skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccines generally DO prevent transmission, just not this one, coronaviruses mutate too fast, and the vaccines only target the spike.

This vaccine can spark new mutations since vaccinated people can get it and the virus would mutate to attempt to work around the vaccine immunity.

GPs main point was people's freedoms should be restricted to stop the spread. My point was it doesn't stop the spread. So why restrict freedoms?

Vaccinated people will continue to spread the virus, whether it's slower or faster doesn't matter in the end, it will spread until it's endemic. (I believe it already is)
Electron will continue to grow for sure.

There is, however, a big difference in the effects of scale.

The marginal cost for another piece of high quality (or even low quality) furniture is high.

The marginal cost for one more copy of Microsoft Teams is almost nothing no matter which technology Microsoft uses to make it.
Yes it should. Wifi isn't great with security + authentication. So ideally data would transfer over 5G.
It’s because a bunch of nerds are just really really up their own asses.
A shitty wrapper. The answer to the question “why isn’t there another middleman between content and readers, scamming both?”
Before internet advertising everyone was concerned with newspapers being all ads, subway ads, billboards, naming stadiums, ads on buses, flyers being put everywhere, mail advertising plus everything you see on tv.

Those things still exist. Focusing only on digital advertising when ads are being pushed everywhere is missing the point.
British actors are usually better actors too.

Some US programs used British actors to "raise the game" for their US co-workers.

Examples: The Americans, The Wire, Homeland, Deadwood, etc etc.

And as a side-effect, the dialogue was generally more understandable.
This is great! I found something other engines do not pick up! apparently I signed an agile manifesto in 2010 https://agilemanifesto.org/display/000000190.html
I get where defi is coming from, and the regulations are onerous, but also those regulations were hard-fought for, and came about on the backs of real problems for real people, often by being exploited by people most accurately described as conmen. Caveat emptor, sure, but on the way from "investing your play money" to someone close to retirement's 401k, there's a much bigger pitfall.

The "battles" are shaping up to be fought the same way they were previously - regulations forcing big huge heavy disclaimers on financial products, cryptocoin-based or otherwise, that state that the returns stated are not actually guaranteed.
4 months or could be even less. I don't know if we need to debate that vaccines are not the way out and we need heavy stress on therapies
I don’t think you can have the same desktop on both screens, but otherwise herbstluftwm allows this.

Also monitors are virtual so you can have multiple virtual monitors on one physical monitor. I want to one day try this with a 4K tv to have multiple monitor layouts.
That's actually a good point because the "until most of the population has been vaccinated" is tricky. We don't really know how effective the vaccines are against new variants. Probably better than nothing I'd guess but it also doesn't completely stop transmission. An overly optimistic timeline is 100 days to get a tweaked vaccine for a new variant but we saw that's about how long it took for Delta to move completely through Florida. That plus the possibility of animal reservoirs and many high-compliance mask and lockdown areas getting large spikes anyway leaves me skeptical we can necessarily solve this through the public health policies that have been tried. I just want answers like everyone else and am trying to just learn to be healthy and live with this virus for the rest of my life. Happy to get an annual shot like the flu when/if this becomes endemic and seasonal.
Mortality isn't the only negative outcome.
It seems to work for me. Though here is a snapshot just in case https://archive.md/MpPRL
I just started using CDK for a project, and after having fought with terraform and trying pulumi, I have to say CDK is a breath of fresh air. Really well thought out, makes doing things the right way easy as well.

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.

I really think the pulumi / CDK method of "Use a real programming language to generate a declarative spec" is the right way to go.

For those keeping score:

- chef/puppet: imperative language, imperative effects

- ansible: declarative language, imperative effects

- terraform: declarative language, declarative effects

- CDK/Pulumi: imperative language, declarative effects

Not to mention, CloudFormation actually allows ~transactions, which is something you can't really get without cooperation from the cloud provider

Edit: I incorrectly mentioned that terraform uses cloudformation to get transactions, but it does not
It's hard to sympathize with people who still believe this series of vaccines prevents others from spreading infections and thus all measures to require compliance are fine.
The entire post is full of hyperbole, but the example they show looks like a legitimate complaint.
Oh boy, give it a few more years and the RISC-V architecture is going to have as many extensions as XMPP! Yay for interoperability!
> Zuck doesn't own 50+% of the company (just the voting rights)

You're right to clarify, but it's “Just” the only thing that matters.

> Oculus, FB Marketplace, FB Groups and WhatsApp are all very relevant market leaders.

Oculus is a “market leader” in a really narrow niche. Is FB marketplace really a market leader? I didn't even know that was the thing actually (it may very well depends on your country). FB groups is just Facebook, it's like the only feature to be still significantly used. That's pretty much true for Whatsapp, but they've already started to dynamite it up earlier this year with their monetization attempt: a third of my phones contacts now have signal including one neighbor and my plumber (and also a random lady I had a car crash with last year, I should really tidy my contact list up), they have severely damaged Whatsapp position with this move, and now they are doing the same with instagram.
> What we're seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of > 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed.

Also one that collects high income taxes and high health care contributions (~14% of the income). So one can't really blame it on lack of funds.
The no flags at all part is clearly inspired by Alpha including the rationale of flags being detrimental to OoO implementation.

MIPS is classical RISC design that was not designed to be OoO-friendly at all and is simply designed for ease of straightforward pipelined implementation. The reason why it does not have flags probably simply comes down to the observation that you don't need flags for C.
It's a really bad UX though. There should at least be a link to just a standard list of things.
> I would imagine surely there’s a distro that is just as functional as what you’re imagining Haiku will be one day right?

You can imagine it all you want, like most things that are pure fantasy.

> The main issue I find with Linux is app support but that would be worse again with Haiku.

There are other issues that I consider important. Things like how application management works, coherency of the platform, stability of ABIs, simplicity of the platform, non-bloatedness, lack of fashion-oriented design, etc.
I guess you could argue the set of laws is the central authority that produces a two-party system, even though it may not have been intentional. Presumably you could adjust the laws so that other constellations would emerge.

Also why do people have to live in societies of millions of individuals? Perhaps smaller units would be better. To some degree that is already what happens, as for example villages can decide some things for themselves. The question is just who should get to decide what.
This blog post is just... EIG is gone, it's all Web.com now. DreamHost wasn't ever owned by EIG or Newfold. And the business strategy of buying up random webhosts stopped years ago because they managed overleverage the company to almost $2 billion.
Yes, and even if it _was_ in fact what you were saying, it may not have been the message that got through to them.
Funny. Marginalia has an option for No JavaScript but I cannot even do an HTTP “POST” with JavaScript disable at my web browser.

Disclaimer: I study for malicious JS stuff.
Not at all. You only have to fail the first request. It is an approach I took with my own attempt at a search engine way back! In fact I know personally that there is at least one patent out there that suggests initial 1st time request users being asked to provide the appropriate response as an efficient way to teach systems for future users.

Obviously failing first requests isn't ideal but for popular requests it quickly becomes insignificant. Wikipedia might (if they don't already) want to make a similar suggestion for users to contribute when finding a low content/missing page.
Micropayments have been suggested since Internet was young, but now that's available on top of the right cryptocurrent (eg SOL). Whether that's actually a model people want (vs saying they want) remains to be seen, but Substack seems to be doing well enough for their writers. 3 cents from each of 100,000 likes on Twitter/Insta/tt starts to add up for those with a large enough following to make several of those a month. If the transaction costs are close enough to nil to make that worthwhile for everyone involved, that's a different web than we've grown up with, with 30-cent per-transaction fees being the industry standard for credit cards.

If Web3 becomes popular, it frees the online tip jar from a particular platform (eg Patreon) and decentralizes it so anyone can set it up for themselves, with far lower network effects required.
I couldn't agree with you more.

I was thoroughly in the "screw Microsoft" camp until about 2018, when I thought they were on the way to redeeming themselves.

Unfortunately they've continued their prior "hatefully corporate ++" behavior. I bestow this term on companies like Oracle & SCO (remember them?). At this stage in my career, I have regularly been in a position to send a significant portion of comapny expenditure toward Microsoft. I won't be in future, and when I reach CTO/CIO I will continue to advocate for more open and fair solutions for my company.
Yes it's possible but AWS focus is to be the Layer 1. They're doing it for data and can easily replicate it for voice if there is a use case but at that time they're directly competing with Telco, a fight that they may not pickup at this time. Ideally they would utilize all the unused bandwidth & reuse it. So one neighbour can provide internet + mobile to entire street
One might wonder if this comes up because qt is a good cross-platform toolkit... which is to say, it promptly fades into the background and you don't notice you're using it.
I've never tried it but I've always been curious about MatterMost. It's an open source slack knock off. I believe they even have some API integration with other services the way slack does.
So it's not a strict dependency, more in the spirit probably of an optimisation: "here's how you own it, but most people let the substrate do it for you..." type thing.
The article's approach to arguing against RISC-V is fairly childish.

>"here's this snippet, it takes more instructions on RISC-V, thus RISC-V bad"

Is pretty much what it's saying. An actual argument about ISA design would weight the cost this has with the advantages of not having flags, provide a body of evidence and draw conclusions from it. But, of course, that would be much harder to do.

What's comparatively easy and they should have done, however, is to read the ISA specification. Alongside the decisions that were made, there's a rationale to support it. Most of these choices, particularly so the ones often quoted in FUD as controversial or bad, have a wealth of papers, backed by plentiful evidence, behind them.
The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto has shaker cups. It is 5-star though.
Dumb phones still ping cell towers?
> Could you have proved how revolutionary the internet would be in its early days?

Yes. Yes, you could. 10 years after ARPANet was made public you already had things like France's Minitel.

Blockchains? They still have zero use cases: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c...

> You have to be open minded and extrapolate

Ah yes. "Revolutionary tech", and all you have to do is blindly believe in it.
The "network effect" seems to be affecting everything: The rich get richer, and everybody else fights for scraps. It's winner-take-all.

This applies to countries also, not just individuals. If your country can't quite keep up with cutting edge manufacturing and services, you lose in the global trade competition and can't afford to give your citizens up-to-date college education, exacerbating the slide.
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If you're designing a single CPU that definitely has a simple pipeline, branch delay slots are maybe justifiable. If you're designing an architecture which you hope will eventually be used by many CPU designs which might have a variety of design approaches, then delay slots are pretty bad because every future CPU that isn't a simple non-speculating pipeline will have to do extra work to fake up the behaviour. This is an example of a general principle, which is that it's usually a mistake to let microarchitectural details leak into the architecture -- they quickly go stale and then both hw and sw have to carry the burden of them.
There was also a trebuchet appearance during Ukranian riots in 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEY4WG7P0NQ
It is worth remembering the "let people get on with it and they will work out" viewpoint within Europe was widely discredited by April 2020 (and ignoring the fact it worked in countries like Japan that have quite significant constraints on govt power).

My conclusion from this is that, in this area, regulations are path dependent. In some countries, people will make the right choices themselves. In others, they won't. I am in the UK, in 2020 it was evident that the hands-off approach really wouldn't work. But it did work this year.

Also, I don't think there is any question about fixing it. You have to test (most countries still don't test enough), you have to give people the information to make a choice, and you have to keep vaccinating. Imo, and I thought the opposite in 2020, lockdowns/heavy regulations aren't a long-term strategy (outside of China).
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Rather than glib hand-waving in front of the chalkboard...might there be a decent piece or few of RISC V hardware, which could actually be compared to non-RISC V hardware with similar budgets (for design work, transistor count, etc.) - to see how things work out when running substantial pieces of decently-compiled code?
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Sweden did not keep _everything_ open.

We found a sweet spot between "business as usual" and "everybody stays at home". For example, big gatherings and sport events were not allowed. Schools were open only for younger kids.
That's what they said back then, too.
Indeed, and the lockdown and other impositions have introduced numerous ills that don't necessarily register, at least not immediately, as deaths.
What about all the negative outcomes from continuing all the restrictions?
We simply don't know. There are other vaccines that require a delayed third dose, so I don't think it is that unlikely that the boosters could cause a much longer-lived immunity. But it could also be that we'll need yearly boosters, or maybe only for the elderly.

I'll accept "Our governments failed especially hard this wave", the problems were more predictable this time and the responses were worse.
This is nuts. So you can't link to science journals is they happen to have something indirectly that may undermine a narrative?

This is kinda like Pravda and people are mostly totally okay?
The Swedes wore their masks and got vaccinated. What worked for them would not necessarily have worked for us.
Why you think this?
People that are unvaccinated will have harder covid symptoms that are earlier found and in best case quarantined. With a cold maybee without the knowledge about covid they just stay in the bed for some days.
Vaccinated people are more the ones with no symptoms and run everyday through the city and infect other people without knowing that they do it.

So I think that what you say is just not correct.
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I need to buy shares in credit monitoring companies. It's the industry of the future!
They’re really not, they don’t know you nor do they care about you.

That was just a reframing you did to make them seem malicious, when they’re mostly indifferent, afraid or misinformed.
> Unfortunately very few people live in a democratic country with the rule of law like Sweden.

You mean, the absolute vast majority of people in this world live in contries with more-or-less functioning governments. Not perfect, but functioning.

> or the rest, crypto can be a good place to keep their funds without the fear of losing.

Ah yes. The only use case is hoarding. Even though I specifically provided a different case that doesn't involve hoarding.
I don't have time to respond fully now, but as for a work: Kafka, "The Trial" immediately sprung to mind.

Though I'd argue almost no published novels other than possibly subsequent works by bestselling authors are generally commercially motivated.

As someone who have published two novels: If you write to get rich, you're an idiot. It can happen, but it's so fundamentally unlikely that it's grossly irrational to write with that as motivation unless you've already been signed to a publisher. Even then it's a dubious gamble.
https://www.webcomponents.org/introduction works for me.

WebComponents have been discussed for a while. They were just a dream not too long ago, and I'm not sure what their usability is right now. So, word of warning that I'm not advocating for or against their use at this point. Just mentioning that the description you gave previously reminded me of WebComponents.
I don't buy this argument for software in the least; it presumes this zero-sum tradeoff between "effort to build" and "quality of outcome" that I just don't believe actually necessarily exists in a medium of infinite reproduceability like software.

In my experience what's really happening here is the "hypercard" problem. Namely, there is a tendency, perhaps subconscious, for programmers (or perhaps meta-programmers) to NOT make "tools for building" too easy because they're scared of writing themselves out of a job or a market -- or they're trying to create or retain some exclusivity. I'm not necessarily saying this is always evil, but it's always a thing to consider and is likely happening all the time.
Hopefully, we'll start more commonly getting the benefits of Electron in a leaner package as with Tauri[1] or Wails[2]

[1] https://tauri.studio/en/
[2] https://wails.io
Hash of a reduction? What's the algorithm here. How is it tested? Because trivial image edits can change things. How about if if frame the image, or recolour the image by reduction of the rgb palette or shift the aspect ratio or do two or more of these transforms...

They're very unclear in this what the algo is which does the matching. I appreciate that there is both patent and IPR issues here, and asymmetric information warfare issues here.
too many crappy websites, probably needs a "committee" to whitelist domains (only good quality ones) but probably too much work for not enough money or needs some monetization strategy
> Technology has a trend of destroying middleman industries, as they don't provide value and take a portion of the proceeds for themselves.

So, these middlemen that "don't provide any value" guarantee that: my money isn't stolen, that I get the apartment I was shown etc.

So, you've removed these middlemen. How exactly is your technology going to solve this?

> DeFi, in this case, is targeting the financial institutions because we now have technological means to replace banks and lenders.

No, you don't. With banks I can revert a fraudulent transaction (I paid, but the goods never showed up). How is defi solving this simple case?
Sweden had mortality rates nearly 10x those of their neighbours.
Why are you so certain that the fourth wave is leveling off?
As of 12/02/2012, Robert Koch Institute, roughly the German CDC, estimates 7-day R-value at 0.92

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

Index page: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...
I generally agree with this essay, but I think the listed problems with society misses the mark.

"Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society." Is this really changing? I don't buy that people today have less empathy for each other than they did historically. The bulk of human history was cruel in ways that stagger the imagination.

"The gap between the haves and have-nots keeps widening." The gap between rich and poor is not the correct target to optimize. The only problem you can reasonably try to solve is improving the quality of life for the have-nots. World-changing innovation (steam engine, electricity, printing press) always makes a few individuals exorbitantly wealthy, and the world is better off because of it.
CBRS has it's limitation and isn't permanent. Gov can take it back anytime and then there is also a priority. CBRS is good for smaller installation but not able to take commercial traffic. Caveat here is that 5G is difficult to deploy. You need a lot of antennas which cost $$.
So in areas with higher density, there'll be smaller telcos that'll start operating.
I fantasize about someone commercializing the deeply curved slot machine screens as general purpose monitors.
Super cool! Will be checking out the documentation!
Health care in Germany is a not-for-profit endeavour and is strictly controlled by the law, with ministry of health oversight.
So how would you suggest re-writing their example in less than 6 instructions for RISC-V? X86/arm both have instructions that include the carry operation for long additions, and only require 2 instructions.
> IP is currently believed to be a subset of PSPACE.

IP is _known_ to be _equal_ to PSPACE
You can opt in to generating and propagating conditions and rename the predicates as well.
I wonder if you could fuzz a chip directly, without having the schematics, so that if the manufacturer inserts something off-the-books it still gets explored.
And if it’s critical enough, that isn’t just left to chance after the initial design validation. There are continuous supply chain and acceptance testing checks that have to keep being run and managed. This is one reason the costs are higher.
How are they infecting you if you're vaccinated?

It's really hard to sympathize with people that think it's their right to force something on other people's bodies. This isn't polio.

I'm vaccinated. I stay healthy. I have no fear of un-vaccinated people and neither should you. If you are fearful you've fallen victim to your own anti-science mental health anxiety with a load of media brainwashing on top.