skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>"Also, are you vaccinated? Yes? Then the answer is almost certainly no risk at all"

That is not my lay person interpretation of the currently best available data.

A vaccinated person can get infected, can get seriously ill, and can spread out to others more vulnerable. It helps, drastically, and I sure as heck got mine, but my understanding is that it does not confer individual invulnerability.
apparently the US is now doing a travel ban for eight African nations yet somehow I'm not holding my breath for these to be considered problematic in any way
How many of those browsers are Chromium based? Because if they are that’s still not actually an answer, they’re piggybacking off Google’s work.
When someone's still alive, it always sounds a little weird to say they're the greatest of all time.

But among those who care, there will be those who were alive when Steven Sondheim lived, and those who came after.

What an incomparable writer, for his ability to write simple, clear, clever songs that cut to the bone.
I already felt like that 20 years ago. The distributors (copyright holders) have been dragged by their hair, kicking and screaming, into a future where content distribution is digital and less onerous than in 1995.

But they haven't changed their motivations at all during that time. They've only come to realize that pursuing their vision of receiving full payment from every individual that experiences at least one moment of any of their works would leave them with lower revenues. So they've made some small compromises. But they won't go where the logic dictates unless the purely digital distribution platforms out-compete them on content. Ever stopped to wonder why Netflix and Amazon run their own well-funded production companies? This is why.

Count on this still being a problem in 2070.
Yup, this is such a huge pet peeve of mine. Throwing away science in the name of empiricism. What I mean by that is that science is about understanding the world by being able to make certain empirically verified models (mathematical usually), and then using the validated models (such as the germ theory of disease) to predict what the results would be even if we haven’t already measured that exact thing.

Like, because of an experiment done on Wednesday, a piece of meat kept carefully covered with metal is not going to sprout maggots and flies. Because maggots and flies are caused by flies laying eggs. That same piece of knowledge can then be used to predict with decent certainty that you’re still not going to sprout maggots and flies if you cover it with glass instead of metal and do it on a Tuesday.

Germ theory of diseases says if you quarantine travel, you can prevent (or reduce probability of) novel COVID diseases sprouting up in your country. Because the disease is caused by germs carried by infected people during the few weeks they’re contagious. You don’t need an exact study to prove that, although it’d certainly be nice.

Seriously. Empiricism is great. Using a kind of mindless empiricism (“models don’t tell you anything, so unless every situation is measured, you have no idea”) to throw doubt on science is not.
sorry, have I been time travelled back to march 2020? I heard this exact same preposterous extrapolation then. people going mad with fear at the omnipotent power of the exponential function. hundreds of thousands in hospitals all at once, millions of people sick at a time, we were told. I should know, I was one of them. I scribbled some numbers on the back of a fag packet, concluded we were doomed, and started buying tinned food and scrounging N95s from B&Q.

but then it didn't happen, did it? it never fucking happened, anywhere, lockdown or no. I remember a giant emergency field hospital that got built in the middle of london, and it sat there completely fucking bone idle. my initial numbers were wrong, and so were the experts'.

I remember a terrifyingly huge bell curve for hospitalizations assuming no lockdown, with a piddling little horizontal line just above the x-axis representing bed capacity. that apocalypse never happened for sweden or the numerous other places which never locked down. I remember watching the sweden case graph intently around May, smugly predicting a self-inflicted genocide. It never came. Then there was a US state (I forget which one) that ended its lockdown and opened up back to normal. I very confidently predicted a disaster that never arrived.

eventually (much later than I should have) I woke up from the mass hallucination. turns out covid, like other coronaviruses, is strongly seasonal, it waxes and wanes for reasons we don't quite understand. the exponential curve always burns itself out well short of what the hammer-and-dance people said, no matter what we do.

do you expect us to forget all that? do you really think we can be fooled twice? do you honestly think people will sit down and take another wave of lockdowns when we're in the middle of a supply chain and inflation crisis caused by the first one?
Age, alone, doesn't make something bad or unreliable.
What are your complaints?
There was a substack/medium post from a trucker I read that said this is unlikely to get better. The ports get to charge priority and demurrage fees when they're backed up and consequently may not have any reason to clear blockages. The issue is generally with the ports.

It would take either another port opening, or logistics companies suing the ports to force them to hire more workers.
This repo should interest you https://github.com/TakekazuKATO/TailRec.jl
France tried it and it had the opposite effect of what they expected (hires became less diverse)

https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/discrimination-h...
Some free tier quotas only last 12 months, others are indefinite. From the first paragraph of the linked article, they are removing the 12mo limit on the monthly free bandwidth allowance:

> Free data transfer out of CloudFront is no longer limited to the first 12 months. [..,] Free data transfer out from AWS Regions is also no longer limited to the first 12 months.
What is better in the JVM?
how many more years of this?
But which are in the airbourne size range.
It is unethical. All your accusations of narrow-mindedness, but you can't see the obvious, glaring ethical problems with such a trial.

Not the least because it would be completely infeasible. You may pretend that we can "simply" do a "controlled experiment" but you ignore how impossible it is to tell any sizeable group of people to behave in a certain way and report honestly about it.

"Randomised control trials" are the platonic ideal but in the real world, you can't endanger people for your curiosity, and you will have greatest problems to actually enforce your test protocol. It's more than "tricky". Unless you have access to some spherical people in a vacuum.
Disney doesn't give a shit. Disney cares about the opportunity cost of other sales approaches.
It sounds like a nice move to start increasing competition on bandwidth out by cloud providers. Let's see if the market will follow. Indeed, it doesn't change much for big players, but it is a lower monthly/yearly bill for the startups and smaller players. Bandwidth out was always the small asterisk that most people forgot to estimate and/or read properly in the contract. Don't underestimate your bandwidth out from your cloud provider in your business plan. It can really go out of control quick.
I don't think there are any humans picking up and moving these containers by hand. Robots are already doing the physical moving from one transport type to another.
Biden said to "buy American" and still has tariffs on the EU, so I am not sure who should retaliate.
Sorry, I was in a bit of a hurry. An Invoice has essentially these fields:

id
InvoiceNo
InvoiceDate
Amount
Currency

The id is the unique id in the DB. For the purposes of consolidation we consider (InvoiceNo, Currency) as a tuple. For brevity I didn't include the failure mode of mismatching invoice dates, that can be checked in advance anyway so not terribly relevant.

The invoiceMap maps instance to instance, or the unique id to unique id if you like.
This is capitalism we’re talking about.
Your music taste is similar to mine, here's some stuff you might like:

nthng
Skee Mask
vc-118A
Mohlao - landforms
Traumprinz/Prince of Denmark/Prime minister of doom/etc. (Same guy)
Giulio Aldinucci - Shards of distant times (ambient)
Wanderwelle (ambient)
Quiet places (the whole label A strangely isolated place is amazing, also ambient)
Bowery Electric (also Boards of Canada from the 90s)
Belong - October Language
Rafael Anton Irisarri

I explore a lot of new electronic music and the artists you mentioned I was obsessed with a year ago or so. Since then, I have been digging deeper and deeper, enjoy.
Thanks for the link. For fun I downloaded the referenced CDC dataset. One thing I noticed is that the fraction of deaths per case for the vaccinated population was higher than for the unvaccinated population until July, at which point it "snapped" to match for the rest of the dataset. It seems like a curious anomaly.

https://imgur.com/a/QGJqs0S
True the East coast buys too much crap too, but doesn't have the same population growth and the ports aren't backed up like CA is.
Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students
Brand awareness. After exhausting predictable growth channels, companies pay money to stay in society’s top-of-mind. I think the best example of this is Coca Cola but tough to compare to LM/Airbus.

Imagine paying money so people think you’re legit/respectable. Companies have tons of money so they spend on this.
Don't forget their access to everyone's work history through linkedin.

Corporations are competing to become the Church of England.
Cloudflare has $20M in revenue growth in last quarter.

AWS had growth of $1.2B in last quarter? I think AWS is still hitting something like 30%+ revenue growth YoY even though they are already huge?

With this size / scale, AWS should be able predate someone like cloudflare on base pricing.

I do think cloudflare may be able to evolve their products faster given they aren't carrying around x billion of recurring revenue.
Which Addons
Misremembering might be a sign your memory is working optimally
Well, maybe we shouldn't make the supply chain so long.

Shipping things 5000 miles should not be cheaper than making them closer to home. Although shipping is astonishingly efficient, a retroactive carbon tax (not just for the current emission, but one that doubles it for back-charges) should be instituted on shipping worldwide in bulk. That will incentivize local sourcing.

It's not just for long-term global warming. We are a medium-scale disaster (small asteroid stike, supervolcano explosion, megatsunami) from worldwide starvation due to supply chain disruption.

I'm really glad alternative energy is so competitive, because it is local generation, and not just in the local powerplant sense. Poor places actually are a lot more resilient to disruption because everyone has a cow in the backyard and a garden.

Similarly home solar and storage are so much more disaster resilient.

Perverse economic incentives aren't just on the liberal side. "Free market" economics with its unfunded externalities is another kind of perverse incentive that has led to these ridiculous rube goldberg supply chains.
It wouldn’t work. Just look at what happens during bad storms.
Just threw out my CAH set.
At least the public sector is nominally democratic. Obviously the Easter Bloc never was, but that doesn't mean that some flavour of socialism couldn't be. Meanwhile, capitalism rejects even the principle that democracy could be the primary decision-making tool of society.
Long haul trucking is grossly inefficient compared to rail.

As for the last mile:

1. train rolls into freight yard

2. crane lifts container off of rail car

3. crane puts container onto last mile truck

4. truck drives last mile
You can't detect single bit corruption of the encoding without reading that bit. But what you care about is whether the encoding is sufficiently corrupted that you can't decode the original.
Well then TIL that my moka is not a standard one... It was bought recently tho (like ~5 years ago), so perhaps it's gone standard to put some ferrous thing at the bottom, idk.
Clearly some are doing so for 100% selfish reasons, but many aren’t.
...and well understood the horrors of a Cyberpunk like dystopia in time.
Not really. Anyone who follows the BNPL space knows that it will end up regulated. The UK government has been very clear about this for the last year and are actively consulting on it.
Those aren't the droids we're looking for.
> My expensive TV has banner ads in the menus (well, it did until I blocked about two dozen domains)

Just wait until Google has pushed everyone into encrypted DNS like they did with HTTP ...
1. The population growth is minimal and not the factor here. There are still far more people on the east coast when you include the south: https://www.census.gov/popclock/data_tables.php?component=gr...

2. Much of the stuff that comes through western ports are coming to the east coast. Things being shipped from China/Japan/etc are usually brought across the US as far as I'm aware.
Over 150TB I think you are easily down to 50% off their base rate already aren't you? $50/TB or so?
Value less comment... but I've always had a thought in the back of my head that it will only take some catastrophe for us to be back in the dark ages. I hope I'm wrong.
Dennō Senshi Porygon
Basically what you’re saying is that we can get by with worse tech.

Well, yes. You can use a Casio calculator watch from the 80’s to make calculations. We got by just fine before computers existed at all.

But that’s not really the point. The point is that there is value in simple raw horsepower. If there wasn’t, all these chip manufacturers would pack up their bags and shut down their R&D departments, because businesses don’t pay people to make things that have no market value.

It is an inevitability, in my opinion, that extra horsepower will enable some kind of new experience, however minor. Your example of the original Apple Watch is perfect here. The original Apple Watch barely functioned, for staters, and had a reputation for being slow. It didn’t have GPS, cellular, always-on screen, or a number of other features that need a very powerful and power efficient chip, display, and wireless modem/chip. All of these features are things that have market value.

I’m honestly not sure what you’re trying to say we should do here, not try to make computing faster? Why?
What sort of person is buying something for $35 over 6 week instalments? What sort of stuff are they buying? It's a cash grab on the poor until they get regulated.
I don't understand how it is possible in a functioning market economy to have 8000% markup on a utility product like bandwidth. Seems more like an oligopoly where a few big actors with a big moat has agreed to keep prices inflated. How can a sustained 8000% markup for a product like bandwidth not be considered price fixing?

source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/
'spit'...nice way to put it I guess, Krebs still living with his mom init?
An excellent point. Only 99% of all people are slaves.
2006: There is a reason Gustave Trouvé invented the electric car 125 years ago and it never took off.

2011: There is a reason Bell invented VTVL rockets 50 years ago and it never took off (lol).

Musk's _entire deal_ is taking well-known inventions that he thinks haven't received adequate investment, and building great engineering teams to commercialize them. They're not all good ideas (I would argue Hyperloop isn't--but it's irrelevant). But "never took off [before]" is an exceptionally poor argument against Elon.
Roads are full, one of the issues I've noticed from living in seattle for decades, more parents are driving their kids to school instead of buses. Morning and afternoon traffic is jam packed with parents and kids, causing major delays for rush hour, just to reach the on/off ramps.

Also, the park and rides are full too early, meaning people have to drive or get to work 1 hour or more early. Parking never kept up with all the new apartment buildings, the newer ones are multi levels, and are already mostly full.

Public transit has failed to keep up with demand, meaning more cars on the road.

Then the limited amount of highways, trucks are stuck in traffic for hours, sharing the road.

Uber and Lyft isnt a fix for less cars on the road.

Now compound that by the hundreds of issues along the supply chain, decades old port design, same methodology from the 1960s on loading/unloading at the ports, limited space at the ports/warehouses, day long waits for truckers at the port, inefficiency from start to finish.

Some ideas, Have the ports move containers to a farther location for pick up, during non traffic times, 9pm to 5am. Have the National guard build some new depots outside of town, hopefully along highways.

Optimize the ports, the containers are sitting too long in warehouses, and not enough cranes.

The solution shouldn't be "ticket truckers" who cant fix the core issues.
how are they doing migrations?
I've been doing the same. Usually I stay 2-3 months in each before running out of stuff.

Unless you need to watch the viral stuff as soon as they are released and people start talking, this is more than fine.
Start your own business if you can.
Isn't free tier a price reduction model, with market capture/ marketing as a goal, anyway?
No. If every single “protein marker” on the spike protein was changed, there wouldn’t be a heck of a lot of chance for the virus to attach to a cell. There still needs to be basic compatibility with the cell and the spike to get inside.
Depending on the server generation, i is supported on bigger Power servers (E980).
It can be even simpler:

1. truck drives onto flat car

2. train goes long haul

3. truck drives off flat car

4. truck drives last mile
We do have another choice, continuing to buy time to add to the arsenal of weapons we have against the virus. Things are only simple when you frame the issue simply; reality is complicated. You need only imagine yourself flickering out to see the value in doing what you can to keep someone from the same fate.

We are all alive in our heads just like you are in yours.
literally yes. in the words of my corrupt and buffoonish prime minister: let the bodies pile high. the wisest thing he ever said, even though he won't admit to it.

(and really the piles won't be that high. they'll be of low-to-medium height, consisting mostly of the old and fat.)
Genome replication mistakes occur rarely but naturally. The covid virus has a proofreading enzyme, but it isn't foolproof. Selective pressure is selective, not creative.

With more complex organisms, its more, well, complex because they can do things like horizontal gene transfer. [EDIT]: But even here selective pressures just impose consequences, they don't cause HGT
Do neutrino's have a wavelength? If not then there'd be one channel and almost no way to prevent crosstalk.
If you're against stockpiling, then you're in favor of the zero inventory cost cutting practice that got us in to this mess to begin with.
Come on, who in 2021 actively drops routes because of an entry in the Level3 IRR? I mean, IMHO, it's not close to impacting the whole Internet.
You can thank the capital side of the equation for this.

Example:

https://andrewchen.com/this-is-what-free-ad-supported-uber-r...

They used to hide it, but because so much money is being made there's no point anymore.
> None of these thing were in any playbook prior to march of 2020.

Which things do you think are wild new tactics for trying to contain a pandemic? Social distancing? Lockdowns? Wearing masks in public? Because if you think any of those are untested wacky "nobody's ever tried anything like this before!" approaches, you need to spend a few more minutes with your favorite search engine.
> People who are scientists write code that we would think is disgusting and don’t care that much about abstraction outside of mathematical functions.

- plenty of scientists write good code; I think the "scientist can't code" meme is harmful.

- most of the people that write PyTorch code aren't necessarily scientists - they're software developers (data scientists, ML engineers, research engineers, whatever title - but their main job is to write code)

> Python was written with people like scientists in mind.

Python had nothing to do with scientists when it started. It was written to be readable and easy to use and it started as a hobby project. It existed for over 15 years until the data science / ML ecosystem started growing around it.
Only the wealthy and powerful, The Right, can afford the luxury of being truly stupid. The Left can never afford not to be as smart and pragmatic. This is why reality is always left-leaning.
BUT DIDNT YOU READ ABOUT THE MUTATIONS mouth frothing

I don’t know why you bother explaining basic concepts when the other side is just looking for reasons to freak out.
A person I know has a similar experience in academia, a summer intern in his/her group was hired because of her sex and skin color, barely made it through the project, and even the supervisor acknowledged (in private) that the hire was a diversity hire to appease some grant requirements.
The lawyer could always just hide in the nearest loo until eaten.

Chaos theorists might have a more philosophical take that is rich with enlightenment, layers of hidden meaning, and a deeper understanding of the universal meta-reality: must go faster.
That study only tested against the spike protein, not the whole virus.

It ignores any benefits that other vaccines or natural immunity might have compared to the mrna vaccines "spike-only" approach.
Maybe you have a different experience, but none of the actual business problems I deal with are leet-code style. Then again, I have recently stopped calling myself a software developer (and have long since stopped calling myself a software engineer) in favor of the more accurate "software plumber". But I imagine, even coding tasks that require algorithmic knowledge and insight, are benefitted from well-organized and well-designed code. Doing that correctly is often a matter of insight and judgement, and I think often those are not "easily learned".
Generally, I think it's a mistake for anyone to generalize about the purchasing habits of millions of people, but I can list a few examples of disposable merchandise:

(Imagine most of these things costing under 5-10$)

* Toys for children that break very easily (wind up toys, small non-metal cars, plushies)

* Garden equipment that breaks easily (hose buckets, nozzel adapters, hose winders, rakes)

* Battery powered appliances (Flashlights, lanterns, noise makers)

* Kitchenware (plastic cutting boards, knives, easily bendable "silverware", plastic plates)

To answer your question about who can afford to buy them: In my own experience it's people who can't afford to buy better made, more expensive products. If you've ever, say, bought very cheap pair of earbuds or charging cable, and had it die in a month, that is the sort of product in question.

It might make more logical sense to "buy right, instead of buying twice", but there are times where someone is either in a jam, or can't afford to get the quality version.
Eric Topol on the Omicron variant [video]
Real world code rarely uses recursion, and if it does it's the kind that doesn't allow tail call optimization.
This kind of breach isn't possible in Australia since their laws can beat the laws of math. Countries with less powerful laws are apparently not so lucky.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/prime-minister-says-the-l...

(Yeah, tongue firmly in cheek. Laws of math oddly enough seem to work just fine for taxation, depreciation, etc etc)