skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What people aren't typically "mathing" right is that even if you have 90% vaccinated, that's still potentially hundreds of thousands (millions in bigger countries) of un-vaccinated people who are prone to getting seriously sick.

The numbers here in Ontario are clear. Case rates among the unvaccinated are far higher, and ICU admissions are far far far higher.

I never fell for any line that said vaccination would just make the disease go away. Frankly that was never said by medical experts, only implied by certain politicians.
> the working class in the US has certainly suffered a regression over the past several decades,

Do you define regression as absolute position or relative position? For example does it matter if Jeff Bezos has 100 Ferraris if the middle class, on average, have .25 more cars per capital than 50 yrs ago?

I would love to put some data behind this discussion because it's long been mixed up as to which case is the ethical one (absolute vs relative growth).
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in the netherlands they just implemented measures to shut down non essential things at 5pm.. that lead to gyms/restaurants/swimming pools PACKED with people.. half the space, twice the density. in the very same day they implemented the measures the cases stopped growing..

the fact that a scientist can recommend "lets shut down gyms at 5pm" instead of "lets make gyms 24/7" makes me distrust the whole corona committee

when i look at the lockdown+cases graph, i dont think there is any causal link between them. e.g. https://www.uni-konstanz.de/polver/zuber/covid-19-student-wi...
Heya!

There was a hackathon back in October called Larajam. The theme was "Productivity" and my idea was to create a tool to open multiple links with one click.

Why?

I visit HN, ProductHunt, Reddit a lot and most of the time, I'm clicking links. For PH, since I'm clicking every project each given day, I thought, heck why can't I just open them all at once?

It was a fun project and Rockmelon.app was born! Also got to win a few prizes! The link that opens many links - I call it "Rockmelon Link (RL)"

Some features

- You can create a collection (called Rockmelon Collection RC)! Create a collection (e.g. Daily ProductHunt Projects) subscribe to it and you get an email each day with one link that opens them all (here's an example - https://www.rockmelon.app/rc/Cg08Y06Vu9#/)

- Also created daily Show HN link - click and it will open all the links on today's Show HN page (https://www.rockmelon.app/rc/kS0OMT0vdw#/)

- You can create RLs and RCs using API!

Well, that's the gist. Hope you enjoy it!
A lot of (most?) innovation is driven by problems that need solving. It's a lot easier to start a company if there is already a large audience that really wants a problem solved and are willing to pay for the solution.

Having an amazing novel idea and then convincing people not having it in their life is a problem is way harder
A fairly high proportion of extensions (both existing, and simply possible in future in general) are so specialised that you wrap the special instructions inside a function (often within a loop inside that function) and then put that function in a library.

You just choose whether to use that version of the library or another one that uses normal instructions.

It's no exaggeration to say that many of those extension instructions might exist in only one function in one library on your entire Linux (or Android, FreeBSD, whatever) system.

To some extent the Vector extension can be like that. For most programs they'll just pick up vectorised versions of memcpy, strlen and so forth. In other programs (generally ones you compile yourself) you might want to use the vector extension directly -- maybe with auto-vectorisation in time. LLVM can do a bit of that already.

Only a few of the extensions have instructions that can profitably weave their way into every part of your code. The Bitmanip extension is like that. You really want to know whether your target processor has B or not.
IIRC few Power(PC) cores really split the condition register nibbles into 8 renamable registers and while Power(PC) includes everything (including at least two spare kitchen sinks) only a few instructions can pick which condition register nibble to update. Most integer instructions can only update cr0 and floating point instructions cr1. On the other hand you can do nice hacks with the cornucopia of bitwise available bitwise operations on condition register bits and it's one of the architectures where (floating point) comparisons return the full set of results (less, equal, greater, unordered).
1 year ago, the medical establishment was saying that it's impossible to develop a vaccine for a new virus in just a year, so don't even think about seeing a vaccine anytime soon... leading people with halfway-decent memories scratching their heads about how the heck this vaccine was actually developed and getting really suspicious when it doesn't behave like a vaccine at all in that it doesn't prevent you from getting or spreading the disease. And has rare but serious side effects.
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The most of my family and friends have swapped to Telegram. Almost all local uni students as well.
Won't somebody please think of the engagement
No, vaccinations prevent you from getting sick. It’s the choice between a mild illness and potentially being admitted into the hospital.

What we’re starting to see is potential for further variants to evade antibodies, reproduce inside you and thus you spread it. Your immune system is still able to fight the virus easier because the vaccine has trained your immune system to look out for contagions like this virus but for a while you’re still actively spreading the virus before you’ve cleared it from your system.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong though.
> 71% percent of Germans support mandatory vaccinations for COVID, this is from a poll published today.

how does that match up with only 68.7% being fully vaccinated?

me f.x. I am fully vaccinated and do not at all support mandatory vaccinations. I doubt I'm the only one.

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> No, technical progress is key part of progress.

If nothing is rooted in people's / society's / community's / government's wants and needs, then what incentives are left for progress?

> Most innovators are not driven by the constant complaints of other people.

I think you may be conflating inventors with innovators. Inventors, like innovators, are a product of their time. The leaps and bounds come from invention. And invention follows necessity, as an old saying goes.
Hi HN! In my previous post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25037784, I presented so-called ACF images, where the auto-correlation function of a sound waveform is drawn in polar coordinates. It turned out that ACF images capture a good deal of sound symmetry.

This post is a natural extension of that idea. I've been thinking how to introduce colors into ACF images. ACF splits a waveform into a set of pure cosine waves and aligns them together by removing the phase. The idea is to color each cosine wave with the note it corresponds to, so when these waves are aligned, not only the amplitudes of the waves add up, but also their colors.
I can see that, but I don't want to get into the implications for taxes and such, that's a polarizing topic. Wherever it comes from, it's necessary to support people with good ideas (and even some bad ones).
Lockdowns in Canada were ridiculous, particularly in Ontario. People weren't even allowed to go to parks or hikes. My parents couldn't drive to their cabin up north in fear of being ticketed.

My mom was telling me a story of her colleague's husband who resented her for going to work because he thought she was going to get him killed.

Are unreasonably strict lockdowns a good idea? Does it drive unnecessary fear? What if it causes more people to disregard rules later on?
that is a non-statement somehow; you aren't responding to anything I actually said, but what you imagined that I said, and then you came up with a counter argument to the imaginary statement...

the things people do really confuse me, sometimes. I .. I am just not capable of understanding why people do most of what they do.

I didn't say I wanted to defeat gait recognition, did I? No, I did not.

my turn to imagine something you'll say: "oh well you can also be recognized by your voice"

I didn't say I wanted to defeat voice recognition, either.

etc
This is not logical. More infections in the younger age groups would have boosted the defense systems of many while keeping lethalities low. This would have helped tremendously.
In my opinion, pride in one's craft doesn't depend upon output quantity, but quality. It would be acceptable to slack by working less, taking longer to do things, etc. But the quality of what you do insert into the codebase, and allow to be inserted, should always be the highest. Nobody will remember how quickly or slowly you did a task, but they will see your name beside some shitty code in a git blame or PR approval and think "what the fuck was this guy doing?". To me, that's where an engineer should never impugn his reputation. Just my opinion though.
Looks like you’re right, MS liquidated it a long time ago, and I mixed up Gates and MS, but if we call 5% as lowest amount of significance or how it was non voting stock it still isn’t a good point I made.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-founder-bill-gat...
> but an X86 instruction is not just "an instruction" anymore.

This is technically true but not really. Decoding into many instructions is mainly used for compatibility with the crufty parts of the x86 spec. In general, for anything other than rmw or locking a competent compiler or assembly writer will only very rarely emit instructions that compile to more than one uop. The way the frontend works, microcoded instructions are extraordinarily slow on real cpus.

Modern x86 is basically a risc with a very complex decode, few extra useful complex operations tacked on, and piles and piles of old moldy cruft that no-one should ever touch.
I would like to know who in the world ISN'T fatigued. I'd go into work and everyone is tired and fatigued...
> Up to $1 Million Identity Theft Insurance: Provides coverage for certain
costs and unauthorized electronic fund transfers.

Why is this needed? If my bank erroneously decides to let somebody else transfer funds out of my account, or lets somebody else establish a debt in my name, then that's just a bank error. Is my bank not liable for that?
> Except for this good feature, the rest of the ISA is full of bad features

What are your thoughts on the way RISC V handled the compressed instructions subset?
> It doesn’t matter what the news story is

Alternatively, news about FB is overwhelmingly negative, possibly because they actually are that bad.

If you go down the to stories: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=facebook

it's virtually all either FB doing something unethical or someone taking action against FB (because they're unethical).
Just a modern 'gentler' version of the AARD code scam. Nothing changes within Microsoft.

https://www.zapread.com/Post/Detail/7735/aard-code-or-how-bi...
> You do a search on Gigablast and say, well, why didn't it get this result that Google got. And that's because the index isn't big enough

I wionder how much this is true, and how much (despite all our rhetoric to the contrary) it's because we have actually come to expect Google's modern proprietary page ranking, which counts more than just inbound links but all sorts of other signals (freshness, relevance to our previous queries, etc.).

We dislike the additional signals when it feels like Google is trying to second-guess our intentions, but we probably don't notice how well they work when they give us the result we expect in the first three links.
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Your numbers are very similar to Ontario's, and in fact Canada in general as a whole.

But what's strange is out the US doesn't seem to reflect this.

There are states with fairly high vaccination rates where vaccinated people are ending up in the ICU at rates many times ours, and are only showing up as 2.5 or 3 times better protected than the unvaccinated for hospitalization.

I don't know how to explain this other than length of time since injection. But we're heading into 6-7 months here now in Ontario and I'm still not seeing this trend. Boosters will certainly help, I'm sure, but I don't feel it can be the sole cause.

It's so ridiculous just driving across the border... look at Vermont or New York compared to Ontario or Quebec in terms of daily case rates and hospitalization. (Or Maine compared to New Brunswick, etc.) The only way I can explain it is by masking, which is still rigidly followed here in most of Canada, but not as much in the US.

PS congrats on having perhaps the most competent governments in North America in terms of managing this disease. It's not the first time I've found myself browsing for real estate in Nova Scotia, but it certainly became more serious this past year...
>Non-tech people still trust Google much more than Microsoft. Microsoft is bad, but they haven't made your data their core business just yet.

That's pretty interesting claim, what makes you think so?
Alice should properly reject that proposal, and only accept pages with totally uniform watermarks.
Not sure what you were expecting, but no, Wasm doesn't magically make memory-unsafe languages internally uncorruptible, it limits all corruption to internal state. If you look at the PL research stretching back a couple decades on how to do that for C, you are looking at integer factor performance overheads in the general case. Wasm also doesn't make anything less safe than it was before (ok, ok, modulo the current lack of read-protected memory), and since we wisely chose to make the execution stack non-addressable, has CFI by default.

Wasm's sandboxing makes it impossible to escalate the privilege of a program or acquire capabilities that it didn't have before (i.e. were not explicit imported and granted). That's a strictly stronger primitive than a random userspace Unix process.
You're not alone. Feels like it's on purpose.
1. incentive - if everyone is locked down, there is no incentive to get vaccinated.
2. lack of contribution to hospital admissions - although some vaccinated people do get ill, once the elderly are boosted voluntarily the burden of this segment will be very low
3. credibility - the government promised and I quote "vaccination is the way back to normality". If they break this promise, they lose future credibility.
We certainly got vaccinated, but it could be better. But masks are few and far between. There was a recommendation to wear them on some public transport for a while (and might come back, due to Omicron), but my very unscientific anecdata I'd say less than 1% of people I see wear masks. Going through the central station in Stockholm in rush hour, seeing hundreds if not thousands of people, and you can probably count the number of mask wearers on your fingers.

I would follow any mask mandate, but the experience here (from my point of view) is that they don't seem to help that much. Otherwise we should have an absolute explosion of cases right now, compared to other European countries. My personal theory is that people don't use them properly; look at people on tv, constantly adjusting them, or wearing them under the chin, reusing single-use masks, etc.

There's been an uptick in cases during the last week or so[1], but compare it to eg. Germany[2] that have had a strong mask mandate for a long time. I don't understand it either.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ (do note that when looking at the chart for deaths, we have always been lagging a couple of weeks)

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/
Pretty much the standard tools that most people have open all the time I guess. I just want to see them all all the time without having to constantly switch windows or hide the thing I'm working on.

Music, messenger, Discord, Slack, 2 or 3 instances of my IDE, source control UI, a terminal or three, documentation for the thing I'm working on, notepad++
I think if anything in that machine snaps it would rip right through his body.
btw - 10% of 5,821,297 is 582k. Therefore even higher number of people that could potentially end up in hospital, ICU or dead.
Can’t wait for the medical device hacks coming soon!

I recently was admitted to an American hospital due to sepsis for an extended period of time, when I was visiting family for a few months (fortunately I am insured in the United States even while abroad).

The hospital required the nurses to administer IV meds in a very peculiar way.

One week into my hospital stay, they started a new programme administering IV meds with code executed from the Electronic Health Record (Epic) to the pump. The pump would start as soon as the barcodes for the IV meds were scanned. The infusion rates were programmed into the electronic health record so the nurses didn’t have to manually program the pump.
I do not like this idea of the commercialization of space. Who's going to be able to provide this infrastructure? Rich companies. Who's going to be able to use this infrastructure? Rich people. There's no way for the wealth to spread. Unlike a retail store, a commercial space station doesn't provide direct wealth to a community. I don't think NASA should be enabling this type of development.
You can even place a backdoor on a circuit without any noticeable physical changes (other than chemical differences which are extremely hard to detect). You basically change which chemicals are used to "dope" the transistors, which changes their polarity.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26860715
You seem to be making your whole argument around some facts which you got wrong. The central points of your argument are often used in FUD, thus they are definitely worth tackling here.

>Even the hard-to-believe "research" results published by RISC-V developers have always showed worse code density than ARM

the code size advantage of RISC-V is not artificial academic bullshit. It is real, it is huge, and it is trivial to verify. Just build any non-trivial application from source with a common compiler (such as GCC or LLVM's clang) and compare the sizes you get. Or look at the sizes of binaries in Linux distributions.

>the so-called better results were for the compressed extension, not for the normal encoding.

The C extension can be used anywhere, as long as the CPU supports the extension; most RISC-V profiles require it. This is in stark contrast with ARMv7's thumb, which was a literal separate CPU mode. Effort was put in making this very cheap for the decoder.

The common patterns where number of instructions is larger are made irrelevant by fusion. RISC-V has been thoroughly designed with fusion in mind, and is unique in this regard. It is within its right in calling itself the 5th generation RISC ISA because of this, even if everything else is ignored.

Fusion will turn most of these "2 instructions instead of one" into actually one instruction from the execution unit perspective. There's opportunities everywhere for fusion, the patterns are designed in. The cost of fusion on RISC-V is also very low, often quoted as 400 gates, allowing even simpler microarchitectures to implement it.
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I found that via the whole list: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/databreach/list
Is this really true?

There really isn’t a cross compiling chain that would allow me to build a macOS app on a freebsd system (for instance) ?
I wasn't talking about needs, I was talking about complaints.

Innovators/Inventors are driven by their needs, not by other people's complaints. Unless they need to stop their spouses complaining or something like that.
I'm just trying to be pragmatic that one side doesnt seem to be willing to cede any ground, we could just simply move the fight elsewhere.

it is both equal rights if "everyone/anyone can get married" or "no one can because it's not defined" (in the eyes of the government).

If people aren't willing to accept the 2nd case then I'm guessing they dont actually want equal rights so much as public(governmental) recognition of their status.
Nice bell curve around 60s but a little higher on left than right (more people underestimate, but proportionally) and there’s a spike at 0-8 seconds (from people who just wanted to see results or decided to quit quickly.)
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> People didn’t dine out in person

I wonder how did they dine out :-)
I like how that quote actually reflects the hubris and disconnection to reality of the sound engineer. That is exactly "how it was done", how he mixed it, the fact that it didn't sound good in a real life matinee (as opposed to the ideal conditions of his sound lab) is a fact of life.

I'd be really surprised if sound engineers working in film never bother to listen to a cut of the movie in a theater. But then again the number of times I've seen "you didn't try compiling before committing did you?" crop up in chat while discussing a broken build that maybe they don't :)