skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't listen to this guy, wear a mask, get vaccinated.

What are you talking about? Did I say anything about vaccines? Check your biases.

> I'll get on the train this morning and ride to work and probably see 100,000 people

Oh stop. You don't see 100,000 people a day. You could stand in the middle of Shinagawa station all day long, and I doubt you'd see that many people pass by you. And you certainly aren't confirming if they're wearing masks.

> I'll work all day and not see a single one of my co-workers faces. Same thing on the way home. Then, because it's Friday, I'll go out for drinks with my wife or maybe the same friends I usually see because we aren't in lockdown, and spend a couple of hours in a bar unmasked. Maybe I'll post a photo of myself having a beer?

Well, yes. This is exactly the behavior I am describing. You're doing it, too. You think the virus somehow knows that you're out for a drink and stops being infectious?
I live in the UK and have spent some time in Sweden and I would agree with this. Swedish homes are amazingly warm and cozy in the winter.
God. I just looked that up. Looks sexy as fuck.

I can't see that Huawei gear is actually banned from import into the USA right now, though? Am I missing something?
I have seen SAAS's on microaquire listed with no customers. In fact I've seen them listed with no customers and no product! Who knows if those sell though.

Worth at least investigating.

Another option would be to pivot what you've built. So you have the stuff for slack and aws wired up. Forgotten ec2 instance sounds like something people would care about but based on your results maybe not as much as thought?

I wonder if there is something else in AWS you could alert via slack that people would care more about.

Expiring domains or ssl certs maybe? Though I'm not sure people care much about that either.

In any case, neat idea. I bet this experience will pay off big later in weird ways.
> May I ask what makes you think this?

Windows blatantly ignores your preferences and settings to push Microsoft's own products. It started with little popups about Edge and previews of Microsoft Office, but every month the intrusive crap gets worse. Now computers come with some kind of debt scam installed by default into the browser that is VERY hard to get out of without technical knowledge or the help of someone with it.

Firefox had to reverse engineer Microsoft's system twice now to simply allow setting a browser as a default, and Microsoft has said to "patch out" their latest approach. Even still, the default browser won't open when you accidentally click a link to Microsoft's help; that opens in an ms-edge link that Microsoft keeps strictly to themselves. I consider that to be hostile.
SiFive have a new thing which is roughly as fast as a low-power CPU from Intel or Apple (e.g. IceStorm).

Obviously not really competitive, but I think they are still mostly making hardware so there is hardware at-all stage.
> Together the dozens of stablecoins in existence, which include Dai, Tether and usd coin, have a market capitalisation of close to $150bn.

I'm assuming these stable coins aren't actually backed by $150bn in actual USD, which is the underlying problem here and harkens back to the issue with the era of unstable "wildcat" banking in the US before 1863:

> Before America instituted a national currency in 1863, banks issued their own banknotes, backed by assets and redeemable for gold or silver. Critics of stablecoins often point to this period of free banking, and the example of unstable “wildcat” banks in particular, as a cautionary tale.
So science as I view/understand it, is the effort to extract knowledge from the observable universe through experiments, observations and logic. If I compare science to religion, this is where I see the difference: In the church you have the clergy, who preach their understanding of the religion, and you have the basis of the religion, usually a book. To the religious the book or some idea from the book is the foundation, and the clergy are the guides. Similarly in science you have the scientists who do the actual science, and the foundation is observations of the universe. The faith I have and my dogma, is in believing the scientists, that is the part where I can have doubt and where I might be corrected in my beliefs, and the foundation is the actual universe which as far as I have been able to tell is consistent with itself so far. It's a bit of a cop out, because any time someone says "oh but these scientists were wrong", then I will go "ok yeah but those were junk science" and move on with my merry life.
That was exactly my experience! So you think it’s linked to a previous infection?
I'm just a bad speller, and don't check what I type. But English is my second language. Though I'm sure I would be terrible speller in my original language.
Matrix is not really that slow IMO. They've done a lot over the last years. Their E2E encryption is a ton better. And what's there works well. And what has signal delivered in the last 2-3 years? Not much either. The product is just finished.

I'm sure it makes development a lot easier but it also makes signal a lot less viable. I'm not going to convince my friends to move into yet another walled garden we have to move out of again at some stage.
It's pretty surreal how they can just avoid prosecution by constantly hanging "state secret" protection. That seems like an abuse of power.
If it were about "smug and arrogant and thinks he knows" vs. "really does know", then wouldn't we see the more senior person equally in both roles? I'm noting that hasn't been my experience.

How many times have you heard it told of the form "The senior architect made a statement about transaction locking, with which the junior engineer disagreed and cited ACID properties. It turned out the senior architect was Jim Gray."?

Granted, it's a terrible story, which is why it probably doesn't get told. Because you would have expected Jim Gray to be more knowledgeable about the topic. I guess it just irked me, because the anecdotes always feel curiously similar.
But everything with avoiding ERs from getting overloaded, which is what‘s motivating the discussion in Germany.
But they are far less likely to get infected in the first place and even less likely to block an ICU bed. If you look at the statistics for Germany, the regions with the lowest vaccination rates have the highest COVID rates and are transferring patient out because all ICU beds are occupied.
>but insinuating malice is simply misplaced.

Maybe initially - but at this point?

Shall we talk about Sweden?

How about this South African doctors utter shock to Omicron by many western governments? https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels/status/1465906474270531589

Yeah, at this point anyone overdramatizing COVID is doing so for purely political and financial purposes at this point.

If Omicron is indeed as mild as it appears then this is the path to heard immunity - not the vaccine. That would cut off the non-liable money train to big pharma though; in that context the disproportional response to omicron makes a hell of a lot more sense. The real threat it presents is to the perpetual vax/booster gravy train.
Calling it terrible is definitely something from the book of Linus T.

Bad? Quite possible, it was meant as a teaching ISA initially IIRC, but terrible? Who knows.
Is it just me or I don't see the correlation between WTA and human rights? Do they have a horse in this race?
That's an outdated source.
This comment is fake. Right?
> The benefits for a healthy 20-something are also spurious.

They can get it and spread it to others who are more vulnerable. Unbelievable that you and others still don't know the most basic facts about diseases, even two years into a pandemic. Please get educated and stop spreading misinformation.
I fail to see your point.

On the other side we have anti-vaxxers here too. Who's more harmful?

While most of those points you made here are just overblown generalisations (and probably not even stated in this fashion), none of them are completely wrong. On the anti-vaxxer side we have claims which are not only completely wrong, people literally die because they or others around them believe in them. So again: what's your point?
> So how is a social media platform different than that public arena?

Facebook is like a shopping mall; they're public spaces, but you're not allowed to put up any unapproved signs in them, and they can kick you out for violating their policies.
Regarding specifically socialism, there was something about this article that immediately jumped out at me from being familiar with online leftist spaces.

Each of the first six bullet points, as well as the last one, sound exactly like the kinds of things that I see leftists bringing up as the inevitable result of "late stage capitalism". The author even sort of admits this:

> Capitalism has become a "success disaster."

It's therefore fascinating to see someone take all those exact points and conclude that these problems are not, in fact, natural consequences of the values and incentive structures of capitalism, but rather the result of just not doing capitalism the right way. We should instead be rebuilding things collectively in a decentralized to achieve the "dreams of capitalism" which we've strayed from.

The author is this close to retreading the philosophy traditional left-anarchism from an entirely different angle.
From the FAQ:

> …Eventually, we plan to charge our members $4.95/month.
Do RISC-V specs document which instruction combinations they recommend be fused? Sounds like the fused instructions are an implementation detail that must be well-documented for compiler writers to know to emit the magic instruction combinations.
My point was not so much about the vaccine itself but the fact that almost all conversation and chatter about the pandemic is centered around the vaccine and having to get it in order to get anything done (job, travel, etc). People act as if there is literally no other way for life to function like it did pre-2020 without vaccines.
3%? I'd take that risk any day, even if I was in a risk group. Who want destroy society over that, only a lunatic
This is nonsense, plastic is necessary and used all over the place mostly hidden from consumer eyes. The alternatives are often energetically quite a lot worse. Most plastics recycling is nonsense outside of a few developing technologies that actually produce Virgin quality precursors.

Plastic should be burned in power plants when it is no longer needed and people shouldn’t litter. When reasonable other polymers should be replaced with PLA which does not have the endocrine disrupting qualities of other things and doesn’t last centuries in the environment (and is just lactic acid which is everywhere in biology).

The plastic most people use absolutely does not destroy the environment or end up in the ocean. This is a littering problem mostly in Asian countries, not a materials problem.
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> I get the impression that most people in hospitals with Covid-issues lately are vaccinated

I read some statistics over that the other day. It is correct when looking only at hospital patients.

The explanation is that most who need hospital care come from a risk group. And risk groups are fully vaccinated by over 90% (here). So you end up with high absolute numbers of vaccinated hospital patients.

If you look at a somewhat comparable group of people, chances to need hospital care are manyfold for the unvaccinated. It's true for higher risk groups and for lower risk groups.

Vaccinations are not perfect protection against anything, but they reduce risk by a high factor.
I don’t think there is any charter to protect competition outside the US. The reason the FTC would block the merger is to protect US companies and agencies doing business with ARM and/or Nvidia. It maintains competitiveness in their purchasing options.
Hail Stalman!
According to the graphs on worldometers.info for Germany (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/):

> Oct 30 2020: 10.5k total deaths, 517k total cases

> Dec 01 2021: 101k total deaths, 5.9 mil total cases

So in the last ~year, we had 5.4 mil cases and 90.5k deaths. That's a 1.67% mortality.

Please show me the error. Also, feel free to engage with the other points I made.
The doctor from South Africa making that claim seems to have been basing it on a couple of dozen very self-selecting patients at her private practice. The reality is that the hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in South Africa.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1466480120215048199

It might be a bit milder (though we won't know for a while, there's a lot of confounding factors and data lag). It could also be a bit more seriousl. But it seems very unlikely to be an order of magnitude milder.
Which other countries have such free spectrum ?
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HOT is a temporary placeholder for HoloFuel which is a mutual credit currency: https://blog.holochain.org/mutual-credit-part-1-a-new-type-o...
What do you need your health system for other than treating the sick?
Build automation, test automation.
There are hacky ways around it, though. The method here is something I've used: https://tenzer.dk/nginx-with-dynamic-upstreams/
Victims don't care about that because it doesn't effect them. Losing money on the other hand does.
Why Do We Make Such a Big Deal About Successful NRIs
Holocaust was mass murder of Jews... And some Ukrainians were collaborating with Nazis
I agree, but when you Google "Ubuntu 21 sound not working" you end up here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProced... and the first thing you see is tons of shell commands and very outdated GUI controls. This is the vendor documentation, not even a StackExchange forum.

When you Google for "Windows 11 sound not working" the first result I get is https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-no-audio-windows-11/ which is much more user friendly.

The system itself is one part of the problem, and that's the part that has been improving for years. The community providing technical help is another; Linux help forums are often full of technical users advising technical users whereas Windows help threads are usually novice users asking help and getting it in simple terms.
Is Home Depot using webcams to track website visitors?
I typically browse in Firefox with ublock0 and noscript. However certain commercial sites require too many holes in the filtering and so I will use Edge in "Private Browsing" mode.

Today while searching for a product at the Home Depot web site, Kaspersky popped up a message that "Microsoft Edge is using the Webcam". I was able to repeat this after closing the browser and then visiting the site again. That electrical tape over the camera proved its value today.

Home Depot has already faced criticism and a lawsuit for using facial recognition in their stores [1] This seems next-level evil. Has anyone else encountered this?

[1] https://www.pbwt.com/data-security-law-blog/home-depot-joins-facebook-and-others-in-facing-suit-for-scanning-faces
I never heard non-tech people talking about whether they trust MS or Google more, like seriously :D
I'm surprised to find this many anti vaxxers on hn. I would have expected that the community was a lot more rational.
Google did this to me with Adwords. They gave me a "free" $200 to run a test campaign but it never turned off and I was not notified in anyway. They ended up charging me $800 for a completely test campaign for a non product blog website that ended up not even getting any traffic. Very scummy behavior even worse than AWS. It was basically extortion because I would have lost my entire Google account if I disputed the charges with my credit card.
In what sense? Terraform is treating me quite well.
what values? half the population doesn't value science, rationality, wisdom, progress etc. I don't wanna be governed by science deniers. I also don't wanna spend years in lockdown because people are refusing to get pricked by a needle
I feel the same hesitation around bodily autonomy, but there's a VERY important point: the decision impacts more than your own body. It's the same logic we use to outlaw certain substances like heroin or PCP--you have a right to do things with your body up until the point where that decision impacts the health and safety of people around you.

Looking at things through that framework is how we end up with controlled substances, anti-smoking laws, DUI laws, and a whole host of other things.

One's rights in the US usually stop at the point where they impact the ability of people around you to live their life without undue interference.
whatever this will be, will be. que sera, sera...

o' lord, please bless us and protect us from thy holy hells of capitalist economic centralization. please let there be upon us deliverance for all, from this century of hellfire and brimstone, consolidation of silicon and machine code... deliver us with the great gifts of modern encryption for mesh networking with centralized administration, all for a very reasonable monthly price. praise be thy software as a service, so thou may centralize thy administration, simplify thy budgeting and leave thy key rotation to thy pros so thou may fight thy wars for not only a good, but for the ultimate good, against thy centralizing powers of capital that seek not only to enslave us, but divide us for eternity as every man, woman and child pays thy holy rent on thy proprietary servers, enslaved to a permanent life of indignity and servitude to those who own not only thy physical real estate, but thy ethereal real estate in thy metaverse as well..

to whom do we owe for this great beacon of light which shall deliver us all?
From what my limited research could find, is that the more immunity you have, the worse the side effects.
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Somehow I think these super heavy handed measures toward covid are a big mistake.

My opinion:

- Remove all restrictions, let people assess their own risk tolerance and voluntarily follow country's health guidance (or not).

- If ICUs start getting maxed out, implement bed rationing, with unvaccinated patients having lowest priority.

- Tell everyone to go on with their lives and that covid is here to stay. There's no eradicating it. Vaccines will be updated periodically just like the flu for those that want it.

Does anyone have a better endgame? I'd love to hear it. Because currently "the plan" I'm hearing from governments is "wear a mask and social distance until the end of time and get boosters every 6 months until the end of time"
> We should remember that the freedom of the press exists because a well informed population is necessary for a functioning democracy.

The text of the First Amendment does not contain this or any other justification for itself. And rightfully so I think; such a right does not require utilitarian justification.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It's available across US
You’re right. I don’t even count the new M1 as an architecture change, they switched to mobile like how C2D came from pentium M, their software market in ARM was already mature and it would be significantly harder. At the same time, they made Rosetta and switched to x68 and ARM around the same time, only ARM won.
Caring only about laws and not about reputation of being a good ecosystem partner to others is a recipe for others to look elsewhere. NVIDIA has a really bad rep due to its arrogant behaviour towards customers and other companies (Linux project, Apple). Maybe this ARM drawn out saga is just karma coming back from that.
> COVID has been a challenge for the same reason Climate Change is challenging: They both require collective cooperative action from people, and you can't rely on everyone having a natural desire to do the right thing

No, it's challenging because people know they're being manipulated and taken advantage of.

As with COVID, as with climate change. Mayor of SF enacting mask mandates while dining/partying unmasked. Elites flying private to Davos to discuss climate change.

Resistance exists because politicians refuse to implement obviously sensible, effective and, most importantly, fair policies - no lockdowns (Sweden style) & care/protection targeting the vulnerable for COVID, and revenue neutral carbon tax for Climate Change.
Would you please stop taking HN threads further into flamewar? Discussion quality takes a sharp step down with posts like this. Please make your substantive points without doing that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423448.
The term "heart failure" and the word "failure" strike me as incongruous. One would expect that someone who has experienced heart failure for more than a few minutes is by definition dead.
This might be the geopolitical blunder of the decade. If this merger doesn't happen China is going to win the chip race.

As an European I'm increasingly bullish on China and see the US and EU as self-sabotaging neurotic entities.
Surely you can‘t be comparing administering a vaccine (which has much fewer adverse effects than the disease of which it prevents severe outcomes) to euthanasia?
There is other hardware in the stack. How much does that cost?
Yeah and becoming really sick from taking the vaccine is not really a positive sign in any way.
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> Lab leak is just as fanciful as it has ever been

Could you please recommend me more reading material on that particular point? Thank you.
He's being serious. There is so much medical information being suppressed because it doesn't fit certain political narratives - that's the real crime right now.

Luckily there are at least a few doctors who remain dedicated to science and the Hippocratic Oath and who are unbowed by political and social pressure. Some great resources here: https://aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/

And if you can't find a rational doctor locally, they can arrange for telemedicine visits from doctors who aren't pretending the vax is the end all be all one size fits all solution to the exclusion of anything else.
Rust is pretty well regarded technically here, but RISC-V is mostly a "wouldn't it be nice" rather than something most commenters seem to be super knowledgeable about.

Many people still think that RISC-V implies an open source implementation, for example.
You miss a time frame if you say "2 weeks" and end up having to lockdown for 3 instead. If you say "2 weeks" and end up with lockdowns for years you are either incompetent or lying or both.
Yes this is what I meant.

We still have homeopathic pills and "treatments" which are being paid by the health insurance. Something which goes back to some politicians wife who believed in it and was able to influence the political process. The huge Steiner tradition in here is catastrophic. We just recently had COVID running wild in a Waldorf school. Turns out, faked vaccination certificates were very popular...

It's quite embarrassing and it's actually the first time the side effects of this madness come up in public discourse.