skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the vaccine effectiveness is waning the solution seems to be more of it

Yes. That's the definition of a booster.

> If it only took 2 days to create the vaccine, why do they not have an updated one?

The article said they started clinical trials with a delta vaccine. But they found the original vaccine was effective.
> Enable Automatic Upgrades
I can't count with my fingers alone how many times things broke because I `apt upgrade`d without thoroughly reading the change logs. Or even when reading the change logs something still gets past me.
Having auto upgrades on a server is not a good idea.
On mobile, you need to just refresh when you click through to a thread to be able to read it:

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/14686045141691965...
It's Microsoft, the Steve Ballmer (also Teams) Company, they hurt people more than Zerodium can even think of.
That is pretty unlikely and not what was proposed. Pretty sure this would not happen to accounts that are deemed reputable sources. Also I guess there are exclusion lists for prominent people that are not beholden to the TOS.
>we have already had two major mutations in less than two years.

How frequently do equivalent Flu mutations occur?
But US-style FoS only applies to the government in the first place:

"Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

(Emphasis mine).

Specifically: "The First Amendment's constitutional right of free speech, which is applicable to state and local governments under the incorporation doctrine,[6] prevents only government restrictions on speech, not restrictions imposed by private individuals or businesses unless they are acting on behalf of the government.[7]"

So companies can restrict your speech all day long, as happened with James Damore.

"However, laws may restrict the ability of private businesses and individuals from restricting the speech of others, such as employment laws that restrict employers' ability to prevent employees from disclosing their salary to coworkers or attempting to organize a labor union.[8]"

But that is not the 1st amendment or general FoS legislation, but specifically employment laws. And employment laws are notoriously employer-friendly and employee-hostile in the US.
Volkswagen expects chip supply to be challenging at least until end-H1
It's not modelling, just having a basic understanding of your metrics and the ability to choose the right ones. German officials showed none of that. Well, I'm not holding my breath on that neither.
Insofar as they don't bundle a runtime (unlike the languages mentioned by GP), yes. But they don't really offer much above C in the area of resource tracking / safety that rust's novel ownership+lifetimes system provides.
True that. Million millionaires could not have created Jio or Tata.
Because switching to Xorg solved it. Distros that use Xorg have no problems. It's what people in r/Fedora suggested.
> "artificially" amplifying information

Isn't that the whole point of Twitter?
Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconvenience to the society? The answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 8.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/...
Given the current environmental situation, that sounds like a good reason to dismantle the entire industry.
"With 1 TB RAM per AMD Epyc CPU, it would take over 5 seconds just to memset the whole memory at peak 200 GB/s speed."

Makes sense, though I was still surprised to read memset() potentially taking 5 seconds.
If you think of the fundamental concept of a trade. Person A has too many apples. Person B has too many oranges. Person A and B trade half of their produce, and now they each have a healthier/balanced diet. Being healthier means their farms can produce even more, and the supply more produce to the local community. It's a win-win-win.

That's the fundamental basis of economy.

Theoretically, if you actually HAD a million starving people, then yes, feeding them from taxation proceeds (or even money creation), is indeed a net benefit to the economy, because they then are able to work, and bring their skills/labor to the market to further stimulate the economy.

In that way, events like starvation, plague, or even sudden economic downturns, can damage the economy beyond the initial scope of their impact by robbing the economy of labor, transport, etc... For this reason, "stimulus" makes sense in these transitionary times.

Of course, the negative effect of stimulus is to temporarily distort businesses by flooding certain resources at below market rates - causing a smaller scale damage to the overall disruption. You have to do the math to determine if it's worth it.

On the other hand if there's no sudden change - no crisis, then stimulus is just permanently distorting markets - which is costly in addition to damaging. If you're feeding literal "starving" people, that's one thing - but if you're sending them checks so that they can increase their discretionary spending - that may look like a good thing because spending is increased, but you're not really creating value as in the original example.

tldr: Feeding actual starving people (or paying for other critical non-discretionary spending) can be smart economic decision if well targeted. Increasing the money supply so that people can spend more on discretionary spending damages the overall economy.
More or less at the same rate which is why stalling the virus is useless.
Because SmartThings was born out of a software consultancy that knew how to do backend cloud services, but not embedded. The v1 hub was just a pic microcontoller that sent raw radio messages up to the cloud for all parsing and processing.
New Microsoft Tools for Analyzing Android, Linux, Chromium Browser Performance
Debian's Firefox is patched.
PowerShell as a _shell_ language though is really cool. Yes, scripting large scripts can be cumbersome, but actually having a PowerShell prompt beats having a cmd.exe prompt any day hands down!

Some of the things are not... ideal. And there's a bunch of legacy stuff in modern powershell that we could do without, but a REPL scripting language with pipe semantics is really useful on a day-to-day basis.

I'm not sure C# would work as a shell language at all.
From search to Kubernetes, how Google has got our back
> newspeak

You guys keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means.

Twitter is a private company. Newspeak was a language developed by the government in Orwell's 1984.

VERY different contexts here.

For the record - what Twitter communicated is not clear and potentially deceptive, but this response wasn't written by some Twitter PR person. Some support person pressed a button and a canned twitter response was logged to the user: https://patriotone.substack.com/p/twitter-suspension It can mean 100's of different things. So let's maybe ease down on the Orwellian pitchforks.
I feel like it could be as easily argued that this approach is out of place on a local OS? Like, he's not totally wrong in a lot of ways, but that conclusion doesn't seem obvious to me.
When you run a PowerShell script, the entire thing gets loaded and parsed up front, so any syntax errors are going to happen immediately. Not saying you didn't see an error, but it probably wasn't a syntax error. (Beyond that, what language are you thinking of that doesn't stop when it hits errors in your program, and is that a good thing?)
Why it's sometimes helpful to be inflexible
you've done drugs. the disclaimer isn't useful at this point in time until psychedelics are on par with alcohol and FDA approved substances, where those are separated from "drugs"
That reminds me of a visit to the Berlin Zoo about 15 years ago. Some teenagers were harassing a leopard. Once it had had enough, it projectile-peed through the bars, right on to them.

I laughed.
> mandatory 2FA

> expensive paperweight

Imagine if the expensive paperweight stops working as the mandatory 2FA.
First, it shouldn't be owned by a greedy prick or a a group of few greedy pricks!!
In particular proc macros are slow; regular macros less so.
Chrome has seen have an option for fixed width Tabs along with Tab overflow.

But yes in terms of Super lots of tabs Firefox still wins in terms of resource usage and UX.
Nope, I have 213 karma and the only thing I can do is upvote comments.
SOAP tried :)
IIRC C++ is dangerous because of how it does exceptions, and you might have exception-inducing code creep in unnoticed, esp. given that the standard library uses exceptions. I could be totally wrong about this.
There has been many improvements, but it's still slow compared to ie. Go.
I'm not well read, but didn't the latest taxes pushed by the right benefit the middle class disproportionately? Wouldn't trickle down imply there should be no tax breaks at all for hte middle class, and instead the entirety of those breaks should go to the investment class?

https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publication...

(I am assuming this is a right biased publication, again not well read, genuinely curious because it seems to line up with those middle class I know who were Trump supporters -- they regularly cite their lower taxes).
Agreed, but there’d probably be an uproar from the content providers, and neither Apple nor Google has an incentive to be on the users side on this one :/
I think what they meant was that they detected bot activity associated with the account.
Bezos has been transitioning out of day-to-day operations at Amazon through the year. Andy Jassy is the new CEO.
Web3 will fix it
No, part of being a good scientific study is being upfront about any (even potential) conflicts of interest. Most studies aren't interest-free, do you think e.g. CERN doesn't have a vested interest when it publishes studies about the LHC experiments?
It depends if Twitter's censors agree with the views expressed or not.
Yeah, the PSP with its opaque firmware even handles DRAM initialisation on Zen processors, so that you cannot run without it at all.
Isn't this the same as SaaS thinking, albeit in the hardware era?

For the more common story of IBM enabling present but disabled memory, they couldn't magically teleport a new memory board into your mainframe. But they could ship your mainframe with extra, verified but disabled memory.

Customer UX for memory upgrades then changes from "Wait for it to ship, etc" to "We'll have it done tonight."
Yes! It's maddening trying to get the C# Powershell integration to use, Get-VM, for example. Especially in a way where it would work on somebody's else's computer.
And the older compiled languages were often GC languages, which is unsuitable for the kernel (eg Java — arguably compiled, or AoT C#).
> We were sceptical of that assertion because making the effort to add code to the Linux kernel without planning for it to be used is thoroughly counter-intuitive

I mean... this seems like a very good point, but from the rest of the article, and the previous one, it sounds like the patch was approved?

Why was this allowed into the kernel? looks like drivers/platform/x86/intel/* mostly. Does intel just "own" that section of code? who accepts these patches?

I'm not particularly familiar with this stuff so would appreciate someone filling me in on this.
How long have you been unemployed and how are you derelict?
ansible. And similar tools, but lack experience outside of ansible. You can see Ansible a a tool to automate the install/configure/update process that you would do manually on a single server. Then you can apply this "playbook" to any server.

You just need an ssh connection to the target servers, with python installed on them. Of course, you have to write rules for setting up a server, provisioning users, monitoring (deploying Prometheus, pushing logs to a central server...). There various plugins for integrating with providers, but the basic features are provider independent.

Ansible is far from perfect (dependency on python, inconsistent syntax, abuse of aliases, missing a strict mode...), but it's rather easy to learn and I've used it successfully (at a small scale).
Psychedelics are known for amplifying existing emotions and thought patterns, the "set" in "set and setting."

Your experiment is very personal to your own mindset, and your focus on materialism likely influenced the outcomes.
How much are you willing to bet? Keep in mind that if the population is 90% vaccinated, you expect something approaching 90% of ICU beds to be vaccinated (well, with an effective and sterilizing vaccine you wouldn’t expect this, but that’s not where we are).

In England last month, 79% of Covid deaths were vaccinated. Currently about 36% of hospitalizations are unvaccinated.

The raw data is here, good luck parsing anything useful out of it: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I figure it'll take another year or two before laymen realize how broken things are. Untill then amazon is still safe.
We need to be able to predict the hospitalization rate to be prepared for surges, so tracking transmission is absolutely necessary. Perhaps after a long period of low hospitalizations (6 months, a year?) the general public can stop paying attention... but we're definitely not there yet.

It's looking like high double and triple vaccination rates can do it (like 80%+), but that's starting to look impossible in some countries.
(Fairly) effective at preventing serious disease/hospitalization. It seems to me the original plan on the vaccines was to reduce r0 below 1 in the population as a whole, but when Delta came along we changed the metrics the vaccines were to be judged by.
Apart from that you are also free to apply freedom of speech as a principle outside the bounds of the law, like many platforms have done most of the time until advertising got out of hand with privacy violations and content restrictions. Don't know how anyone could support more content restrictions... doesn't seem too bright at all, didn't hear any compelling case and you always have the option to not engage.
Real journalists as in they're literally in the courtroom reporting from the trial, and one of them wrote the series of articles that broke the Epstein thing wide open... vs. randos on Twitter just cribbing their reporting while writing "THREAD" at the top.

How is it remotely controversial to prefer primary sources.. As much as it annoys the very online, reporting isn't just writing twitter threads with your opinions, it actually takes fact finding effort.
Where do you draw the distinction between "Trickle down" and "investment creates wealth and opportunity"?
It isn’t criticism. The comment is unsourced speculation. The stock market moves up and down all the time, so there are tons of other explanations for what happened yesterday and there was no effort to rule them out
HN shadowbans any dissent with no explanation.
"It's true" isn't the bar for hate speech. Hate speech is the direct, explicit fomentation of hatred against groups that are particularly vulnerable to the possibility of that hatred manifesting. You can encourage hatred and also say something based on facts (barring semantic arguments, e.g. your example), and likewise you can express those same facts without expressing hatred.
That's awesome. I love how distinct cat piss smells. It's so potent!
Converting the book files is dead easy; Calibre can make pretty much any format you want. I'm visually-impaired so I prefer eBooks, but screw DRM. If I buy a book, it's MY book. Screw Amazon too.
And specifically proc-macros that parse rust-like syntax. It's the `syn` library that's slow. Proc macros that have a custom parser tend to be quite fast.
Not OP, but I got my whole genome sequenced from sequencing.com. It is currently around 399 USD. The sequencing is done by Nebula Genomics, nebula.org, where it is currently 299 USD.

You get to keep all the raw data from the sequencing and you will get some reports included.
I did it in order to do a genetic disease screening as I was very sick with strange symptoms for a long time.
A virus is introduced just to see if/how much it gets attacked. This correlates with the efficiency against the real virus, inside a human. It has nothing to do with the introduced virus being more or less contagious.
I read this as a parody piece. Perhaps I’m jaded, but My common sense immediately had a rebuttal for each “point”. It also offered no solutions.
Very likely.

AFAIK there’re only 4 differences between GeForce and Tesla/Grid: more and faster VRAM, more FP64 GFlops on most GPUs, unlimited count of nvenc encoding streams versus 2 on GeForce, and support for virtualization. Only the first two are hardware differences, the other 2 are software.

Another thing about virtualization, it sounds ridiculous but nVidia charges non-trivial per-user fee to allow people to use the hardware they already own. Specifically, for virtual workstation they want $450 per concurrent user. That’s on top of the $3000-$12000 purchase price of these GPUs.
Is it not demonstrative of my point that this person immediately hand waves away twitter banning this account then immediately suggests that you use two blue checkmarks instead?
Eh, that's a bit overused and tends to fall into the "slipper slope" fallacy territory a lot of the time it's rolled out. I'm withholding judgement on this one as there seems to be some indication the account was using using sock puppets to make them more popular. If that's true (and it might not be) that would lower the temperature on this ban to a standard TOS violation of a well-known policy.
What would be interesting would be 5 independent AIs (even just different instances of the same AI of course) using the same interface as human players, so the same controls and the same video output

I am pretty sure aimbots access the internals of the game rather than reading the video output to identify the silhouette of the enemy.
I've heard that Amazon penalizes vendors who sell their own product cheaper on their own site. So instead, they advertise the same price but offer "discount codes" that work on their own site.

Amazon can DIAF as far as I'm concerned. I've made an "Anywhere but Amazon" pledge to myself, and order elsewhere even if it's somewhat more expensive.
No, the problem with the line of thinking is not that gaming has no practical value, it is that some people think gaming has no practical value.
Twiter does this from a long time. Just normal propaganda machine in action.
That's interesting. I'd like to see supporting evidences.
I expected more from HN. If anyone bothered to read the article (which, btw, was posted with a disingenuous title...shame on you OP), you would see that Protected Content is only available in Groups and Channels, and is not on by default.

It seems a lot of people don't realize that Telegram is used for more than chatting with your contacts. Telegram Groups and Channels serve as a content delivery system, with access often restricted behind some kind of pay system like Patreon or Telegram's own Payments API (think OnlyFans and private Discords). This is a boon to content creators as it protects their payed Telegram content from being easily shared into other Telegram Channels.

Telegram quietly transcended beyond chat app and into the social media arena a while ago. It's about time HN caught up.
But the article is proposing the opposite. "Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat."

I would say that being in a cold place makes you eat more. And being only sporadically exposed to the cold could somewhat trigger this evolutionary instinct of storing energy without the expected proportional increase on energy expenditure. Long term, fat accumulates.
Basically infected by Google's A/B testing methodology. It really shouldn't be how design works. ( Part of the reason why Google still dont understand Design )
Twitter has a huge problem with bots.

On one hand, there are a lot of bots which are more or less malicious, e.g. trying to cause political strife or promote scams. On the other hand, Twitter sells advertisers on the idea that they have however many millions of users. So if Twitter was to actually get rid of the bots, then they would cause advertising revenue to drop, which might actually kill the company. So they are stuck with algorithmic techniques which walk a fine line of accuracy.

The solution is probably to mass verify real users (though "real name" verification is problematic). Right now, they use verification as a way to play favorites. Real users with hundreds of thousands of followers can't get verified.
Ask HN: Anyone interested in an offline version of Stack Overflow?
Hi, Rafael here from https://curiosity.ai.

I was just talking to someone today that works in a restrictive IT environment (no internet), and the person mentioned how annoying it is to not have access to Stack Overflow. There is an open source project on GitHub (https://github.com/tools4j/stacked-off) that seems to provide an offline server using the public dumps, but this person found it a bit cumbersome to work with.

As we build a desktop search app, we could add an offline Stack Overflow integration. I was curious (!) if anyone would be interested before taking the effort to build it.

WDYT?
Well you are wrong.
This is a good point. Hospitalization and death are really all that matter. People will be getting sick (to lesser degrees, likely, but it will still happen) from this for generations to come. What really matters is whether or not you are sick in bed at home and missing a few days of work vs sick in the hospital, occupying emergency health resources and facing potential death.
Hadn’t seen this before.. and this license key operates at the hardware level, not the OS level? One can’t expect mpeg hw decide to function with arch or nix installed on a raspberry pi instead?
I can only imagine how deeply connected your spiritual upbringing would be to the trip experience. So many shamanistic traditions have guides that are there to teach you the lore to prime you so you understand/have the right experience.
I get the impression that there is some moral lesson to come from this. Something about the non-existence of self and the impermanence of even our most deeply held beliefs.

This reminds me of "Waking Up" by Sam Harris where he talks about split brains, brain trauma, and other acute changes to people's personalities.
Sorry, no. Drinking alcohol is "doing drugs." The imagery you're evoking is propaganda. Don't validate it.
“Newspeak” is quite commonly used to describe corporate-speak. It gets the point across fairly well.
There is a more recent U.S. study [1], which comes to a different conclusion, and neither of these studies take into account boosters (or a longer delay between shots), which by all accounts improves vaccine effectiveness by ~10x.

Being vaccinated and then boosted offers as worst equal protection, probably better, against infection and disease, with much much lower risk of side effects, serious disease, long covid or death.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7044e1-H.pdf