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None of that stuff is legacy. It's just centralized. Economies of scale. Go work for an infrastructure provider, the same way recruiters largely work for recruiting firms instead of all shops having their own in-house.

The fact that the people who could invent the Internet mostly work for a few giants doesn't mean they no longer exist in the current generation.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=myocarditis

What are you trying to say?
SeaORM and SeaQL are powering https://caido.io. Awesome tools really, not too complex to understand the errors and the library code. And the devs are amazing, we want to sponsor them as soon as we get funding.

We are replacing all our diesel code as we found it is just not flexible enough for us and it was just painfull to understand the error messages.
> That might be relevant if Assange wasn't doing it at the behest of Russia

[citation needed]
https://github.com/chriskempson/base16 has a lot of schemes for quite a few apps. There are guides to how to port the colors to other apps.
I dispute him being a journalist. He hosts a website for raw intel that is frequently stolen.
I agree that many gamers expect Metaverse world, but I didn't expect it would happen this fast.
It is "3.3.2 / November 4, 2021; 15 days ago" for me. Strange.
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So does Covid-19, but at much higher rates.
very little from the past survives through to today.

I don't think there is any record of this device existing other than the device itself, and mention of it after its discovery in the early 1900s.

to some that will be proof that it is not truly an ancient device, and I think that is hogwash. most things just don't last that long, especially paper, which is where mention of the device would be found, if it ever is found.
I've never seen it. It's kind of like credit card debt. The people that have it get progressively more to pay off the previous debt until they reach bankruptcy.

So I do think tech debt is accurate, in that the average human deludes themselves into thinking they will pay it off at some point.
Assange knowingly became a front for a Russian disinformation op against the US. he was a factor in helping Putin bring the US to its darkest days politically. He also released a lot of important factual information Americans did not know. Both are true. One does not negate the other.
> Why does the intent/purpose of the publisher matter here in any way from a legal prospective?

Motive is incredibly important from a legal perspective. It's the difference between self-defense and murder. I believe you have the burden of proof suggesting why motive shouldn't be considered from a legal perspective, and I believe you'll have an uphill battle doing so.
A 100- and 500- year plan is ludicrous on it's face. They don't even credibly hit their 5 year plans a lot of the time. The idea of planning something so large and complex so far into the future seems like wishful thinking at best.
> What that "utility" unit would measure?

Well, that's up to you, is it not? Who else could determine what you value and to which degree?
Ask HN: Google froze my GCE project. We need our data back – what can I do?
Hi Hacker News,

I'm having a really bad time with Google and I’m wondering if any of you here would have any advice. Google has cut off our GCE project for over a month. We’re sort of totally screwed and would be very grateful if we got out of this hole. Google’s support has been simply pathetic, and at this point we don’t even care if Google reactivates our project, we’d just like to get our data out of the GCE disks and migrate to some VPS or whatever.

We’re a small not-for-profit organization and I’ve hacked together an internal dashboard and database to manage our documents and archives. Foolishly, we hosted it on GCE. We’ve been using the system for over a year until October, when my co-worker found that the system seemed like it was down.

Getting into the GCE panel greets us with the ‘Request an appeal’ page telling us there’s a problem with our billing account, and that we need to verify our payment information to re-enable the payments profile. Once I’ve uploaded scanned copies of my credit card and ID card, Google tells us they’ll get back to us after verifying our information.

That was more than a month ago, and Google has done nothing but give pathetic excuses whenever we begged Google for any word on our verification status, telling us they ‘appreciate our efforts in writing back’, constantly blaming the lack of followup on COVID, and giving empty promises that our case has been ‘escalated’. We’ve sent Google endless support emails and tried all sorts of wordings to try to catch the attention of a real person to simply get on with whatever verification they needed.

Eventually we even managed to get someone at support on live chat with their ‘expert team’, but all the support did was give the same old excuses but in real-time, and cut us off the chat abruptly. They did provide a number to call, but turns out the number was a generic Google support number that leads us right back to nowhere.

In each of Google support’s emails, they’ve included some corporate boilerplate telling us that within 48 hours of the interaction, we’ll receive a short survey about our experience with support, and we never even received that.

It’s been more than 30 days since we were able to access our data on our Google disks, and I’m worried if Google would go on to destroy our documents, given that they don’t seem to be recognizing us as a paying customer on GCE.

We’re pretty out of ideas at this point. We just want to get our data out of Google. Does anyone have a clue on how to make Google wake up, or at least get a real person talking to us? I would greatly appreciate any input about how to get this sorted so that we can move on.

A picture of our thread: https://imgur.com/a/vUfhVwA
I'd say the scale is the problem, not the people.

Every service you mentioned (maybe sans Gmail, the only additions I remember in the last twelve years are a new UI and Hangouts) has bolted on so many features over the last years: AWS was virtual machines + SDNs in the beginning as Amazon only intended to sell spare capacity on their own servers, now it's a global one-stop-shop for everything that can be done on the Internet. Facebook was a social media feed, now it's event coordination, groups, chat, image and media hosting at global scale.

And apparently, no one at these organizations ever thought about re-working their infrastructure with "lessons learned over the last decade" in mind. Every new feature was simply bolted on, on top of an infrastructure that was hardly even envisioned to ever become the scale they are today. And that sort of refactoring costs serious amounts of money and developer time, not to mention that it doesn't make sense to develop new features on a code base that's going to be shut down in a year, so management doesn't approve it out of a fear they will be "out-featured" by a competitor and cannot react (=copy, like Instagram's Stories that were a clear rip-off from Snapchat) in time or that their own PKI/OKR goals and with it their bonus payments won't get hit.

That mindset/scale issue is also why IBM mainframes are still so common, why travel PIRs seem to be stuck in formats over half a century old or why "put CSV files on an FTP server" is the standard on bank transfers... big corporate/government clients pay a shitload of money for virtualized mainframes on new hardware that still can run the 70s-era code and even more money for people able to speak COBOL, because that is still cheaper than the alternative - reworking everything from scratch on a modern foundation, testing data integrity and edge cases, revise interfaces to hundreds or thousands of clients. Hell, even Internet standards have the same problem... we are still using protocols like BGP that have been around since before I was born, and tacked on security only a few years ago after a couple of fat-finger incidents.

Modernization in such entities only tends to happen when laws or regulatory frameworks change, and then it can become a real shitshow for those at the lowest rungs of the IT ladder that have to implement them - simply take same-sex marriages and try to shoehorn them into a database that was labeled for "husband and wife", or trans/inter people with gender data represented by a boolean field.
Considering how often a mistake is made at calculation the patient's lens even for the standard monofocals, I would not expect it to be a solution around the corner.
And really it's not always your doctor's fault. Formulas are empirical, and it is more difficult for post-LASIK patients, as the standard formulas are not that good for them, and specialized ones are still maturing.

And this is not including various complications in cataracts that could easily make you ineligible for progressives.
I'm running about 10 servers myself in production. They just do transcoding, so aren't mission-critical, but...

- Regularly patching is automated and took about 30 seconds to configure, using an automated script

Regarding running your own physical servers, that is a different ballgame, but for all of my projects, if I need to:

- I can pretty easily spin up VPSs / bare metal servers anywhere (netcup, linode, hetzner, etc) and provision there while I wait for new hardware to come in
- If you want to double the capacity of your current hardware, you'll have to order it and wait, but it's cheap (vs the major cloud providers) to way over provision if you're running your own physical hardware, so you can pretty easily have 2-4x extra capacity and still come out with extra money in your pocket.

I host in the cloud, but I think people vastly over estimate how much it saves 90% of cloud customers.
I was probably mistaken when I said it was his biography. I believe that it was probably his autobiography that he dictated to a white Oklahoma school superintendent while he was held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

That book is called "Geronimo, My Life" and is available on Amazon and probably in any real, physical book store. The e-book appears to be cheap if you're into that.

https://www.amazon.com/Geronimo-My-Life-Native-American/dp/0...

Since Geronimo was not an Apache chief, he was a medicine man, the story that he tells touches on the spiritual parts of his experience as much as on the trials that he faced as he moved through his life. It is an excellent book and from a unique viewpoint. I highly recommend it.
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Unless you're Quebecois, in which case the province would prefer French appear first. _smirk_
Thanks for the detail. BTW, "quorum of powerful individuals" (QOPI) means the core ETH people who decided to execute the hard forks. I think you're demonstrating my point for me. It's not that QOPI led you all by the nose or that you acceded to a vote; it's that the core ETH people decided to hard fork and you made a pretty rational business decision to stick with ETH and not ETC in part because, as you put it, "nobody trusts the chain".

It's about trust because "code is law" is pretty obviously marketing rather than foundational principle.
This strikes me as odd. Females tend to have more body fat than males, on average, yet females seem to fare better after Covid-19 infections. So either the adipose inflammation improves disease outcome (unlikely?), or the effect of this inflammation is neglible and other factors are more important? I only gave the paper a cursory glance, but it doesn't seem to address this issue.
He's feeling out HN's hivemindy tendancies on this particular subject, obviously.
But you're assuming that the UK court made a decision that is against their law. Why is extradition an incorrect decision?
Binding arbitration is not perfect, but to deem it a failure based on a few melodramatic accounts of it producing unfair outcomes is premature.

It's entirely possible it's the only thing that has prevented anti-discrimination lawyers from hollowing out corporate America with lawsuits

https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/wokeness-as-saddam-sta...
The Internet is bigger than ever. Depending on the community the sources differ.

For ML, you have to read papers and fill in the gaps. Learn the basics enough to be able to slog through the vocabulary and math, then try to turn theory into reality.

For crypto, everything cool that happens in public happens on Twitter. There are news aggregators for crypto news, but it all happens on Twitter first.

It seems it takes more personal effort to get to the cutting edge these days. That could be because this edge is always getting farther away from the starting point, the blank slate of ignorant childhood.
ITT: hacker news users grappling with the consequences of their own ideology
Yeah, I think we switched to coke during the Industrial Revolution not because it's a better fuel than charcoal, but because we were running out of trees.
I'm going to issue 2 ignorant assumptions of mine and a "could it be" hypothesis, but assuming 1) That not a lot of Africans are obese and 2) Covid has so far not hit Africa that bad; Could it be that their lack of fat tissue is the reason?

Yeah, this is the Internet and I could do research to confirm or deny 1) and 2), but hey I'm just here because I'm distracting myself from work right now.
>Plenty of people get extradited from the US to face charges abroad.

Sure. People whom the US doesn't give a fuck about.

"At their leisure" and "one rule for us; another for you" still applies. Sacoolas wasn't an exception in any meaningful sense. She is very much the rule.
This!

Not to mention the amount of garbage in the cloud, the constant learned helplessness that we have to endure even knowing that the situation could have been avoided or even mitigated/solved if the access to the box was possible.

The status-quo of the cloud is uninspiring to say the least...
> He is charged with helping Chelsea Manning to hack into a government computer which did happen on US soil.

IIRC Manning was in Iraq at this time. Were servers they accessed in the US? Probably. But that would be a crime Manning committed.
Why would I want to be down when everyone else is down? That's a period where I can get customers from everyone else.
No, that's not what happened. No history was changed, and nothing was re-validated as you suggest. There was no "violation of blockchain integrity". The only thing that happened was that the upgraded version executed what's known as an "irregular state-change" which moved the ETH from TheDAO's smart contract to a new secure contract. So, it wasn't a roll-back, but a roll-forward, and the change was mined using PoW in accordance with all the blockchain block selection rules.
Neophilia is real and it's impossible to satisfy when everything is always new

It felt amazing in the 1990s when you were a teenager staring at the same 184 lego bricks for 6 months

But now you're older and blind to interesting new things because you're looking for new things in a bucket of new things
Yes it does. Not very much, 2.13 cases per 100K in one study[1] on the Pfizer version, but it is absolutely a clinically confirmed side effect.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110737
When I worked as an IT person for a cheap hotel back in the day, I set up a single Compaq PC as the only server (Samba NT DC, file sharing, IP masquerading, web/mail/DNS server, etc) in a closet. It was not on any battery backup, there was no modem. It ran for years without ever rebooting. In a city where power outages were normal.

Similarly, I've had EC2 instances run for years without ever being rebooted or going down. One of them's still running today after 5 years.

But none of those services were being used 24/7; if the internet went down for an entire weekend, or a hard drive was a little bit corrupt but kept running programs in memory, I probably would never have noticed. I've also had EC2 instances literally just fall off the map and sort of disappear, and had them manually replaced without notice by AWS, had virtual drives fail and corrupt, and had calls to services fail. And I've had my desktop's power supply get fried by a power surge.

Without a lot of experience, running systems seemed easy. But as time went on I learned that it can be easy, and it also can go down if somebody blows on it the wrong way. What we see as being reliable may just be chance. The only way to guarantee reliability is to expect that things are going to go down, and design and build it accordingly.

What AWS makes easy is they give you all the components for reliability, but you have to do the plumbing yourself. I'll bet you the people whose services went down did not properly design for reliability, as they were probably running in one region, in one set of AZs, and relied on distributed system operations that can fail, and didn't properly account for how to deal with those failures. One product I maintain on AWS did not go down, but another did.

Also, the more components a system has, the higher probability there is of failure. Big systems are actually more error prone than small ones.
Y'know what, I'll bite. I can do 10-15 pages. You have a link?
Would it? Most new smelting plants today in the US (any built in the last few decades) use a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide as the reducing gases (natural gas primarily as feedstock, but no reason it couldn’t be about 90% hydrogen produced via, say, hydroelectricity or wind).

Coal didn’t overtake charcoal for smelting iron in the US until the latter half of the 19th century, well after the first industrial revolution.

Melting down scrap iron is one of the main sources of steel in the US, and that is done straight with electricity in arc furnaces.

Coal accelerated the second industrial Revolution, but it was not essential. Far more important for enabling the first industrial Revolution was some of the early scientific knowledge about steam and pressure, such as the work of Robert Boyle, a lot of that based on a sort of reaction to the classics that had been revived in the Renaissance. The biggest argument for coal is indirectly in that it helped the viability of British society (after the island had most its tree cut down over the previous 500 years) which played an important role in the Scientific Revolution (Robert Boyle was Anglo-Irish)… although by the time Britain was playing an important role, the scientific Revolution was already underway on the mainland of Europe. As long as our books are not all destroyed, I think we’d have no problem bootstrapping from charcoal the second time around.

(I think a lot about long term data storage… writing in stone or fired clay still seems like one of the best methods for writing that needs to last 10,000 years… it was, after all, preserved Greco-Roman classics that enabled the renaissance and therefore the scientific Revolution.)
> I no longer hold the view that our media deserves the first amendment protection that it does.

That, uh, might be a bit of an overcorrection.
> we get told that all that old stuff is just 'legacy,' and that we should retool around amazon's proprietary services instead.

New cloud products are targeted at new companies and services.

If a company has already invested all of the R&D into building self-hosting and they've got it running properly with well-defined and measurable economics, it doesn't really make sense to upend it all and rebuild in the cloud.

But for new services, embracing hosted platforms is a proven accelerant for development. Skip past the solved problems like hosting, get straight to work on the interesting problems your business is trying to solve.

> The current generation couldn't invent the internet. You know why, cos they would never have the patience to spec it out like the old timers did.

Oh please. This is just "back in my day" ranting about "kids these days" and how you think one generation is superior to the other. Give it up.
According other published sources:

> the researchers divided the patients into four age ranges: 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, and over 80. They found that in the two younger groups - including adults up to age 60 - being obese was associated with nearly ALL the risk that Covid would lead to intensive care or death. The findings held even after they adjusted for many different potential confounding factors, like smoking, non-weight-related illnesses, and wealth.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/why-covid-is-like-aids
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"Secure" as in "security by closed source and obscurity, because, hey come on, we need to upsell you on 'enterprise' features"?

Yes, of course. Not really any different from the Internet we have today, though.
11 years ago, I did something like that. I was trying to use particle swarm optimization to efficiently update neural network weights, it didn’t work well.

Don’t ask me why I even tried, I was a dumb but code happy undergrad!
> If only we could all flee

Tell that to Snowden.

> There are absolutely reasons for state secrecy and

Sorry, I have to: that's just, like, your opinion man. Have you ever thought that you might be wrong on this? How about the state stops doing the things they need to keep secret? You may call it naive, but some will call it being just, you know?
As indicated in the sentence directly following your quote.
I've been using WSL for around 3+ years now, but with Ubuntu) ((and no GUI) installed. For front-end development I don't have any issues with it. WSL integration with Visual Studio Code is great.
1. this is a preprint, so take their results with a massive grain of salt.
2. the sample size for this is quite low. They cite number of cells in the thousands, but when you look at the number of people in the study the sample size is 3 live people undergoing surgery (line 193) and 8 autopsies (line 439).
3. technical replicates in RT-qPCR are not the same as biological replicates (i.e. more people)
4. Single cell RNAseq is trendy, but again, without more biological replicates it's very much in the realm of extrapolation when considering sample size of patients vs the whole human population.
Oh my, Compiz and Beryl does bring back memories!
What matters here is rule of law (and the fact that we live in a time where it is being increasingly eroded) - not Assange's internal psychological machinations.
Because the UK, and Australia are eager US vassals in this instance. They want to cooperate with the US government. The judges job here is to provide a fig-leaf of argument to justify what the executive clearly prefers.
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Regarding your point on iterators, I typically use a channel with context; this lets you exit that range loop early and will automatically stop the related go routine. (assuming it’s context aware)

e.g.

func myFunc(cx context.Context) {

ctx, cancel = context.WithCancel(cx)

defer cancel()

for item := range iterator(ctx) {

}
}
I agree, it's dangerous to shrug off the link that the vaccine doesn't have any risk associated with it,but then there's also from the same article you linked earlier:

> That compares with another study from Israel which found that in adults over 18, getting Covid-19 increases risk of myocarditis by 18 times – a far bigger increase in risk than from the vaccine.
I've put a request in for it: https://www.hl.co.uk/help/dealing/share-dealing/investing-in...

No idea the likelihood of them actually adding it though.
Black Mirror? /s
I would expand upon this and say anything new and exciting gets ruined by companies slapping on SAAS models etc.

And yes I recognize that businesses need to make money I just despise the saaslife