skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many hospitals are struggling to cope with the increasing number of intensive care patients. There could be around 6,000 Covid-19 patients in intensive care by Christmas -- regardless of any measures implemented by Germany's leaders -- the country's Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency (Divi) warned Wednesday.

The article doesn't really talk about the rate of change to date. An article from The Guardian puts this into perspective:

> Daily new infections in Germany have broken records in recent weeks, with many hospitals operating at or over capacity. Authorities said 73,209 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours. Deaths have surged from a rolling seven-day average of just over 10 a day in August to nearly 300 this week.

To enforce something like this policy requires:

- laws and penalties

- a method for identifying those who get special treatment

- verification procedures

You'd think a country like Germany would be especially sensitive to the idea of segregating 1/3 of the population for special treatment. I'm going to assume this isn't lost on anybody there.

The question then becomes: what if this doesn't work? What if biology overtakes the law (i.e., a new variant begins sending the vaccinated into hospitals as well)? What if biology has already overtaken the law?

If it does work, when does it end? If it ends, under what circumstances is it Ok to re-impose? What precedent does this set and what unintended consequences might result (e.g., a new strain of a virus with a vaccine emerges)?
> Based on Apple not giving a shit what volume you’re buying, the price is the price.

That isn’t what you said.
If you're already using AWS it's a no-brainer to avoid a second vendor if you don't have to use them for other reasons.
Nvidia competes with other ARM customers.
German hospitals are currently transferring patients with severe cases from high incidence regions to lower ones (and the military has to help with nursing roles) because they simply can't stem the number of severe cases in some regions. The situation is as close to "complete failure of our healthcare" as it could be. If you take that as evidence of "we'll be alright", you're playing the white hat guy in https://xkcd.com/2278/.
You're not paying attention if you think Nvidia is just a "graphics company". As a chip supplier they are known to be aggressive to the point of bullying and their negotiations tend towards the extortion end of the business spectrum.

I like Nvidia (because I don't have to work with them), but I don't think they are the right steward for ARM in any way.
Wow, you managed to pack an appeal to authority, an appeal to ridicule and an ad hominem all in one sentence! Topped with a cherry of FO which I assume means "fuck off".

If you are actually any older than millennial (as you claim) I'd be very surprised but it doesn't matter.

You believe whatever you like. Swallow propaganda or not, google around for links that support what you believe, doesn't matter.

The experiment with fossil fuels is going to play out for now and we will see the results. Probably a warmer wetter world in some hundreds or thousands of years. And we as a species will be fine. But in your life, and mine, we are unlikely to see catastrophic climate change.

Oh, and the reefs will still be there as well. You can go see them when you are old which is probably a ways off for you.
Yeah I'm saying it's not pragmatic, it's the opposite of pragmatic. Of course people want governmental recognition, many hetero married couples want it and already rely on it. Gay couples also want equal rights on top of that. They want both.

This is cutting the proverbial baby in half and redefining the legal institution so no one gets what they want, that will go well in a democracy /s
> "Personally, I rather like this interstitial time where the scared remain home and I am free to roam with my friends."

i've been saying all along that the default policy positions should have led directly to this outcome. everyone sorts themselves into risk profiles and everyone is happy with their risk exposure. but that doesn't appease political ambitions, so we don't get that.
> Not long ago I had to walk my aunt through opening the command prompt in Windows 10 and entering the command to do a full reboot (as opposed to that hybrid shutdown+hibernation)

That's unnecessary, reboot will always skip Windows's "Fast Startup". It can be a bit unintuitive because back in the day people used to recommend a full shutdown+boot cycle instead of a reboot as it could fix more issues. But it makes some sense, because generally when you reboot it's either because of an update or issues that probably won't be resolved if the kernel is just hibernated rather than fully restarting.
Not sure if this is any close to what you’re trying to find, but there’s https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
Yes, the “let’s hook up your credit card to the Internet” part of cloud computing still makes me nervous.
I was under the same impression that vaccine would not reduce the spread or carrying of the virus. It would just greatly reduce the change you landing on the IC.
I think it would be pretty inaccurate to argue that because it's not "complete failure" that it's not a failure. People are dying of medically preventable situations on the basis of triage, and it is fairly widespread in places where COVID is unchecked. I think that's really not ok; especially not when it's unvaccinated COVID patiences.
Yikes! That seems like it'd a real PITA for anyone sitting behind you, constantly seeing flashes of light from the projector if you happened to hold it the wrong angle for just a second.
Real laws are maths, slightly real laws are physics. Lawyer laws are just written to cause you to have to hire lawyers
> Ubuntu is installed with Xfce

Ubuntu's default desktop environment is GNOME (or Unity in some earlier versions). You must be thinking of Xubuntu.
Creating WebAssembly/WebGPU support for this engine will be fun.
Hakim is great! His videos are always very well researched, and his reading lists are top-tier
> how the heck this vaccine was actually developed

mRNA vaccines for coronaviruses have been in progress since the 70s. This just happens to be when they finally got to the point of being production-ready. It's a useful coincidence, but without it mRNA vaccines for coronaviruses would have been showing up in the near future anyway (at a slower rate without all the emergency COVID funding).

> doesn't behave like a vaccine at all

Sterilizing immunity isn't an inherent property of vaccines.

> And has rare but serious side effects.

All vaccines do that, and as with all widely-used vaccines the rate of side effects is much, much lower than the rate of side effects from the actual disease.
The crowding can cause a lot of morbidity before anyone knows what's going on or how to treat the new infection. This is what happened in New York, the pandemic ripped through nursing facilities killing thousands of seniors well before any treatment was available.

If things unfold more slowly, you have more time to develop treatments. A lot of the deaths in NYC occurred before we figured out that just laying people on their sides reduced the risk of dying significantly.

Moreover, now that we have the ability to rapidly produce vaccines, it isn't a forgone conclusion that everyone will necessarily "get the virus eventually anyway."
The winter outbreaks in the northern hemisphere seem to disprove these conjectures:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/christmas-cancelled-gi...
Yeah, I felt exactly the same way. The intro made me go "oh wow, there are other people with that experience too". I kept reading, but decided I needed to stop and come back to it later when I'm in a different frame of mind. This could spin me out for the day.
Where do you think these deaths come from? Do you think the health services in Sweden were overwhelmed?
Can you change the "shape of the vectors? e.g. 1x16 vs 4x4 to support vectors and matrices?
I think Netflix does default to stereo for 720p streams. If you're streaming video in higher quality than some threshold, only then does it default to surround sound.

Basically, your TV may be better than your sound system.

Stereo is the standard way to mix music (because headphones), but a dedicated center channel has been pretty much required for any home theater for a good long while. Most non-Netflix streaming services just straight-up assume you've got a setup that can properly handle surround sound if you're streaming any 4K content.
Very Interesting, and pretty much like Slack, thank you very much.
Of course not. Why would that be? Nobody is clogging up ICU beds over getting tattoos. smh.
Because half the population can't afford to see a doctor and would rather die than leave a pile of debt to their families?
The arm china saga is already absolutely insane.....
>Again, cause and effect backwards here.

cause - the guy shoots an unarmed man and just coldly walks away from it. No victim check, no attempt to render first aid, no reporting to and waiting for police and emergency services... nothing what is reasonably expected in the situation of self-defense.

effect - reasonable perception that it is a killer on the lose, a threat to defend from.
> in reality, you have customers that are very upset about the sudden spike in observable defects...a bunch of bugs introduced by your refactor

That's what I meant to capture by agreeing there is overlap in terms of backwards compatibility and entangled dependencies.

The difference is entrenched social systems have greater agency that goes beyond change induced instability and into being able to actively predict and favorably mold their environment.
Ah, perfect, thank you! For anyone wondering, the demonstration for assigning VLAN per wireless SSID starts at ~6m30s.
Do you think, maybe, that has something to do with Germany losing 4000 ICU beds? https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-icu-medics-expect-covid-surge...
Ignoring the actual news for a moment, this Amazon polly text to speech is absolutely fantastic
Textbook example of the kind of hostility and close-mindedness that is creeping into our beloved site. Why are we dick measuring? why are we comparing experience like this? so much "I" "I" "I"...

I have no horse in the technical race here, but I certainly am put off from reading what should be an intellectually stimulating discussion by the nature of replies like this.
Oh, and because some people told me that would be "unethical" (and how to prioritize against smokers and motorbikers): It's really not, at least not any less unethical than not getting vaccinated.

These people aren't just fully prepared to still take the risk of dying by Covid up to this day, they also statistically kill 0.01 other people by getting infected.

We put people who kill other people in jail here, and increase their risk of dying by suicide about 10x that way. So far, everyone is fine with that.
Thank you very much, but it seems to have a 60 minute limitation for each meeting and disabled recording, and also requires registration. It's popup this message: Due to increased demand, recordings are temporarily disabled and the maximum duration of a meeting has been reduced to 60 minutes on this server. (k8s).
> Videos and photos taken by Miller and Sue show the two of them digging in the Dakotas, Mexico, South America, and elsewhere, often in remote areas. In one video, Miller—with an ear-to-ear smile—is shoving a skull into a brown bag as other bones sit nearby. In South Dakota, Miller is lying in a recently dug grave. A photo from Mexico shows a child’s casket.

I’m not really going to quibble with whether or not there was a body in the recently dug grave or not. I don’t think the distinction matters. And child sized caskets aren’t exactly found in “ancient burial grounds”.

A bit further down in the article…

> And in one of the most disturbing shots, a Native American skull cut in half is filled with yellow apples. Until now, the FBI has never shared any of these images. “I want to dispel the notion that Don was a responsible collector,” Carpenter says. “He was not. He was a grave robber.”
https://archive.md/GNMu7
The press release directly and prominently answers this question multiple times. It suggests that under Nvidia the new Arm would be disincentived to innovate in any area that negatively affects Nvidia businesses. Given that Arm is a critical supplier for many industries, this could result in consumer harm via “reduced product quality, reduced innovation, higher prices, and less choice”

Also, I don’t believe the FTC mission is to increase US tax revenue, so that aspect seems irrelevant.
How a tech enthusiast doesn't think these are all extremely interesting is beyond me.
2005? There were loads of other search engines (SE), and many meta-SE: hotbot, dogpile, metacrawler, ... (IIRC), plenty more.

There was also indexes, which Yahoo, AOL (remember them!) had but there was, what was it called, dmoz?, the open web directory. When Google started, being in the right web directory gave you a boost in SERPs as it was used as a domain trust indicator, and the categories were used for keywords. Of course it got gamed hard.

Google was good, but I used it as an alt for maybe 6 months before it won over my main SE at the time. I've tried but can't remember what SE that was, Omni-something??

One of the main things Google had was all the extra operators like link: inurl:, etc., but they had Boolean logic operators too at one point I think.
Indeed. Also not an expert, but relying on macro-op fusion in hardware is tricky IIRC since different implementors will (likely) choose different macro-ops, resulting in strange performance differences between otherwise-identical chips.

Of course, you could start documenting "official" macro-ops that implementations should support, but at that point you're pretty much inventing a new ISA...
This is only looking at river waste. The major contributor to plastic waste in the ocean is fishing gear.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f...
Thanks, I don't understand how to start a video call session, but I'll calmly get there :)
Interesting question. My first instinct is to say that woob seems closer in use case to a browser than a scraper, as it seems largely geared towards making rich websites more easily accessible. (If I'm reading the page right, anyway.) A scraper is basically just hitting a web page over and over again, as fast as you can manage.

The trick, IMO, is to be closer to browser level loading on a server than scraper. Make sense?
There are lots of good reasons to make cryptographic operations instructions instead of a memory mapped peripheral, but I prefer something like VIA padlock which implemented cipher modes instead of just implementing the round function as instruction. Any implementation could even trap those and implement them in a peripheral. The problem with memory mapped peripherals is that access to them has to be multiplexed and their state preserved by context switches. Specialized instruction on existing registers avoid this problem. VIA padlock solved it by piggybacking on the existing x86 REP prefix for interruptible string instructions and only cached the cipher round keys in the crypto unit reloading them from memory (or repeating the key schedule) after a context switch.
Spoken like an able-bodied individual of young(er) age and/or someone with zero co-morbidities. Fuck the rest, eh?
But not with ARM… so instead of Softbank making royalties Nvidia makes them. I’m struggling to understand how this merger would eliminate competition, consolidate the market, and put consumers at risk of harm.
More importantly, semianalysis is arguing that the Graviton 3 is a Neoverse V1.

Chiplets are just an implementation detail IMO. Its cool tech and I can see why manufacturers are excited about it, but chiplets don't really say one thing or another about performance characteristics.

In contrast: the decision between Neoverse V1 and Neoverse N2 is going to be very big. The Neoverse V1 is the highest performing ARM core in the Neoverse suite... its much larger than N1 or N2 however, so there were questions if "fewer, bigger cores" was the right strategy.
Aarch64 obviously isn't a completely clean sheet design. It was constrained by having to execute on the same CPU pipelines as 32 bit code, at least for the first decade or so. And the 32 bit mode has to perform well. There are tens of millions of Raspberry Pi 3s and 4s (and later model Pi 2s) which have 64 bit CPUs but have never seen a 64 bit instruction in their lives. Android phones have been supporting both 32 and 64 bit apps for a long time.

The "by people who know what they are doing" thing is just pure FUD. Sure, ARM employs some competent people, but no more so than IBM, Intel, AMD or the various members of RISC-V International.
Came here to post the same thing. Very good read.
Just ask them to zero-knowledge prove that they don't know it.
The main reason I'm doing it this way is because I'm saving this stuff to a mechanical drive, and I want consistent write performance and low memory overhead. Since it's essentially just an archive copy, I don't mind if it takes half an hour to chew through looking for some particular set of files. Since this is a format deigned for tape drives, it causes very little random access. It's important that it's relatively consistent to write since my crawler does while it's crawling, and it can reach speeds of 50-100 documents per second, which would be extremely rough on any sort of database based on a single mechanical hard drive.

These archives are just an intermediate stage that's used if I need to reconstruct the index to tweak say keyword extraction or something, so random access performance isn't something that is particularly useful.
Wow, Thank you so much, Very interesting! Seems to satisfy what I was looking for. The UI looks great and is very simple to use. Is it also possible to have remote screen control?
Honestly, Apple (and Microsoft) should have dropped 32-bit support sooner. The only reason it's such a big issue now is because lazy developers kept building apps that are 32-bit only because "it works fine on 64-bit systems". The same thing happened with the Python 2 -> 3 transition.
But the f'd up part is the property-destroying riots, not the citizens trying to protect the community. Take away the 2nd, there'd be more damage. Take away the 1st, everything would be fine.
Ok then! Thanks. I hereby posit that an entire category of viewers are streaming HD (1080 in my case) with only stereo speakers, and suffering crappy sound for that reason. It’s sad to me because there’s no technical reason for this situation. After all, when I torrent HD movies and play them off my laptop through the same speakers, I have no problem. Somehow Sony and Netflix’s incentives are aligned against those of us with stereo speakers…
I don't ask anything of anybody. If you dispute what I'm saying prove me wrong then.

All you've done is is ad hominem and provide no data. I am at least referencing factual data. Looks like I'm following the science and you're not.

Explain the confounding factors for how Texas ended up very similar to NY, despite obesity and comorbidities being much higher in the south. I can tell you from living in both places through the pandemic, that the populace of Texas doesn't care at all about covid and largely takes no precautionary measures vs New York residents who are much more diligent about masking and protocols.

You won't do it because the data doesn't exist to do it. The differences between states with vastly different policies are super marginal. If there was any strong effect, you would see an obvious disparity in outcome.

Does everybody staying inside reduce transmission? Yes, in the short term. Does it do anything in the longer term? No, absolutely not. Unless the draconian lockdown is done in perpetuity, which has devastating consequences.
A "COVID specific nurse" still needs the entire slate of training that goes with respiratory disease, inflammatory disease, etc, and all the secondary complications that come from those.
If anyone else enjoys pictures of these setups as much as I do, you may enjoy browsing this subreddit: https://reddpics.com/r/ultimatebattlestation
Until when? when the next wave comes and the unvaccinated are 40% instead of 30%, do you think they wont start forcing the needle?

How many people would get the booster? and the next booster after that?

I think its reasonable to assume that every 6 months the unvaccinated group with grow with 5% or so, how long until they become more than the vaccinated?

What will happen when they elect the new government in 2 years
Random thought, based especially on using DuckDuckGo for two years:

Search engine isn’t singular, it’s plural.

(1) Search engine for something I know exists.

(2) Search engine for finding something new.

There’s a market for both, but you don’t have to solve both problems with the same product.

Sometimes I switch to Google for the former, but the latter works well enough for me that I don’t care what else Google would’ve shown me.

More often than not, my feeling is Google would only have shown me more ads in addition to whatever I could already find elsewhere.
And two of those New England states have among the highest case rates in the country right now (which isn't the same as death rates of course).
>Vaccinated are still being hospitalized. How much longer will you buy into the narrative that they are not when so many countries are showing evidence to the contrary.

What "narrative"? What are you even talking about?

No-one, including the person you responded to, has claimed that vaccinated people can't get sick. The claim (backed by statistics) is that the unvaccinated are being hospitalized at a much higher rate and for a much longer duration.

You're arguing a point that no-one is disagreeing with.
Doesn't say anything, death rates are not constant, it always varies a lot ever year by year. Did 2020 have excessive mortality per capita compared to other years or not? No it didn't. It doesn't matter if you find some anecdote.

Everyone knows death rate was high in peak covid. As it always is in peak flu season, so what, the year was well within standard deviation
Sorry to hear that, but you may overestimate your own risk: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34463744/

At this point, we're talking about the most-tested vaccine in all of the world. Even if your chance of dying is increased by 5x, that's equivalent to about 10 hours of driving a car at average Autobahn speeds.

If you're prepared to take that kind of risk every year, I'd invite you to just go do it.
> These people were considered heroes last year

> Now their judgment is in question

> These people = doctors, nurses, etc (medical professionals).

Those professions were considered heroic, not every single person individually. Yes, many that served those positions well were individually celebrated too. The ones that didn't, and there were plenty, had their judgment heavily questioned, even last year.

Drawing conclusions about an individual based on a broad category they happen to fall into is "hasty generalization", by the book.
"Complain" sometimes takes on the nuance of unproductive whining (repeatedly bringing up problems that others in the situation cannot fix), entitled attitude (why aren't things such and such: everyone around me should accommodate to me), excessive focus on minor things (I hate this whole situation that I can't change, and I can make that constantly known by harping on minor aspects) and such.
Couldn't it transform into a high-dividend company?