skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived with my parents for all of last year and my mom was going thru chemo, so at the time, the threat to her life from covid was very present in my mind. That has gone away since she got vaccinated and I'm grateful. At the same time, my best friend's parents are not vaccinated and I worry that they will get very sick and/or die. My great uncle died from covid. I agree that maybe the phrase "easily kill grandma" was hyperbole from the other poster, and yet i don't know their grandma's situation and the way I read it, their grandma cannot be vaccinated.

Regarding the vaccination rates, I don't think they are as high as you had said/estimated. What I found[0] said 65-74 was around 80% fully vaccinated in the US and 75 and up was around 77% fully vaccinated. If I did the math correctly on my phone, the difference between 80.83% fully vaccinated 65-74 year olds and 95% fully vaccinated is 4,474,231 people. The diff between 77.1% of 75 and up and 95% of them is 4,027,214. While estimating 95% when the percentages were 80.83% and 77.1% may seem insignificant, combined, operating on a large set of people, the difference between your estimate and what I see reported by the CDC adds up to 8,501,445 people...which is just the difference, not the total number of people not fully vaccinated in those age groups. I also think that those percentages are not evenly distributed across geography, as some places have higher vaccination rates and other lower ones, which could make it lower than 80% or 77% in certain pockets.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know if I did the math right above and that I know very little about how statistics work. I think it is very hard for many of us to avoid exaggerating and bending data to align with our fears. Just as I think you were doing your best to estimate the percentage of people fully vaccinated, I assume the original poster was doing their best to estimate the risk to the life of their grandma.

[0]: https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...
> And I understand that most of my reports spend most of their time doing that kind of work. So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.
If you had to distill this down in layperson's terms- AR glasses are impossible without being essentially sunglasses? Or some sort of other tradeoff?
I do this too and then talk through the interesting ones with my kids to encourage them to think about everything they encounter. e.g., this interesting theory for the origin of the surname "Kneebone" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_surnames#Anglicised_na...
Teams with this number of physicists exists only in CERN which uses self-hosted mattermost. Don't worry from that for now.
It's probably a niche use case, but there is some utility to having a guaranteed daily shutoff. For example, you might spin up an instance as an on-demand remote dev environment, and the 24 hour cutoff ensures it doesn't accidentally get left on (over a weekend, for example).

This would be easy to work around, but nonetheless could lead to unexpectedly high charges if you were relying on this behavior only to have it silently change.
The Xuantie 910 core is claimed to be roughly equivalent to an ARM A53, so at the stock 1.2 GHz this should be close to a Raspberry Pi 4 and considerably faster than the Pi 3 equivalent HiFive Unlimited.

The price of course is still well above Pi levels. Existing and working is by far the biggest and most important step, mass production and lower prices comes afterwards.

I don't know whether this SoC has taken the RISC-V Vector extension option for the C910, or what version it would be if so -- most likely draft 0.7.1 like the Allwinner D1 (with C906 core) I'd imagine.
Solo founder working on 2 Shopify apps. I tried to keep my setup simple with almost no build process:
1. 1 dev VM, 2 prod VM. ~$30 / m
2. Python / Django apps hosted with docker compose
3. Git pull to prod, just reload gunicorn to deploy most of the time unless I need to add new python libraries
4. Auto backup db daily with a docker container. Weekly backup by digital ocean

No k8s for sure.
The data needed for (2) is mostly already available: most lisps maintain a Xref database and Slime already has a binding for `slime-who-macroexpands`[1]. Integrating this performantly into the compiler might be interesting, but I think it's theoretically tractable.

[1]: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Cross_002dref...
Or you can burn the admin key and let the contract exist with bugs. That happens a lot too.

Decentralized communities choose to use a different contract or not.

I’m not really sure the point of the goal posts here.
Ok, so the graph isn't showing the price change of actual cars that people buy, buy hypothetical cars invented based in feature set.

It's kind of a weird comparison, because it makes it seem like people less in inflation-adjusted dollars, when in fact that's not true.
> keep in mind Xi's policies in many ways proceeded his tenure.

You mean preceded. Since Xi has been declared president for life, when his tenure will be proceeded is indefinite.
> I just think it is probably not as satisfying being a manger or executive if you don't have people around you to manage

I still get to manage my reports remotely. :P

Now, I like to view myself as helping them succeed, rather than browbeating them into submission to enact my will. But even if I was this caricature of a manager that you posit, why would it be better for me in person?

If anything, my "big shot" factor is higher remotely than it is in person. Physically, I'm just a normal person, made of meat and vulnerable like anyone else. If I am speaking to a large audience, they can actually participate. An audience member might throw out a little joke here and there, a bit of heckling, etc. I can't stop it! (Not that I'd want to, personally.)

But over video? Well, first, I can make it a live stream. Boom, I am in power, no heckling possible. But even if it's technically a two-way call, once you have a few dozen people, there's no audience banter. I control the conversation, completely. Heck, I'm the only one with my camera on. I'm the center of attention. I have the power to mute people. I'm a God!

> If everyone is doing their work just fine without all that close supervision

That's a pretty good description of my team. And you're right: like anyone else, I enjoy feeling appreciated. But bossing people around in person is not a way to obtain appreciation! Providing useful feedback, helping people ensure they're are working on meaningful projects, helping resolve weird interpersonal situations -- in other words, being a good manager -- is what results in real appreciation.

And all that stuff can be done remotely. But again, it sure is less fun, at least for me. Having a difficult performance conversation with someone over video sucks, for the same reason that it sucks to break up with someone via text message.
Until 2011~~ PG had a terrible replication / no official system so not so much "mission-critical business data".
> see, there's the hyperbole that makes you lose credibility.

It is not a hyperbole, and it saddens me to hear this level of ignorance in this forum.

The COVID-19 mortality rate for the age >65 is over 20%. That's over 1 death per 5 infections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_the_COVID-19_pan...

> ~95% of those 65 and older in the US are vaccinated.

No, not quite. It is estimated that 95% of the total US population of >65 received at least one shot, but the percentage of fully vaccinated people in that age group is around 84%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...

However, these numbers are averages. Willingness to get the shot varies widely across the US. There are regions within the US where barely half the population took a single shot. For instance, in Idaho, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Mississippi less than half the population took even a single shot, so the majority is still totally unvaccinated.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/these-state...
Wolves are slowly coming back, they were recently taken off the endangered species list in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.[1]

[1] https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm
Senior Managers at my work - one of Australia's largest companies - have actually said this. At an all staff meeting one of the exec's near the top, who is - though this will be received sceptically - a genuinely empathetic, good person said: "I miss walking around and seeing my team working, I can't wait to get back in the office"
I have trouble thinking of a use case that fits this VM type. Is it for batch processing tasks that don't have tight deadlines? The lack of any real guarantees makes it hard to price, as you have no idea what you're actually paying for. Would it make sense to have a model that includes deadlines in its pricing (like give this process 2.5 hours of CPU and 4GB of RAM to complete this task by...next Tuesday)?
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GCP has had "preemptible" VMs for years; the only news is that they renamed them to "spot" to match AWS. I wonder if they were losing checkboxes over the naming.
GCP has had Preemptible VMs, which WILL terminate after 24 hours if it lasted that long. Spot VMs removes this 24h limit.
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> Now, I do still sneak in some IC work from time to time, and it's obviously great to do that remotely. And I understand that most of my reports spend most of their time doing that kind of work. So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.

It is unfortunate that only one group can get what it wants. The people like yourself that enjoy working from the office do so because of the in-person interactions. If the people that want to work from home do so, then those in person interactions are possible.

I'm a big fan of "1-2 days in the office, the rest of the time at home" in order to get _some_ of that in-person interaction. Unfortunately, they requires a VERY specific set of circumstances; specifically, people willing to live close enough to the office to come in (though not necessarily as close as if they had to come in every day).
I only see skillets on Amazon, but I lucked into a $50 wok at Asian Family Market in Seattle. Sorry I can't remember the company name, no English, there was a picture of a chef on it.
Building an OpenBSD router using an APU4D4
I think it is Norwegian company.
DIY cloud gaming: Nvidia and Moonlight
I retract the "you" from the above statement the rest of it still stands. I have managed people and had run my own company but will not extrapolate my experience more generally as I am pretty introverted by nature which is not very representative.
If anyone is speaking childishly, it's you, with smug condescension thrown right in. As should be obvious, an injection's level of invasiveness is dependent on context, and what is being injected. A needle into the body isn't just a silly little needle if it contains something that can kill or harm. I doubt you'd argue against it being invasive if some doctor in a psychiatric hospital where you were placed against your will decided to inject you with heavy doses of sedatives against your will as well, and against your insistence that you don't clinically need them. I'm not anti-vax or against the covid vaccines. I indeed believe they've done enormous good so far, but your arguments are absurdly absolutist in this context. People certainly deserve a fundamental right to choose if they're injected with certain medicines or not, and to impose injections of only recently created vaccines is certainly invasive under many circumstances, especially when it involves making such choices for minors despite their parents' wishes or even certain clinical recommendations..
I debated mentioning this explicitly, but decided it was just noise next to the rest of the post. But you should note that, while that macro can be easily replaced with lambdas without much change in ergonomics, there are lots of much more interesting things you can do with macros that do not have equivalent substitutes in a language like JavaScript. (e.g. JSX exists as its own weird pre-processor thing, but you could theoretically just do it with macros instead, and then it could compose with other syntax extensions.)

> we get the benefit of one thing less to learn

But learning programming language theory is the best part :)
You might be misunderstanding how spot works. The VM either runs at full speed or not at all so you know what you're getting.
Similar claims were also made by Dr. Lustig’s book Metabolical earlier this year, which of course is more concerned with the diabetic aspects but indeed considers Alzheimer's etc. metabolic disorders.

Not seeing Bredesen on the bibliography so I think the research is independent, some related citations from that bibliography:

G.J. Biessels and F. Despa. “Cognitive Decline and Dementia in Diabetes Mellitus: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications,” Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. 14 (10) (2018): 591. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-018-0048-7

B.J. Neth and S. Craft. “Insulin Resistance and Alzheimer’s Disease: Bioenergetic Linkages,” Front. Aging Neurosci. 9 (2017): 345. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00345

S.S. Dominy et al. “Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s Disease Brains: Evidence for Disease Causation and Treatment with Small-Molecule Inhibitors,” Sci. Adv. 5 (1) (2019): eaau3333. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau3333

M.P. Pase et al. “Sugary Beverage Intake and Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease in the Community,” Alzheimers Dement. 13 (9) (2017): 955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2017.01.024

V. Berti et al. “Nutrient Patterns and Brain Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in Cognitively Normal Individuals,” J. Nutr. Health Aging 19 (4) (2015): 413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-014-0534-0

S.M. Raefsky and M.P. Mattson. “Adaptive Responses of Neuronal Mitochondria to Bioenergetic Challenges: Roles in Neuroplasticity and Disease Resistance,” Free Radic. Biol. Med. 102 (2017): 203. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08915...

So the claim is that ultraprocessed food is essentially making your mitochondria sick, and the recommended diet adjustment is not very different from
Bredesen’s approach.
Not a rename. See my comment.
It's logically implied by your words, "the US _seems_ like it is more obese." (Emphasis added.)

"Seems", as in "appears to be, but is not actually." The only way the US is not actually more obese is if Hispanics and Blacks do not count as "the US".

The only other way to read "seems" here is in the "I'm not totally sure, but this is what it looks like" sense. But this doesn't seem to be the way you're using this word, especially given that your entire comment is denying that the US is more obese purely in virtue of white obesity statistics.
> Say you open a page with a 100 images on it for example. With lambda the all images are resized for you in parallel, so total 100ms. If this was servers, would have to run 100 servers to give you the same performance

You're probably just simplifying, but to clarify servers can totally do multiple things at once. That's how Amazon runs multiple lambdas on one physical server.
People in the US have developed an aversion to walking because our built environment makes it terrible. For example, watch this video from about 4:25 on showing a typical urban pedestrian journey the US:

https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54

(One thing the narrator mentions is shade: Keep in mind that Houston is a hot city, with temperatures often above 30c during the summer.)

But that's not unusual at all. In fact, where I grew up in Pennsylvania many roads had literally no sidewalk.

Let's say I want to walk into town where my parents live. I'd be going down this road (you can follow along on street view):

https://maps.app.goo.gl/huqH4kcT3h667RZr7

That's a narrow road, but don't let it fool you. People there drive fast and they're in a hurry. They certainly do not expect to see someone trudging along the berm of the road. Or more likely in a muddy ditch beside the road, because Pennsylvania is wet and that's the safest way to not get hit by a car.

If you walk along into North Wales, PA, pay attention to the pedestrian infrastructure. Where are there sidewalks? Are there crossing signals? How would you know when it's safe to cross? Now imagine doing this in the evening (note: there are no streetlights).
The same way it makes more sense to celebrate when a person was born[1] than to celebrate when the atoms of their body was formed.

[1] Regardless of https://youtu.be/T5f8WoV0zbQ
> Now we've got a huge swath of US citizens that will never take the vaccine

Not only 'the vaccine' (meaning Covid-19) vaccine.
Trust to CDC is lost, trust to FDA is lost, trust to Executive orders on health policies is lost.

Trust to major news networks, trust to health pundits -- is lost.

On top of that, of course, trust for non-health related 'institutions' (eg FBI, CIA, NSA, FISA courts) -- is lost.

Everything from here on coming from the above institutions -- will be viewed with skepticism and distrust.

Hell, probably trust in legitimacy of election process is lost too. Will see, I guess.

My point about the article -- is that fails to consider the whole system in a country like US...

No longer will western politicians be able to point out to authoritarian dictatorships -- from the point of moral authority.

The "Whatabout-ism" is now 'normalized', and will continue be normal discourse of international politics for a very long time.

Historians 200 years from now
2016-2022 will have to be calling this as a 'Period of Pundits & Institutions loosing people's trust' for many of English-speaking countries.
It's worse than that.

They can look at the status quo under the pandemic, and say "this would be better if people were in the office". Doesn't matter if things are going well, or things are going poorly; the pre-existing bias determines the conclusion.

Monthly reports aren't helpful there. Really, the only meaningful data point is "what is going to make the company the most successful". And, there, the better execs are looking to enable hybrid workplaces, where people can work remotely or onsite, whichever enables them best, and the technology and practices support that, since they recognize remote is an opportunity, and that it also prevents talent bleed due to poor morale. The worse execs are trying to mandate returning to the office, thinking that that's the only way to be successful, and are completely discounting the effect on morale.
I fail to understand the idea.

If creator economy is proving something to me is that objective quality of the product is useless, the "winners" are click-bait, gossip, exploitation, consumerism and outright kitsch.

Platforms are the real winners, the one percent of "successful" are serving as a bait for wishful thinking and expansion. As a result the rest of "creators" are competing for the fraction of shattered user attention span, repeating "best exploitative practices" and "marketing tricks". It is a sad picture. Really.

And since when "spreading the wealth" is prerogative of capitalism? Or someone is talking about communistic ideals without realizing the absurdity of the argument?

My problem is quality of the production and low IQ of creations, and I blame Everything as a service model. If this is the future we are creating, mediocrity is upon us big time.
Good luck with surg of covid when that happens.

Australia is a beautiful country but you are not going to be granted an exception to the exact same sequence of events as other countries with high vac rates that opened up.

Hope you actually get your promised freedom.
>People make a point about Germany because they made a populist political decision to close nuclear plants in 2015.

Well, in 2002. Really long before that, because nobody was allowed to build new ones in ages already. But 2002 formalized the ban into law. Then came Merkel and reversed the shortened service life times for existing reactors. And then in 2011 after Fukushima, she re-reverse it. (No idea where you got the 2015 from).

Germany still has running reactors, by the way. We did not just shut them all down, as you say. We shut down the very oldest ones still in operation, then shut down more and more in the time frame we originally planned to shut them down before Merkel's initial reversal and kept doing that for the last decade. The six remaining facilities will be gone by end of next year, tho. They will have been in production for at least 33 years each, at that point.

So we had a decade to get our shit together and replace the nuclear with something else sustainable. We fell short, but not that short.

>with no real alternatives

There are alternatives, real ones, proven working ones. A mix of less consumption, driven by more efficient tech, wind/solar/water as the work horse and biomass to compensate for "bad" weather and some storage for the worst case. We could be emission-neutral and nuclear-free now, while not significantly more expensive (we'd have had costs regardless of what we built, building new nuclear plants isn't free either, and we would have needed new ones if we went the nuclear route instead). If there had been the political will to actually do so in the Merkel government... And that doesn't even take into account the European grid and how European nations could bridge temporarily increased demand/temporarily lower productions of individual members.

Germany invested heavily into renewables at first, but this got more slow-paced recently, again thanks to some of Merkel's people, in particular Peter Altmaier who was "Secretary of the Economy" and considered his job to be a fulfillment center for old garde lobbyist needs.

Regardless, over half the electric energy production is now from renewables. So I guess, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
> Another story is from a guy whom recently fled from Venezuela to Colombia, and blogged about his experience. On his journey, he was shaken down by police officers, local tribes, traffickers, basically everybody.

> Here too crypto could have played a humanitarian role.

How would crypto help if the police officer says "we'll keep you locked up until you make a payment to this address"?
Dihydrogen monoxide kills 3.9k in the US every year and can kill pretty much every living thing if consumed in large enough quantities. It's crazy that we consume the stuff on a daily basis.
> I would tell people that they have no power to punish anyone whatsoever and design the Covid rules with that in mind, making them focused entirely on helping people instead of controlling them.

How effective do you believe your approach would be? An unenforceable rule is merely a suggestion, and one which relies on responsible and informed decision-making to be followed.

If anything, the current state of affairs shows that ignorance and irresponsible behavior runs rampant, and we're seeing reckless idiots putting everyone around them at risk.
If your code can survive chaos monkey, it can trivially weather this. Netflix, as one example, could run their entire infrastructure on these VMs.
Interesting, Github moved two existing orgs into an enterprise account in the last month for me without any issue.