skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're already doing it somewhat with Xcode Cloud, which does remote builds in Apple's infrastructure[1]. They might not directly compete with AWS, Azure or GCP in products one to one, but it's not unreasonable to assume they will expand their cloud offerings in this space over time.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/xcode-cloud/
Part of me is cautiously optimistic. My current belief is that the biggest issue with AI is centralized control, and that open access to and research of AI is the antidote. Given that, as per the article, this new organization is about "community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech's pervasive influence", this suggests that it might be a force for good.

Part of me is more pessimistic. Advocating for restrictions on things like facial recognition and pointing out biases so models can improve are fine goals that I would support, but I'm worried they are going to promote policies more like OpenAI's (overhyping the potential harm of AI, unfair discrimination in who to grant API access to, an insidious amount of arbitrary input/output filters and censorship) under the familiar justification of "ethics". I haven't seen a lot of evidence that said policies do any good, and I've seen quite a bit of evidence that they do real harm.
I don't really know how to answer that. I ususally put them in (small) server rooms. When they boot they're a lot more noisier than normal operating. The poe versions do make more noise than the non-poe.
Mask wearing is well adhered too, and shop visitors stay only a short time, leaving less droplets in the air than maskless visitors to, say, a restaurant or bar.
While shopping, people wear masks, talk (and breathe and cough) less, and are generally not packed into small spaces breathing a lot of the same air, so the risk is lower than at a house party or bar or dance club.
The new tab design is entirely optional on Monterey, the reception to it was that bad. I personally don’t use the new tab design on the desktop. But I do use the new tab design on iOS (which conveniently moves the address bar to the bottom of the screen)
Are they running troll farms or are they researching to better understand troll farms? You should always study your enemy. I don't buy it. I love how in every thread, for one reason or another, the evidence doesn't exist or is hidden so I'm expected to just make a leap of faith. No thanks.
Because a lockdown of all people is more unpopular than a lockdown of unvaccinated people. It's election year...
Larger caches won't help much either; there's an old article I remember that compares the efficiency of various ARM, x86, and one MIPS CPU, and while x86 and ARM were neck-and-neck, the MIPS was dead last in all the comparisons despite having more cache than the others. RISC-V is very similar to MIPS.
>The biggest difference I can see between CDK and pulumi (other than CDK only being for AWS) is that the CDK is more opinionated. When you spawn a new database, it'll automatically create a secret in secretsmanager, and set up rotation etc. And since it can assume IAM, it generates granular policies for you easily with calls like `dbInstance.grantRead(lambdaInstance)` etc, instead of you having to manually construct a JSON policy.

Hopefully this will get better soonish on the pulumi side.
[awsx](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-awsx) has existed for a while which is sort of takes the CFN higher level construct approach, but it's currently typescript only.

They just finished some foundational work to enable multi-language components, and I expect we'll see some opinionated/higher level components from them for all languages in the next 6 months or so.
Alice and Bob used to be such a fun couple. Now he's watermarking the back of Where's Wally. I think we all know where this is going.
> Let's build what we already know is right.

Interestingly a friend and I had been discussing political threads and one thing that is interesting is how, in the US, a 2 party system has lead to some really awkward tribalism and many of us think we disagree on everything. But in reality there are some big group wins to be had if the "middle" block of people could somehow band together and agree to just do the intersection of their beliefs.

some examples were citizens united, the big money moving elections, lobbyists, government quid pro quo system is blatant corruption. and I believe a vast majority of the middle agrees corruption is bad.

I just learned about https://www.forwardparty.com/team and it seems like an attempt to address such a thing, would love to hear from anyone who knows much more.
Nolan would be a decent film maker if all his movies didn't think they were a solid two notches smarter than they actually are.
Maybe. One non peer reviewed study. Reduces transmission some. For a brief period.

How does this translate into force everyone to take an experimental shot (with some number of side effects and deaths) every X months?

We see, right now, outside of "studies", I've seen in my own family and I'm not the only one, these vaccines do not stop transmission. They do not stop infection. Maybe they "reduce". They do not stop.

So parent posters histrionics about "right to infect me with disease" is just.. histrionics. The vaccinated can also infect him with a disease.
Worth noting that during the USMCA negotiations under Trump, Canada agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70 years, up from the current life-plus-50. However, Canada has a 2 year deadline (from 1 July 2020) to actually implement the change to life-plus-70.
Hetzner is super affordable alternative to AWS, now with a DC in US, east coast.
PDF4QT – All-in-One Library and Application for Processing and Rendering PDF
I realized the wording wasn't good, so just to clarify: "fill the capacity" should be read as "fill up the remaining capacity", not "fill the entire capacity" (that's indeed quite unlikely, simply because of non-covid baseload that will be around). Point remains: a covid patient doesn't get turned away just because a potential car crash victim might need the bed later (and vice-versa), as far as I know there's no reserved non-covid spaces, if there's more covid patients more parts of the ICU get run under covid protocols.

Part of the problem with ICU capacity is that is has to be local: for many things, "an hours drive further away than normal" is annoying but solvable, if you need an ICU now it's a problem. Bottom-right here is a district-level map of Germany, showing free capacity: https://www.intensivregister.de/#/aktuelle-lage/kartenansich... (there's some arguing how precise that data actually is, in both directions - for starters its only updated once a day afaik). Plenty places where e.g. transporting a few people from a car crash gets challenging. There's also pretty drastic statements/protests from the emergency departments and people working there, so yes, this currently sadly is an issue in some regions and the threat of it becoming worse is what finally caused some things to happen (after way to long of German politics wanting to deal with anything but this, despite it being long-predicted by the health authorities - it's extremely frustrating because it's been kind of obvious for weeks that something will have to happen at some point, the earlier the better for everyone).

Something that would be interesting data-wise would be deaths during or waiting for transportation - one would expect an increase, but I'm not sure if there even is baseline data available, given rules around who is allowed to pronounce death and how it is recorded.
Funny as a patent is granted for much less time. You’d think patents and copyright would have the same duration
When people claiming to suffer from long covid are tested for antibodies, a substantial portion of them are revealed to have never had covid in the first place. And anecdotally, every last person I personally know that claims long covid is a person I already knew to be a hypochondriac.

I do believe some people will have lingering respiratory problems, as is the case for all viral respiratory illnesses. But I don't think there is much more to it than that, and I think most of the complaints come from the sort of people who always think they have the latest trendy affliction.
Do you use some sort of PageRank?
The key is: it works well for most people. So, the question remains: What exactly does your crypto improve?

And on top of that, in this case, how will it help with the stolen house in Luton?
You appear to be using the word “freedom” to refer to something other than the ability to act without constraint. The phrase “My freedom ends where yours begins” (and its many variations and false attributions to various famous figures) is one of moral considerations and generally used to argue for what the world ought to be, but it is not and never has been a fundamental — i.e. even when the law falls silent — truth of the reality we actually live in.
Citation?

Remember in 1997, Microsoft invested 150 million dollars into Apple to appease regulators? They sold it in 2003 for a tidy 550 million dollars. Nice return on investment!

If they didn't sell it, it would be worth approximately 130 BILLION dollars today.
Sweet spot being 3-5x as many deaths as Norway/Denmark/Finland?
Twitter Slaps 'Unsafe' Label on American Heart Association mRNA Vaccine Warning
Please actually post arguments and not just dismissals. Nobody in this conversation is anti-vaxx, but this fantasy of "If we vaccinate X more, covid will not be a problem" simply does not align with reality. The vaccines are effective, but they are not flawless, and we are dealing with a very high R0 disease that is changing.
How many people is "extremely large" in your opinion? And who?

Or to put it another way: Would you be okay to go, while we keep everything open? How about your parent, or grand-parent?
rather the opposite
Blaming national problems on minority groups and enforcing involuntary ghettoization is quite German, no?
> [profile.production]

proof that using a config file was a poor idea for the long run

zig is doing it right with build.zig
In three months, the booster efficiency might start waning again, we don't know that yet. These vaccines so far aren't looking like they are the solution to the pandemic either, better vaccines or better treatment might be. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense to get vaccinated if you want to help with the situation, but I do find the way our politicians deflect blame and openly insult a not so small segment of the population completely distasteful. They shouldn't be surprised if the people they're insulting are not willing to help anymore, now or in the future.

A strategy that would make sense would include BOTH vaccination and ICU capacity, one of which could have been started in March 2020, and it would have put us in a much better position today. Letting capacity decrease while waiting for vaccines that may or may not end the pandemic is negligent. Not getting vaccinated may be seen by some as negligent also, but different standards apply for governments and citizens.

The pandemic comes in waves, we do not need to plan for endless exponential growth. A few weeks of extra capacity would make the whole thing much easier to handle, given that we might be already at the peak and cases seem to be going down again[0]. The RKI weekly report[1] currently lists 1700 ICU cases, a month ago it was 1100[2]. So the 4000 beds we lost throughout the year[3] could have made a big difference.

[0]https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/rki-infektionen-103.html

[1]https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

[2]https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

[3]https://www.intensivregister.de/#/aktuelle-lage/zeitreihen
Sweden did worse than the other Scandinavian countries that enacted stricter Covid restrictions, including lockdowns. Sweden had roughly 5-7x as many deaths per capita as its immediate neighbors of Norway and Finland. Germany had less deaths per capita as well:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Sorry to disappoint you https://www.servethehome.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AWS-...
PDF4QT 1.0.0-beta released.[0]

[0] https://github.com/JakubMelka/PDF4QT/tree/v1.0.0-beta
Probably because, like most applications, that one does not have a lot of wide multiplications. It is hard not the turn this point into an insult at the OP.
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031
I can only imagine this being the case if someone has their desktop resolution set wrong. The panels have square pixels, so increasing the horizontal size necessarily adds more pixels.
Yes! Indoor humidity helps in at least two ways: 1) Humidity prevents aerosol transmission 2) Humidity helps the cillia in your airways function better and remove foreign particles, including viruses faster before they have a chance to infect you.
As someone who is an expert on ISA and CPU internals, this meme of "X86 has an internal RISC" is an over-simplification that obscures reality. Yes, it decodes instructions into micro-ops. No, micro-ops are not "quite close to the RISC-V ISA".

Macro fusion definitely has a place in microarchitecture performance, especially when you have to deal with a legacy ISA. RISC-V makes the very unusual choice of depending on it for performance, when most ISAs prefer to fix the problem upstream.
While I do feel the restrictions have been widely overzealous, to say "People, doctors and clinics would have taken care of this easily." is an absolute falsehood. The failure of the healthcare system to keep up in many places is what caused many restrictions to become a necessity in the first place.
There are two important differences between light and radio waves:

Difference 1 is the wavelength. Light has a wavelengths of 400-700nm, whereas radio waves used by phones have wavelengths in the mm and cm range.

If structures are of similar size to the wavelength, then waves can "bend around" obstacles. This effect is called diffraction and can be observed with sound waves, electromagnetic waves, water waves, etc.

Difference 2 is the photon energy / frequency. How well radiation is absorbed depends on the photon energy. There are lots of molecules that absorb visible light very well, so it's easy to make surfaces that absorb light. But there are few things that absorb radio waves as well, so it's hard to make things that neither reflect nor transmit radio waves.
Mm, hack off the last large group who are empowered to report problems with the vaccines. We don't need or want any safety issues to be visible. It is far more important that every one get vaccinated, but also, we definitely aren't going to end up beating COVID-19.
Show me the statistics or studies that show that the mask policy on airplanes in the US as of today (aka hundreds of people in a small, closed environment with no fresh air, where mask are taken off for long periods of time and then put back on again) reduce spread of COVID compared to if there was 100% masking (presumably would reduce the spread) or no masking at all (basically the currently policy)

I understand statistics, you have no statistics to back up your claim. Just so we are clear, I think masks do work if they are used properly - they are not used properly on airplanes in the US, so they are pointless.
OK, I'll bite. How would _you_ rank the results for each of those queries?
This zero use cases rhetoric is really low effort. Here are some just off the top of my head.

sovereign store of value (useful if your government sucks)

permissionless payments (funding wikileaks)

private/anonymous transactions (Monero)

event tickets (good use of NFTs)

synthetic assets (anyone/anywhere can speculate on TSLA)

decentralized asset exchange - AMM

decentralized prediction markets

DAO - a new way for people to organize and form internet native companies
There was a study recently published that showed that long covid was correlated with personal belief of having had covid and not having actually had it (antibodies), in other words, vast majority is psychosomatic which is frankly what you'd expect in the current climate of hysteria.

Conversely another very real phenomenon is fear induced immunosupression, to which all of these overreactive measures and constant media bombardment are greatly contributing.
Just a friendly reminder that whenever I open gmail from Edge, then it asks me about using Chrome too
Haha, I sure hope no one takes my post seriously.
RISC-V is designed for very small and very large system

That's exactly the problem --- there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to instruction set design.
I feel exactly the same about the column limit (PEP 8 advocates for 79 chars). It forces me to organise my code better one line at a time, and I'm convinced it makes the reading faster.
Across Canada, thousands of people have died as a consequence their elective surgeries have been delayed to make room for Covid ICU admissions.

In Alberta ICU admissions are 60x higher for the unvaccinated than the vaccinated in their 50s.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-severe-outcom...
With "big gatherings" being defined as 50 people.
It's meaningless to look at the code in absence an implementation and conclude anything about the performance. He doesn't know what the performance is. Having six instruction vs. two does not mean one is 3X faster than the other. It means nothing at all.
I'm not sure who "us" is for you, but Swedes are not vaccinated at an especially high rate.

They're at about the EU average. 8-10% above the US average, 5-7% above California, but a few percent below New England, for example.
Yeah, though I'm not a laywer and I have not personally studied the Tokutek patent in detail. I did consult at some point on this with somebody experienced in database-related software patents, but please do not take legal advice from me :).

My understanding is that Be-trees are not covered by a valid patent, either because of clear prior art or because Tokutek patented a different data structure. Be-trees are simpler than the original fractal tree afaik (they were not aware of Be-trees at the time of their innovation).
I think a better framing would be that the way to force society to fix itself is to use software to demonstrate how things could be different.

DeFi and crypto have already forced major changes to TradFi by exactly this mechanism, and they will continue to do so, even if DeFi doesn't succeed on its own terms.
> Using two or more monitors made it so easy for me to get distracted.

I have a desktop with three monitors and a laptop with one, and I don't notice any difference in distractibility. It's a discipline problem, not a technical one, and so you should solve it on a personal level and not a technical one.

I mean, think about it. If you "unlock" the ability to use multiple monitors at once without getting distracted, "it's free real estate" - you have more space to work with, and there's empirical evidence to suggest that that results in increased productivity. Programming involves a lot of consulting documentation and using multiple tools at once - it's very amenable to multiple monitors (as opposed to, say, writing a novel).
If the entire platform (gmail, etc) is funded by ads, then removing the ads destroys the platform. In that space, advertising is a necessary evil, and the best we can do it try to make it less onerous.

But if you're supporting your platform by any other means, you can just go without ads entirely.
And DeFi is all about finding ways to support things that you like without giving untrustworthy middle men like Google or a bank custody over it.

When a server gives you something other than what you asked it for with the aim of altering your behavior, that's called malware. We tolerate it in the form of ads because there aren't good alternatives available. If DeFi can fund an alternative, internet advertising can go die in a fire.
Sweden has the highest density pockets of all of them. Meanwhile Norway has more fjords than people.
I should clarify: everywhere land is scarce and the government isn't moronically not charging what they should for street parking. I have an even worse example than yours: my brother and his gf live in lower manhattan and are somehow able to find and park their car completely free on the street somewhat close to them. My jaw dropped when I heard that as I think it is beyond ridiculous.
Didn’t read the article, but I have to rant a little bit.

Working with `useEffect()` is so fucking miserable. It’s a bit like owning a car where the gaps between the panels are just slightly too far apart; there’s always the possibility that some data is out of sync because React inexplicably decided to run a thing a tick later than you expected. “Effects” don’t actually mix with with the old class component methods, insofar as you’ll never be able to get an effect to run before component methods, so you end up having to gasp do side-effects in render against a bunch of “refs” to achieve some semblance of object permanence.

The implication behind the naming of “synchronous effects” as `useLayoutEffect()` is laughable, as though the only time you would ever want to run some code synchronously is for “layout” purposes. My guy, JavaScript’s security model is based on execution, you can’t copy to the clipboard, request full-screen/picture-in-picture, do countless privileged operations outside the synchronous execution of a native click handler, for instance, and we’re going to place all these use-cases under the umbrella term “layout?”

React applications are weird, shuddering messes, where callbacks fire senselessly based on “dependency arrays.” Heaven forfend you turn off linting which helps you not violate “the rules of hooks,” and even when it’s on there are countless gotchas about default parameters and callback functions which are recreated every render. At no point will you ever be able to correctly source the initiator of a “render,” because someone in their infinite wisdom decided to unroll the JavaScript call stack as a queue. Stepping out of a component in a debugger always places you in the same `while` loop and you’re left wondering where on Earth did this execution start. I don’t understand how programmers could be so ignorant of how useful a call stack is, and the React team essentially has to recreate call stacks in error messages and Devtools. Seasoned React developers have all seen “React minified error #185,” or “Maximum update depth exceeded.” This is essentially a stack overflow error, except of course they did away with the stack. It’s not normal for stack overflow errors to be happening as frequently as happens in React applications, and this is just when you’re lucky enough to get a warning; a lot of times the page will just hang and no one except your poor users will know.

I find it truly disturbing how professionals can make their and everyone’s lives so difficult, how deeply disconnected React is from the actual practice of programming, which is all about understanding how your code executes. My mind is boggled by 5 by 5 zoom calls of well-paid “staff engineers” chatting about React and writing tutorial upon tutorial like any of this normal. And these are the loud ones. I pray for the entry-level programmers, the contractors, the voiceless, who aren’t beefing on Twitter, who do not have a sense of how strange this kind of development is and don’t have the courage to speak up.
The VAST majority of deaths there are people over 70, and Sweden like the US warehouses old people in cramped retirement homes where the virus can spread rapidly regardless of the public health approach outside. Their deaths fell off precipitously once vaccines got to the old.

The lesson here seems to be that nursing homes probably cause some amount of excess mortality, and need special attention during epidemics/pandemics.
the ability or the inability?
Wait for VSCode Enterprise.
> that if you are not writing assembly by hand (and nobody does these days) doesn't give you any benefit.

An elegant architecture is easier to reason about. Compilers will make fewer wrong decisions, fewer bugs will be introduced, and fewer workarounds will need to be implemented. An architecture that's simple to reason about is an invaluable asset.