skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We are not doing the rework.
We are chasing rainbows.
We don't need deregulation. We need better designed regulation."

Really enjoyable article, and I love the way the author uses his networking experience to inform his understanding of the world.

The issue or possibility that the author misses, IMO, is that the lack or rework and general degradation, etc is BY DESIGN. The fail is coming and that is planned for.

I personally think that there are a parasitic elite, that harvest the energy and wealth from countries and situations, and have done so for centuries. We think in terms of months and years, but they think in terms of centuries. Eg Technocracy Inc was formed in the 1930s and even shared the same building as IBM.

The overarching idea here, is that Western society crashes somewhat, the lead is passed to China, and in reverse, we import their totalitarian infrastructure. We will be monitored everywhere, our governments will go, but (UN) technocrats will step in to micromanage our lives (water use, electricity use, travel, etc). The trick is to make us want that. And things will get so bad, that most of us will!

And that is the reason that we have ready excuses - such as never-ending viral or climate events, that somehow convince us to hand over authority in just the way that technocrats have always dreamed of, for example with bio-ids being required to do one's shopping or travel.
You can't just offer up an apartment building as a condominium. There's all sorts of regulations, building codes, and inspections required to convert.
...Which explains why there was no great art made before 1998, right?
what kind of index is Gigablast using?
traditional inverted index like Lucene or something more esoteric?

I know Google and Bing both use weird data-structure like BitFunnel

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/bitfunn...
> I know Germany has a mixed system but it seems to me that socialized medicine keeping costs down slowly erodes care.

You can see this happening in Canada too. We have a hybrid system in healthcare where the majority of critical care is paid for via taxes/government subsidies however secondary/tertiary stuff is either out of pocket or through insurance agencies (prescriptions, out-patient care like physiotherapy, etc).

Over the past 20-30 years, our system has seen the typical government thought process of throwing more money at problems but not actually having someone be accountable for the actions of the government over decades. You end up with a bunch of overpaid, under-worked management at the top while the actual front-line workers suffer with low staffing, not enough beds, budget cuts for the front line but raises for management etc. etc.

Not to mention the number of students coming here for health education (doctor, nurse, specialist) - then immediately saying sayonara for another country like the US or in the case of foreign students, their home country.

I don't understand why we keep cutting healthcare budgets - one possible reason could be because corporations have slowly been taking over every aspect of society as they move faster and make smarter decisions than government officials.
It will happen. Eventually runtime / io typesafety will happen, just not yet. A good example of how this was solved in the past was Microsofts IUnknown interface where the type of a blob is determined after it is downloaded. It basically converts unknown to a type on access, but is just too heavy duty for bandwidth requirements in a runtime/JIT environment.
"X poses risk to others therefore you have no choice" is a statement that can be made for nearly any scenario. To wit:

Uncontrolled flying bodies pose additional risks when there are multiple people in the vehicle. There's also the risk of driving to begin with, for people both in and outside the vehicle.

The risks of harm to you _and_ others from crashing a car are probably higher at this point than that of a vaxxed person getting seriously ill from covid.

But anyway the point I was making was to refute GP's statement that seat belt laws and the pushback around them are the same as for the vax mandates. They are not, because the vax is permanent, and the consequences for non-compliance much higher. The fact that you can't "take the vax off" is part of these stakes that are not the same.
Windows 7 had a "loudness equalizer" that was basically just a limiter, and that made my computer my my go-to for watching movies. It still exists in Windows 10 but doesn't seem to work as universally with different devices.
It peaks though, and comes back down. Every. Single. Time. Regardless of interventions.

The real world can't sustain exponential growth for too long, other limiting factors come in to play.
I know some people who do YouTube as their career and there are people mass downvoting videos within seconds of them going live to affect their visibility.

Personally, I choose to hide both on most videos I make.
These are only COVID stats.
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Why would we believe that the incentive is materially different if copyright is 50 or 30 years rather than 100? The vast majority of earnings on a creative work are in the few decades immediately following release. Who is going "I won't write this book because it might make me money for only 30 years rather than 100"?
Yep... but politicians ban plastic straws and then brag how they're saving the planet, while those guys can do whatever they want.
I do think it is important to use the correct terminology here. This disease and the vaccines are already a huge spread of misinformation, so lets expand on the “sure” bit from this sentence a little. It is saying quite a lot:

I don’t think any expert nor any public health department is working with the goal of eradication in mind. So we should acknowledge the fact that these vaccines will probably not eradicate COVID. We will have people getting sick from COVID and we will have more COVID variants for the foreseeable future. Even after most people have been thoroughly vaccinated. And given the slow global spread of vaccines we will also probably see more lockdown measures to slow the spread of the virus beyond the current vaccine capabilities.

Now that said, remember that with the vaccines:

> we can make the virus largely irrelevant in terms of its impact on peoples lives. We can reduce the number of people who suffer long term consequences, the number of deaths, and the load on hospitals. We can make it harder for new, more dangerous, variants to arise.
I haven't checked, but I think your understanding is correct. Even if it's not, here's a good explanation https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
My story is very similar to yours. As a result, I am also reluctant to get the booster because I do not have a support system whereby I can have another severe reaction that causes me to be incapable of helping the people who depend on me every single day.

I am working on getting my mother in law to be on call to stay with us for a 10-14 day period, if need be, so that I can get the booster. It's quite ridiculous.

All of that having been said, I know that I need it.
Yes the vaccine doesn't kill it, but what would kill it is a REAL lock down.

Give everyone 2 months of salary, and 2 months of food. Nationalize food production for a month, give everyone shelf stable terrible food, the same crap that the majority of the anti-vaxxers have been hoarding for decades.

Its like a pretend apocalypse. They should LOVE it.
I feel like any linter would complain about line length before you needed to worry about line length on the monitor lol..but hey if it works for you!
There are more vaccinated people than not, and people with prior health conditions are more likely to be vaccinated so it's not surprising they would be represented in the ITU population.
The problem (as usual) with non outcome based testing is that the process is more important than the result.
It's generally considered impossible to eradicate a pathogen that can survive in "reservoirs" among wild animals, which this virus can.
self-limiting by death?
ARM works very, very closely with the Linux kernel. The issues with updated code in the kernel isn't because of ARM CPU IP.
Vaccinations are too leaky to "make this virus extinct". Within a few months of vaccination, half or more of people can get mild, but still transmissable, cases of Delta. (Omicron is likely worse; there are already multiple reports of mild cases among those with recent 3rd booster shots.)

Honest epidemiologists have been warning about this risk since 2020, and more forcefully when confirmed by early vax results in 2021. But many people are still on the warpath against the unvaxed, as if that can make a difference.

Well, it can for the unvaxed themselves – winning them a less-severe case.

But every vaxed person is going to be exposed to, and have mild cases of, COVID – via waning immunity & multiplying variants. There is no net increase in protection from harassing the last ~15% (a more honest count of hardcore holdouts) into a vax they don't want. (Most of them have probably had COVID already, or soon will, giving them an immunity just as good as vaccination.)
Last weekend I was at a Japanese history museum, and part of the exhibit was on 1600s-1800s medical technology.

In the 1870s, Japan had vaccine passports and kept logs of unvaccinated people in order to track them down. It was deemed a huge step forward in developing the country.

It’s interesting how some people today think mandatory vaccination is some massive, unprecedented destruction of freedom, when it’s historically nothing new and something that was essential to helping your country stay strong.
The reason that the State has historically cared about marriage is family formation. That's all.

Given that 'marriage' nowadays has nothing to do with family formation, it makes sense for the State to get out of that business.
I'm not a badass, I am just laying out a baseline: I know what I'm talking about. That's all. And no, many companies don't have 1k applicants that are qualified. They have 5000 applicants in the SF area, 4900 of them are unqualified, 80 who are qualified can't write English, of the remaining 20 candidates only 8 are still on the market once you reach them, 4 pass your filters, 2 accept a job offer, and only 1 of them shows up.

That's far more realistic. In today's world, we're not looking for jobs, jobs are looking for us. Desperately so.
This is an argument for justifying the following attacks on Kyle. Kyle acting in self defence does not imply that Huber was not acting in self defence.
> Linux has been making progress but still isn't a good alternative for the common user unless they have an expert to rely upon when something breaks down

I'd say there are 2 main problems with Linux (for non-techies, etc, etc):

1 - They are not using 'linux', they are using one of the main distros, that can have some big differences between them. That also happens with Android, BUT, people that use a Galaxy S20 will google `S20 how to xyz` without even knowing how Android differs

2 - As mentioned in other comments, setting up can be a pain. Windows have enough drivers that installing it is just a matter of putting the cd/flashdrive and clicking next-next-finish. Some big distros might have sorted that out, but then you go back to problem #1 if they are the ones having to decide on a distro

3 (bonus) - Most people don't actually benefit from having too many choices, specially from things they don't care about. Usually they will choose a smartphone by 'it looks nice, camera is good, the interface is beautiful'.

For me, sounds like this could be improved if instead of recommending Linux, we (tech folks) collectively decided on just one distro to recommend to non-technical people. But I doubt that would be possible
I tried that, but it makes fullscreen applications like games behave very oddly and inconsistently and required constant fiddling.
GEOS on a C64 with RAM expansion performed very nicely, as I remember. I found it very usable to produce computer club newsletters using GeoPublish for about a year in the late 80s. (I don't remember how big my memory expansion was, and I owned both a 1541 and a 1571-compatible floppy drives).

Of course, at the time I was simply blown away by using something that looked almost as good as a Mac, so it's possible my experience (and my memory of it) is tainted.
This might be true, but it seems commonly described as the major contributor because it's 40-70% of floating plastic and macroplastics. On the other hand, microplastics sink to the ocean bed.
https://hillnotes.ca/2020/01/30/ghost-fishing-gear-a-major-s...
I'm not sure which has more environmental impact.
Pulumi isn't "built on terraform", that's a common misconception. See here: https://www.leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2021/11/06/pulumi-faqs.html
In the past, I could code using a 10px font size on a laptop. Now I'm only 30 and have to use 18px and 22px to be comfortable along with a pair of eyeglasses.

My current setup for optimal comfort and productivity is three large 4k monitors, one of them rotated.

Accessibility is also a reason for using multiple monitors.
Very interesting article, learned a lot, and looking forward to the fruitful discussion!
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Solution in D for Advent of Code 2021, Day 2
See Xcode Cloud for example: running on qemu (w/ a linux host) on Ice Lake server Xeons.
I see that you are pretty active here in debunking anti-RISC-V attacks, thanks for that!
There are a bunch of poor criticisms about RISC-V.

> This is something you've been told elsewhere in the discussion, but that you chose to ignore, for reasons unknown.

I would call it RISC-V bashing.

Everyone loves to hate RISC-V, probably because it's new and heavily hyped.

It is really common to see irrelevant and uninformed criticism about RISC-V.
The article, which seems to be enjoyed by the HN audience, literally says: "I believe that an average computer science student could come up with
a better instruction set that Risc V in a single term project".
How can anyone say such a thing about a collaborative project of more than 10 years, fed by many scientific works and projects and many companies in the industry?

I do not mean that RISC-V is perfect, there are some points which are source of debate (e.g. favoring a vector extension rather than the classic SIMD is a source of interesting discussion).
But I would appreciate on HN to read better analysis and more interesting discussions.
You are mixing up integer register size and instruction length.

RISC-V has variants with 32 bit, 64 bit, or (not yet fully specified or implemented) 128 bit registers.

RISC-V has instructions of length 32 bits and, optionally but almost universally, 16 bit length.
When I read this piece, I feel like a lot of these behaviors come back to rent-seeking. Here's a perspective on ways we might be able to transcend rent-seeking, to different ways of work:

https://rebrand.ly/end-of-rent

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The retro idea of curation seems popular here but everybody forgets why it lost out in the first place. It just doesn't scale in the first place. Not to mention demands - people usually want tools which lower mental effort and are intuitive as opposed to ones which are precise but in an obtuse metric. Most would not find a hardware mouse that consisted of two keypads for X and Y coordinates and a left click and right click button very useful.

Similarly everyone maintaining your their own index is cumbersome overkill in redundancy, processing power, and human effort in return for a stunted network graph which is worse for all metrics people usually actually care about. In terms of catching on even "antipattern search engines" that attempt to create an ideological echo chamber would probably catch on better.

Short of search engine experiments/start up attempts the only other useful application I can see is "rude web-spidering" which deliberately disrespects all requests to not index pages left publicly accessible as search engines generally try not to be good tools for cracker wardriving for PR and liability reasons. It would be a good whitehat or greyhat tool as doors secured by politeness only are not secure.
Unfortunately, that wouldn't really help long term, because the disease has spread through animal populations by now.

The only way to reliably stop this from being an ongoing pandemic is measures that reduce the R-value below 1 in a long-term manner, like mass vaccinations.
Life Goes On
I'd only choose "verdade" if its opposite is "mentira". Otherwise, I'd go with "verdadeiro", which goes better with "falso".
The Great Inflation Migration
See my other comment; it was highly usable and I was productive with it creating newsletters.
COVID fear creates that sort of warped fantasy. But few nations are totalitarian enough to carry that out.

And large reservoirs of COVID would remain in wild animals, and other countries, and groups (like the elites & their children, or remote communities) that can't practically be forced to comply.
It is mentioned enough by the media. Thank you.

But it seems strange to realize that people don't want to do a job where you have to watch people die like flies over the course of two to three weeks. No money in the world makes that acceptable for many.

With the availability of the vaccines (at least in the developed world) this has become a pandemic of the uninformed know-it-alls ("Querdenker" = Crooked thinker, as they are call here). If you work on an ICU to rescue people that tell you that this is all a scam by the Pharma-Industrial Complex, you would want to quit.

It is not the media's fault where we are now, nor are the politicians (entirely) to blame. At least half the blame should be frankly put on social media disinformation and the usual tabloid press (Springer/Bild) that fabricate Fox-News style lies.
Waiting for other alternatives. Thank you guys for the sharing.
Which is why the parent said that it would be good for RISC-V processors, not for ARM processors.
Just to clarify on the 2G / 3G labels, since I don't think it's 100% clear in your comment:

2G is recovered (PCR-validated infection in past 6 months) or vaccinated

3G is that or (quick-)tested

2G+ is 2G and tested (exception: I've once earlier seen it used for 2G or PCR-tested)

Quick-tests at test centers (which are all over the place) were free for residents for a long time, then that got removed (IMHO a mistake), then made free again.

Actual proper checking of requirements was pretty terrible for a long time, from what I hear that's gotten a bit better.
this!! It's unbelievable that these wealthy western countries find "cheaper" to stop their economy than to build few more hospitals, beds and employ / pay more these guys running this. It's hundreds, maybe thousands, of billions wasted in Germany alone, versus. no idea but definitely not hundreds of billions to increase the ICU capacity to keep the economy open no matter what.
Thanks for explaining!
But how about this example:

x:42
{x+1}[5]

It results in

6

It seems like you can define variables with the name 'x', but when you do not have explicit parameters, then the identifier 'x' is used to refer to the first implicit parameter, y - for second and z - for the third parameter. In context of implicit parameters x, y and z acts like predefined keywords.
Over 42,000 Adverse Reaction Reports Revealed in First Batch of Pfizer Vax Docs
"More than 25,000 of the events were classified as "Nervous system disorders.""
I believe the article is an example of overthinking.

If you think so much about an issue without the right data you will get wrong conclusions. In other words, garbage in, garbage out, no matter how smart(how good your processing unit is) you are. This woman looks intellectually smart, emotionally dumb and immature.

This woman had a pathological relationship and generalizes over it. She is projecting that relationship over everyone, and that is a serious mistake.

In spite of being an adult woman she has a "victim mentality" and a tendency to create a "self fulfilling prophecy" because healthy people will avoid her like the plague.

People that had a healthy relationship with their parents or people in general does not want or need to deal with people that consider every one else an abuser, just because they were abused by someone.

If your father rapes you your mind will associate all men as rapists because he is the most important man in your life. But that is wrong.

If your parents are enemies inside marriage with a terrible relationship you will generalize all marriages as bad because it it the marriage that you know better. But that is wrong.

The way to deal with long lasting traumas is working on it emotionally, not rationally and usually over a long time too until you can make progress.
Renters vote at far lower rates than home owners. This leads to not particularly surprising outcomes...
Your story reminds of a research seminar I attended where one of my finance professors pointed out a flaw in the economic argument made by the speaker. The speaker, who is a noted finance researcher, confidently said that the professor was wrong because a paper by A, B, and C had shown otherwise. My prof replied that perhaps the speaker was misinterpreting A, B, and C's results. At this point, another professor chimed in and gently informed the speaker that he was talking to B who is a co-author on the paper by A, B, and C! I don't remember the reaction of the speaker much but I recall that he handled it in a dignified way and backtracked from his claim.
No they are not. If you can declare a state emergency in the name of public health without quantifying it in any way, and bypassing any forms of debates or elections or votes (one expert said something), that's for sure not a democracy.
I'd be more open to getting vaccinated when I see people actively making use of hand sanitizers in stores. When people learn to cover their whole faces with their masks. When they learn to keep distance. Vaccinated people who are old, sick or born with bad luck in the genetic lottery are still at risk. Vaccination doesn't mean people can go back to doing whatever they want.
The vaccination itself can be a risk to certain individuals too. It's ludicrous to expect everyone to get the shot for the rest of their lives and call that situation a success because "at least everyone is vaccinated".

If you want to force vaccination, start with the people that have a history of covid infection. Why piss the people off that have been actively avoiding to come into contact with the virus and carrying it around?
~250 Candidates? Sure mate, I'd be surprised if at the end of your application process 5 of them remain and are still available.

Companies are having a very hard time finding software engineers. For the first time in the history of the market, employee retention budgets are skyrocketing because recruiting is so expensive and hard. It's not rare to hear software engineers getting a sudden 30% raise out of the blue.

Because they know we're in high demand, and they know that if we switch jobs we'll get a 30% raise, at a minimum.
Possibly, but I'm not convinced.

Google's not exactly working against the echo chamber problem, and I think that's because to do so would be to work against its own reason for existing. There are two goals here that are fundamentally at odds with each other:

1) Finding what you're looking for.

2) Finding a new perspective on something.

A search engine's job is to address the first challenge: finding something that the user is looking for. The search engine might end up serving both needs if they're looking for a new perspective on something, but if these two goals ever come into conflict with each other the search engine does (and I would argue it should) choose the first goal. Failing to do so will just lead to people ignoring the results.
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The high rates of breakthroughs mean even very-highly-vaxxed populations have had case surges. Rt is going to oscillate around 1, forever.