skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my exact reaction. I'm not sure how much I like Nvidia acquiring Arm, but on some level as an American my instinct is to encourage it.

If it is the FTC's actual position that the deal would harm consumers or the industry as a whole, it's certainly admirable that they would ostensibly prioritize that over US strategic interests.

This makes me wonder if their analysis shows that the merger would do sufficient harm within the industry as to actually run counter to US interests. If ARM is shaping up to become a pillar of the Western world/economy while China and its sphere of influence consolidate around RISC-V, then anything that harms Arm's market position is also a geopolitical risk to the West. The US government pushing for such a merger, at a time when China is investing heavily in semiconductor manufacturing capabilities while eyeing a conquest of Taiwan/TSMC, would therefore be shooting itself in the foot. Better to grow the pie than risk blowing it up for a slightly larger slice.
Increasing hospital capacities is almost pointless because new cases will be exponential. So doubling your ICU-capacities (which is extremely difficult to do, mainly because you don't have the staff) will buy you two-three weeks until the hospital is full again.
AMD decides it wants to make something like the TX1. Do you think that could happen if Big N owned ARM? Would the M1 series have progressed as quickly knowing the bad blood between Apple and Nvidia? Softbank probably isn't the best management but its neutral.
You might want to look deeper into Brave, I'm not convinced they're not evil in their own way.

Personally, I'm looking into Vivaldi; though I haven't switched over yet.
America is the main military and economic power in the Asian Pacific. Currently the US has the power to dictate such terms, but the countries probably can't actually fulfill them
My point was that it's a claim that's impossible to formally prove: we don't really know how to do formal proofs of destruction, at least not with the scheme you're using.

But even beyond that, there are a lot of weaknesses in this setup. I'll post a list of them in response to the other comment you left, since they'll be more relevant there.

> What else would you like to see here?

Frankly, you should either disable this service or put a big red banner on it explaining that it it (1) hasn't been audited, and (2) doesn't encrypt messages on the client side. As it is, people are going to make incorrect and potentially dangerous assumptions about the privacy of data they put on your service.

Please don't take that as a personal rebuke, because it isn't! I just don't want you to be the most recent person in a long lineage of developers to be publicly burned for teaching themselves applied cryptography.
It is anti-vax, regardless of the content, given the vocabulary used in the headline. "jab" is how the anti-vax community disparagingly refers to vaccines.
Oddly, in some regions of the US, the same game is called "duck, duck, grey duck".
It was likely instigated by its parent trying to inflate himself by giving themselves some credentials, to try and give their voice more weight.

All of it, pretty sad, but I believe we should focus on the technical arguments and try to put everything else aside in order to re-conduct the discussion somewhere more useful.
Right now SoftBank controls that price. If they could raise it and make more money off of ARM and piss on the market then why aren't they doing it? They’re a business trying to maximize profits after all, it’s in their interest regardless of who’s competing for what.
I spent 4 years living in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It is literally in the culture to just throw shit into the ocean, rivers, everywhere. It is painful to watch how bad it is.
However, they do accomplish the goal of stopping it from being a pandemic. With enough people vaccinated to reduce the R-value below 1, reinfections from animal reservoirs will become inherently self-limiting.
The numbers in Russia cannot be believed. My entire extended family (in Moscow) caught what was almost certainly COVID (Most of them twice, my grandfather was at death's door over it), and not a single one of them got a positive diagnosis.
> Money has always been owned by and manipulated by the powerful.

You're fighting a strawman. What I said was that money was being weaponized. Examples:

- currency-driven economic sanctions (other countries)

- civil asset forfeiture (citizens)

These are new developments enabled by the dollar standard (1971), payment technologies (2000-), and the ever expanding power of government (particularly US, post-9/11). The advent of the hydrogen bomb (1952) means that countries can no longer contemplate direct warfare and have been turning toward economic warfare increasingly in the last several decades.
But isn't that how RSA works? Generate pseudoprimes - prove that they "should" be primes. That doesn't sound like "completeness" either but all modern asymmetric encryption uses public keys.
Their argument seems to largely be that ARM does not produce chips directly, but instead licenses designs to other firms using a "neutral, open licensing approach." They feel that this will stop should Nvidia acquire ARM.

The also FTC contends that ARM induces competitive behavior in Nvidia. And a merger would stifle that competition.

Additionally, and probably most importantly, the FTC contends that Nvidia's competition shares sensitive information with ARM. And part of what Nvidia is looking for with this acquisition is this information. I suspect this is the true reason behind the lawsuit; there's probably a good bit of industry support behind it.

Personally, I'd rather ARM be owned by a massive American firm. And out of all the American firms who would be interested in ARM, Nvidia is the most likely to continue to innovate, rather than merely engage in rent seeking behavior.
I don't know what DDG is doing but I'm imagining that they send in the raw queries while you can't get around Bing's personalisation even in incognito. I get very similar results for "how to get rich", but only after setting "All regions" on DDG.

Bing:

1. How to Get Rich: 10 Things Wise and Rich People Do

2. 5 Ways to Get Rich - wikiHow

3. 16 Proven Ways On How To Get Rich Quick (2021 Edition) - TPS

4. How to Get Rich - NerdWallet

5. How to Get Rich: Follow our Step by Step Plan to Build ...

DDG:

1. How to Get Rich: 10 Things Wise and Rich People Do

2. 5 Ways to Get Rich - wikiHow

3. How to Get Rich - NerdWallet

4. 16 Proven Ways On How To Get Rich Quick (2021 Edition) - TPS

5. How to Get Rich: 8 Steps to Make Your First Million ...

It's no secret that DDG is using Bing so they're not trying to hide it. An easy way to verify it is to search for "what is my ip" on DDG and look for results where the IP number has been cached in the snippet, e.g.:

www.myipnumber.com
What is my IP number - my IP address - MyIpNumber.com
What is my IP Number? The IP Number of this machine is: 157.55.39.192. This number can also be represented as a 32-bit decimal number 2637637568, or as a 32-bit hexadecimal number 0x9D3727C0 . (Note that if you are part of an internal network then this is the IP number of your local server, the machine which is connected to the external ...

If you do an IP lookup on 157.55.39.192 you will see that it's in fact "Microsoft bingbot".
I think you're being nostalgic for something you don't remember very well.

In that era, Google would return a match based on words that appear in the links to a URL but not in the article itself, meaning that it was easy to produce "Googlebombs". For example, from 2005-2007 the top hit for "miserable failure" was the Wikipedia article for George W. Bush.

See https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/google-bombs/ for some of the "better" ones.
Edit: I think I misunderstood the graph. It is actually already normalized by the size of each population (Unvaccinated, Half-vaccinated, Fully vaccinated).

If you look at the raw numbers nearly twice as many of the hospitalized are vaccinated.

When taking the vaccination rate into account, the likelihood of hospitalization still seems to be a fifth after vaccination.

But even if the remaining population got vaccinated it wouldn't be enough to drastically reduce the hospital load.
Ex-paramedic turned comp sci researcher here.

> 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"

I totally agree. Last week saw a dentist and this morning (10:02) two sales ladies at a baker's embedded in an EDEKA supermarket with no mask, one of them coughing. When pointing out politely that they should really put their masks on, my comment of mine was ignored. The unfair thing is that it won't be these people dying, but likely third parties that did nothing wrong (like the elderly couple behind me in the queue).

There is a huge debate focusing on vaccination, about forcing people to do it etc., but schools are open, kindergardens are open (every parent knows that's where stuff spreads), people shop, socialise, eat together, work together almost if there was nothing going on.

The government failed to point out that vaccinated people can still get CoViD because they were afraid it would stop people from getting the jab, so they assumed they were safe and went back to pre-CoViD behavior patterns. The government is reducing the testing regime, so future numbers will be less reliable.

Public TV station ARD/Das Erste started to lose credibility with me when they claimed on Twitter that medical masks don't protect. That is false/"fake news": the truth is they are designed to protect the patient when worn by staff, so their protection is asymmetric and biased against the wearer and in favor of the person talking to the wearer. But they do provide a little protection even for the wearer, as the larger droplets get caught by them, and catching a virus also depends on the amount and concentration of viral material exposed to.
(The reason the posted the tweet was because at the time, there was a shortage and they did not want that non-medical staff buy them up so there was enough of a supply for medical staff. It's okay to ask people to stop buying them for that reason but not feeding them with false information to make them stop.)

The new government put a general in place to run a task force and instead of saying "fantastic, why didn't the previous government think of that?" the press questioned why leaders who all declined military service on the grounds of conscience appointed a military man (the candidate seems to be a supply chain expert, so not a bad choice - although I personally would pick a paramedic because pandemic training is part of one's education, at least it was back in the 1990s when I did mine).

Despite all of this, in fairness the situation in Germany is much better than in other countries (I can only say that from personal knowledge about the UK, France and the US), and I would say that at the beginning, the government did a good job in absolute and relative terms.
It's "drivel". But you're totally right.
I personally don't think wearing masks are a minor inconvenience, and never got used to it. I like to see people's faces.
This is false, you have been misinformed. See here, and compare for instance Sweden with their neighbours Norway and Finland.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/02/17/eu-excess-deaths-in-2020...
> It actually is a pretty reasonable expectation for someone not completely clueless about education.

No it isn’t. It is an extreme claim that advanced mathematics can easily be explained to someone regardless of their intelligence.

The evidence for this claim would be the presence educational programs that can easily educate almost anyone in advanced mathematics.

These do not exist.
You could start by not laying off workers who refuse to get vaccinated.

You know, the same workers who have been on the front lines exposed to the virus for two years and have unquestionably developed immunity. Forcing mandates onto them is insanity. They are not spreading covid.
Look, some of my relatives had severe side effects and are now chronically ill. When I got my shot, doctor had adrenaline injection ready. My GP now says I should pay the fines and not risk my life.

This vaccine is not tested, nobody knows how it behaves with different medications, or even after 50 years.

And there is consensus vaccine will trigger allergic reaction in people who recently passed hard form of covid.

Honestly, next time I encounter troll like you, I will just socker punch him into face.
I would think so, but IANAL.

But what would be the point of running Linux on a Mac Mini on AWS?
if it's the same shot as the originals, which is my understanding, then it's reasonable to assume a similar expiry
When they say R64GC, the C is compressed while the G is short for I, M, A, F, D, Z, icsr, and Zifencei.

ARM does something similar. They have TONS of extensions, but then group them into 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, etc then also group them with the A, R, and M designators too.
I think it's worth to point out here that since "it's in everyone's best interest to get vaccinated" you can't really call it taking "one for the team".

People getting vaccinated are taking "one for the team" and at the same time "looking out for number one". That's the beauty of it, really: aligned incentives.
I'm not sure how you missed RISC-V's big feature for code density -- the "C" extension, giving it arbitrarily mixed 16 and 32 bit opcodes.

I've heard of that feature before somewhere else. It gave the company that invented it unparalleled code density in their 32 bit systems and propelled them to the heights of success in mobile devices. What was their name? Wait .. oh, yes ... ARM.

Why they forgot this in their 64 bit ISA is a mystery. The best theory I can come up with is that they thought the industry had shaken out and amd64 was the only competition they were going to have, ever. Aarch64 does indeed have very good code density for a fixed-length 32 bit opcode ISA, and comes very close to matching amd64. They may have thought that was going to be good enough.

Note: the RISC-V "C" extension is technically optional, but the only CPU cores I know of that don't implement it are academic toys, student projects, and tiny cores for use in FPGAs where they are running programs with only a few hundred instructions in them. Once you get over even maybe 1 KB of code it's cheaper in resources to implement "C" than to provide more program storage.
Why not? We eradicated smallpox.
> Did 2020 have excessive mortality per capita compared to other years or not? No it didn't.

Yes, it did. The statistics are pretty obvious: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
For what it is worth, in the UK there were similar concerns.

They set up "Nightingale Hospitals" (reference to Florence Nightingale) - basically convention centres were converted into field hospitals with ventilators. One in London had 4000 beds, and there were others elsewhere in the country. It took 9 days to build the London one (I was impressed!)

After all that, the 4000 bed one in London treated 20 patients during the first wave: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56327214 Most are now shutdown or being used as vaccination centres from what I know.

If the UK can pull this off in 9 days, I am sure other more sophisticated countries can do the same if they need to.
Or the guy drinking coffee in a timmies parking lot
What makes you think the risk of heart issues is higher from the vaccine than the risk of heart issues from a non-hospitalized incidence of covid?
How many footballers have to drop dead on the pitch before you remove the scales from your eyes?
Do they? Can you prove that, or are you just saying random shit everyone else says?

This was not the narrative at the beginning of the vaccine rollout, by the way. The narrative changed every month towards what you're currently saying.

From what I've heard, thousands of people have been losing out on proper healthcare because of governments blocking their access; I'm talking people who should have had cancer screenings not getting them and dying because they were coerced into "lowering the strain on healthcare services".

I also heard that thousands of healthcare workers have been getting fired, and ICU beds removed because of governments deciding they weren't heroic enough, and not fit for treating patients.

Who are you trying to protect exactly?
So then they’re no good reason to block it. They would do a better job than it currently it currently is in now, mobile processors aren’t all ARM either.
A subtlety I’m ok with here … channels are a a language primitive but, in terms of runtime, an opinionated composition of data and concurrency semantics; the opinions give the runtime some privilege to do some nice things without a lot of effort when using channels. The misuse of channels in a general sense tends to equate to factoring out of some of the elements composed into the channel primitive.

It feels like a lesser sin to use channels in clever ways to recreate mutexes or other patterns than the other way around. But it’s definitely true that they are juiced up to make tradeoffs that are morally wrong for some things.
Softbank doesn't benefit if it weakens one of their licensees. NVidia would benefit from weakening other ARM licensees, even if that would hurt ARM income.
> If you don't pay, you are the product.

If not enough people pay, there's no product.
> the absolute democratic majority has made their decision months ago to take the shot but 30% are holding everyone back

Were people really asked to cast their vote by vaccinating themselves?
Is “KAX17” performing de-anonymization Attacks against Tor Users?
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Did you?

https://youtu.be/KauhJWPJu2U?t=897
Complaints may be communicating needs, so if you remove complaint then you stop the flow of communication about needs.
What would be the rate in question for Delta? My understanding is that it was feasible for earlier variants, but Delta has R too high to begin with.
I was born in Soviet Russia, where the party line was: there is no God, there is no Soul, there is no Truth, and truth is what we tell the people. My family came to America to get away from that savage society and to live in a free country, based on voluntary cooperation (free market) not force and violence and coercion. In communism, the group is all and the individual is nothing.

I do not believe it is okay to violate my individual liberties (such as forcing me to undergo a medical procedure) for the common good.
They reduced the imports of stuff that was just garbage.
Sadly lot of people (I don't mean you specifically) are dumb and have black and white thinking.

Yes, vaccinated people can still get sick. But they get sick order of magnitude less often and if they do get sick, they are order of magnitude less likely to need oxygen, hospital or ICU.

Yes, vaccinated people can still spread the virus. But they are order of magnitude less likely to do so, and if they do, they spread smaller amount of the virus over smaller window of time.

Yes, one type of the antibodies (the short-term ones that actively look for virus as opposed to the long-term ones stored in bone marrow that look for your own infected cells that take a while to activate) wanes as time passes but that is property of all vaccines and of "naturally" gained immunity as well - bodies don't want to waste energy actively looking for something it hasn't seen in a while.

But in minds of black-and-white people, this means "vaccines don't work!!!11!!!" and that is just sad.
You have a strange understanding of democracy...But if we are at it, would like to propose a public citizen petition: Requesting by democratic mandate that we remove the only immunity to come out of this process, the one from vaccine producers....
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So what do you do with the infected people that turn up at the overcrowded hospital? Let them die on the street?

Overall COVID19 mortality is still around 2%. In Germany, for example, we currently have 100k deaths. That would increase fivefold if you let every currently unvaccinated person get infected, and that's assuming we can provide the same level of care for all of them (i.e. hospitals are not over capacity).

> Perhaps we should ask why there isn’t any effort at all into increasing it?

- Building hospitals generally takes more than 1.5 years.

- Training nurses does too, although at least there is some elasticity in supply.

- Mortality among patients hospitalized with COVID 19 is around 10%. Keeping them out of the hospital in the first place is much more effective than increasing hospital capacity.
I’ll not take a stance on the correct number of free ICU beds as I do not feel qualified to judge these numbers without more insight on the intricacies of what would qualify fully operational beds, but regarding the stalling case numbers I feel confident enough (after looking at some raw numbers from the municipalities themselves [1]) to dismiss the apparent trend as a statistic artifact.

PCR test units and hospital bureaucracy are past their limits - e.g. regions like Bonn, Essen or Recklinghausen reporting zero cases on multiple consecutive days (Nov 29, Nov 30), which is _very_ unlikely w.r.t. the case numbers of the surrounding regions and those very regions reporting more than one hundred cases today.

The published indicators do not count cases that are reported late [2], which leads to apparently stalling case numbers. Growths may not be exponential forever but given that roughly one quarter of the population is not vaccinated, I would not take bets that the virus runs out of hosts before the health care system collapses.

I agree to the sentiment made that the balance between economic efficiency and damaging austerity for profit margin gains in the German health care system (especially for worker’s loans) has been tipping way too far to the latter in the past decades.

[1] https://www.lzg.nrw.de/covid19/download/laborbest_faelle_sar... (updated each day at 0:00 CET)

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

edit: some formatting.
So writing a rule "don't show results from domains on list X" makes it ad hoc ad not a rule?

I don't think there's sombody manually removing each result from search queries by hand. That wouldnt meet latency constraints
Look at the covid stats for the UK. Do you see a difference?

If you choose not to spend 1 minute to Google it, that's your prerogative. I'm not going to cite my comment like a research paper when the verification is a Google search away.

If you disagree with the stats, feel fee to provide evidence that refutes it. That would enhance the conversation.
I just showed the data, and summarized that according to the data, people in the EU had better chances.

I never claimed that this data is the result of COVID policies.

This is something you made up, and then proceeded to debunk, which is essentially the definition of a strawman.

Please stop building strawmans and putting words in people's mouth.
It's unpolite.