skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an Apple fanboy but I don’t this is completely correct. As a huge buyer of semiconductors they can, when they want to, exert a lot of pressure on suppliers. Famously they did this with Gorilla glass; they have done so with Intel and qcomm. Sometimes not so successfully (all the expense on the “liquid metal” company, for example).

It’s not all sheer pressure; they do a lot of collaborative design. After all they have one of the best semiconductor design teams (both digital and analog) around. And they are on standards bodies; they allegedly (some non-Apple people told me) contributed contributed significantly to USB-C.

I emphasized completely because in the modern ecosystem it’s broadly true (RAM, displays etc)
Russia arrests top cybersecurity executive in treason case
It's the at-will employment where employer or employee can cancel the relationship without cause. In ENG you have crazy lengths of time to give notice like 2-3 months. Not a very pleasant experience for the employee. You also see attempts by European employers to AVOID taking on permanent workers. E.g. in ENG it used to be 2 years of contracting required a FTE contract but they'd cancel the contract three months shy. You also have terrible zero hours contracts in ENG.
The FDA panel and the CDC approved it for the same exact sets of people. Where are you getting your news from?
I watch videos I'd like to get recommended while logged-in. I watch videos I'm not sure about in incognito/private browsing not to influence the recommendations in my account. If I find myself consuming that kind of content more often and would like it to be recommended to me, I promote it to the logged-in session. If I want to see less of it, I gradually demote it, including deleting YouTube history of videos of a certain type, and this acts as an indicator that I'm consuming more than I should.
I'm sort of tired of being downvoted for saying this, but the data on masks other than well-fitted N95s is pretty shotty. Lots of P-hacking, lots of motivated reasoning, and the results pre-2020 differ in notable ways from that post-2020.

The situation gets even murkier when you talk about mask _mandates_ instead of individual decision making. The argument that mask mandates are helpful is tough to support in the face of the differences in the delta-variant curve, for example, in different counties in California.

Just to say it: even daring to compare the results in contra costa county and san diego county, california (which have different mask requirements) got me shadow-banned on reddit. The reasoning here is mostly political, not scientific/rational. No one cares what the science says.
Sadly no support for Go right now.
> Stating the "fact" that one believes that human life and dignity should rightly be traded for cash does not make it an objective statement that’s somehow elevated above having an obvious moral stance.

The author is not advocating for what should be done. He's describing what he expects to happen, based on what X policy changes will affect Y result.
Everything is assembly, that's how your CPU works. If you run C code, rust, go whatever you have to Target an architecture so the compiler can generate the correct assembly instructions. Even python or js interpreters must be recompiled per each architecture you wish to run those languages in. Lambda doesn't change that, as the comment above says its just a container
There are time where AWS makes sense, just like there are times where self hosting makes sense.
> A little bit of how to lie with statistics there

Nope. No lie, just a flatter charging curve.

> the current fastest version, admittedly, but faster ones are coming

CCS chargers are already faster today than Tesla's promised future chargers. Today's fastest charging EVs use CCS.

> and for the community of friendly fellow Tesla owners that you sometimes run into there

Soon owners of all brands of EV will charge there. Tesla will put CCS plugs on the chargers and you'll be able to meet everyone:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/28/22596337/tesla-supercharg...

Tesla switched to CCS in Europe a couple of years ago. It's time to switch to CCS in North America too.
Thank you for the clear writeup. I wasn't able to find any link on the Ampie homepage that would have let me know your intentions regarding user-submitted data lookups. If that's not yet present, I encourage adding something about that.
And it only works early in the disease course.

So, you have to actually know you have the disease and be willing to go into to the doctor immediately to get an intravenous drug regimen.

The Venn diagram between those who will do that and those who are already vaccinated is probably 100%.
Better question, why wouldn't you?

If you can compile the single task your lambda will perform down to as close to bare metal as possible, without affecting your workflow, why not?

I use JavaScript in the few lambdas I have because of dev. ex. What little additional cost it would add offset by speed of development for me, and how important speed is to my tasks.
For the public API, we should be under 100ms per token but don't have a strict guarantee. If you have a strict SLA, you can talk to us and we can get it to as low as 20ms per token at high load.
> a federal judge ruled that the expression might violate Florida's obscenity law and would thus be unprotected by the First Amendment.

> the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida ruled yesterday that the case is not so cut and dry, awarding qualified immunity to English and thus dooming the suit Webb brought against him for allegedly violating his free speech rights and for falsely arresting him.

The lawsuit wouldn't be against the officer, though, would it? Seems like if an officer is doing the job as they were trained to, and ends up violating a citizen's rights in the process, it's the police dept that should answer for it.
This is called speech mitigation, btw (Coined by pop-psychologist Malcolm Gladwell). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigated_speech
Not quite true. Vaccines protect people against the worst effects, but they're not as effective against infection. So a lot of unvaccinated people with the disease might have caught it from vaccinated people. (I'm pro-vaccination, I just don't like the practice of blaming it all on the unvaccinated people.)
Any such correlation wouldn't be down to causation imo. I've always assumed the American attitude of "Do first, ask forgiveness later" was the more likely candidate for many of Silicon Valley's success stories.

It's also worth noting that there's plenty of innovation happening in Europe too.

edit: I'll add a little more detail as to why I don't agree with your theory: in Europe you can still make employees redundant relatively easily. So if a company hires 100 employees then realises it's not cost effective, it can easily make 80 of them redundant. The catch is you cannot rehire for the same roles (basically you cannot make someone redundant to get around firing them), but given the purpose of your thought experiment was to cull staff after initial growth, redundancy works perfectly fine here.

Europe also has such as thing as short term contracts. Not contractors, though we obviously have that too, but FTEs that are hired for 6 months / 1 year rather than indefinitely. I'm sure America has this too.

So there isn't really any need to hire people with the intention of firing them shortly after. In fact any company that does this would get a pretty bad reputation pretty quickly. That's true for America too.

I've also seen people fired at short notice in the UK too so it's not like it can't happen in Europe even with greater worker rights. Heck, I was unfairly fired from one job -- but I hated the job anyway so it wasn't worth my time taking the company to court. Instead I used that energy to find a job I did like.
Adenovirus vaccines have been in use since the 70s.
Unless you want to restrict lambda to only run interpreted code with interpreter & binary dependencies provided by AWS, or run things in emulation, you can't really hide it.
It works with Go: https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/29/graviton2-arm-comes-to-...
I hoped for some analysts of how it's implemented (there's probably a lot of clever low power-pings and cryptography involved), but the linked Twitter thread is purely "WTF? Get off my lawn!"
How long does it last once implanted? Seems a little scarce on details, not sure if its a permanent fix or just supposed to keep you going until a transplant is found. Is it a replacement or a stop gap?
Maybe, but it does make the park a more pleasant space for everyone else to spend time in.
> It’s probably a bigger thing in the UK but that has much more cultural influence from the USA than the EU would.

It's definitely a very common thing here in the UK, although perhaps it's quite regional. I know every job I've had in the past ~5 years I've been involved in conservations about whether we should hire someone based on their race / gender, but I do work in the London / South West area and people tend to be quite "progressive" politically here.

That said, in the UK this seems to be something that occurs far more often in the public sector. Over the last few years contracting in both the public and private sector I've found diversity training and diversity hiring to basically be the norm for public companies. In many cases the diversity hiring in public companies will even go so far as to explicitly exclude certain candidates based on their race / gender. In the private sector I've found it tends to be more subtle, a position might be opened up for anyone to apply on paper, but conversations around hiring a candidate based on some immutable characteristic will naturally arise. My guess is that private companies don't want to deal with the backlash which can occur from partaking in explicit acts of discrimination and tend not to set explicit racial / gender quotas like public companies do.
Ditto. My main project & CI are ready to be (cross) compiled to ARM, I'm just waiting for Graviton-powered Fargate.
I bet some kind of nested generative-adversarial approach could do that.
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You have a pro choice right to not get injected. You don’t have a pro choice right to not get the vaccine, not get tested, and move about freely amongst others because you are now violating others bodily autonomy en masse by spreading disease.

If you aren’t fine with someone walking around firing a gun randomly in the air because the bullets “might” land on someone then I don’t see how you can be fine with someone walking around during a pandemic with no sorts of proof that they aren’t spreading the disease at a high rate.

Both behaviors are a not guaranteed to cause harm, but the likelyhood has risen high enough to warrant preventative measures
The worst programming experience of my life related to lost source code.

I was working for a place that had a service running from a Java app that was customized for each customer, about 200 copies of roughly the same app. There was source control at some point, and when a new customer was being on boarded they’d just make the customizations they required, compile the app, and deploy it.

By the time I worked there (years later), all source code had been lost, and I was tasked with creating a CI/CD system that included managing these apps (they’d now decided they needed to be maintained).

For each one I had to decompile the whole thing, rewrite the code into a human readable format, redeploy and test it. They were filled with all sorts of horrible anti-patterns too, like hard coded file paths, and some of them were only used once a year (but for an absolutely business critical process).

About half way through we had a major data center failure that meant we had to do a failover, which of course broke most of these apps with all their hard coded configuration. So instead of having months to work through all of this garbage, I was asked to get them all working immediately.

I got them all working in 3 days, which I thought was quite a monumental accomplishment. But my CEO was very dissatisfied that it took so long. I quit a couple weeks later, and still almost regret putting so much effort in to saving them. A friend of mine still works there and apparently all of these applications are in exactly the same state as I left them.
the incognito mode in chrome and inprivate in edge have become my "normal" browsing mode. i keep a regular window for a handful of web sites & apps like gmail, youtube, github, etc.

i instinctively open everything else in incognito now. i have noticed less tracking, less ads, and a more pleasant browsing experience.
> AWS’s dependency management is literally bundle it up locally and upload a zip.

That's true and not great IMO either, I also wish the zip wasn't necessary - in the 'bootstrap' binary case just let me upload the binary! - but in case you're not aware of layers (just guessing from 'dependencies') it can be improved a bit:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-l...

> What happens if a ARM package can’t be built locally.

An Arm package can only not be built locally if you decline to use tools that'd allow you to do so?
I have never heard of any pundit make these claims about inflation, which is why I asked. Also, what is something else that people are worried about.It is much easier for me to understand, if you can be more specific.
Congratulations, I'm a user and big fan of your product! Three questions:

1) What was the hardest part of your journey to IPO?

2) If you could give just one piece of advice to early-stage founders, what would it be?

3) Of all the common startup mantras you hear repeated, what one would you would advise people to ignore?
We don't know that they considered used books crowdfunding. It may have been other stuff on the site.

It also looks like the site changed from the initial email to later emails but the author is confused as to why stripe is confused.

http://www.beitesheldonate.org/ was maybe first website? Then a books website?

What can happen is they look into things more closely and see they are doing donations perhaps without a clear exempt entity (ie, not setup as a charity) or any number of things.

Anyways, to say that stripe should be shut down and is the "Gestapo" seems a bit misplaced. The crimes and methods of the Gestapo were truly horrific if you pay attention to WWII history - I'm still having trouble connecting stripe's behavior to the Gestapo.
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Personally, I've been pretty impressed with Jitsi especially given that it's open source. So far it's been easy and the people on the other end have had no problem connecting, despite not having previously downloaded any client software. I had high hopes a ways back for appear.in but they unfortunately lost that domain and I have no idea what the new one is.
Thanks Daniel! Sorry, I'm on it right now!
> Surprise, the somewhat primitive Webex offered the best experience in that scenario

But it’s not a surprise in this scenario since WebEx is the only one not hobbled, no?

I’ve used all 3 and WebEx is second to Zoom but better than Skype.
I would say that currently today that there is a much bigger threat to public health of people believing in insane vaccine conspiracies than there is of people following homeopathy. If you kill yourself snorting ginger root it doesn't really affect other people like it does when you spread covid to 200 people in your church, since rough math would say two of them will die directly from your insane actions.

If we had an epidemic of homeopathy where millions of people are doing that instead of surgery and ending up dead instead of healed, we'd probably see similar enforcement.

You can't put out every tiny little fire, there are too many as you say, but stopping the big blazes that are currently taking over can certainly be done to an extent within your own platform with moves like this.
when you say "medical professionals" do you mean nurse or doctor ?
I have seen a huge amount of nurse refusing to get vaccinated but not so much for Doctor!
What you say is true, but it's not the end of the story. Higher performance RISC-V CPU cores that do speculation are under development or in some cases have been announced but not yet shipped. They have the opportunity to design to avoid those vulnerabilities from the start, which is a lot easier than fixing things up afterwards -- or simply losing a lot of performance on already-shipped CPUs by turning features off.

It's not actually very hard to avoid these kids of vulnerabilities. All that is needed is to not permanently update state until the instruction is no longer speculative.

For example:

- don't update the branch prediction tables until the branch is proven to execute

- if loading a cache line causes another cache line to be evicted, keep both until it is known whether the load is supposed to execute

This requires provisioning a few more of these kinds of resources than you might previously have had, which costs a little silicon area, but it doesn't cost speed. Sometimes particularly demanding code might cause you to run out of these speculation resources and then you have to stall until an entry is freed up. This can already happen with things such as store buffers. If it never happens then you've probably over-provisioned :-)
And why does he have to be nice to the people around him? To be a leader, he needs to say things other people can't say, or won't say. He is brutal, yes, but without this brutality, the products or teams or the company would be mediocre. Everyone is happy with nice words, but nice words don't always get you nice products and results.
Past attempts to vaccinate corona viruses say you are wrong. Israel’s current live study says you’re wrong
> socialist movement, mass strikes and bloody revolution attempts, which in turn forced governments and capitalists to reduce the average labor time

The industrial capitalists also discovered that a 40-hour week increased weekly factory output.

Henry Ford instituted a 40 hour week (down from 48) to simultaneously improve productivity and increase the demand for transportation (to food, shopping, and leisure locations.)

He also raised wages in the hopes that workers would buy more cars and spend more to stimulate the economy - and demand for cars.
A fair impression to remain under, I think.

I remember using a low-energy bluetooth scanner and noticing a strange mac that shouldn't have been present. I really wanted to know wtf was broadcasting it. I searched and searched looking in stupid places. Eventually I settled down and began thinking clearly and looked at my speaker. Yeah, it was as off as the power button could make it, though still on. A good toss across the multi-acre yard and the signal faded accordingly.
It's only right to clear up a falsehood promoted by Steve Jobs himself. He's not above scrutiny.
You should consider it then! Having concrete data about anything in a peer reviewed form is always valuable.
> I'm apparently supposed to prove-a-negation when discussing ivermectin

i wonder if the bias towards ivermectin is because you can take it yourself, whereas dexamethasone + monoclonal antibodies you probably have to be in serious condition (in a hospital) before you can get it...?

is it possible there is some physiological issues about "going to the doctor" vs "self help/healing" ?
>Add in the famous Eichmann

Pretty amusing mistake, but I think you mean Ehrlichman.
7 digits is barely a phone number in most of the United States anymore, most places outside of rural areas require 10 digit dialing and hide it behind carrier dial plans - I mean in the way a rural person can dial one, two, or three digits because all land lines in an area have the same area code, prefix, and possibly additional digits in common.
> Perhaps the idea is that people are more hesitant to make decisions when they become aware that what they had previously taken as absolute is in fact conditional?

Most people are horrible at dealing with uncertainty when making decisions. I don't know why this is. But taking an uncertain landscape, making a decision and then projecting certainty works better than conveying the risks for communicating with everyone but people used to making executive decisions.

So if you have two politicians, one who channels a scientist's healthy (and realistic) scepticism and one who takes a random position and blasts it, the latter will tend to be more popular.
> The Covid vaccines were fast tracked and unleashed untested:

Can you name one test that was mandatory for other vaccines, but skipped for the COVID vaccines?
People can write bad code in any framework. If it's that difficult to uncoil declarative state in your head the component is poorly written, hooks or not.
There are and they're out there counter to the random stories of "X got the vaccine and died the day after!"

But FWIW, I find that kind of thing to be too propaganda-ish and to push people away. I'd rather have a more boring discussion about the numbers and why we've seen thousands of people dying per day from Covid and the risks just aren't there from the vaccine. To hear some talk, we should just start randomly dying from it, but that obviously hasn't materialized.

I don't deny that either group exists, but I instead tell people that we have to take a step back because there aren't equivalent numbers of each event. There are orders of magnitude more Covid deaths (and injuries) than vaccine injuries. Yes, there are some of each, but as always, the actual numbers matter here.

I don't really find long Covid to be that useful in arguments. I suppose it has its place vs. the "untested" nature of the vaccine, but it's not really "untested" any more than the average flu shot is, and nobody is randomly dying in droves from those. Also it's in many millions of arms, so if there's something horrible that's going to happen due to it, well... where are all the deaths? We'd need to see millions of them to get anywhere close to the impact of Covid.
If quantum scientists thought the slit experiment was exciting, they should study IT user preferences and be amazed how depending on the mode of communication/observation, customers will both scrutinize every letter you write while simultaneously not reading it at all, will know every wrong pixel of your UI but not know where the button for "Thing" (labeled "Thing") is, and how anything you make is somehow the best worst average thing they've ever seen.

If you're ever user facing it's a harsh but quick lesson that you can't really count on any users to follow any real pattern. Different persons latch onto different things, with adamant proponents and opponents of everything with a huge swatch of grey shades in-between. At a certain point you just need to decide when the "grey" is no longer grey for you on a particular subject and start to optimize for the part that cares while checking why the grey part isn't as interested.

A lot of conversations with clients I have are with those in the grey territory, where they don't quite know what they want but they know they want it. Often times, they're more looking for a reference architecture and something to compare their current processes/workflows to, and this usually is pretty simple to work with. Those that are proponents of a feature N are typically vocal and picky, but the feedback tends to be pretty good and the guidance is clear on how they envision it, since there's a clear workflow on their side a lot of times that they want to optimize. Opponents of feature N typically bring out the edge cases and demand a solution, and are equally, if not more vocal than the proponents.

It's really a tricky thing, and it's never really clear which is going to be "best" for users/the dev team.