skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Marriage is not a religious practice.

I, of course, agree with you in principle. However much of the controversy is around the religious aspect -- ie some religions have a narrow definition of marriage which we've codified into law.

part of me wonders if it would be smarter for us to cede the terminology to the religious and just remove "marriage" as a term from the government and instead normalize another term, perhaps but not necessarily "civic partnership". Once we recognize the part that government should be involved with we can start to remove all religious connotations because it's not the <term> that we're "attacking".

Christians want to say marriage is exactly a man and woman w/ a clergyman ? Fine they can do that inside their building because that's not a legal thing. But if a Christian wants to say "civic partnership" is a specific thing, well that's too bad because they dont get to define law (at least not directly).
The original title was "Risc V greatly underperforms", which seems like a far more defensible and less inflammatory claim than "Risc V is a terrible architecture", which was picked from the actual message but still isn't the title.
Dude what is the matter with you. Did you really just try to rationalize a grown man hitting a child with a skateboard as being done half-heartedly?

Anyone stupid enough to charge someone carrying a weapon is not the kinda person you wanna take a chance being in close proximity with. You expect him to just stand there and take a beating? Or try to talk it out while the mob is threatening to kill him. How much time should he spend analyzing the situation?

Feel free to stand around and get beat down by a mob while you try to explain yourself. I think the rest of us would rather deal with a jury.
So your vaccination only works if others are vaccinated too?

That sounds like you're getting scammed,bro
The manager would be the one telling the story, with the patron being the confidently-incorrect character in said story.

Meme-wise, the "loser" of the exchange doesn't go on the recite the story. Then again, I love to tell my friends stories about the times I was the idiot. But I generally don't announce them to the universe.
Feel bad for the people buying these courses without realizing that people like us are working every day to optimize away their jobs.
I don't know much about virology. Is it possible for variants to 'blend'?

It sounds like Omicron has a number of variations vs Delta and other major variants.

Is it possible that someone who is simultaneously infected with both Delta and Omicron to generate virus particles that utilize proteins from both variants in the same viral particle?

If this can occur, would the genome of those viral particles get blended together, or would it just carry the genome of one or the other variants?

i.e. would co-infection of multiple variants simultaneously increase mutation rate, or could hybrid variants appear?
I find advice, of all types, is best considered as an idea. Perhaps packaged as a "best practice" or slanted towards "truth" by virtue of the messenger. But like all ideas, it's just something to consider. It's ultimately up to you to decide if it's applicable or realistic to your specific circumstances. So my advice is don't follow anyone's advice but just consider it.
>All of the current histrionics that we hear from DeFi advocates regarding escaping the evil centralized Banks and Regulators and what not...

>so they usually propose a hard fork, or a rewrite in <new frontend framework>

Sometimes you hard fork. We used to compute ballistic trajectory by hand. Huge rooms of "human computers". We did this until a better way presented itself then we hard forked because actual computers did the job much better.

In addition most pragmatic project runners(Kraken, Coinbase, etc.) use the blockchain and the traditional financial system together. Many serious DeFI projects(e.g. stablecoins) do the same. I think its clear that anyone serious about DeFi knows they have to start with the financial system where it is today.

I think what you are stating is a bit reductive.
Feb. 2020

> We must recognize with clear mind the butterfly effect, broken windows effect, and snowball effect triggered by this event, and the unprecedented challenge that it has posed to our online opinion management and control work.

> All Cyberspace Administration bureaus must pay heightened attention to online opinion, and resolutely control anything that seriously damages party and government credibility and attacks the political system ...

Interesting to search for "Daszak" on ycombinator itself, who was used early on as a Chinese propaganda mouthpiece.

Check the lab-leak discussions and when you wonder about a user, check if they were dormant/hacked accounts re-activated, or created in late 2019. Check how knowledgeable they are about Nuclear Engineering and how they all moved to Germany or Canada as a foreign student. Check if they know specific details about Asia/HK/China to counterargument. Check if they show up with negative comments if Tesla or Amazon is discussed. Check the order of comments in these threads to spot a pattern. Check if the top comment addresses the issue, or proposes a derail or invokes whataboutism. Check for how long you feel like reading the top comment thread, before clicking away. Check which comments were flagged. Check how long the article remained on the frontpage.

May be more massive than we could envision.
MAN I'm glad you posted this...with OS/@ and DesqViewX posts, I kept wracking my brain trying to remember this one.

It's dot-matrix 'laser quality' mode went over each line 6 times...so wasteful, so pretty.
> They remind me of what I hear from junior developers when they're tasked with fixing an antiquated, broken software system.

You're not wrong, but since you're on HN they should also remind you of the entire startup ecosystem and the reason for its existence.

Talented people often find they can't get anything done in huge, bureaucratic organizations. Cutting through layers upon layers of red tape and getting chains of approvals to build something new and better, is slow, frustrating, and life-sucking.

It's worse when there are people whose approvals are necessary who benefit in some way from the current status quo, and thus are incentivized to preserve and protect it.

Thus, talented people often leave and start startups primarily to get out of that environment, move fast, and build without permission or restriction.

It's the same for cryptocurrency, nobody in their right mind wants to try to fix the financial system from within, and there are too many incumbents who benefit from the status quo, it's just a waste of time and life.

PS - Disclaimer, I estimate only about 10% of DeFi projects are worth anything, but that's the nature of things - you can't have the signal without the noise.
Maybe I'm not understanding what you want exactly, but it sounds like what i3 and Sway already do. Workspaces are created as needed and are specific to that monitor, so if workspace 3 is on the right monitor, you can jump to it with super-3 even if you're on the left monitor. You'd be looking at workspace 3 on the right monitor plus another workspace like 1 or 2 on the left. Each monitor displays a separate workspace which can be changed without affecting the other.

You can also define rules in the config so that certain programs will open in certain workspaces every time, and you can move the whole workspace to the other monitor (not a default keybind iirc) if desired. Good in a portrait+landscape monitor setup for if you need your browser to be wider for a little bit.
Does it help to do this:

Preferences -> Tabs -> Uncheck "Show color in tab bar"
Problem is that people I'm talking about can't divorce not liking something from accepting something as a thing. They would look for 'evidence' that it doesn't exist, harmful or a product of a conspiracy. They don't use scientific method, they are not looking for facts, they are looking for confirmation of their preconceived notions using biased search engine queries or by hanging around in their bubbles. People like that don't have a habit of changing their opinions, that's who I'm talking about.
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Good example! Forgot about that one. I guess that's a bit more of hidden identity than expertise though.
CI is what comes to mind. If you want to run tests or build artifacts on a Mac every time any developer pushes a commit, you really need something remote rather than a physical device on your desk.
I don't think anyone posting here has actually read the linked article to the end.
Giving a candidate set of moves that results in a checkmate does not prove that said checkmate was forced. I can provide a candidate set of moves that results in a checkmate after 3 moves (the classic Blitzkrieg), and certainly you can verify that in polynomial time, but that does not mean that it's possible to force a checkmate in 3 moves.

To the best that anyone knows, for a generalized chess board of size WxW, to demonstrate that a checkmate can be forced in at most N moves, you'd need a candidate set of almost every possible sequence of N moves. You can prune some sequences, but not enough to bring the size of the candidate set down to something that can be verified in polynomial time.

Chess, depending on how you generalize it, belongs to EXPTIME.
> Eh, that's pretty obviously untrue under any reasonable definition of "competent Federal Reserve"

It's not obvious. Is any central bank that debases currency through money printing without some kind of fixed peg/ratio to a scarce asset competent?

No. This is self-evidently true as, by doing so, they are perniciously taxing the savings of the poor in order to feather the nests of the (asset-)rich.

There is no avoiding the truth of this inviolable fact as Cantillion himself described many years ago.
If you want to use a TV as a computer monitor, you should make sure that your TV doesn't do chroma subsampling. Otherwise text is noticeably off.
My Samsung Ultrawide has a 3840x1080 resolution. Once or twice it's been misdetected as normal horizontal resolution, when switching PIP off. I suspect you've been the victim of a driver/host issue.
Per the article, an example would be if the movie were incorrectly mastered (overly loud or quiet) and therefore the movie manager took it upon themselves to correct for that via theater settings.
A bit off topic, but when did a DWORD implicitly become 64bits?
I agree with your characterization of the dependency graphs, but I don't see how that changes the calculus. Let's say in both cases you're copying a tarball of dependencies onto your friend's AIX machine--why is it harder to copy a tarball with a few large dependencies rather than a tarball with more small dependencies (I also posit that the Rust tarball would be smaller because you're less likely to be bringing in things you don't need--e.g., think of all the things curl does versus a straightforward HTTP lib)?
You might have a point if the vaccine fully prevented transmission or infection, but it doesn't.
> I think that the whole "Windows is good for common users" idea is very outdated nowadays, it might have been the case a decade or so ago, but it certainly isn't anymore.

I agree with you, but I think that "for common users" pretty much all OSes are interchangeable these days anyways. The biggest headache for most folks isn't the occasional need to resort to an expert (which they'd always have to do), but the unnecessary headache of learning the quirks of a different OS. Easier to just stick with what you know, which is usually Windows.
I like having separate sync for work vs home. So I use different browsers for each. Any other suggestions for keeping things separate?
Honestly, ARM is fine. They're no longer the only game in town, but they've still got a huge head start.
Hey yuchi! What are you working on irt courses on web dev? I'm also working on something similar see https://codeamigo.dev. Wonder if we could collaborate!
Training an ICU nurse takes about 5 years. The only realistic option during the pandemic would be to encourage immigration of ICU nurses from poorer countries, but that just moves the problem elsewhere.
Note that this is not a paper. The AHA just published all the abstracts of a recent conference. This is not my area, but in other areas the peer review of this kind of things is very weak.

I wrote a more detailed and accurate comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421510
> Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy.

Everyone is getting richer, as for greedier..

> Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society.

The socially responsible company movement is now a thing. Most companies now care about the environment and their employees to a point that was unheard of decades ago, even if only because of PR.

> Or, people who are in it for society tend to lose or to get screwed until they give up.

And yet there’s a market for doing good things. The number of NGOs is in all time highs.

> Artists really don't get enough of a reward for all the benefit they provide.

What? Artists have never had it easier. From spotify to patreon, or even youtube. Distributing and monetizing has never been easier.

> Big banks and big governments really do nonspecifically just suck a lot.

Suckness is non-surprisingly tied to government. The closest a market is to government the more it sucks.

> The gap between the haves and have-nots keeps widening.

The statistics say otherwise

> You can't hope to run an Internet service unless you pay out a fraction to one of the Big Cloud Providers, just like you couldn't run software without paying IBM and then Microsoft, back in those days.

On premise is still a thing.

> delivering less per dollar, gigahertz, gigabyte, or watt.

Except compute has never been more efficient.

> We even pay 30% margins to App Stores mainly so they can not let us download apps that are "too dangerous."

We pay them for curating and maintaining a system that’s working for millions of people.

> IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjoy your ransomware.

When wasn’t it that way? Were you around the days of the “ping of death”?

> Everything about modern business is designed to funnel money, faster and faster, to a few people who have demonstrated they can be productive. This totally works, up to a point.

Citation needed

> But we've now reached the extreme corner cases of capitalism. Winning money is surely a motivator, but that motivation goes down the more you have. Eventually it simply stops mattering at all.

Call me crazy, but once I’ve covered my expenses and built a safety net, I’d rather slow down, enjoy my life, spend time with my family… That you see a negative there somehow is baffling to me.
God I wish we (Brits) could do that.
Differences in Attitudes Towards AI-Related Privacy, Trust Between Japan and UK
I use subtitles all the time because I can't filter out the sounds easily.

There's a baseline assumption with a lot of "high quality" movies and television that every member of the audience has perfectly working senses. The sad fact is "low quality" reality TV is much more accessible. Sporting events are also a lot easier because you can hear the people talking clearly.

For a more concrete example Star Trek: Discovery is difficult for me to hear and follow everything, whereas the older TV series and the new the animated ones are much easier.
Upgrading MySQL at Shopify
I'm fairly sure most Mac users are running non-M1 hardware, and that will continue for a few more years.

Even the earliest M1 Air has been out for less time than most people's laptop replacement time, and MBP users are very unlikely to have an M1 MBP yet.

Assuming that's correct, exclusively targeting M1 implies ignoring most potential customers for a few years to come.
The spectre of exponential spread is summoned way too often. Yes, an epidemic spreads exponentially when it starts, but also it's self limiting after a while. The 4th wave is wearing of already. Every wave so far has worn off in every country, with our without measures. As a recent example, compare Latvia and Estonia in the past few months. The former imposed strict measures, while the latter didn't, and yet the two curves match very closely.
Looking up will be a bigger problem for neck and will strain the eyes more.

The upper edge of the display should be on eye level: humans are much more comfortable looking down than up.
> The reason I hear consistently is that people want to preserve their way of life and quality of life

With all the homeless people in the city I'm not sure why they would want to preserve that.
People who aren't "nerds" don't know whether an application is using unnecessary resources. They just think their computer is slow and they need a new one.
As a foreigner living in Germany I could live with it if there were otherwise sound measures, but it's mostly been a bunch of wishful thinking. There was a rush last summer to open everything up despite it being relatively clear it was way too early and a lot of people really understood it as "corona is over". Even this I could understand, but this year they do the same thing again! Surprise, surprise that there is a record wave now. People have mostly given up and follow no rules other than the most basic ones (masks etc).

I am also starting to think this country is not really built to work in a crisis like this. Regulations are maybe good in general, but this tendency to regulate every possible detail does not work when you have to change the rules every month because almost nobody really knows how to fix this.
"Runs heavily afoul of the common mono repo criticism that, just because you can commit the infra update with the software, does not mean they magically deploy together."

Yeah funny you mention this, as the idea of vending infra resources as a common package runs into the issue of how to know if every consumer will be able to successfully ingest updates. From there you have the issue of "blast radius", how to handle rollbacks, etc. The complexity goes up, and now you have a problem. I think the answer is very sophisticated build systems, as well as CI/CD pipelines, which Amazon has. Upfront the team pushing changes can know if the deployment will work, before it gets to production. But this requires a huge amount of tooling, which I don't think most companies have. It also requires alot of cloud expertise.

"I guess the main question I have is what makes this different from any other abstraction?"

For one its all unit testable, with type completion (CDK is generally done in Typescript). The code has to compile, you can diff the new infra with the current infra and see whats changing. You have version control. You can use other design patterns from other teams, much like you would for OOP code, except now its infrastructure. A queue is just a variable in a CDK code base. It demotes infrastructure from a complex thing to manage, into something like a code variable.
I don't think I've ever spelled environment correctly!
Branch delay slots are an artifact of a simple pipeline without speculation. There's nothing inherently "bad" about them.
-“an entirely negated search query” at DuckDuckGo
Check out Total Spaces (https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/) for Mac. I use this with dual monitors and love that each monitor can have its own virtual desktop.

I have my left monitor as a communications hub. It has only one virtual screen. I also keep my browser there.

I have a 3x3 grid on the right hand monitor.
Alpha (aka b.1.1.7) causes S-dropout on the PCR test: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248814v...

Omicron also causes s-dropout: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59460252
No country in the world has the capacity to take care of more than “a couple thousand” ICU patients (well, it’s more like a couple of ten thousand ICU patients for the best equipped and richest large countries in the world, like Germany). Simply because “a couple thousand” is all that’s needed during ordinary times.

Yeah, there are issues with staffing and inadequate payment of the staff, sure, and those problems are long-standing and unresolved, but even if they were solved that wouldn’t be much of a help.

We would then maybe talk about a couple thousand (here in the literal sense) beds in terms of increasing ICU capacity, if that (simply because it’s not as though Germany’s existing ICU capacity is somehow ridiculously small, it’s quite large, actually if you put it in context and adding a couple thousand beds would be a massive increase). That would be helpful but wouldn’t really solve the underlying problem.

And either way: Increasing ICU capacity right now is not a solution. It’s completely misguided. Not least of which because it takes forever to increase capacity. You have to train people for that …

Unvaccinated people are to blame for this, but especially cowardly politicians who were too frightened to start implementing vaccination mandates right away (summer 2021), as soon as it was clear that you cannot reach good enough vaccination numbers just based on pleas alone.

We do have a solution for this and the solution is vaccination. However, in the very short term even that won’t be good enough, we need to break the 4th wave and for that contact reduction is necessary (and already happening).

Think about time frames.

Contact reduction, will show its effects within a couple weeks, vaccination mandates plus a logistical push for booster vaccinations, will show their effects within one month to three months, making healthcare more resilient in general, will show its effects within a couple of years, maybe a decade.
I regret going into web dev, should've stayed desktop
At the moment I have triple 24" 16:10 1920x1200 monitors in portrait with my laptop to the side on a mount.

I find this can be advantageous to my current monitoring/programming setup as I can split the 3 monitors horizontally into 6 "zones".

For the IDEs and what I am working on, this works great. But unfortunately monitor makers are no longer making 16:10 external displays. My dream display would be a 42" 6k 5760x3600 or 8k 7680x4800 (flat or slightly curved). As this would give ample real estate for full screen apps, the ability to work on IDEs that don't like multiple monitors, high pixel density for crisp text, and splitting into multiple zones.
Strengthening Our Efforts Against the Spread of Non-Consensual Intimate Images
After quick searching, seems like screen arbitrary rotation and positioning can't be done in macOS.
Anthem had another breach in 2015 [1]. Offered free credit monitoring then as well.

They were sued and settled in 2017 [2].

[1] https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/topic/the-breach-of-a...
[2] https://www.businessinsurance.com/article/00010101/NEWS06/91...
Usually folks on HN are mad when they cater to the masses and ignore the 0.1% power-users. Can't win.
The daily death rate is at around 100 people per day and that's "100 people dying within 28 days of a positive COVID test" - a meaningless statistic that does not tell you a single thing.

Plus, the stats only show deaths with covid on the certificate. That means they could have died from something else.

This whole thing is a farce. A charade.

Make no mistake: they're coming for your children.

Also, there are approximately 450 deaths per day from cancer - where is the government push to fix that?[1]

[1] - https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Somewhat accurate. A 9mm Luger fired out of a 16 inch barrel will have better terminal ballistics then when fired out of a 4 inch barrel. Yes, actual bullet design matters a lot too, but rifles are much more ergonomic for distance shooting, and I'd argue that makes a lot more difference.

Also depends on your definition of "at range". 300m? 1000m?