skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been self-hosting websites for years on a VPS but as I have been using Cloudflare for DNS management and for their CDN features, I made the jump over to Cloudflare Pages a few days ago.

Cloudflare Pages was trivially easy to set up, complete with GitHub integration and I can heartily recommend it.

https://pages.cloudflare.com/

The sites I’m hosting are plain old static sites. I have a separate private repository for each site on GitHub, with all of the html files and the few images and such that the sites have, just as I always had, but now when I push commits to these repos they are automatically pulled and deployed by Cloudflare Pages and basically all I had to do was to enable GitHub integration, choose the repository, tell Cloudflare how to “build” it, which because everything is static the “build” command in my case is simply:

cp -R htdocs dist

With htdocs just being a directory of static content inside of any of my website repositories for the site in question, to keep the content I want to serve separate from things like the README.md and other files that I also have in each repo.

Then I told Cloudflare Pages that the “build” output is in the “dist” directory.

It’s great!
In this formulation I believe the last bit would also be repeated 3 times, and you’d have to read those three bits to detect corruption.
I really believe right now that Microsoft's Windows/Edge teams are following the gaming industry's way of "Let ordinary people be outraged, the whales will feed us"
I recently got me a windows laptop for media consumption purposes (I still have my Mac mini for primary work). The very first thing I noticed was the constant push for edge browser everywhere. Even on the Lock Screen of Windows, I saw 3 places asking to try Edge browser.

Had to go to settings and disable the ads for edge:

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/turn-off-windows-10-lock-sc...
Having interacted with members from Samsara’s team nonprofessionally, I also hold them in high regard.
>because you-know-who proposed them

Have we really arrived at the point where we've become the parody of a society in a Harry Potter book?
https://archive.md/IrdwV
Why is a travel stop such problem? Travel can be resumed.
There's large overlap in the audience discouraging processed foods and promoting fake meat
Fortran actually passes by value-return, or whatever you call it, not by reference. The call may still be compiled by reference, of course, and it used to be fun to change the value of a number in the days when it wasn't in read-only storage.
Oh, the irony! Right? Not really. Carbohydrates in particular have been sold as the top staple of a good diet (bread/pasta/etc. was at the top of the old food pyramid after all) by commercial interests for almost a century. Fats were of course villified for a good while. Why? Probably because it is easier to gorge yourself on carbo-heavy foods and drinks than on other types of food (also less processed foods). Thus you can sell more of it.

(You can also salten soft drinks a bit in order to induce more thirst… since all you have to do to hide that salty flavor is to add more sugar.)

We live in a consumer society now, where apparent “abundance” gets turned into new ailments and problems in order to sell more stuff (not necessarily more food—could be exercise equipment or whatever else).

And it’s of course no coincidence that wealthier people have more and better access to whole foods and other supposed “lifestyle choices”.

There’s nothing ironic here at all. Just new problems being invented in order to sell more stuff.
I'm not sure I'm really following how that answers my question unfortunately. Are they assuming O(n) corruptions? Distributed randomly in the string?
Great conclusions, but still looks lake initial data is small. Some points about viral factor are reasonable hyphothesis, not final say.

E.g. some initial hyphothesis about Delta was that it is not so deadly, but it turn out to be twice more deadly than original strain.
This assumes every year of life has equal worth.
This review says that none of the community mask trials showed a significant effect. It says that 3/6 studies on respirators in medical settings had no significant effect. It said that 3/5 studies for masks as source control showed no significant effect.

Here's a review of every mask study ever performed:

https://www.cato.org/working-paper/evidence-community-cloth-...

Here's a summary written by the same author, in case you're too busy to read 30,000 words:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...
some random things without thinking too much:

- my regular Bialetti moka

- my texas instruments ti-86 (still rocking strong since 1997)

- thinkpads: T42, X220, w530, T440... they're just great.

- my wenger/swissgear carbon backpack

EDIT: actually my regular bialetti moka is replacing an induction moka (still from bialetti) because the induction moka is hard to open (due to the round base).
The Kershaw Leek pocket knife. Flips open one-handed and makes a satisfying “snick”. I’ve used mine daily for 5 years.

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It‘s actually very simple:

Ban FAANGs from public procurement in the EU.

That‘s it.

Watch them squirm, pocket their billions spent on lobbying, and then say „sorry no“ and ban them from all public procurement processes, in all countries in the EU.

In 10 years, Europe will be a software superpower.
It speaks to the more serious problem with vaccine hesitancy - the more virions (individual virus 'particles') that exist, the greater the chance of a mutation that finds a way around our defenses. It's just basic evolution.

The variants arise randomly and proliferate with the current major strains. The infected population adapts to reduce the transmission of the most virulent/contagious strains. Selective pressure (tug of war between infecting people and people fighting off the infection) increases on the new variants until one or a few maintain or exceed the transmission of the progenitor strain.

That's the problem with the, "I'll get over it/I'm not worried/My segment of the population doesn't die from it" mentality. The more infections - subclinical, asymptomatic, severe, fatal, undetected - the more rolls of the dice. We (humans) are selecting variants that are worse for us, hoping we can snuff out the infection before some key mutation that eludes our immune system and/or testing develops.

Two other thoughts with internal conflicts/points worth mentioning - First, recovered patients should be more resistant to new strains. Their immune systems threw everything at the virus to defeat it, so their response will be more diversified than those with mRNA vaccines targeting a specific protein sequence. (The magnitude and usefulness of the variations in immune response can negate that advantage.) Second, the reasons that a 'novel' virus is dangerous are that we, as a species, don't know if we can (naturally/innately), and we don't know how much the virus can change in protein sequence (to evade our defenses) or our response to infection.

Anyways, I'm rambling. Not a virologist, but a PhD (and as such, I think I know more about stuff than a really do) and that's how I think about it. :)
TBF, I think Lovecraft did it first and that's a much darker world.
The standard for something "working" is very much up for debate though, even if it is carefully avoided.

"Slowing the spread" is not a good enough argument in my opinion. Everyone wants to slow the spread, the only question worth asking is: at what cost?

At what point do you deem something effective and worthy of sacrificing your freedoms for? 1% efficacy "slows the spread". Is that worth it? Where do you draw the line? 20%? 50%?

Life is risky, everything is a gamble, yet somehow with COVID, all nuance has disappeared, life is not worth living until we can be 100% sure that there is no risk at all.
It might end when universal vaccination and other measures suppress COVID to occasional outbreaks that can be quickly put down.

Otherwise it may never end. With widespread circulation, and selection pressure to evade immunity from vaccines and prior infection, escape variants may become the norm. Each new escape variant will require lockdowns, travel restrictions, and new vaccination.

Pretending it is not happening is not an option either, when basic medical services are not available due to overwhelmed healthcare systems.
Does anyone have any idea where to actually have this discussion?
Yes.

How many people die in car accidents each year?
God, this would happen all the time in the mid-90s. You joke about a backhoe in Iowa, but I'm pretty certain it was a backhoe in Iowa one time. Then the whole of the UK's traffic to the USA West Coast would be routed through an ISDN connection in Korea for three days. Your goat porn downloads from Usenet would drop from their high of 0.5Kb/sec and you'd be left with your dick in your hand. Or something.
I wait 2 years then i throw lineage os on it, last phone was a nexus 5. I bet your pinephone will not be usable for 7 years....2gb ram right? BTW can you receive sms already?
> If this startup thing doesn’t work out, maybe I’ll just start a cult. :)

I know you’re not being serious but unfortunately many people are in this kind of thinking. All over society are movements and groupthink driven by a small group of people that realized that you can get a whole lot of money and power by making people believe outlandish things.
you need proprietary code to playback bought/rented movies from eg. Youtube though
Or perhaps people are acquiring immunity through contact since the majority of cases have been known to be mild or asymptomatic since the pandemic started? And/or the virus is mutating into less infectious substrains?

Cold/flu viruses come and go. This virus will do the same. People will see it as evidence that the vaccines worked when in reality the pandemic very likely would have ended without them, yet here we are facing mandates...
early gmail was just magic.

modern gmail is trash.

i switched my personal gmail account to html-only mode (no javascript) and it's definitely better.
> but I seem to recall the Atari and Commodore systems were practically clones of each other.

That couldn’t be further from the truth. The only thing they had in common was the CPU. Apples did everything with discrete logic and graphics were a bit primitive, and color depended on NTSC artifacts. Sound was done by the CPU controlling the state of the speaker, pushing out a square wave. If you could hog the CPU, you could do PWM audio, but it wouldn't sound great.

Ataris had outstanding graphics. Their “GPU” ran a display list that generated the video output. There was no such thing as a frame buffer or a video mode - everything was rendered on the fly. Sound was OK-ish, driven by a sound chip. Ataris also ran the 6502 at twice the clock of the Apple and Commodore.

Commodores had somewhat more primitive graphics than the Ataris, but compensated that with an excellent palette and a sound chip with very sophisticated capabilities.
>> Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :|

The dark humor is that some of the developers responsible for today's horrible web experience are here on HN...
Thanks you made my day ;)

Tomorrow i will buy that incredible new laptop, any cheap atom/celeron netbook would be faster..and better...and probably cheaper:

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Chromebook-Processor-Graphics-...
“If we could not extinguish even the small fire, stop pouring buckets of water on it, let the whole thing burn down”

It is still an exponential curve that will overflow all the hospitals the moment you stop paying attention, causing hundred thousands of additional deaths indirectly due to overworked med staff.

Object permanence is a thing.
Was a good excuse for me to buy some unshrouded probemasters.
> That something in the air would probably have to do with a decrepit monarchy and deeply corrupt church working together to utterly screw over the people and deplete the country's wealth.

Yes but ...

That's a description of most European states since, say, Charlemagne defined the subsequent millennium of European control structures -- but pragmatically that broad description likely also applies to most parts of the world for most of the past several millennia.

I suspect it's more a combination of Gutenberg tech adoption, and (in retrospect quite torpid) increases in education and state-tolerance towards humanism.
Yea 'Don't hate the player, hate the game' is pretty disingenuous when the 'player' actively changes the rules of the game through bribery and coercion.
> but they do reduce the viral load by 30-50%

I think the effect is much larger than that, but yes, absolutely. This is an important point that is constantly lost in the public discourse. We realize there's a big difference in dosage with poisons and radiation, but it's the same with viral infections; viruses do take time to replicate, so having a low initial exposure can give the immune system to ramp up sooner, before the infection has become severe (and then the immune response will also be severe).
How about other open source component libraries like Vuetify? Do you plan adding them in the future?
You know your electronics. Thanks for all your imput. Number 3 surprised me.
Schools were closed at the local and state levels. Closing the borders requires action at a federal level. That seems incredibly unlikely to happen.
How about Dr. Emma Hodcroft (firefoxx66 on twitter) who is a co-developer of Nextstrain which is the database that is used to track variants?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1463797898446049285.html

> Thoughts: Yes, this variant has a high # of spike mutations, & a few known to cause changes. But, we've seen previous variants that looked worrying & never took off. We should watch & wait for more data to estimate how concerning this is.

> Important thing to keep in mind: - SA has recently had relatively low cases - this may leave a void which a new variant can spread into more easily - it likely hasn't had to compete with Delta. In other places, where Delta rages, it may not be as fit.

> Important thing to keep in mind: - We don't know what other factors may be helping spread, for example, an event or recent behaviour change - SA has a low vax rate - 28% 1dose, 24% 2dose. Immune evasion may not be needed to spread. Fitness could differ in higher-vax countries.

...

I'm very skeptical because Omicron has P681H at the FCS which was already displaced by P681R everywhere. This looks like backwards evolution.

It may have evolved in an HIV/AIDS patient in South Africa and adapted itself to in-host immune evasion, and established itself in South Africa into a relative vacuum of spread via founder effects, luck and whatever forces are driving the roughly 6-month cycles of waves that we tend to see. That doesn't mean that it is going to be able to outcompete Delta.

Of course it may acquire P681R through mutation or recombination or Delta could pick up some of its novel mutations, or maybe P681H makes a comeback because it gets worse in combination with mutations elsewhere in the genome. Everything is still on the table from this being a flash-in-the-pan that disappears once its faces significant competition from delta, up to it becoming worse. And I may be somewhat downplaying the risks due to everyone else overly assuming the risks when we have no useful information.
Will it increase exponentially if not cared about?
Production is cheap because it's massive and economies of scale apply, but distribution is not because it works with every customer inevitably. Every customer in a supermarket needs to interact with a cashier.

Also, transporting, washing, sorting, storing are all scalable but not free, and these are important parts of the easy availability for the end customer. Then, storage is not preserving 100% of produce, some of it inevitably withers or spoils, and handling this is also not free.

Potatoes are only dirt cheap if you buy them in bulk on the farm, then store in your basement, and sort and handle yourself. This is a lot of work and time spent, I've seen such an approach firsthand.
Why'd you leave out his mention of the impact on mental health?
and if that impact is bad (i.e. vaccine escape, severe illness, and outcompetes Delta) then lockdowns are our only option.
> Does anybody think these variants will ever stop?

No but they tend to become less severe for the surviving population. Either because susceptible individuals don't make it or the immune system is learning and the virus runs out of good mutations. So far it seems that higher transmissibility was the driving factor. We still have a large percentage of the population waiting for their first infection. Next we will see more immune escape variants and then probably come the variants that diversify but they will probably run out of useful mutations and our trained immune systems are better at preventing severe infection. It could take some more years and some more severe waves (and some calm years in between) until we arrive there.

The new Joker we have are mRNA vaccines with which we might quickly sharpen our immune response before the main wave of a new variant arrives.
That building gives me anxiety attacks; just thinking about how vulnerable it is.
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Procrastination and the Extended Will [pdf]
I...did neither of those things?
Strikes me how such a heartless comment comes from someone running a "community" business. Really sad.
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I just want to comment at how sad it is that so much money is being wasted on movies like this. It feels like society has irrecoverably shifted to some different reality and thus the studios keep focusing on these films. I was extremely emotionally invested in the success of a recent film by my favorite director: Edgar Wright. The movie "Last Night in Soho" had a supposed production budget of ~40 million but only earned ~4 million on Box office open. It was competing with all non superhero films for scraps because ~90% of the box office profits were taken by the superhero movies/007.
I don’t understand the recent celebrating of Florida’s COVID performance — in September, after vaccinations and treatment options were widely available, Florida was losing more than 300 people per day to COVID. They went from ~25th in the nation for COVID Deaths per capita to 8th worst since the pandemic started.

That “just surviving” came at a huge cost of lives.
So on further thought, four payments over six weeks, assuming an immediate initial payment, means it bills every two weeks, or every standard paycheck. So I guess it's mostly fine...

But Affirm still defaults to spreading over four months, usually interest free for the retailers they partner with, and ends up a far superior deal.
It's great if it does, not sure how that makes me mistaken though. I never said anything about what was actually supported.

My point was that the pixel density is pretty hard to determine with low Bitrate streams as you get them from Netflix.
One facet of this that rarely gets mentioned that I often experience since I live in the EU is subtitle and audio availability is teeerrible for most of the streaming services.

Amazon Prime is unusable because the vast majority of movies that they have is all dubbed and do not provide original audio nor english subtitles. I do not pay money to watch a movie get distorted by dubbed audio. No thank you.

Same goes for a lot of movies on Netflix, although they are way better than Prime.
Every feature starts out with -100 points. So there's always a trade-off to do everything you can imagine to make every last corner case nice or shipping something in a reasonable timeframe.
When lambda expressions were introduced they were designed to work well together with LINQ and that whole part of the language isn't a small one either. Storing a lambda expression in a local variable is not such a common occurrence to really need type inference or the ability to add types to lambda expressions.

Heck, I'd say, by now with local functions most lambdas that previously would have been a local could now just be a local function.
It is true that the PDP-11 MMU provided memory protection, unlike 8088/8086.

However that mattered only for the operating system kernel, as it allowed process isolation.

For user programs, the 8088/8086 MMU was a thousand times more convenient, because the segments could start on any 16-byte boundary instead of 8 kB boundaries and there were 4 segments instead of 2 and you could load a pointer to a new segment with a single instruction.

For an IBM PC, it was very easy to write a 512 kB program, you just had to select an appropriate memory model option for the compiler. For a PDP-11, even when having 4 MB of memory, writing a large program was extremely difficult.

You had to partition the code and data of the program in pieces not to small and not too large, to fit in 1 or a few 8 kB pages. You had to partition in such a way that the parts will not need to be active simultaneously and you would not need to swap them frequently. Swapping parts was slow, as it had to be done by an operating system call.

The linker had to be instructed to allocate the overlapping parts to appropriate addresses, so that it will be possible to swap them.
More than meets the eye!
Like "archive". The X represents the Greek letter χ. Similar to TeX or LaTeX, which are pronounced like "tech" and "lay-tech".
Grey text on a slightly different grey background. Genius!
Violence. It gives people a lot of perspective very quickly. Sooner or later, it's where we're going to end up.
> Saying Sweden has "just survived"

Europe "just survived" the black plague (1/3rd of Europe died). Life on Earth "just survived" the Chicxulub impactor (the Dinosaurs and 90% of species on Earth died). People who say flippant things like this are unserious and frankly, dangerous.
As far as I know the current view is that it won’t end, but it will become a regular the same way the flu is. There may even be yearly shots combined with flu shots for all the new variants that may evolve.

I truly hate that guy, but “facts don’t care about your feelings”.
Because it's convenient?
I bought a cheap GPIB-USB adapter (LQ UGPlus) which didn't work because the Windows software couldn't handle the binary memory addresses.

I should see if I can talk to it directly, it's probably HID or CDC.
Right now we don't know the severity or impact of this variant, and several signs point in a bad direction. Maybe in 2 weeks we won't be worried about this variant, but right now being being proactive may slow down or even stop the spread of this variant. If China had instituted a travel ban in the early weeks instead of covering it up we may have never had a global pandemic - contact tracing and quarantines may have been enough to contain it in the early days.
Please just say "Trump" and "Muslims" and don't do the Voldemort / Macbeth thing.
Safari on Mac OS can do 4k. Chrome will top out at 720p.

You can check for yourself, hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D during playback to show a bunch of stats on the stream, including the current resolution being shown.
Offline first seems such an oversight from contact tracing perspective.

Also NFC tags could’ve been better solution, but probably would’ve sent too much Bill Gates vibes.
Did you sell your stocks when covid orignally hit?
What you are saying is, UN would only be useful if it was controlled US instead of being properly international.

That’s quite US-centric.