not somebody else's? This is something I've always wondered about anonymous payments. I don't see how they can work in practice.
Researchers find ApplePay Visa contactless hack
The main problem I see with scrum (and agile generally) is that it has wandered away from where it was originally conceived into places it just doesn’t work.

If you are building a product with a very close partnership to the end user with a small, experienced team who share a both a common view of the world and a common definition of success then scrum can work very well. Although, ANY methodology can work well in that environment.

The further away from that ideal the less successful scrum will be. Do you have a team of mixed ability? Scrum will have trouble because you are supposed to view everyone’s opinion as equally valid (but that new grad just doesn’t know as much as the grizzled veteran and scrum doesn’t accommodate mentorship).

Are you one or two steps removed from the end user? Then you are going to have problems because scrum demands a tight feedback loop with your user so if the “product owner” needs to launch a three month “customer survey” to answer every question you have many sprints without any meaningful feedback.

The fundamental truth is you can dictate what is built, or you can dictate when you want it. You can’t do both (because any meaningful software is by definition novel).

Scrum tries to say “deliver every sprint” without being opinionated about what get’s delivered. That can work with a tight feedback loop with the end user, but invariably product managers, sales, and business strategists get involved and they all want to be able to promise Things by Dates (“we won’t hold you to the dates, honest”) and that’s where it breaks down.

All of this is before you even get into the cargo cult of points poker (the value is in identifying mismatches in shared reality, not in sizing the stories) or stand ups (which only work if you are all trying to deliver One Thing).

Finally factor in that early adopters or scrum were actively looking for alternative ways to develop software beyond the “conventional wisdom” of waterfall whereas now everyone views agile/scrum as conventional wisdom and it’s unsurprising that most people have a decidedly subpar experience.
Do you take seriously the proposition that more than 100k Americans could die from the vaccine without us noticing? This would easily put it in the top 10 causes of death in America. And presumably this w
would be happening worldwide, at an even greater scale.

More than 2 billion people have gotten a vaccine worldwide.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. VAERS is self-reported and (as this shows) not reliable data.

Honestly I think you're proving the need for this ban on YouTube. You seem to be trying to get it right, but you've been hoodwinked by the misinformation.

It is indeed hard to get it right, and this is killing people.
Definitely. What I meant is that one might label his genre as “conspiracy theory rap”.
I'm implying that we all had a better life, better relationships with each other, and a healthier view of dealing with disease as a society before we started measuring this one.
I love DynamoDB for a lot of things, but as a store for objects much larger than 1KiB it's not very cost-effective.

DynamoDB writes are priced per WCU.

A WCU will give you 1KiB written to the DB.

In On Demand, WCUs cost you (depending on region) $1.25/million writes. For Provisioned capacity, you pay about 1/7th that (but need to deal with keeping the Provisioned capacity and auto-scaler at the correct level, so in practice you can maybe get this to about 25-35% the On Demand rate when you know what your usage looks like, with further discounts for actually reserving capacity).

If you're writing 32KiB objects, this uses 32x WCU ($40/million writes) and if these objects are even updated (e.g. to change a status or similar), the update writes the entire object again.

On a performance/architecture note, DynamoDB has a hard per-partition limit of 1,000 WCU (per second). Writing larger objects can very quickly get you to these limits which increase your architectural complexity by requiring you to shard access.

Although, in practice you'd never write large objects to DDB. S3 is _only_ $5/million writes (and $0.023/GB/month vs $0.25/GB/month for DDB). If you're writing even 3+ KB (especially if you expect to need to update an item in the future) it's usually more cost effective to store these blobs in S3.

But either way, you're still going to be paying at least $5/million write requests. For multi-MB blobs, this is a non-issue. But for a K/V store of smallish objects, I think it's pretty expensive.
That's amazing news. The only thing left is some kind of EC2 + ECS solution before I can shift all my AWS workloads to Cloudflare.

Already really impressed with Cloudflare Sites and planning to adopt Images soon.

You guys deliver at a dizzying pace, it's truly incredible.
i dont think any of the vendors claim positioning capability solely on 5G in their published literature, their engineers whisper about interesting demos with stuff "around the corner", but I'd take that with a grain of salt

you'd need at least three nodes apparently :)
Mixpanel is easier to use but I guess Amplitude has more functionality.
Right, but building a web app is a way to not have to use the app store payments. But web apps' capabilities are limited, so you must build a native app and go through the app store.
> In my country

I often see people here referring to their country without mentioning the actual country, i.e. they hide the interesting detail, which I find weird. Why not to write "in Iceland..." instead? Or is it a privacy thing or just some kind of modesty?
I just do "Settings > General > Shutdown" instead of remembering the button combinations. It also appears in the search results when you do a Spotlight search for "shut" from the Home Screen.
I've done a few Tech DDs on companies who have very CRUD-like operations and oddly chose to CQRS. Mind you, these are software companies doing about $3~$10M in revenue after 10 or so years (i.e. not rapid growth, but still valuable).

Honestly, my big question is...why? I can find thousands (millions?) of CRUD and MVC developers in pretty much any major language, but how many developers can I find to write CQRS based code?
And you're literally advocating for legalizing speech that incites violence. I'm ok with where I am, are you?
> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion. Not hating the guy but he's blown quite a bit of hot air in his time.

I've just started reading some Fowler stuff. What hot air are you referring to? I would like to keep that in mind.
I thought this was a new "ML powered" charger of some type until I googled... interesting find.
That's whataboutism
Ontario recommends 18-24 year olds get Pfizer vaccine over Moderna
My understanding is that the fuel efficiency was the feature that made them an attractive design for a race-to-the-bottom travel market.
Some books about and by Alexander von Humboldt at the Internet Archive:

Lives of the Brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William (1852)

https://archive.org/details/livesofbrothersh01klen

The Travels and Researches of Alexander von Humboldt (1857)

https://archive.org/details/travelsresearche00humb

The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander von Humboldt (1859)

https://archive.org/details/lifetravelsbooks00stod/

Darwin and Humboldt: Their Lives and Work (1883)

https://archive.org/details/101597985.nlm.nih.gov/

Researches Concerning the Institutions & Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America: With Descriptions & Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras! (English translation, 1814)

https://archive.org/details/researchesconce121814humb

Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (English translation, 1866)

https://archive.org/details/sketchofphcosmos01humbrich

https://archive.org/details/sketchofphcosmos02humbrich

https://archive.org/details/sketchofphcosmos03humbrich

https://archive.org/details/sketchofphcosmos04humbrich

Many more here:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Alexander%20von%20Humbo...
I'm not sure if the GPU for ML space is a fit for cloudflare.

It is for a cloud hoster. But ML does not take advantage of cloudflare's competitive edge ( their SDN ).

In the same way, i don't think docker containers are an interesting/good fit ( i could be wrong on this though)

Edit: i was wrong...
Starbucks effect
Time to be creative in other dimensions. Creativity doesn't only have to happen in scarcity, it can also flourish in largesse.
Wouldn't these "traditional means" defeat the whole purpose of "crypto", which is to avoid reliance on a trusted third-party?
> Officials say that about one in approximately 5,000 males between the ages of 18 and 24 have developed the condition after receiving Moderna for their second dose compared to about one in 28,000 males who got Pfizer instead.
I would like to see answers to the question: why move from Crud to event sourcing.
Because I have seen at least 5 moderate projects trying to integrate ES. They all failed in the sense that either people didn't understand the code anymore, huge integration times, performance issues and even complete project cancellation because of all people walking away
A Three JavaScript Project
Show HN: Redis Inventory, Open Source Tool to Analyze Redis Memory Usage by Keys
If someone farts, do you react differently if they give you a heads up during release?
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/alpha/domains/...

I like Google domains a lot. Has everything you are looking for. Looks like it's alpha in the gcloud tool
"My" idea was also inspired by coast lines, in the initial examples for fractals with the English coastline.

And I often use coastlines as an example to explain why software development is fractal. Will use your link in the future, thanks!
> They are doing far, far less damage than heavy trucks, such as semi tractor-trailers or even box trucks with significant weight inside.

Why on earth do you think it's ok to compare the damage done by industrial freight vehicles to personal transportation?
Roast GCP egress next!
Don Clojure de la Mancha
The web address http Alexa amazon com can be used to access the Amazon alexa login page and get access to the amazon setup page. If you are looking for help with the alexa settings wizard and how to proceed with the setup process online, you can always refer to the information available online on our website.

https://alexaechosetup.com/alexa-amazon-com-setup/
Working on that too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/
> Dithering is a retro way of reducing the colors in an image for use on old hardware or in print. Why dither in 2020?

Dithering is still commonplace, but mostly invisible, for high-end color. Photoshop quietly dithers by default when converting from 16 bits per channel to 8 bits, for example. This is important when sending 8 bits/channel images out for large-format printing because the invisible differences on screen can become clearly visible on paper - the monitor’s gamut and the printer’s gamut are surprisingly dissimilar. Dither is needed to keep smooth gradients from banding badly, and it sucks when you’re spending $100 per print or more to have nasty bands or even compression artifacts appear.
Let me rephrase: what, in your opinion, is wrong with Youtube's search algorithm making antivaxx content appear "last"?

This is "just" a choice about how they order search results, but is functionally equivalent to delisting the content. Is that okay? If not, what makes today's ordering "more okay", and broadly, how do we delineate between acceptable search algorithms, and unacceptable ones?
My attempt at a one sentence summary: Technology is a one-sided outwards manifestation of our inner cunning that allows us to become fully human out of our childish natural origins, but as technology crystallizes around us, we run the risk of being overpowered by it.
+1

- a person who has a Discipline tattoo on their right forearm
Reply from 1Password: https://twitter.com/MrMichaelAbon/status/1443285349891862529
Right, but there's also the social responsibility angle. Given that the vaccine is less risky than not getting vaccinated, then I believe you have a responsibility to get vaccinated.
That is the perfectest analogy. Thank you, dear sir (madam)!
> Rabies is probably the only virus where a vaccine is given after you get exposed

People with high risk of exposure (like vets and zoo workers) take the vaccine periodically as a preventive measure too. At least they do so in India. Maybe in the US they don't because of the cost of the vaccine.
I just reported my former best friend to the FBI
Thanks. It will be embarrassing for me to approach him since I turned down twice. Anyways, will approach him in the worst case scenario.
> if you're under 50 and have no comorbidity, you're not at risk.

This is exactly the kind of false information the YouTube ban is about. You're proving how we need it.
I would recommend to rename "Event Sourcing" to "Evil Sourcing". You guy don't even know how many companies went bankrupt just because they tried to introduce this evil technology that makes your app 100x more complex.
Just about anything by King Crimson :)
> I'm here to dispute the broader claim that the war on drugs was somehow manufactured by Nixon to target his enemies. The war on drugs was bipartisan from the beginning.

This presumes that leftists and civil rights activists weren't also a thorn in the side of Democrats as well as Republicans. Democrats are famous for paying lip service to the causes of racial justice and workers rights, and then failing to deliver for these groups when in office because not enough of them are dedicated to these causes. They are also famous for being just as beholden to corporate interests as Republicans. I can absolutely imagine plenty of Democrats happy to witness law enforcement crack down against these groups. Civil unrest is bad for business after all.

> So if you believe that the racial disparities might be "a deliberate result of the system", as you said, then blame for that would extend far beyond Nixon, right up to our current President.

100% agreed
In one word, connected. For greater depth visit the works of Robert Cialdini. Below is a link to a summary of Cialdini's 6 principles.

https://cxl.com/blog/cialdinis-principles-persuasion/

In some ways, the political/medical alignment problem turns Cialdini on his head in that once one sees other people as "rabid GOPers" then an appeal using Cialdini's "Social Proof" would turn the target of persuasion against one's subject of persuasion.

If I, an unexpert, were to work on the problem, I would use the ambiguity of risk to hold the vax door open (if the target did other vaccines, did not hold strong religious whatevers against vax, etc). With the door open I might take advantage of information asymmetries and use Cialdini's "scarcity," letting them know that I know a particular place has vaccine X today which is better than vaccine Y because of some reasons, and that vaccine X is in short supply so if they were going to do it, this is a great opportunity.
What condition?
I'm somewhat skeptical of Wix's engineering principles in general. Back in 2015 they released an article[0] about using MySQL as a better NoSQL database and talked about how joins are bad for latency, and then their example of a "fast query" used a subquery which was the same as to joining the two tables. Did they not realise that the queries would be equivalent?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160601000411/http://blog.wix.e...
(CTRL-F 'high throughput and low latency' for the query)
They kind of were for a bit, but like many other conspiracy theories, it all got rolled up into QAnon in the past few years.

And that is definitely mainstream.
She is talking to Europeans about export control. This is the government strategy going forward. It's not about IPR. She meant what she said.
At what point do you become a full blown hosting company and is that the goal?
Mattis, for example, had a relationship with the company while he was still working in government and had explicit communication with them telling them he wanted to help them get their product into the military.

Getting hired onto the board 18 months after retiring from government (possibly the delay was due to being distracted by getting onto military contractor General Dynamics' board) is the other half of the back scratching arrangement that powers the corporate-political machine that rules the country.

As to how they found him in the first place, presumably friends of friends of parents, their siblings, husbands, wives, etc. Her parents were in political circles in DC, they were good friends with CIA agents, father was an Enron VP, mother was a legislative director for some congressman. It's all very incestual in Washinton, kind of like old royalty.
Thanks. Its not harsh at all. Btw this is not in america.
I agree with you. We will never do well if we are in the comfort zone.
You are right. I had assumed the only argument would be that of safety: a motorcycle is far more dangerous than an unbuckled car, but applying a cost-benefit changes the situation.
How much space and power do you get access into the ISP locations you are in? Are we talking single 4u and 8a? Or full racks, I suppose the answer is always, "it depends." What does the hardware side of CF look like? You must be toying with custom silicon.

It always baffled me that regional ISPs weren't selling that last mile bandwidth to customers for real dollars. Even over DSL lines in the late 90s one could have run an amazing VoD service.
I'll have to write this one down, right next to "If your friend jumps off a cliff, do you too?". I'd call this category "the motherisms". :)
Your options for scylla are AGPL or pay scylla. Nobody risks AGPL in prod so people running it are probably paying scylla.
> "According to the current technical parameters, the annual production of starch in a one-cubic-meter bioreactor theoretically equates with the starch annual yield from growing 1/3 hectare of maize without considering the energy input," said Cai Tao, lead author of the study.

It sounds like they're trying to save on land and freshwater, not energy or raw materials.
Suspect that ISA can’t be patented but efficient implementation of aspects of it are. (IANAL again)

However the cost of implementing the Arm ISA in a clean room is probably more than the licensing cost from Arm - they are spreading their costs over lots of customers and you are not - so why would you do it?
Java is not V8, it isn't Dalvik either. Java is a memory hungry turd that never delivered, agreed. But let's not forget that Google made their own runtime for Android and invested millions into V8.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17648139

> What it can't do is inline across shared library boundaries, but large C++ apps are usually mostly statically linked for redist anyway.

I'm guessing you've never looked inside System32 on Windows or /usr/*/lib on Unix. I don't see shared libraries as a bad thing, they are great for reducing disk and memory usage. Let's not make bullshit up about how most applications are statically compiled with all their dependencies ;-)
Lots of excuses and dodges reminiscent of antimasking. And more effort put into justifications than a solution to be done with it.

Privacy, integrity (bit flips), and JS injection risks are just some of the reasons to deliver all sites by HTTPS. I hope HTTP is deprecated at some point.
Lack of egress charge is great for write once, read a lot.

But for write once, read a handful of times (e.g. a webhook system that basically is write once, read once of <32KB objects with long history for either redelivery attempts or replaying the entire stream for a point of time), request prices end up being the biggest cost.
You could get close to inkjets and early laser printers with Signum! on the ST and 24-pin dot matrix printer. It used custom bitmapped fonts and very fine control of the pins to generate amazing output.

It was very slow in the highest quality setting, but most people couldn't tell it apart from much more expensive solutions. It also had an astounding equation editor which made it great for STEM work.
If AWS comes down to within hailing distance of reasonable, everyone else will too.
Interesting project! Thanks

Trivial question I guess, but what is the difference between this and using a script to setup wg and `scp`ing keys in?
It's a pretty cool tool. You just got a new customer :)
For those familiar with Sigma-Delta modulation, that's essentially what Floyd-Steinberg dithering is but in two dimensions: It preserves and diffuses sanpling error. (Sigma-Delta just does a better job than F-S of quantifying where the noise moves so you can filter it in the analog domain.)

1-bit DACs in CD players are the same idea: Trading higher sampling frequency for lower sample resolution to convey the same information.

Bresenham's algorithm is yet another expression of the same idea but there the samples in question represent the slopes of straight lines represented by pixels.
If you lose friends, family, and love interests because of your position on covid vaccines, I hate to break it to you, but this consequence was not imposed by a corporation. It was imposed by your friends, family, and love interests, who, yes, probably find your stance hurtful.

You don't have a right to a relationship with anyone.
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