skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets hold off on predictions until we actually get some data. South Africa's hospitalization rate is beginning to take off exponentially.

https://www.voanews.com/a/south-africa-readies-hospitals-as-...

> “Unfortunately, we’re seeing a more than doubling of hospital admissions each day,” said Ian Sanne, an infectious diseases specialist who serves on South Africa’s COVID-19 presidential advisory committee.

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It would be wonderful news if this variant is milder than Alpha or Delta. But we don't actually have hard evidence of that yet. In a month or two, we'll probably know for sure.

EDIT: A lot of the variants follow this pattern. People think its milder, because there are more cases than there are hospitalizations. Then, 2 weeks later, the cases become more severe and everyone goes to the hospitals.

So we have to wait. Wait for these new patients, and see if they get better or worse. It takes time before the disease progress into hospitalization stage, and we've only had Omicron in the world for the past 2 weeks or so. Barely enough time for the first few patients to start to enter the hospital.
Cant you also attribute that people with more serious or pressing matters are heard right away in the day as opposed to other people with more trivial cases?
Since Youtube changed algorithms and I moved away from college, etc. I realized all my major discovery avenues disappeared. Other people mentioned radio, and I agree -- I don't think discovery has to be engaging, it just has to be low effort and not so bad that you turn it off.

I love bandcamp and most artists I've found lately have their music there, but music discovery on bandcamp is extremely difficult. All the music I've found there is due to people linking bandcamp on other websites/mediums.

So self plug: https://bandhiking.isandrew.com/ - it's basically a bandcamp radio (if anyone's interested). There's room for improvement but it works IMO, I've found good stuff regularly using it.
Great, they're destroying the pork barrel industry's monopoly in space and providing a service at competitive prices that's exactly what we want.

From my comment, you didn't suppose I believed government space capabilities and projects should be entirely shut down, or that they should be left to old space companies to continue extorting taxpayers, did you?

Providing a service to the government is not a problem. This is not some kind of libertarian purity test I'm concerned about. It is about ripping off tax payers with lobbyists and the military industrial political revolving doors.
Sure. You need a state to enforce property rights.

But the point is that the centralized system that managed property deeds does not require an absolutely gargantuan amount of computation to be performed to do a basic transaction. And since I already need the state to enforce property rights, why not have the state also be involved in the recognition of who owns what?
Here and generally yes, but there are some exceptions, which are too complex to explain in a comment here.
It's probably always been this way to some extent, bit with the concentration of power in tech companies and few others, it's optimal for people who want to get elected to focus on influencing the powerful and ignoring the masses. I think this effect has just gotten stronger recently.
2 weeks' quarantine in an Airbnb in Tokyo [video]
This was my read, also.
Discover trending open-source projects and their alternatives
I'm not sure page level compression can get efficiency of LSM-Tree, and frequent page writes will be a write amplification problem if you end up doing any form of copy-on-write and try to do in-place overwrites.
Helps us kick ass with a guitar I guess?

Edit: In all seriousness, it's basically Packet (was bought up by this company).
It gets worse. This workaround is also in VBA, which has an enormous install base.

Books on Excel programming explicitly call out this issue. This is one thing I definitely would not want fixed.

You will break countless workflows that have operated for decades.
The overall result does not surprise me, but two things in particular did:

1. That materialism is much less popular than I expected. I wonder how much is due to selection bias.

2. That idealism didn't enjoy a bigger bump than it did. I predict that dose size would correlate with increase in idealist views, as larger doses are more frequently nondual, and nondual experiences tend to inspire idealist beliefs.

I myself think there are various strong reasons to believe in idealism. I've written about them here: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/reading/on-the-self-valid...
The prospect of a society with significantly extended lifetimes is absolutely horrifying. My opinion does not frequently align with Elon Musk, but I fully agree with him on this one. Death is necessary for human progress. People, at the large scale, are not sufficiently capable of changing their deeply held convictions when the societal circumstances around them change. We need a mechanism for obsolete ideas and minds to grow senescent and die off, or we will be forever stagnant and bound to the ideals of 250 year old people.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-believes-it-is-imp...
"They're collecting observational data, not science."

I suspect that pretty much everybody who does experimental physics, a whole lot of astronomers, and a multitude of other observational scientists might like to have a word with you regarding the scientific method.

But that could just be me.
Ah, I see.

Some degree of gatekeeping is probably good. What we're doing now is probably not. Striking the right balance seems important, but I don't know if drawing a firm line between the two is a good idea, I think you'd end up with otherwise rational people arguing themselves into more and more extreme positions if you managed to frame it as an us-vs-them thing (which is what drawing that line would do).
Ask HN: Why Last Year's top links search provides only 34 pages?
I annually gaze up the top links on HN to improve myself. Last year it returned 50 pages (I suppose). Today
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=49&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story link returns "We found no stories matching your query for this period." Is there anyone who can list top 50 pages? @dang could you provide them in an article? Thanks in advance.
Yeah, so free speech is what we agree with.
When demands outstrip resources, historically we get depopulation by famine and war. Probably good to figure out living sustainably on a finite earth sooner than later.
> People flocked from Firefox to Chrome because it was better.

This part isn’t entirely true. One large and influential reason why people switched to Chrome was because every Google search result page and many other pages on Google properties heavily and prominently advertised Chrome. Chrome was also bundled with some other third party software. Chrome may have been better in its initial years than Firefox, but that wasn’t the main trigger for people to switch.

For most people, the default browser installed with their OS is what they’d use unless they’re sold another browser or they know that another browser is what works for them.
Yes, less than rent. But you also can't get a $300K house in an expensive city. Apples and oranges.
And it was all in Perl up until a few years ago (rewritten in Java).
Was involved in replacing a large failing rail-tie retaining wall, roughly seven foot tall and 100 feet long. Had one engineer suggest unilock with geogrid but after watching a lot of youtubes of failed unilock walls we went with redirock. Eleven years so far including snowy winters and doesn't look like it will ever move an inch.
Or a life. Lots of people have a life that’s not work.
Yes, due to globalisation
Their entire infrastructure was unroutable for a while if I remember correctly. That is a euphemism if I ever saw one.
The best ticket I've found is make it seem like you're unavailable and put in little effort unless they put in effort. Be honest and bold. Make it seem like you are a go getter, not someone waiting for tasks. Being slightly unavailable but establishing the qualifications makes you seem like you're someone they can't afford to lose.

I have stopped trying to impress people. I've been dropped by a company during interviews just cause I asked too many questions about what they code and how many people would be on the team. I guess they didn't like the fact that I wanted to know what to expect day one...they had some stupid dress code too. Like borderline Mad Men-esque.

The kicker was too, they were some company in rural wisconsin. Talk about a controlling corporate culture. They're lucky if they can even FIND a college educated something!
Reminds me of this section from a fantastic trip report:

"My hardcore materialist atheism was beginning to be challenged. But my identity was so solidly based on my materialist atheism that I soon attributed the entire experience to merely a "drug trip" with no meaning for my life!

Perhaps the greatest lesson here is that. No matter what you experience, your identity can write it off as unreal if it conflicts with who you think you are."

http://tafkajestdr.blogspot.com/2013/01/intro-to-tafka-jestd...
Why do you think the Republicans also feel doomed?
Can't speak for you individually, but once one starts having to rely on it day after day while they notice all of the more important things they have to do (phone calls, emails, late projects, hair, makeup, food, etc) instead of nervously following the road, this will pass.
Facebook is the only major platform that studied its impact on mental health, so it's the only one that can be punished for what they found.
People get slagged on for not having inter-region redundancy. But unless your business model can accommodate that, you’re introducing another failure domain and alot of money for duplicative infrastructure, network fees, etc.

For many use cases, it’s acceptable to shrug and blame AWS for a failure. It’s harder when your high availability solution fails independently, which they almost always do more than US-East-1
AWS is the McDonald's of computing.
god damn, what is roku without apps?
There was a similar story on my local news as well. Someone's front yard filled with hundreds of packages.
AZs are physical boundaries, but the networking and software is interconnected. Regions are (mostly) isolated, though global services like IAM and CloudFront often have their main control plane in us-east-1
Pretty sure you're asking whether the name shouldn't be in the nominative case instead. The answer is, basically any word is inflected in Russian, with some exceptions where the dative case can be identical to the nominative—and even such words can be quite naturally bent into the different cases, in casual speech. The ‘nationality’ of the name doesn't matter, though foreign names or words may initially not be assimilated in the language enough for the inflections to be established and accepted.

One example of a case when the dative form would be the same as the nominative, is if the recipient was a Mrs. Zuckerberg, since this specific kind of the last name isn't inflected when it's of the feminine grammatical gender.

There's also the dubious trend of avoiding inflection of brand names for any and all purposes—but that's just contrary to how Russian works, and is dictated instead by whims of marketing people who lack the sense for the language.
Same. A trip answered all my questions.
And yet it's not in the dative case (ie declined)?
Everyone wants to be multi-AZ, multi-cell, but it's a multi-year project, especially for services that have been around for a while. My last team had been working on it for a couple of years when I left.
Last big e-commerce outage I can think of was Prime day years ago when Sable browned out. But that was non-AWS infrastructure. There was also the infamous s3 fat-finger; but I can’t think of a holiday shopping and delivery day with a massive outage.
> Now they're gone.

No. They all go to Facebook and Google.
China seeks first Atlantic military base
Other people have given you mathematical explanations (it finds values of x such that f(x) = 0). If you want an intuitive geometrical understanding (of the one dimensional version, i.e. x and f(x) represent numbers not vectors) try playing with this demo I made: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kogwanro0d. It shows the way the method follows tangent lines to get each iteration. You can move the orange start point, adjust the function with the b and c sliders, or change the f(x) function formula to another function entirely.
One hundred years. Yeah, our establishment is so committed to all the kumbaya shit it spouts when limiting individual expression.
Well, at least in the US, Congress hasn't been legislating for a while now. They handed over that responsibility to the Executive and Judicial branch a long time ago so that they don't have to deal with unhappy voters because it's always someone else's fault.
That perspective is the result of decades of massively successful libertarian propaganda. Good efficient government is possible but only if we stop electing representatives that want to destroy government. I see some hope in Republican's new found hatred of tech billionaires.
Yes. When I get a clear signal this is in GKE (I believe there is some lag between the k8s release and adoption in public service) I'd be very keen to try it. (selfish observation: I'm mostly hands-off so the pain will be felt by others)

I also believe the blocker(s) on this were both k8s and the Google infrastructure. its possible GKE can host dualstack but the network can't forward it painlessly and its still edge proxied in over 4.

Always made me wonder why they didn't do ULA internally and avoid some issues. I guess its the hidden painpoints on the traefik or other visible boundary which got in the way, although things other people say suggest the kubernetes people just didn't even think V6 when they designed their initial network stack. It always felt to me (as a non implementer) like the obvious fit. Guaranteed unique, private address space which can handle billions of addressed things on the "inside"
> made-up nonsense about churches and bars.

The first sheet music printed (15th century) was almost exclusively liturgical (i.e., religious).

Similarly, it's no accident that the first popular work of the printed word was the Gutenberg Bible.
Custom software won't be dead because you can't buy integration off the shelf. And JIRA specialists and similar roles will just eat up more of the potential workforce that could be employed as software developers, so software developers will stay a valuable scarce resource.
The robot definitely stands. In fact, it can do pretty dynamic things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnbFJ-8Fkg

That said, the platform does have its faults and requires a lot of hardware maintenance, but it certainly can stand and move around (walk around).
> And tax isn’t something that he’s going to pay as an ex-gratia act of kindness. It’s up to governments to come up with the right framework.”

"It's up to you to fight me and my billionaire buddies and hundreds of corporations lobbying for new tax loopholes every year."

Accounting firms send people to Washington to "advise" legislators on changes to the tax code. Said people are then rewarded very handsomely, because the accounting companies get to use the changes for their clients, and because they "advised" legislators to do it, they know ahead of all the other accounting firms what's going to happen...
> Assuming natural immunity is better than vaccine

This is a big assumption. Both types of immunity have their advantages, but a study published by the CDC last month [1] suggests the vaccine provided more reliable immunity (against past strains). Meanwhile, Omicron is currently going around reinfecting tons of people in South Africa. It’s hard to guess how protective a vaccine or infection today might be against a future strain, but even if infection is better, it’s probably not much better. Meanwhile, it’s obviously much more dangerous in the present (even if Omicron might be a little milder than previous strains).

[1] https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021103...
Oh a 'prototype' like that 787 initial rollout?

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2014/9/10/the-fake-boeing-...
Secret China UAE Military Base
Literally nothing will change fir the better unless meta can profit off of positive mental health outcomes.

Right now they profit from engagement.
Engagement =/= good mental health
Metas definition of good mental health =/= my definition

If a depressed person who scrolls all day gets off and leads a better life how does that make meta money? Asking genuinely, as im sure some change oriented folks within meta are.
The MIT cheetah plans (specifically, having access to things like their motors) are not open source.
Ubisoft has just announced Quartz, a platform for selling NFT items
Wow that's indeed bad. They should at least make it optional.
Lots of people will have fun in the coming months figuring out things like:

- Don't use global endpoints like https://sts.amazonaws.com, use regional ones.

- Figure out a workaround for "Route53 won't update"

- Oy, CloudFront will only use certs from us-east-1

- What do I do when EventBridge is holding events that it will eventually release when the outage is done, but I've already run that stuff manually. Or "can I run Lambdas in a cron-like fashion without EventBridge?".

And so on. It's pretty easy to think you're "multi-region" and miss stuff.
Fastly is a public traded company.

In their annual reports Fastly have previously said C@E was available. They regularly released PR pieces of new functionality on C@E.

The reality was it was in private beta and deep in active development. Their official annual reports and PR pieces used by investors for investment decisions where misleading insinuating a product was available that was not. Fastly annual reports where painting a misleading picture. What's worse is the honest answer, we are deep in development and now have several large existing customers onboard for private beta is nothing to be ashamed of putting out to your share holders. Fastly where probably trying to hide the amount of time it's taken them to roll C@E out since first announced early 2019.

I'm sure every piece of public information went through their legal department and vetted but at the same time every piece of mandatory training I've done at publicly traded companies have me believe I could suffer huge legal consequences with the SEC for doing similar.
I think we are just defining “media” differently. Yours is not wrong…art, music, etc…it’s certainly media…as the plural of “medium”.

I’m defining media more as the distributor or publisher of created works. I’d argue that short of a direct pay for content model, that most publishers/distributors are using advertising in some form as either their for profit business model, or to supplement and offset the publishing costs.
I don't know about non-native, but LibUI offers native GUI in C:
https://github.com/andlabs/libui

Better yet, it has excellent DSLs that make it possible to build desktop apps in a way similar to HTML, but much better due to keeping all code dynamic in one language (no static/dynamic multi-language separation/mixing dissonance):
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer-dsl-libui

By the way, with the `area` control (widget), you can actually make your app look like anything you want. It lets you do arbitrary painting of vertex graphics while providing keyboard and mouse event listener support to let the user interact with the user-interface, so the sky is the limit.

Also, you can simply compose new custom controls from `area` controls and just work with the new custom controls as higher constructs to build your apps.

In fact, most native GUI toolkits provide non-native support for building any widget you want, so do not think that native widgets limit you. They don't. They in fact provide a better user experience for cases that could utilize predictable-looking basic GUI for non-computer-savvy people while still offering you the extra option of building non-native widgets when you need them.
Not just competence, I think something like the bystander effect is in play as well. If you single out any single congressperson to appeal to, they'll shrug and point to their 534 other congressional colleagues not doing anything as their excuse to not do anything either.
I wonder why hardware decoding isn't used for those sites though.
Wow I didn’t realize it costs thousands of dollars!
Isn't this the traditional corporate strategy for not taking responsibility? Have corps fund research and pretend to do something, while really just kicking up doubt about causality. Like the Tobacco, Energy and Food/Drink companies did...

And it's not just Meta, you should really look at IOS & Android's culpability. Smartphones changed the game.
Redesigned search/replace? OK, I want regex support.
What's the line of argumentation here? That the only reason humanity hasn't clearcut every forest in the world is because they were needed to grow mushrooms?
It has less features so it has a smaller attack surface. Unless you need a specific featurd found only in sudo, your probably safer with doas.
Yes, the endings are case markers here.
YeBanKo probably misunderstood your question.
How can I go about contacting you if I were interested in your service?
It is declined. The point I was making is that it was declined not because it was a foreign last name. Swapping Zuckerberg for Putin in that sentence would decline Putin's last name in the exact same way.
I've had the same experience. Can't shake the idea that `consciousness == god` and we are all tiny manifestations of this "essence", after some psychedelic trips.

My rational mind always goes back to atheism when sober, but the idea is always there in the back of my mind.
Have you ever observed humans drive?
Don’t think there is an sla for the console , so you would not be claiming anything for the console at least
In the holy name of the Science we pray
Yeah https://business.apple.com is an example of a site that explicitly blocks Firefox. If it was just some indie web dev with no time to spare i could understand...
What is the hottest flame in the world?
Do we really want for-profit companies more responsible for mental health on a day where one of the biggest stories is how a mental health company was cutting corners? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29480988
Robert Rose on the Operating Models of Content: It's Time to Get Strategic
Here's one - qi charger as landing pad for drones to self charge

...or orinthopters
> We need to stop wasting time appealing to the human-side of billionaires, we need to stop talking to them and create regulations and punishments, to prevent them to exploit the population

Yep. If the past 10 years have shown us anything, it's that these billionaires are anticipating this pushback, so they'll add however many layers of fluff they need to prevent them from taking real action. Google didn't remotely care about privacy until they were relentlessly sued over it, and Europe implemented baseline privacy laws. Apple dragged their feet in the mud over App Store changes until the double-barrel end of the Supreme Court was staring them between the eyes. The only way we can make a change here is by exercising the powers we were given to keep these companies in check. The longer we hesitate and waffle over whether or not it's a good application, the more time we give them to exploit us.
Unfortunately Amazon pays little taxes not because of trickery with tax loopholes, but mostly because by design companies only owe taxes on profits and Amazon has made (on net) very little profit to date.

Governments tax corporate revenue too, it's just that's called a sales tax.
You are lucky because algolia was down for me today... because of Amazon perhaps?
It is, the gggp comment is mistaken in saying that—I think the author is just not too familiar with English terminology for this.