skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original SARS didn't have the qualities needed to be a world-wide pandemic, though, and one of the big obstacles to that was that it was just too deadly. Not only do people who are so sick they have to be hospitalized not go out and socialize and spread the disease, all the hospitalizations and deaths gives a whole bunch of really obvious starting points for contact tracers - instead of only knowing about a tiny fraction of cases, most of them are highly visible and those people's contacts can be tracked down and isolated before they become infectious.

Also, a lot of governments did take suitable precautions in case Covid was more like the original SARS early on and just got flak for it. This was particularly visible here in the UK, where Public Health England and the government had already planned for another SARS or MERS-like virus and introduced really aggressive testing and contact tracing early on in case this was it. They just got attacked in the press for not continuing that once it became clear this wasn't like SARS and it wouldn't work - and then once they gave in and reintroduced testing and contact tracing as a measure, they were attacked again because (predicatably) it wasn't that effective and the media fuelled endless badly-informed conspiracy theories about the testing and contact tracing program only existing to funnel money to their pals.
That makes perfect sense! I'll look into those firms, thank you.
Regardless of how pseudonymous facebook allows a person to be on various 'verses, they're still linked back to a facebook-mandated real name account. If a person's persona edges too close towards stockholder's disapproval, your name suddenly disappears from a large chunk of the online world. Anonymous accounts must exist forever.
They are called Google maps/Google photos because these are Google products.

Google is responsible for alphabets web services. Check out Wikipedia for actual examples like waymo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.)
Thanks for the effort you are putting into comments here lately! Maybe you have ideas on improving the "Are we Wayland yet?" site: https://github.com/mpsq/arewewaylandyet Yesterday I sent a PR for a "Missing" section.
The fact that there are so few of these types of company around probably means that they have trouble surviving in a world where the competition is supported by modern finance.
lol, people don't remember all of the stern talking-to's zuck had to have from his investors in the beginning. The investors made him go to business classes to learn how to 'business' and talk to people. The one thing I could give him was to retain the ownership stake that he did, but that even could be said to be largely due to sean parker's influence and his experience with VCs.
> Even worse, they only blocked people from Germany that didn't know how to use a VPN. German courts really don't get how the internet works.

German courts are aware of the existence of means to circumvent such a block but don't see that as a reason to not even try. See e.g BGH, 26.11.2015 - I ZR 174/14
FizzBuzz has many properties that make it very suitable for these kinds of optimizations that might not be applicable to general purpose code:
+ extremely small working set (a few registers worth of state)
+ extremely predictable branching behavior
+ no I/O

These properties however don't diminish the achievement of leveraging AVX-2 (or any vectorization) for a problem that doesn't immediately jump out as SIMD.
I think optimizing binary tree inversion is a higher priority, right now.
Aussie++ – the programming language from down under
My understanding is this is what Amazon Sidewalk is, at least in part, about. Your TV could easily bypass your network, and connect through your neighbours Echo. If I understand, it's opt-out and enabled by default. So, essentially Samsung will pay Amazon a few bucks a months to show you ads regardless of how you've locked down your network, because your neighbour hasn't locked down his.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...
I suppose it depends on what we're talking about, but probably not. LIFO and FIFO are book accounting concepts, and business decisions aren't (shouldn't be) based on book.

For example, almost every successful company is valued at some multiple of book equity, because book equity doesn't (and shouldn't, and can't) incorporate any notion of growth. Tesla's book value per share is something like $27/share, which reflects the cars it has sold and the ones in process. It trades at $1077, which reflects hopes for cars that it will sell.

LIFO and FIFO are just book accounting methods for tracking costs of production. They tell financial statement readers how management puts the cost of unit production into inventory values on the balance sheet, and how inventory values are translated into Cost Of Goods Sold on the income statement. They really aren't the right basis for business decisions like pricing or production.

I don't know what he means by "companies now use FIFO or LIFO accounting" as if this is some innovation. These have been the _only_ choices under GAAP for . . . a century? Longer? Letting companies use Next In First Out for financial statements would be inviting management to manipulate its balance sheet and earnings through its cost assumptions. Of course a company will use up-to-date cost information for pricing decisions, but they've always done that.

Accounting is really a language of its own. It provides a lot of useful information, but you have to know how to use it and what to use it for.
They use mostly share buybacks to return money to investors.
An IPv4 address still isn't very expensive. I'm paying about $1.30 per month to have a static IPv4 address from my home ISP.
> But they are still maintaining it.

Only just barely. And they told us it could stop at any time. All the developer energy and support is behind Wayland, so that's what you should be using.

> I don't really see the point of Wayland, to me X was just fine, sure, maybe it was time for X12, but was a completely new display server needed?

The developers closest to the graphics stack say yes, so I defer to their expertise.

Really, this has been discussed to death many, many times. The arguments for X (or an X-like architecture) invariably come from people who are ignorant of the actual issues involved. Here's a video by Daniel Stone that addresses the main points; note that it was made 8 years ago and people are still arguing the points: https://youtu.be/RIctzAQOe44

As far as the graphics stack maintainers are concerned the debate is pretty much over, and Wayland won. X will get little to no developer attention going forward. Unless you want to take responsibility for the X server, your choices are to get with the program and get on Wayland, or find your use case completely unsupported.

(Note that when it comes to large projects like Xorg, corporate sponsorship is critical. The corporations are putting their money behind Wayland, not X.)
What? This turned from a supply chain to don't tax the rich post. I completely disagree with it. A good CEO will be able to do both look at the long term and deliver shareholder value. Yes, the growth could be slower but it is on the CEO to convince the board and investors that its a good thing. Either way, now that this issue is front and center, CEOs will not be blamed for planning ahead, so we can happily tax the rich? His logic not mine.
Very cool. Will see if we can reuse some of these super complicated views we have in our backlog with SQL server apply
Thanks. I just want to share and be heard, and maybe someone can relate.

Good intentions all around, but people need to understand that you're not always someone to be helped or saved. It can feel quite disempowering at times.
if you want a thrill, without doing drugs please engage in these hobbies: motorcycles, planes, freediving / cliffdiving and well ultra triathlons etc. rich people like larry ellison take up sailing and buy used fighter jets. the important thing is to realize you need a thrill in your life, something dangerous that makes you kiss death every once in a while, while not dying or frying your brain!!!
A good dictionary (which I assume Merriam-Webster is, I only know about the OED) meticulously collects samples to show that they're reporting the actual language as it's used, not some fantasy†.

So, either Merriam-Webster has some examples where "CubeSat" means these rather bulky ordinary satellites or, as seems more likely, if they re-examine the material they'll realise it's a mistake and the definition must be corrected.

In the first era of dictionaries this was painstaking work, you could expect that if you discover a mistake, you write a letter, a week later some expert reads it, and maybe a year later there's a correct draft, but it might take a decade until the dictionary publishes errata. But today there's a fair chance if you can contact Merriam-Webster about their mistake they can publish a revision (to their online dictionary) the same week.

† This choice leads to several fun stories, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twat
A gravity wave only interacts gravitionally right? And the energy it contains exerts a pull of its own? Say could you prevent one from escaping to infinity? Standing wave? Make it orbit something?

And I suppose even if it does escape to infinity it would be interesting to know if there is an analogue of the cosmic microwave background.
Cost of products went from 70% to 66% and will only decrease I presume
as opposed to inheriting legacy goldberg machines or walking on quicksand (by quicksand I mean constantly changing librarires fatigue)
Anecdata: I'm not on meth and I strongly prefer an entire tent to a partial tent.
No, I don't mean any of the flagship attractions like the Dungeon. The one I'm thinking of is small one on the strip by the Aquarium.
AugMax
How to Get to Space
Should have called it “Verse.”
Apple has massive cash reserves that it can't really put to use. That cash isn't doing much of anything for anybody, so growing it any further is pointless. Going cash neutral here means "instead of uselessly adding to our cash reserves, we're going to aggressively dispose of our revenue", which presumably means dividends (they wouldn't have the cash reserves they do if they thought they had other productive ways to spend the money)
I would just like to throw my hat into the ring and say that I'm super excited for the metaverse and can't wait to experience it
Heck, it seems to be doing some of its worst damage to the over-60 crowd.

Me, 20 years ago: I wish Dad would try to learn how to use a PC so he could understand what I’m studying.

Me, 10 years ago: I wish Dad would try to learn how to use the Internet so I wouldn’t have to manage increasingly digital regular personal business stuff for him now that Mom’s gone.

Me, today: I am delighted that Dad never took an interest in the online world and will happily serve as a phone to Internet proxy for him the rest of his life, and Snapfish makes good money off me now that I’ve presented my dad with the stereotypical reason his generation started using FB: a grandchild.
DMCA Exemption Requests Granted for Alternate Router Firmware and More
The amount of completely unnecessary effort unleashed on this problem in this post is amazing. I want to meet the author and shake his hand! It has everything from Linux kernel trivia in terms of output speed to intel AVX2 code. So unnecessary and so awesome!

I've done stuff like this before, and I imagine the satisfaction of completing it! A tip of my hat to you, sir!
You can use eero secure+, which will intercept dns requests at the gateway to prevent devices and apps from bypassing the set dns servers. I won't work for apps which hardcore their own DoH/DoT clients and use their own servers, however.
I picture Facebook owning the metaverse close to the alternative outcome to Ready Player One, if IOI ended up owning the Oasis.

If you’ve not read it, it’s an enjoyable read. Definitely skip the movie, however.
One of the better posts I've read on HN, thank you.

> Saying "I don't know" or "both sides have merit" is sometimes accurate but never interesting.

That's fine but IMHO the real work is to go beyond that, to the next step. Find a solution, make a contribution, under that condition.
If you run your own internal DNS server: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-horizon_DNS
I don’t think it is. The dividend yield was in the 1.5-2% range about 10 years ago iirc.
I think a version of the meta verse will arise eventually, but when have you ever known a major innovation to come from a tech company that is already huge in a relatively unrelated area? They just get bogged down and start eating themselves.
I specifically said "death rate" and "per capita".

Your source here is comparing two countries, one of which has 67 million people and the other which has 10 million and showing totals and not per capita, which is a worthless comparison.

Additionally, I don't consider Great Britain a neighbor of Sweden.
Well, I don't think that's a good heuristic for determining whether something is bad. There are plenty historical examples of doctors not washing their hands even when there was substantial evidence suggesting it decreased deaths.
Substandard design. You should have a suitable ratio of cores to keep them load balanced. I suggest 160 fizz cores and 96 buzz cores.

EDIT: And a fizzbuzz co-processor, obviously.
Why are our brains shrinking?
I'm not arguing whether the definition is valid, just correcting the previous poster's misuse of some well-established economics jargon.

Re: Liquidity... The fact that a service is immediately useful to somebody (and has a willing customer) does not prove that it's a net productive behavior for the society, as a whole. That's just how the field of economics defines it, and the practioners widely agree that "providing liquidity" falls into that category.

Now, it sounds like you may be trying to defend the morality of rent-seeking behavior... If that's the case, I wish you good luck in your argument, with somebody besides me. I have no dog in that fight.
Not for fizzbuzz optimisation it isn't! Get your priorities straight mate! Who is trying to get hired when we could be outputting more fizzes and/or buzzes! :)
You’re correct that there isn’t enough diversification of wrongdoing covered by the press. However, it’s not enough to just conclude the chapter on social media. This is a watershed moment that has been utterly necessary ever since Facebook was implicated in the elections and Cambridge Analytica.

The reality is most people don’t care to understand how social media is at the heart of everything, even journalism. The news sites you mentioned above are prominent sources and participants on Twitter. What does not get traction there, doesn’t make money for them, and so we are stuck in this feedback loop in which something trends and we get clickbait headlines while the world burns.

It’s actually surprising news media can step back and see who their real publishers and modern day printing presses are. Perhaps they can appreciate how tangled up they are in the feedback cycle of getting clicks because fewer and fewer people actually subscribe and passively read via social media, which nets … Meta … more money than the journal.

That is the tragedy of news media today. It’s the death of the local journal and consolidation of large media operations which are increasingly at the whim of Twitter trends and ad revenue.

So let’s keep talking about social media until we can prise control, regulate, and have healthy discussions about things other than lifestyle choices and top 10 lists.
I heard that hydrogen, in the form of Ammonia, is the Next Big Thing for shipping, which is nice because those container ships are pretty nasty.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betti...
So those states are: Alaska (no sales nor income tax, but who wants to live there again? Also, they're super weird politically anyway), DE, MT, NH, OR. These states are not exactly high growth states nor bottom of the barrel in poverty, but they do have quite different politics at least so it should be a somewhat valid comparison to the consumption tax centric states.

That only means at state level and most places will add taxes at a locality level. Consumption taxes in general are popular throughout the world not necessarily because they're optimal or something like that but because they are easiest to enforce and administrate compared to income taxes. Just look at our complex federal tax code for what can degenerate within 60 years. Now, with a VAT things are somewhere in the middle between sales taxes and income taxes and is subject to the same political pressures to shift around taxation toward "less desirable" activities as deemed by politicians.
Out of interest, are you using Devuan or other Debian distro specifically designed to be systemd-free?
Duh. Not DSLRs of course. It's too ingrained at this point.
Logo looks like a ballsack.

https://i.imgur.com/iucCEuc.png
I'm taking Venlafaxine also for GAD and depression. I think I will talk to my doctor & psychiatrist about Duloxetine at my next check-in. Thanks for the heads-up!
Plenty of corporations trust GitHub itself with their code, why should trusting copilot be any different?
The Atlantic has a decent summary. (If a bit of an over-the-top headline.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
> Founders have just as much incentive to optimize the excess out of the system, they just call it "disruptive innovation" by which they mean tweaking how the system works so that they can squeeze out profit for themselves.

>I think economists call it rent-seeking.

Are you saying all "disruptive innovation" rent-seeking? Or only certain kinds? If a founder was able to "optimize the excess out of the system" by providing a better consumer-facing experience (eg. amazon), why shouldn't they be rewarded with profits? Is there any room for profits without being called a rent-seeker?
does that apply to ultrasonic toothbrushes too?
Haha! Point taken.
No, I am & was just genuinely curious.

And I am now curious about your beliefs that conservative politics will lead to a just society.
It'd be lovely to see Broadcom routers not be useless garbage for enthusiasts, needing signed firmware, and I'm very happy there's now a legal basis for doing so. Sensible, obvious, helpful change feels rare, but SFC managed to make it happen. Congratulations! Amazing.

As for actually getting around to circumventing their encryption? Sheesh, it's gonna be hard.
I don't see any evidence of current implementations or ways of thinking about it suddenly growing exponentially into something we use. It seems right now it's a candidate technology, like the mp3 player or the pda, or the hosted weblog, that still needs the right framing to turn it into something ubiquitous. It's certainly possible, but I'd guess it will be due to some creative leap, rather than just scaling up into something we care about.
Yup, and I didn't catch it in time.
You can watch the connect talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPNJ8sOU_M&t=867s

It'll be interesting to watch this space and it's cool that someone is working on building this out - I hope they leverage some of the staying power of the web by leaning on protocols for a true platform, but that'll be hard to do.

There's a ton of interesting potential if lightweight AR hardware works out. I think it'll be pretty interesting.
The gathering place for fans is https://smallformfactor.net/forum/
I don't think this is fair? Perhaps you haven't seen the $4 electric brushes.. perhaps they're not as good as the $80+ devices, but it's still an improvement over manual brushing. I've even seen them used in "buy N grocery products get a free electric toothbrush" promotions (I want to say it was a cereal company)
There were many more global pandemics in last 130 years. There were multiple global flu pandemics that were within the same order of magnitude of severity as Covid-19, eg. the Hong Kong flu of 1968 killed more people than Covid-19 had on per-capita basis.

It is not deadly global pandemics that are unprecedented, it’s the lockdown response to them that is.
Well said, that man. :)
Yeah, this guy has clearly read about the theory of constraints but his pivot into criticizing the wealth tax on the basis "founders will lose control of their company" is simply bullshit.
> I have no problem with welfare in general. However, this country cannot afford it. Many other countries can, and I think that's great. We cannot. There is really no question here.

There is absolutely a question here, and it is obvious.

Other countries raise more revenue (taxes) and pay for more things. That is "great", you say. The US could do the same.

Other countries spend less on other things (classic example is defense). The US could do the same.

The US can absolutely positively definitely afford welfare, and universal health care too.

If we prioritize these things the way other countries do.

The important question is: which countries get the best outcomes for their people through government spending? There are strong arguments that the US is not at the top of that list.
Didn't Bill Gates think of this in his 90's book The Road Ahead? Pay to gain attention, but the receiver can refuse to charge you if s/he found your mail worthy of their attention. (E.g. if you're trying to gain the attention of a lost relative and put a $200 reward so they'd notice your email).

Of course there's no cryptocurrency hungry rent-seeker in his concept.
If you want to discount libido that is at least halfway excusable, but that depends on the individual. Lethargy, which almost always comes with libido issues, is more problematic, as it causes weight gain and a corresponding decrease in life expectancy.

It an be hard or impossible to combat. I've had people tell me they discontinued their medication due to weight gain (or libido issues, as in this thread).
Ah, another chance to plug my article about why he was wrong about the bottleneck at the ports!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28987281
I need to look at this more, but don’t dividends mostly return real current earnings where share buybacks are moving your return to future earnings which may never exist?

Also, many people are harmed by this tax treatment because a couple making 80k a year pay no tax on the dividend capital gains?

I am just saying dividends v share buybacks are not the same and have other effects.
Time for your holonic irrigation.
The Myth of Mental Illness
It's not about whether something is immediately valuae to somebody... It's about whether the total net effect on society produces new value, or if it's just shifting value from someone to another. Per the overwhelming opinion of economists, providing liquidity is rent seeking, because the benefit it provides to one person is exactly offset by the value it takes away from someone else.
https://youtu.be/CsKpShq2X6s
Can anyone comment on how producers could be isolating the the 'd' enantiomer? Are they using enzymes?

Steve Mould has a great video [1] on homochirality in nature and says, "Why are all the sugar molecules that you buy from the shops right-handed? ... If you were to make some sugar for yourself in a chemistry lab by mixing some chemicals together, you would get a 50/50 mix of left-handed sugar and right-handed sugar." He goes on to describe how enzymes in nature exclusively make homochiral molecules, and since all our sugar is made by enzymes, all our sugar is homochiral.

Later in the video he describes how you can filter enantiomers by finding an enzyme in nature that 'eats' the undesired enantiomer, finding the DNA for it, and coercing bacteria into producing that enzyme. This seems quite complicated and potentially out of reach for a clandestine drug-making operation. Is there another way?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKhcan8pk2w