skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that the most vulnerable elderly people get terrible effects or die from the immune response. They need to be healthy enough to receive the vaccine, if they’re old and sickly it’s better to vaccinate everyone around them and continue to keep their immune response up.

The second most vulnerable elderly people are prime candidates for vaccination though. They’re not as old, more healthy and less likely to have complications from the vaccine. It can be very dangerous for very old or sickly people and those are the people that others vaccinate for so they don’t get it themselves.

The heart problems aren’t common but I didn’t get vaccinated myself, I was waiting for the novavax which they kept delaying. Hopefully by next year it’ll be released, I’ll be first in line since it doesn’t have the same issues that concern me about mRNA or adenovirus.
In my company everything goes through Active Directory and we use saml2aws [1] to generate credentials with two factor involved. It works quite well for us. We even use this for our artists to create local builds of our games since we keep all important secrets and such in aws secrets mananger. We scope access to said secrets with custom roles and tags.

[1] https://github.com/Versent/saml2aws
I don't think what I want is possible with a pure-CSS solution, but I'm not 100% sure.
Would be pretty amazing if these guys just happened to offer a parallel service, where you could test new features, but which isn't affected by the outage.
What about the excess deaths compared to other times?
Yep... that's the thing that killed it... everything was constrained to a threaded chain of replies, instead of being a proper multi-user realtime editor.

It was trying to be Reddit, Slashdot, HN, etc... a threaded forum post, instead of hypertext you could markup, annotate, or edit.
This is the difference between constrained and unconstrained areas. For example, San Francisco is a constrained area since it's already bounded by other cities and can only increase housing by building higher or getting rid of parks.

But the San Francisco bay is quite unconstrained, with extremely low population density and massive undeveloped tracts all over. Here, only regulation and laws prevent the cities from becoming bigger.

In general, the vast majority of people live in unconstrained areas, not constrained areas. But because constrained areas are where you get the windfall wealth from housing, people in the physically unconstrained areas clamor to make themselves legally a constrained area by making it illegal for the city to grow out.

So yes, there are limits, but these are political limits, not physical or environmental limits, and they are driven by incumbent owners with dollar signs in their eyes, not concern over nature.
History indicates the opposite. The largest speculative bubbles in history are typically driven by professional investors or high-net-worth individuals, not retail buyers.
Yeah, I'm sure something like that is the strategy. The pricing is simple and easily understandable as-is. It's a nice marketing point to say all uploads are free, aside from storage costs.

Still, even if they had some ridiculously high surcharge for excess PUTs, I think it would be understandable, and would encourage people like me to architect a different solution that doesn't involve tens of millions of PUTs.
I dropped them for Arq. They kept raising their prices, and their support was bad. Just utterly pissed me off. Arq is cheaper and better (they actually have backup options!)
Basically, the GPA / exam scores required for Asians to be accepted is far higher than any other group.

To exclude them Harvard gives Asians low personality scores.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
It's a stochastic merge sort over millennia. The sort objective is "by atomic weight".
I'd recommend also check out John David Ebert's Youtube series on the 4 gospels of Gilgamesh: https://www.youtube.com/user/johndavidebert/search?query=gil...

If you like this sort of stuff then I recommend his channel as he has some excellent lectures on history, important history/religious books, and other stuff.

His video series on "The Evolution of Death & Burial" is very interesting.
My crappy HP laptop running Windows 10 starts Word in less than 2 seconds... you do have an SSD, don't you?
I don't expect it to be free. But they keep raising the prices, and don't let longtime customers take advantage and extend. And on top of that, their support is terrible.

I ended up dropping them for Arq - $140 vs $60. No brainer.
You can see the same route being driven better as new betas come out. There's just not the same openness from Waymo and Cruze as Tesla which has vehicles out there in varied conditions able to be recorded by members of the public.
I think Minecraft is a really good influence for people wishing to build a metaverse but Minecraft is too limited and Mojang has too much control over it.
I’m waiting for sub stack to start grouping writers together with coordinated schedules. They’ll eventually reinvent the magazine
The main advantage Clojure has over Common Lisp is that it’s considerably easier to sneak into production at BigCorp thanks to being JVM hosted.
MIT CADR Lisp Machine Source Code
Brought by mastodon and against Vizio and Tesla? Or by some other entity with a similar license?
And I'm one of those fickle users who was never notified about the price increase until it was due, and could not convince them to be a good company and let me extend at the old price for another year since I'm a good long term customer.
More modern theories that strongly dispute that assertion. And certainly the money needed to pay compound interest on the loan has not been created. (Apparently it's expected that borrowers will materialize it.)

"Banks first lend and then cover their reserve ratios: The decision whether or not to lend is generally independent of their reserves with the central bank or their deposits from customers."

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Credit_theory_o...]
Check out Arq. I switched from Backblaze to them. They are good, similar to CrashPlan.
>monetize journalism outside of the usual predatory social media/aggregator set up

I've had some ideas around this for a while now, but have
been busy with another project. It recently resurfaced when listening to an Ezra Klein podcast wherein he talked about how journalists are now boxed in by their social media audiences, among other laments. If I was less exhausted this early morning, I'd try to dig up the episode.

Anyway, good luck with it. Something that disrupts the current model is sorely needed.
Yeah I mean, you also can't really bet on football games, but...
Seems like they have a decent business for home computer users, but the real story is B2.

B2 accounted for $14M in ARR as of June 2020, and $21.8M as of June of 2021.

That sector of the business could well outstrip the consumer side in a few quarters if growth continues.
Yes, but we should exclude people for valid reasons, not for their race.
I agree with you. I currently have a similar process where I jot down the steps in README.md or INSTRUCTIONS.md files. The script is a bit better in that it forces you to do the steps in order and you're less likely to skip a step by accident.

However if I'm going to start creating scripts like this then I think all the OO/Class boilerplate overhead would make me reluctant to do it. For me using functions with docstrings keeps more of the simplicity of the markdown approach while still allowing for gradual automation.

Here's a simple example:

https://gist.github.com/snth/c5c5a1236dd8ddf91973aed77d66cd9...
Why John Oliver Is Wrong About Homelessness
I wish I was in the other timeline where data was as safe as dollars in my physical wallet... if I didn't tell the OS to give access to a file, it just didn't happen.

5 more years until capability based security goes mainstream.
Scalpers don't provide liquidity, market makers do
You lost me at ncurses. IMO this idea works because the task is so simple no one would bat an eye at the thought of doing it. All it takes is one person to question why we're not using <technology> instead, or why we're not spending this ncurses amount of effort towards something else instead, to jeopardize the effort.
If heroine was legal right now would you start using it?
People didn't like Hillary, its not a conspiracy. It cant be that pople don't like the mainstream Democrat politicians and he didn't see them as fitting guests, it must be a GOP conspiracy. He can't not agree with any non mainstream Democrat point without being part of a conspiracy of a GOP organization, but you ignore his love of UBI? What else did JP say during that podcast? You watched the whole thing and not just some clips someone used for an agenda didn't you?

Its interesting how little info you have aside from some political talking points and never have any in depth information about a podcast except for things that are found in talking points that are used in propaganda. You continue to demonstrate signs that you didn't listen it at all and only bring up talking points that are used in your statement like they were fed to you and you're just regurgitating them. Who are you trying to fool and for what reason?
Letter from a “prominent” medical school professor:

“..This is affecting clinical medicine. It is the death spiral of American medicine, with unintended consequences for the very groups it is supposed to help..”

Seems like an extremely important — if difficult —topic
I think they mean that it grows to the point where it collides with the virtual address space allocated to another block (the stack, a shared library, a mmap'd area etc)
> All you have to do is say no once in a while...

> Just insist...

Some companies work like this, but many don't. Such utterances could be charting a course to the door for you.
Who better to profit off of nerds? It's not like there is any kind of solidarity or union among techies.
Are there any “start here” guides for beginning reversing? Like a break it down Barney style? I’ve done some self study and shadowing teams at work but I need to fill in the gaps. Thanks!
I had the opposite. Their support couldn't help me at all. Big reason I switched, along with the constant price increases.
Not quite true. DOS programs were not automatically given all memory. DOS programs needed to allocate various memories (Conventional, EMS, XMS memory) via API specific to each type. DOS programs running under Windows 95 and later were presented with a DPMI compatible API if they so choose to use. DPMI DOS Extenders were intended to provide DOS compatibility for 16-bit and 32-bit Protected Mode applications. Memory allocation was just one service type they provided. Some also provided virtual memory or Win32 API emulation.

https://fd.lod.bz/rbil/interrup/dos_kernel/2148.html#sect-29...

https://fd.lod.bz/rbil/interrup/memory/2f4310.html#sect-4815

https://fd.lod.bz/rbil/interrup/memory/673f_cx5145.html#sect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_extender#DOS_extenders

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWSDPMI

https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
Not sure what Robinhood's selection criteria are, but participation isn't guaranteed.
There was also serious anti smoking propaganda for awhile. Smoking was practically killed off until vaping came around.
This. I’ve been a Backblaze customer for years. I’m not a backup enthusiast. To me it’s a problem I want to solve and forget about. If I needed to save money on utilities, I’d probably have more to gain by switching my electricity provider, my insurance provider, or my internet provider. The possibility that there might exist a slightly cheaper backup provider isn’t particularly exciting to me, and hasn’t been on my radar.

What has been on my radar is that my laptop has a small SSD, and in addition I have an external hard drive containing files that I want to back up but I rarely use. Backblaze used to require that I regularly plug in that hard drive and then keep it plugged in for a few hours. This was a total chore, and meant that I couldn’t just forget about my backups. I seriously considered switching backup providers because of that. Luckily Backblaze eventually introduced a slightly more expensive plan where I don’t have to do that. So at the moment I’m a satisfied customer, and I’m not actively looking for alternatives.
You are literally the exact type of bad customer the parent comment is referring to.
How did you like being a trader?
> mRNA as a class is safe.

That's like saying "chemicals are safe". I'm pretty sure the same folks who created the Moderna vaccine could just as well cook up a doomsday military grade pathogen using the same equipment and technology, over approximately the same period of time (a weekend).

I'm not saying vax is not safe. Its safety record, while not perfect, is relatively well understood in adults (but wasn't at the outset). I'm merely saying it's a risk, that should be weighed against the benefits, which (IMO) significantly outweigh the risks for me personally, but not necessarily for someone younger or healthier.
That's an interesting view on flat rate storage.

Although if you happen to be within the target audience for their business model (like I am) then it works pretty well, especially as a secondary off-site backup option. But yeah, if there's a threshold of, say, 2TB and > 5GB/day bandwidth that makes someone an unprofitable customer, then they should just set caps accordingly rather than claim unlimited.
Crystals tend to push out dissimilar atoms, certain chemicals are more soluble that others in water, bacteria may be responsible for certain types of gold particles found in nature. There's always another layer of processes at work that we don't know about yet, or so it seems.
I'm going to sleep in the metaverse
Out of curiosity, why do you need it? Isn't this simply solved by user accounts of the operating system? What's wrong with having it as an addon?

Also did you know that you can launch firefox with -p switch and do it that way?
This conversation makes me think you care about your users and inspired me to go look at pricing for personal laptop backup, and it appears that linux is not supported. Any plans to support it in the future? EDIT I might have not looked hard enough and there are potentially options out there, I just found https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664628-How-d...
The key is that market makers are doing large volumes at very small margins. The market maker just needs to guess the market movement direction for the next interval of time (stocks would be sub second timescale, homes could be daily/weekly, etc.) then they can adjust what they buy and sell very slightly to profit from this spread.

If the spread is a large percentage of the assets value then it doesn't work as well and public perception is more negative. The housing market is much more difficult to properly become a market maker in because the transaction costs are high. The seller's realtor is going to want their >=3% commission. There's other costs like title transfer fee/cost, inspections, etc.

Also scalping is typically more of product's that are impossible to otherwise obtain and are sold at a huge premium.

I think Zillow frequently tried to make the seller cover these costs (whether directly or via a lower offer amount) but it seems they didn't do this successfully. It's also possible that the seller's who accepted Zillow's offer tended to have some X factor that would make their house more difficult to sell but properly handling every possible X factor is very difficult.
Couldn't it brighten the image in some way?

My webcam has an advanced option panel that lets me edit both the brightness and the exposure time. I can turn it up so bright that you can't even make out any of my facial features, and I'm in a somewhat dark room lit by a single floor lamp.
At 10 mins delivery, they may not be doing delivery route optimization. I've 2 dark stores within a 5 min distance from my house. With a limited, high volume inventory they could pull off a model of shopping where enough people order small items when they need it. Hour to drive 5 kms is for cars, if you are on a 2-wheeler and willing to cut corners like drive on pavements you could be much faster.
I'm not drawing up a psychological profile here, so no need to try and bring in psychological definitions of words.

Agreeable/disagreeable is a subjective judgement, and I'm the one making the judgement in this scenario. Whether someone is agreeable and whether I like to work with them are synonyms.

The conversation was generally talking culture fit and not universal qualities, after all.

Honestly, a lot of the people I'd consider disagreeable to work with are actually so overwhelmingly positive that it makes me feel like a cynical asshole if I don't severely self-censor. To the wrong group, I am the asshole.
I think that the reality of city-based finance in the USA is quite mixed, and that failed, failing and increasingly failed city administration, in cities of more than 100,000 people say, is widespread. I talked to some go-getter Code-for-America type consultants, and they said it was common to get retained to show numbers on the city budget, and that the depth and clarity of dot-com style numbers, overviews and flow analysis, would stun the city administrators, and not-a-few cases, cause an immediate cease-work order when embarassing or egregious budget allocations came to obvious light. My overall, gut reaction is that it is highly variable on a case-by-case basis, the amount money passing through city hall. In the case that started my rant, there is plenty of money. Yet maintenance not only does not grow with city growth, but falls behind further. Not always, but common now.
It's up to you what you do in the metaverse. No one is forcing you to socialize.
Articles like is the reason I started to trust BackBlaze in the first place. They go into details - just like with storage pod articles - on justifying why they can sell the service at lower price. Gives me confidence that low pricing is not just marketing trick.
My take is almost the complete opposite. In the Metaverse, you can spin up a office building for an unlimited number of users who can access from across the globe. Please compaire that use case, and so many more like it, to the real world alternatives in terms of resource consumption. It's an economy of infinite bits, not limited atoms.
Yes, and HMDs are only going to get lighter in the coming years.
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I wrote Backblaze and said "I would pay to ship you a drive so I don't have to upload 500GB over my consumer internet. That is my biggest pain point." and then the customer service rep replied that it wouldn't be a good business model to do that. Why is the customer service rep making these decisions? Just forward the email to your biz dev team.
What I really want to know is if the housing and real estate market's are so hot, why do REITs offer such terrible returns? How can hot housing areas have appreciation of >15% while REITs offer ~4% returns?
> I guess I'm not following the distinction. For most people, that's exactly what happens. Either you, or the someone on your direct team, will be the person with readability for your code. The readability process just ensures that you don't end up with silos where style diverges too much, and that the stakeholder who proposes stylistic commentary has a baseline knowlege of linguistic best practices.

Separating these two out, even if one person may fulfill two roles, IMO adds to bureaucracy that I don't care for. Ramping up onto a new language sounds like a pretty fraught experience if nobody on your team has readability and the service you're contributing doesn't have a member who has the time to actually work with you, especially if your work is not relevant to theirs. They even touched upon this in the linked video. The whole idea that you can enter a bureaucratic catch-22 at a company seems like an anti-pattern to me, a moment to stop and think; a "modern" engineering organization should try its utmost to accelerate development, with only as many checks as needed for safety and no more.

> With few exceptions, the thing people complain about is attaining readability themselves, not getting changes approved.

That's what I mean by bureaucracy. Even having "another eye" on the code should work. Having a certification process for readability is even more bureaucracy.

> But importantly, that sidesteps my statement entirely, which, rephrasing, is that amazon carries along more technical debt than Google. Whether that's a good long-term business decision remains to be seen, but the impression I get from ex-amazon friends is that maintainability is less prioritized, and maintainability is one of the goals of the readability process. Global consistency helps anyone understand and improve anything else, and to an extend avoids haunted graveyards (though...not entirely).

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. In my career I've never worked at a place that prioritizes code style that much, and I've worked at other high scale places in the past. This seems like a Google specific need. You're right that global consistency helps to save off "there-be-dragons" codebases, but I feel like this is a case of YAGNI. Unless you have engineers constantly cross-cutting across the company, most engineers learn the style guidelines of a team/product/service by ramping up on the team. The optimization for global consistency seems premature to me.

> FWIW I don't get this impression. It's honestly difficult for me to tell what you even are referring to. Like, other than readability and promo, there's very few processes or bits of bureaucracy that are consistent across the company, and those two have gotten decidedly more streamlined since I joined the company.

But promos drive _so much_ of the company culture, at least from what my partner tells me. And the video in the OP certainly makes it sound like Google has lots of bureaucracy, though I'm not sure how many of the requirements outlined in the video were there for hyperbole or not. But especially for services that have low SLOs, it makes no sense to put thought into failover, evacuation, or anything like that.