skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is not a given.

True, should've said "much more likely".

> The virus is known to mutate more in unvaccinated hosts and this can make either more contagious or more lethal variations.

Of course vaccinated and unvaccinated can produce largely the same mutations. But that's not the point.

As I said, it's the evolutionary pressure which is the problem. If two people, one vaccinated and one not, get the same mutation, then maybe it's a strain which is dangerous enough for the unvaccinated person to go be sick in bed for a week. (Yes, incubation period - but that's the same both ways so it doesn't change the probabilities.) In this case, then because the vaccine mitigates the symptoms, the vaccinated person can go on with their daily life while sick with that more dangerous strain.

The fact that both groups produce similar mutations isn't the point, it's that the people have different reactions to the virus which changes how the mutations are able to spread.

It's not that there's a lower viral load. It's that the vaccinated are transmitting at all which is the problem, because there's no pressure for them to go be sick in bed when they're carrying around a mutation which could kill someone.
Dude, I use your engine regularly, it is spectacular. The amount of work you put into this takes some dedication.

I was curious if you ever intend to implement OpenSearch API so that we could use it as default in browser or embed it in applications?

Also how can people contribute to help you maintain a larger index and/or keep the service going?
> we can't trust leaders who lie all the time

This is applicable to every issue we face as a society, but most people ignore most major issues most of the time. There's something else going on with this pandemic and the vaccines. It's been extremely politicized, in part due to the social/political context it started in. It's sad that we can't all come together to figure out the best course of action. Instead, wearing or not wearing a mask, for example, has become an overtly political act.

Also, let's say everyone in the U.S. had gotten vaccinated as early as possible, by last July or thereabouts, what would the impact of that have been? Things were opening back up, and then the Delta wave hit. Perhaps if 90%+ had been vaccinated we wouldn't have had to shut back down again (although it wasn't really a shutdown this time, since pretty much everything is still open).
Don't conflate 'anti-vax' with 'anti-vax-mandate'. The two positions have entirely different scientific and moral bases. I would think the second group is also much larger.
What was the name of your band?
I’m excited for project mainline from google, maybe they can make a good generic kernel for all ARM processors.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-project-mainline-modu...
> Today’s landlords are descended from a long line of landlords, lords, warlords, and eventually just assholes who said, “get off this piece of earth or I will murder you, it’s mine now.”

What prevents anyone from being a landlord?

If it's capital, what prevents someone from seeking capital?
Why should a 70 year old's same work product be worth much less than a 20 year old's? It should just be a period of time, with possibly exponentially increasing renewal fees so funds go into the common good the more the public domain is deprived.
This is awesome. Interfacing with the second stage at common hardpoints to the Satellite bus removes a tonne! of mass. Hardpoints and distributing there loads across a vehicle skin end up weighing more than the skin itself. Love it all!
The alternative would be doing it with some honesty. The measures don't work, but they were a nice attempt.
Related: Counterpart, television show from Starz that is now on Prime. Germany, a flu virus, and espionage are the top themes. Made just before the Pandemic, starring JK Simmons. Spooky foreshadows a lot of the mask mandates, vaccines, and anti-germ mentality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpart_(TV_series)
I am vaxed but… this reminds of the abortion argument. If one is against allowing someone right to bodily autonomy (remain unvaccinated) because then exercising that right could lead to the suffering and/or death of another, then that person ought to also be against abortion, as there should be no right to bodily autonomy in that event either, given that the death of another is guaranteed.

Yet on the left we have many who anti-anti-vax while pro-abortion. I don’t understand the consistency of that position.
> It has some effect

No.

> You think that people on the left want to help the environment solely to anger the right?

He never said that, and I doubt you have psychic powers.

Environmentalists have always favored ideology over effectiveness.

It is more important to show their friends that they are "doing the work", even though the actual results are almost always worse for the environment.

Seventy years of environmentalists fighting against nuclear power is why most of the US is still powered by coal. Bad for atmospheric carbon, bad for the nation, but great if you make your money from NGOs.
Can deep learning help mathematicians build intuition?
Yes, not at all. For young kids flu is way worse.
They've changed the definition to obfuscate this very important point.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

>Definition of anti-vaxxer

>: a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination
This is a Trolley Car problem: you're going to kill someone: do you flip the switch to kill the baby, or let the Trolley plow through the crowd of people?

Now you know why Philosophy professors teach this problem in Philosophy 101.
No I think politicians don’t give a shit and gravitate towards issues that won’t get them in trouble with actual groups (like regulating industrial fishing waste) and are visible to their constituents and get their constituents motivated. Nothing motivating like a polarizing issue that your voters can argue about. And given the political landscape and how people get elected, the only way you win is by focusing on bullshit issues people can argue about.

> Do pickup truck owners roll coal on cyclists because they think cyclists are out there riding just to shove that fact in their face? That they are putting all that physical effort as virtue signaling?

Do you think the kind of person that does this has another more enlightened reason?
“Gigablast has teamed up with Imperial Family Companies to create a next generation private search engine, private.sh.”

Imperial Family Companies are the people who essentially destroyed [1] the freenode IRC network, aren’t they?

[1] https://netsplit.de/networks/history/top10_2021u.png
> Using all of Windows, macOS, and Linux in a typical day makes you an extreme outlier.

Sure? I just wanted to make note of something I think is great and underrated about Electron. The outlier-y nature of that something is exactly why my next paragraph starts with "More broadly,".

> Widely used doesn't mean popular. Teams for example. Many widely used Electron apps are chosen by employers. Or are free and have network effects. Or became dominant as native apps and have a moat.

> Arq went back to native because users hated the Electron version. Slack users who see Ripcord say the company should hire the developer. I almost never hear anything positive about the Spotify app.

VS Code and Discord are the big ones that come to mind as both widely used and widely preferred by their users.

I don't think the fact that it's possible to build shitty applications in Electron is very interesting, since that's true of every other UI framework. Neither does the fact that some people actively dislike e.g. VS Code contradict the fact that a great many people like it very much and independently choose to use it.

> Do you claim Electron apps have fewer sketchy practices?

I'm not sure where you think I claimed this, but since you asked: I think sketchy practices are common throughout the consumer software industry, and I don't think there's anything about Electron that forces developers using it to implement sketchy practices.

If they do, that's on them. And since Electron is so common in consumer software these days, I'd caution you to remember that correlation does not imply causation.
Yes, I couldn't pin down the exact terms - thanks.
I don't think there's even a protocol handler that would start connection without confirmation.
Because it's not surprising if the more senior one knows - there's an expectation that they should know more than the less senior person.

So it's not an interesting anecdote the other way around.
I will pass on the derogatory comments.

Except that it doesn’t look like the vaccine is doing much to prevent transmissions. The UK has been near 90% vaccinated since this summer, and despite that it experiences a high number of cases, of the same order of magnitude than pre-vaccination. And it seems to be the same in other high vaccination countries.

Also if you are vulnerable and unvaccinated, you own the risk.

The only thing vaccines seem to be efficient at is reducing hospitalisations, which at the end of the day is what matters.
> I’m struggling to understand how this merger would eliminate competition, consolidate the market, and put consumers at risk of harm.

Uh, how about this: NVIDIA raises the licensing fees substantially. NVIDIA won’t have to pay the licensing fee if they own Arm, which would expand their profit margin at the expense of Arm licensees, and raise prices for consumers.

Or they could refuse to license Arm IP to current licensees.

Both of these scenarios are pretty obvious.
You may not be that far off from the truth. It took me a paid course (though, admittedly at a deep discount and for basically no money for a professional) to understand the purpose of the VPC section of the AWS control panel. And a while later, to understand why the items on the left-hand side are grouped in such a seemingly nonsensical way.

Now that I know this complexity, I can't unlearn it. But for everyone else, I would just recommend Digital Ocean, Scaleway or Hetzner.
You mean why nobody doubled hospital capacity? (Easier said than done, and doesn't buy you much at all?)

Or why exponential growth didn't happen? (It did?)

Or why hospitals were never at capacity? (Because measures were taken to prevent specifically that exact scenario?)
Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD probably lobbying FTC against this deal.
Rocket Lab unveils details of new reusable Neutron launcher
It's a cranky programmer yelling into an email pillow for a bit.
Your reference undermines your claim. From your reference:

>In this review, observational studies appeared to show protection to be higher following infection.
This data is compiled by professional statisticians.

Deaths aren't evenly distributed throughout the year. High-traffic seasons will cause a spike, very cold or hot weather, etc. So month-by-month comparison is reasonable. Doing that also shows in the graphs when the waves hit various countries.

I agree, it's missing the standard deviation though. (But again, look at the graphs, you'll see a difference of 10, perhaps 20% fluctuating around zero, and then suddenly a wave of 60,80,100% more deaths. It's unlikely a coincidence.
Why not? I met a sound engineer who'd worked most large venues in the US, and for pretty much every 80s rock group on tour... as my Uber driver from the Indianapolis airport. It was his retirement gig. Owning a theater seems fun, if you were in the film-making industry for your career.

(And if you were curious, because of course I asked: Apparently indoor sports stadiums are the absolute worst for concert acoustics. At least with open stadiums it gets rid of some of the echo, and they can work their magic to pad out the space.)
> The Danish study is self reported with no policing of wearing a mask correctly at appropriate times and always using clean masks (not reusing masks from day to day).

So was the Bangladesh study. They did some surveys to estimate the rate of compliance, but it's not like there was a mask policeman following the participants around.

If only you folks would spend half as much effort reading the studies you prefer as you do the ones you dislike, you might be more credible.

> The Bangladesh study found masks were effective.

The Bangledesh study found a grand total of 20 infections separating the two arms of the surgical mask study. Out of thousands. A total effect size of 0.09%. It found that cloth masks had no significant effect.

Also, my favorite: It found that one color of cloth mask was significantly different than the other one. We all know that viruses have a strong red/blue preference, right?

Maybe we should be a little circumspect about what "significance" means here.
Interesting that SeaweedFS also has a similar named "Gateway to Remote Object Storage" https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remot...

The difference is that SeaweedFS can support both read and write, with asynchronous write back. Nginx can support read only caching with 1 hour TTL
When I was at university, I was quite jealous of my CS/IT/EE friends, because they had the math abilities to do cool things and get that degree. As I hit 44 soon, I think about those friends and where they are in their careers. It's starting to get close to when they may be forced out, or marginalized somehow, due to age.
If you are so afraid of being exposed, get vaccinated.
That's around 300MiB/s on my computer.
Well said.

It's a civic duty to be vaccinated. It's the rational, sane, and most personally and socially beneficial policy. Were this a game theory context we would be saying that getting the vaccine strictly dominates not getting the vaccine.
Mode switching bloats the instruction count by shifting in and out. RISC-V does well here.

If there's a criticism, it's that the two bytes on 32-bit instructions mean the total instruction range is MUCH smaller overall until you switch to 48-bit instructions which are then much bigger.
If it doesn't suffer from gimbal lock, is it even really a monitor?
Are you under the impression that only a minority cares about minority rights and, for example, heterosexual people would uniformly oppose LGBTQ rights?

In that case I’ve got news for you. But first, I need you to stay strong: President Kennedy was….
I’m pro-vax. I’ve taken the shots and the booster. But I fail to see the point of this lockdown. If you are 70% vaccinated as a country and the remainder of the 30% is possibly low risk why lockdown? You’ll never get to 100% vaccinated or even 90%. If the 70% vaccinated isn’t reducing the load on the hospitals we have an issue with vaccinations.
I was twelve.
Good time to plug the Netherlands Bach Society’s “All of Bach” project.

https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach
I don't understand the Sudoku example. It says it's non-interactive, but the verifier is interacting with a "machine". The machine prevents the verifier from doing whatever they want with the provided data, shuffles cards, does a bunch of things. That's interaction.

Non-interactivity to me would be if the verifier just got a blob of data and was able to do whatever they wanted with that.
The @DHH tweet embed is fantastic:

"Hotwire aka NEW MAGIC is finally here: An alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire..."

Made me look -- it's from Dec 2020, not April 1st.
It means the stats aren't as useful.
Pakistani is a war mongering unstable state. It will find a reason regardless
Even at my cutesy, boutique scale, there is plenty there to obsess about. XD
This is often repeated fake news.

Take a look at this graph - cumulative deaths since, I don't know, start of 2021 or something.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Sweden is just barely worse than other Scandinavian countries (definitely not 5-7x). Germany is 50-100% worse than Sweden.

So while you might use "total deaths" as an argument that the Swedish "no lockdowns" strategy was worse at the beginning of the pandemic, it's clearly superior now.
Fast Indexation on Google
>I dont know why so many movies are shot in the dark. It might make sense when viewed in a theater, but when viewing at home, I can't see anything.

I can't recommend OLED TVs enough. Worth every penny.

But I agree that way too many movies nowadays are too dark.
> Of course Apple requires them to use the iOS rendering engine

How is apple allowed to do this? Would MSoft have escaped the legal trouble back then if they had simply insisted that Netscape had to run like IE?
Yes, I'm serious. Ivermectin is very safe.
Are there any countries that enforce copyright as much as the US do? I have no idea when a book legally enters public domain in Russia, since any book I can think of is a couple clicks away. Literally anything: Nabokov, Rowling, etc

Edit: come to think of it, it's pretty universal. Libgen and bookfi are not exactly Russian. There's probably little difference whether a book is public domain unless you want to make a movie.
When I use firefox or chrome for e.g. a google meet call, I have to explicitly allow the browser to use my camera every time in get on a call. Does edge default to automatically allowing a site to use the camera? That would be a bigger concern for me.
> it's an actual, currently functioning, computing utopian dream

False. The FOSS software that I personally use is less useful (on a practical technical level) on average than its technical equivalents.

And beyond my specific tools (which I admit could just be the bad parts of FOSS), FOSS software is near-universally bad (along with almost every other piece of software I've touched - this isn't a condemnation of FOSS, only a pointing out of the fact that it's not good, just better), and nowhere close to a "computing utopian dream". The amount of issues that I've found in open-source software wouldn't fit in a blog post, let alone an HN comment (although if anyone really wants I could provide a sampling).

You can say that some pieces of FOSS are better than their proprietary equivalents in a technical sense, sure - but I've never actually found a single piece of software, FOSS or not, that is anywhere close to "utopian" (or barely even "functioning").
no thank you. you let your body be ravaged by an exotic viral disease from asian bats. I will take my booster
What is the "chip race" and why is a combined NVIDIA/ARM necessary to "win" it? Aren't AMD/TSMC, Apple/TSMC, and Intel enough to be competitive?
I think there's also a good amount of people who didn't get what the site was actually asking the user to do and just did what was prompted.
This reply alone makes all the effort I’ve put into my stack worth it. Thank you :)
Sure, I can accept there is some nuance but the phrasing and definitive manner of your original statement is very misleading. I'm not the biggest fan of the guy but casually mentioning that he suggested the idea when in actuality it was an idea posed by a reporter is bad faith in my opinion.
I doubt it, because 1/3 of Google's spend per user isn't enough when you can't attract many paying users in the first place, because you would charge much more than $9/mo, because almost no one wants to pay for a search engine so your revenue will have to make up for those people too, and then even fewer people are willing to pay more than $9/mo for 1/3 of the quality.

And then I'd guess the 20 remaining users will still complain because 1999 Google is a nostalgic memory impossible to recreate without a 1999 internet for a 1999 self to live in and has little to do with raw search quality.
Wow, the concept of privately owned nuclear weapons supplier is really something insane. And it is real. Wow.
Sure, but it does spread the costs among users and makes them more manageable. One guy shouldering the cost of a search index is less viable than letting users shoulder the costs. Some charge customers as a solution to this, and that works, but then they need a minimum revenue to continue, or have to monetize with investors which usually means changing direction and goals. The other option, letting people host portions of the index, spreads the cost out, and the product gets about as good (best case scenario) as it's utility to people.
How long does it take the army to train a field medic? (Serious question, I don't know if there's some extended training involved, I just assume it's far less than, say, a nursing degree.)

I think that training people to handle 90% of the issues you see in Covid-related illnesses could be done relatively quickly, if we wanted to do that. The ICU bed shortage really refers to a ICU-staff shortage, and anything we could do to relieve that burden would be a good thing.
In most countries a 99% majority is very much sufficient to amend the constitution.
Seems like it would be more robust to just persist the state of your scrape so you can resume it.

Say more about this. I'm not a software engineer by training, so I don't really know what "persist your state" would look like in this case.
Thankfully so, since "shouting fire in a theater" was an incredibly lame euphemism for telling people to dodge the draft.
This is just rubbish.

Small revisions to a function that increase the number of live variables to more than the set that are covered by the C extension mean that reference to THAT VARIABLE ONLY have to use a full size instruction. There is nothing sudden or dramatic.

Note that a number of a C instructions can in fact use all 32 registers. This includes stack pointer-relative loads and stores, load immediate ({-32..+31}), load upper immediate (4096 * {-32..+31}, add immediate and add immediate word ({-32..+31}), shift left logical immediate, register to register add, and register move.

It's certainly possible that another compressed encoding might do better using fewer opcode, and I've seen the suggestions. The main thing wrong with the standard one in my opinion is that it gives too much prominence to floating point code, having been developed to optimise for SPEC including SPECFP (no, not the Linux kernel or Dhrystone ... I have no idea where you got that from).

But anyway it does well, and the opcode space used is not excessive. If anything it's TOO SMALL. Thumb2 gets marginally better code size while using 7/8ths of the opcode space for the 16 bit instructions instead of RISC-V's 3/4.
I'll suppress the obvious Godwin's law call-out to just state that "unvaccinated" is not a protected class, and we probably both agree that carrots tend to work better than sticks.
> I seem to recall that Google consistently produced relevant results and strictly respected search operators in 2005 (?), unlike the modern Google.

You recall wrong.

Probably because you were a child and searching for "reddit".

Now as an adult, Google can't just hand you adult results by magic.

Search operators have changed, but that's because the internet is 1000's of times bigger since 2005. Where as the number of people went from ~1 Billion to ~5 Billion.

> I think search results were the same for everyone, rather than being customized for each user.

You are not a baby, turn off the customisation. The same issue existed ~2005, Google customised and we had to work to turn it off. Also my idea we were become one world was totally wrong. Google customising for my location was more correct than my idealism. It also helped local businesses get online. That Google is 'evil' by default is a shitty assumption.
Possibly of interest: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
No big deal, I applied with my company Cardallot Inc. and they gave me $ 20k in credits
But Softbank and ARM are not in remotely similar markets and ARM can't meaningfully favor Softbank as a customer even if they wanted to.

So yeah, I guess I'd argue that NVidia is more dangerous because they're more competent. In the sense that they are competent because they are in a close enough market for there to be a conflict of interest.