skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is somewhat tied to the point they are making, but I was interested to see that I don't recognize a single one of the signatory companies on that page.
AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
Centering the background....
Import substitution doesn't work. It produces flabby companies that can't cut it other places.
Oh wow - wasn't expecting to see this on HN.

Icewhale is doing a custom dev board - zimaboard - and this is their sideproject as best as I can tell. Think they may have gotten bored halfway through waiting for chip shortage to go away.
If ease of installation is the determining factor then Garmin should be allowed to petition the government to ban Apple and Google from shipping maps apps on their devices in order to ensure a level playing field for their GPS sales?
I'm sure this person means well, and is very intelligent, but I stopped reading at the byline. I went and found what this person's expertise actually is.

Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering
player who also held a developer intern position at Wizards
of the Coast Magic R&D. He is known for having created
innovative and sometimes game-breaking decks TurboZvi and
My Fires.

Now, there is a balance between credentialism and amateurism. Amateurs can get a lot of things right. They can also get a lot of things wrong, and I at least don't have the meta-expertise to know which is which, especially when there's breaking news.

Do we need informed amateurs? Yes. But the crucial test is still whether they are accepted or promoted by the professionals. Zeynep Tufekci was vocalizing concerns that many professionals had, which is why her criticisms of health policy worked out.

In contrast, I have an extremely nerdy friend who has thinks it's her job to explain things to people, and thus writes deeply researched, well-footnoted blog posts about COVID, which are quite often wrong.

I for one can't tell what sort of person this is. But I also know that I'm not good at tagging facts with epistemic certainty. If I read a thing in a blog post it will probably stick, but I'll forget where I got that. So the simple solution it to not read it.

I think when it comes to writing explainers, it's 2021 and we have a wealth of resources and can wait for the professionals, including scientists who blog part time. I suggest that more people should be like me, and ignore the laypeople, indeed even most of the journalism, at least during the initial stages.
On top of that you can add the ~40 years of tech industry brain drain from compensating their employees so poorly versus what US companies were/are willing to do.

The only thing that can build out a competitive EU tech industry is US venture capital, which will put down the enormous, very willing risk capital required to dramatically alter the landscape permanently. As US venture capital floods that market and spikes salaries, there will be no going back (most likely). That transformation process may be underway at present judging from US VC interest in Europe. The only other venture capital on the planet comparable in capability and scale is in China. If it's just left to EU VC, it'll take forever.
No. It’s sensible to. This isn’t a subject to get all edgy and political over. Just avoid any obvious touchy symbols given the symbols are entirely interchangeable.

If there was a letter sharing a name with any current political leader I’m sure they’d do the same.
Vans shoes.
Since it was first proposed [1], it was not a vacuum, and the original paper spends a lot of effort to distinguish a low-pressure tube from a vacuum. The design not only is not a vacuum, but relies on it not being a vacuum for propulsion.

To be sure, it's extremely low pressure, with a pressure lower than Mars. But it is not a vacuum.

[1] http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/h...
The height of irony is that the main ad on the page for me was for a scratcher.
> Facts don’t dictate policy.

And you don't see that as a problem?
The crime of bad ratings?
100% this. I wish it weren’t so.
i'm curious if leetcode or other similar gives you a competency level after you do two or three questions.

like, on a 1-10 scale, you're a 5. or a leetcode-5.

as opposed to, how good are you at python?

oh, well, i can usually do leetcode difficult questions without too much difficulty until they involve floating regressive recusions, in which case i'm a little bit more middle-to difficult completing sort of.

sure you can't measure communication abilities, etc., but you should be able to measure pure mastery of a language, then maybe with an algo addition, etc.
> I would explain what went wrong.

They did: What went wrong was that the mod team doesn't have the power to mod the core team.
Especially when his conclusion gets into him predicting specific percent chances of things happening… I know he slapped a disclaimer around it, but that still feels more than a bit irresponsible. This really feels like a “wait for the experts” moment.

Edit: I don’t think the parent comment deserved to be flag killed. It’s entirely legitimate to point out that the author is not an epidemiologist or biologist or any other relevant -ist, and that early on you often need the domain experience to sift hype or panic from actual data. This is doubly true given the somewhat sensational tone here (“we’re f**ed”).
Please don't bring your antivaxxer lies here. The documented rates of injury/death caused by the major vaccines are incredibly low.
We did. We have multiple vaccines and treatments. That was the end game. If those didn’t work, we have no choice but either live in some dystopian hellscape to save people from exactly one illness at the cost of literally all other issues… or we accept the risks and move on with our lives.

2 years of this is a non trivial amount of time.
Hmm, have you tried pulldown-cmark. It's not easy-perse but it's readable and has an awesome interface. Though it's rust so the interface usability might differ for other languages.

Github: https://github.com/raphlinus/pulldown-cmark
I believe that as conscious entities we have the power to choose the ethical “axioms” we use to guide our decisions. Under the axioms I’ve chosen I can “prove” (in a surprisingly formal sense) the claim “it is ethically okay to consume animals that have been treated humanely”. That being said, it would only take a slight modification to one of my axioms to successfully argue the opposite.

I’d be very interested to hear how you use your axioms to argue the opposite. I’m happy to share mine but don’t want to taint your thought process before you’ve had time to fully consider the problem.
Awful.

The alternative was awful, tho, so...
How far along is the Texas Gigafactory in Texas? I think they started later than Berlin, but may finish first?

There may just be too much bureaucracy in Europe, too much socialism... People here don't want to be part of a company that does exciting things, they just want a well paid job they can't be fired from because the union protects them.
UNIX was well provided for with GUIs all through the early 90s and later. The reason I knew Windows 3.1 was so primitive around 92-93 was that I had been using a GUI at least as advanced as Windows 98 would eventually become about 5 years later. (SVR4 in AT&T's UNIX, which then became Novell's UNIX ("Unixware"). At the same period Sun had its SunOS GUI (retrospectively renamed 'Solaris 1') and then its Solaris 2.

My progression was Coherent (CLI) in 1991, followed by AT&T UNIX in 1992, Novell's Unixware in 1993, then Solaris 1 in 1994 and Solaris 2 from 1995 to 2001. (All my UNIXes from 1992 onwards had GUI Desktops. How else would I have used an Internet Browser called 'Mosaic'? I was a very early adopter of that new-fangled Internet. I been connected up since my Coherent days in 1991).

By 2001 Linux had, for all intents and purposes, caught up with the commercial UNIXes.
Essentially, yes, it does. Classic AS/400 software runs all programs, belonging to all users, in a single address space. The security boundary between different programs/users is enforced at the bytecode level, not at the machine code level, so the bytecode-to-machine code translator is security-critical. That translator is a core part of the OS, whereas the compiler frontends, while shipped with the OS, are not so core. However, I believe the current version of the translator code was actually extracted out of IBM's standard compiler backend for other platforms. And while this security is primarily software-based, it is partially hardware-accelerated – POWER has a tagged memory extension which gives you one tag bit for every 16 bytes of memory, and 400/i uses that tag bit to help detect (intentional or accidental) pointer forgery. It is worth noting that this is only a performance optimisation, it provides very little security in itself – the instructions to set the tag bit are (from the hardware viewpoint) unprivileged, so if you have the ability to execute arbitrary machine code, you can forge pointers to your heart's content. But the translator will not generate those tag-setting instructions for you, to do that you need to actually generate POWER machine code yourself – and there is no unprivileged interface which lets you run arbitrary machine code in the single address space.

By contrast, newer stuff on 400/i runs in separate address spaces (teraspaces), including recent versions of Java and the Unix compatibility subsystem (PASE). So a Python script, for example, since Python usually runs under PASE, it uses the same address space per process security model which is used on Unix(-like) systems.

(There is actually an old port of Python 2.7, called iSeriesPython, which runs Python inside the classic AS/400 environment ILE instead of the Unix compatibility PASE environment; even that I believe is still running it inside a separate address space aka teraspace for performance reasons, but probably would run fine inside the single address space instead; that whole approach to porting Python to IBM i has been abandoned, because it has few advantages over the PASE approach, but PASE makes the porting work a lot easier.)
> Facts don’t dictate policy

They absolutely should, and I think this is an intractable disagreement we have. Sorry.

But I agree that COVID is never going away -- I'm saying that all of these measures should go away once the pandemic has abated to such an extent that it no longer poses a substantial threat to human lives. I.e. there is a version of COVID where we have tamed its lethality to the point where it's a shadow of its former self.
That is accurate. What point are you trying to make? The case numbers of this variant in those countries or their neighbors are not comparable.
Bingo. It’s long since time to stop spending this much energy on this myopic fixation on Covid. There are billions of other things for each individual to worry about besides the spread of Covid. And that is a fact, which doesn’t care about the feelings of people pushing society to continue waging an impossible war on a respiratory virus.
you think google/fb devs use linux laptops?
>In the real world, people support local businesses. People support small business and hand-made products, even if it's more expensive. Because that's how you grow your local economy.

That's fine as a consumer. But as a business and a professional I don't have time to muck around with half-baked "local" solutions when better solutions exist.
I did that for my friend visiting me in Germany
This is still an issue AFAIK, a disproportionate chunk of internet traffic goes through AWS-East...
I believe it simply shows they have understood their market(s).
His review is targeting the weakest mask type while cherry picking and downplaying even from studies showing benefits of masking, such as the Bangladesh study others have cited, to paint the picture he wants to paint.
Sure -- you could say anything: "The moon is made of green cheese". There, see? But me saying that doesn't make it true.
I have free Apple TV+ with new iPhone and I still download torrents from their films into my Linux to watch.

Streaming is new tech using old business model.
Have you ever looked at the size of the standardize EU QR code[0] ? At just a glance it looks at least 2-3x denser than the one presented in the article.
Also, on the specification published by the EU[1], they seem to advise for a 25-60cm size, and also warn about using <300dpi printers.

When I was vaccinated, I was given an A4 sheet with those QR codes on it, and I really wouldn't want to scan those with a crappy camera.

[0]: https://gir.st/blog/greenpass.html
[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/default/files/ehealth/docs... § 4.2.2
Well in my case there is always something hideously broken. For example I had a problem a couple of years back where libreoffice would take 3 minutes to open a sheet when my printer was turned on. Then there’s days where if I close the lid on the laptop I had to pray to all the gods of the disc that it’d wake up again without smiting me in some horrible way. And then there’s the usual face punch where I just want to solve a problem, not solve a whole tree of problems.

I don’t work on anything exceptional really. It’s all simple stuff. But there’s just so many broken things all the time that I had to walk away.

I’m writing this on the only tool I’ve got that doesn’t melt in my hands regularly, an ass end 9th gen ipad paired with a fairly old apple keyboard. It just works. This gives me more time to do things I actually derive value from in my life.
Err.. I'm too drunk to check, bit I'm fairly sure C# has had operator overloading for like ten years?

Having worked recently in it, I found Java to be relatively (as a language, not for tooling) backwards compared to C#.
> Viruses don’t always become attenuated (less virulent). When they do, it’s because there is an evolutionary selection pressure driving it. No such pressure exists for SARS-CoV-2. An example of this type of selection pressure would be a virus that is so virulent, it kills its host before it can be transmitted to another one. A virus is essentially a machine programmed to make more viruses. To do that, it needs to be spread to new hosts. So variants that are so virulent they kill a host before that host can pass it along, that is under negative selection pressure. The more virulent viruses won’t be passed on. But attenuated variants will. They are under positive selection. For SARS-CoV-2, this has never been an issue. This virus can be transmitted to a new host before an infected person develops symptoms. Even those who die from COVID are most contagious before they become severely ill.

https://mobile.twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1441416013...
"Symptoms" are self-reported. Symptomatic seroprevalence is objective.

What this should tell you is that "symptoms" are a bad endpoint for a randomized-controlled trial, not that if the good endpoint doesn't show you what you want, you should rely on the bad one.
So if I understand your point correctly, you're suggesting that all forms of discrimination based on innate characteristics are acceptable, as long as there is advantage to the business?
Is it possible to make a gui game?
Interesting, in Germany, especially Bavaria, the restrictions have switched to require FFP2 (equivalent to N95 afaik) since quite a while.
Yes, you need to show that the new vaccine works against the new variant but not that it’s safe. So it will be much faster
It's intentionally vague and poorly defined. That's the point.

They want the government to hamper the competition. The less defined the better if that's your aim. They want to say just enough to get the government to act, and not so much that they restrict potential government action ahead of time. They want to spur government movement on the subject broadly, not pursue a very specific course of action.
You must be in quite the functional bubble (I envy you for that, though)
Fatties are dying from covid at a much, much higher rate than healthy people.
I am not against ads as a concept. If I’m getting something for free, I think it’s fair to say have a lot less say in what I see and when. What I am against is what seems to be a complete decline in any sense of taste and decency over the past 20 years, that means ads will be shoved anywhere if it can make a quick buck out of someone.

I think it’s the interjection that really rubs me the wrong way. If the shop I was purchasing from offered me credit on their website during checkout, I wouldn’t mind—I’m entering a transaction with the shop. But why is Microsoft offering me credit? This is nothing to do with them.

Same goes for the ads on smart TVs. I’ve paid Samsung money for the TV. Why are they still here?
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Heh, that’s an interesting thought. Could US VC capital do that? It would imply that EU tech companies are currently undervalued.

Aren’t there tons of legal paperwork to go through, and why would the EU be attractive to those investors?
All drug studies are public policy studies.

If you show that a drug works in a petri dish, that's completely irrelevant if it's so toxic that people don't take it because of side-effects.

If you show that full-face respirators work on a mannequin in a box, that's completely irrelevant if real-world people don't wear full-face respirators because they suck.
That “having enough” requires enlightenment speaks volumes about our cultural disease.
It's definitely bigger than that as losing out on people like you means losing out on your future potential successes! So definitely important to keep this top of mind for those of us in the biz. It's one way to find competitive advantage in the growth funnel
Show me. Let’s go. Show me. Skip the tough guy talk and connect the dots. Go.

See, if it was so blindingly obvious people like you wouldn’t scream indiscriminately, you’d just give us your mathematical proof and we’d all agree because it wouldn’t be disputable. But that data doesn’t exist, there isn’t even faint circumstantial evidence, so we get yelling and swearing instead.

Look, if I claimed the sun rises in the west this would be easy to settle. You speak with that amount of confidence, so let’s see it. Enlighten us all. I’ve been waiting for 19 months…
I have kinda wondered how robust Internet would truly be if the proverbial stuff really hit a fan. I mean proper nuclear wars or economies including large ISP going down with admins dying or being fired on left and right. Specially with all of the talk of global crypto and so on...

As I understand it is continuously almost hand-tuned machine and enough misconfiguration or entities simply stopping to exist much of the transit capacity would be gone. Works well enough when it is not touched and there is someone on call to fix it, but specially if later was gone? How robust and self-correcting is it really? My guess is probably not at all...
The Nack Pro utility knife[0][1] is a great tool; it's easy to operate one-handed and is virtually indestructible. The handle contains 30 blades in a rotating magazine; you change blades by rotating the base of the handle. I bought one in the early 2000s and it will probably last me the rest of my life.

[0] https://toolmonger.com/2008/12/08/utility-knife-revolver/

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/324381893450
- Palmer Monicon passive monitor controller

https://www.palmer-germany.com/en/products/studio-monitors-a...

- Olight Javelot Turbo

https://olightworld.com/olight-javelot-turbo

- Dirt cheap backpack with a Puma logo, extremely light and virtually indestructible.

- Honourable mentions: Seasonic PSU, Fuji X100F and a Casio SL-807A solar powered pocket calculator.

http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/63572/1.htm
> If you show that a drug works in a petri dish, that's completely irrelevant if it's so toxic that people don't take it.

> If you show that full-face respirators work on a mannequin in a box, that's completely irrelevant if real-world people don't wear full-face respirators because they suck.

And these examples are straw men. That's completely irrelevant to the point.
Worrying about the shape of the blades in the grinder is like worrying about the type of power cable on your hifi amp.

You like what you like.

I'm just saying that your dismissal of the effects of your grinder are very wrong. And the differences are easy see and measure.
south korea seems to have missed that memo
No, it is a closed source IBM product. I've seen copies of its installation media on "warez"/"abandonware" sites before, but there is no emulator for it so you can't run it unless you have real hardware. IBM has recently got quite keen on porting open source software to its Unix compatibility environment (PASE) – it is a way for IBM to make it feel fresher and more modern and more accessible to mainstream developers, for only a modest investment of resources.

Even if you download the installation media from one of those sites, you can't run it because there is no emulator for it. Now, it is POWER, so in principle there could be an emulator, but QEMU only supports running Linux and AIX, not IBM i. Probably if someone wanted to, they could enhance QEMU to support running IBM i, but it would be a lot of work – IBM i exploits various obscure features, not just of the CPU, but also of the firmware, which AIX doesn't, and so understandably QEMU/etc don't implement those obscure features. Commercial emulators don't really exist either, because if you start selling a commercial emulator, it is almost guaranteed IBM will sue you.

I think an emulator for the classic CISC hardware would be really cool – probably make the most sense to start by emulating System/38, then try to extend it to CISC AS/400. Who would ever carry out such a gargantuan and pointless task? Probably some day, eventually, someone will do it. And it will be cool.

There were commercial third party emulators, of sorts, for the System/38, such as California Software Products' Baby/38 package. However, Baby/38 wasn't full system emulation, it was actually just an RPG compiler which supported the System/38 dialect, and had a limited emulation of OS services which RPG programs commonly used. They later followed up with a successor, Baby/400. I'm sure it was quite useful to people back in its heyday of the 1990s, trying to port their RPG business applications to Windows. Practical, but not very interesting from a technology perspective.
There's no problem with people imposing their own restrictions on their movement and association.

Which implies you have some problem with the ordinary state lockdowns. These were certainly poorly executed and yet we can Sweden with nearly ten times the casualties-per-capita of an equivalent nation (Norway). Where my actual point about people taking their own measures is that life was sucky in Sweden as well as the rest of the world.

So what you effectively saying is: "I don't care if things were not that different in practice, for my principle of freedom, I'll 10K deaths without quality of life that different."

Edit:

"the people could largely be trusted with taking appropriate measures"

Trust is a pretty disingenuous term here. What's actually happened is that the people who took risks were the people who economically forced. Ironically, that include workers who took care of the elderly; poorly paid in Sweden and elsewhere, they then took their infections to the elderly concentrated in homes. Stopping this would have required more measures than any of the nations were will to do.
A recent study showed about 25% of the Dutch youth doesn’t see any perspective out of the lockdowns and is depressed with a shockingly large amount of them seriously thinking about suicide.

I think cnbc used some out of date numbers.
"2 people compare their personal 5-star ratings system" - HN, 2021, Oil & Canvas
The cash cow thing depends on region. Up here my MSc was effectively free.
And hub here could refer to entity like Level3... One day, no more money. Just turn of the power on everything and start liquidating... Or someone isn't there anymore to fix stuff when it breaks or changes are needed...