skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A brief initial exponential phase that doesn’t explain the average state of the system is a poor mental model.

Epidemiologists do frequently use exponential growth in discussions of theoretical spreading, but they are not correct. It does not fucking matter. They’re just wrong. Is the long term spread of a disease exponential. No. We can say this with 100% confidence. Why? Because they do not increase exponentially over time. They QUICKLY hit ceilings and inflection points.

This is the problem. If you call a system exponential because it looks like that at the beginning, your estimates of the middle and end will be hugely off. Massively wrong.

It is obviously apparent looking at Covid that it does not spread exponentially. The impact of this understanding is enormous. In an exponential model, a virus that is twice as infectious could be expected to infect 4x as many people over the same period. If the model is logarithmic, twice as infectious will likely result in LESS THAN TWICE the number of people infected.

Scary predictions that a small increase in spreading will exponentially increase the number of infected people do not hold up against observed real world data. We should be cheering on a more spreadable but less deadly disease. Scale matters, of course, but we aren’t seeing anything like that.

If you want to come back to this in one year and check to see if omicron infected even twice the number of people that delta did over the same time period that’s a bet I’d surely take.
... where to put the taps for maximum signal strength

It's not that signal strength varies along the cable. It's about minimizing the effect of reflections. Some reflection is unavoidable when you tap into the cable.

"Transceivers should be installed only at precise 2.5-meter intervals. This distance was chosen to not correspond to the signal's wavelength; this ensures that the reflections from multiple taps are not in phase.":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5
Deploy to a private cluster via GitHub Actions without exposing it
Currently there's an input limit because of this "buffer" (how full the waiting room is allowed to be), when I got my first dose 6 months ago there was a long line outside of the vaccination center (not in the UK), and people showing up at 5:20 for a 5:30 appointment was told to wait (the first limitation was probably only having x bookable appointments per time slot). The healthcare workers were going as fast as they can though, so I guess that's the real bottleneck.

I guess without the waiting area they can add more vaccination booths, but geez, that sounds stressful for the workers, imagine having a person every ~2 minutes for extended periods of time.

Which makes me think I should move my booster appointment to the morning...
Yes, we are spoiled.

I'm not sure it's even possible to have a valid contract with an unknown party...
Yesterday an openfaas user asked me how he could deploy functions to a private VPC on AWS. This is what I came up with - three options, one of which is using inlets, which I created to integrate deeply with Kubernetes.
It's about 1 in 10000-30000.

That is 33-100 micromorts. You can use this unit to compare with other activities (higher value is more lethal).

Base jumping is 400 micromorts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
I love the idea. Somewhat impractical for renting, and it both requires more skills and even more effort. But it sounds like a cool project I’d love reading about in a blog :D
Or rather, auto-merge dupes into a single, rolling thread. Possibly automatically delete subthreads after, say, the 10th or 20th, or after a certain age. Then treat the merged thread as a single unit. Multiple links would be listed in the header, or perhaps as footnotes.

The goal would be that no matter how viral a story gets, it only ever takes up a single slot in the frontpage and new comments section. The UI would mostly remain unchanged (no new buttons or links.)
Because of the last two words or the fainting ?
What I'm saying is that they wouldn't get a chance to use the kill switch because they would have focused on "containing" the suspect before they could activate it.
Any good ones for c#?
23 Things to Quit for an Easier, Happier Life
Exactly, just like that!
Looks like another victim of partygate.

Boris Johnson’s need to distract from his scandals led him to announce targets without discussing with the NHS and actual providers so now they need to make changes to accommodate his political requirements.
He probably was a bit sexist in the way that old people can be, not necessarily malicious about it. There wasn't really a point, I just found it funny.
> What’s great about HTTP 1.1 is it’s simplicity.

Perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I like being able to debug things with telnet/netcat. (Or openssl s_client.)
The most people have misunderstood how this system actually worked. I read every paper carefully, and this was very innovative system to protect your privacy IF we compare to existing CSAM solutions. Of course the best option is to not scan at all, but that is not really option.

Only those pictures which were about to be uploaded iCloud, would have been scanned, and Apple would get information about image contents only if it is flagged. The phone is blackbox and it scans your files anyway all the time, sending metadata to Apple e.g. because of the spotlight feature and photo albums, or simply syncing your data to cloud. There is massive AI behind that spotlight feature. Nothing would have changed, just the different kind of information would have been flagged, but this time encrypted.

The major improvement was E2EE like system for Photos. Currently they are not E2E encrypted in Cloud. They are plaintext for Apple.
iOS 15 beta had also encryption for backups, but it never reached public reach after CSAM was delayed. So we lost yet another feature which would have increased the privacy. "But it happens in my device", is not really valid argument since most people don't understand what happens in their devices in the first hand. Even AV engines sends all your data to cloud, and you can't opt out in most of the cases and it is for every file.
checked exceptions don't integrate very well with streams and reactive pipelines, to the point that basically all of then end up being wrapped and rethrown as unchecked

methods that declare checked exception can throw RuntimeException(s) so exhaustiveness cannot be totally enforced anyway
As a Linux user coming from Mac, I'm super excited about this, since Apple's hardware is some of the best.

As a web application developer and Linux newbie, I don't feel like I have the expertise to be able to contribute to this, but I wish I did.
Isn't that already a thing? IIRC you can configure your Mac to unlock if your Watch is in close proximity, so it should be possible to do the opposite when it goes out of range.
> Any property you hold is gambling to a certain degree

The degrees are what separates milk from butter, or a paper box from a house. That is the entire point. If you ignore the degrees to which something is different from another, then sure, everything is everything else.

> Holding your savings in $ is a bigger gamble than buying a house and some would argue it is a bigger gamble than holding bitcoin.

Perhaps, I'm not one of them. Time will tell.
Nowhere on your pricing page does it say that the prices are per month. My first assumption was that you had to keep paying as you ran tests, and would have looked elsewhere had I not read the correct information in this HN discussion.
this is a nice introduction to Judaism in first millennium BC for lay people but it has odd biases and chooses framinings that stretch the truth at times to fit a broader cultural narrative.

Yes, in the time of Jesus the Torah was stored as scrolls not a single book - the compilation of the Torah into a book is post Christian Era. This surprised exactly no one.

That Judaism is a cultic religion with ritual elements and pslams being sung during processions and temple services is an utterly unfascinating and banal observation that anyone who is undergrad level familiar with biblical studies would know. Or even someone who just reads some of the OT as an adult.

I see this a lot with the 'ashera as a consort of yaweh' hay making efforts so many engage in - this is all spelled out in the Bible if you bother to read it. Yes, many people in Palestine and broader Israel practiced synthetic versions of Yaweism or whatever you want to call it.

Why do we always approach the Bible from a post WW2 western low church ('billy graham') perspective?
I use web frameworks that have database migration tools and then it becomes just another code deploy which gets kicked off by CI.

In development I create the migration which ends up being a file that alters the schema. I run the migration command and make sure things work as planned and all tests still pass.

Then I push up the feature branch and it gets code reviewed. This review could either be by yourself or a team member depending on team size.

After everything passes on CI it gets merged and deployed. At this point it depends on how you deploy things but that could be to a staging environment where it runs which gives you extra confidence that it works before rolling it out to production or you could go straight to production if you don't have a staging environment.

As for how it gets run, usually it happens after the new version of your code is available to be pulled but before your web app gets restart. This way it can run while the old version of your app is running, then once it completes you can restart your web app to pick up the new code base that was part of the deploy.

If you're careful about how you migrate things you can do a lot of migrations without hard downtime, but it's usually a balancing act between how complicated you want the migration process to be (multiple steps / deploys) vs how much downtime you can live with (1 step / deploy).

Basically migrations are code that get treated like any other code deploy with a proper review. If it's an especially important migration it wouldn't hurt to get it reviewed by more than 1 person and also perform a production DB backup right before you deploy the migration.
I genuinely appreciate the correction. More and more, I’m content if I can simply place things in the right decade.
> The code has been written, tested and merged etc. The project has reached a point where it's ready to ship.

Are we talking about anything that scans photos?

If so that’s pretty common… everywhere.

I have some technically capable friends who were up in arms about this situation.

Then they share their “vacation at X with friends “ Google photos album with me.

Cat isn’t just out of the bag….
Apolitism is the next big thing.
> > but what is comically impractical about this?

> That you have to carry such contraption around and find a place to tie it to.

If you're the type of person who uses a laptop lock, I could see something like this being a welcome enhancement. But in that case it would be most practical if it were built into the lock itself.
Very excited about this work, planning to move to a M1 Air once it gets a stable relase.
I'm an experienced programmer whos just learning go now and I never made the connection that interface{} meant 'an interface with no methods'. I've always thought 'interface{}' was the clearest wart on the language. Languages shouldn't be about teaching me things, they are just a tool. Keyboard input goes in, computer instructions come out. any is easier to read, more intuitive in its meaning and takes less keyboard input.
"Planners are neither motivated nor able to do either. They are the ones bringing the economic collapse."

Erm, no, its the briliant free market optimised supply chains that have failed and gave us this inflation.

The free-market has ensured that the entire continent of North America produced Zero medical masks in the first year of the pandemic because there is no meltblown production on the entire continent. There was zero stock because everyone is 'just in time manufacturing'

It is also free market that controls the velocity of money, and when people can't get the goods they need because they are all stuck on the other side of the olanet, they start outbudding each-other and yiu get inflation. Eve all central bankers stopped existing before this crisis, the inflation of consumer economy would be exactly the same
I'm not saying trust McCullough, because I listened to some of that podcast and some of what he said I really think is bullshit and wrong... BUT...

I also seriously don't trust any tech platform on covid information at this point. It's clear there is something along the lines of massive regulatory capture of tech platforms by the official FDA, CDC, NIH lines and they hardly ever allow dissent. Time and time again it's been proved that the censorship has been too much. Lab leak hypothesis, vaccine safety, vaccine stopping the spread to name a few. It's clear that the black and white censorship that's happened (it's not a lab leak, vaccines are safe), is just not true. Both those things are pretty gray areas, as this study shows.

The vaccine is basically turning into a personal trolley problem for everyone. Do I take the vaccine and make an active decision and take a small risk, or do I not take action and take a slightly bigger risk?

It's clear there isn't a risk free option, which is what vaccines were sold as.

So, tldr, I think taking that sentence from wikipedia as some sort of indicator is not a good idea.
I do wonder what Apple will do if this gets any sort of traction. I fear they only allow disabling of secure boot/other OS installs due to fear of regulation. Apple wants you running their OS and in their walled garden.
That's... because it isn't? How would a dead man switch be illegal?

I mean it may, hypothetically, be used to hide illegal activities, but if you go that way you go down the slippery slope and will be advocating for weakening or backdooring encryption just in case it's used for illegal activites.
Relying on a safety critical assumption to be true without checking it isn’t a good idea even if it’s probably true.
Reminder that Internet Archive has a 2-to-1 Matching Gift campaign for donations: https://archive.org/donate

It's quite important to see what a given page wrote.
Alder Lake, Intel's flagship dekstop class CPU, is only 10-15% faster than the M1 Pro/M1 Max in CPU performance but it requires an insane amount of cooling and the power consumption is frankly ridiculous.

Seems like Apple Silion will be 5 years ahead of the competition - similar to how long it took for others to catch up with the first iPhone.
This comment takes me back to when I didn’t have kids.
..he said, and then immediately collapsed himself.
Anyone has a pointer to what "Blocked on PSCI discussion" means ? I'd be interested to read those (mailing list?) discussions.
I would. It would save me the time spotting the red flags and backing away anyway.

Though a couple of relevant regulations state this should not be done, and no site is going to send away a potential customer by saying “we don't want to follow your laws/regulations so can't do business with you” when they can instead just get away with just ignoring, or in the case of sites run from elsewhere in the world claim to have no no knowledge of, those regulations.
This is great and might actually prompt me to get a Mac, as much as I like ThinkPads, this battery life is simply on another level.
Using NLP to analyze presidential ideas
I cant believe you are comparing JavaScript to flash
You already know this, but the "mountains of extraneous garbage" is the content. The text you care about is just there to make you download and execute the rest. quic is not needed to give you the text you want. It's needed to deliver the actual content, the ads.
Sensible software. My country does home searches if someone on Twitter calls an official a penis. Even with its dark past recognizing the problem alone seems to be beyond the capabilities of its leadership.

Of course most constitutions do forbid surveillance of private communications, we just used the last two decades to create enough exemptions that the fundamental rule in most constitutions is worthless by now. We needed protection from terrorism that causes nearly as much death as the sniffles (not counted the hundreds of thousands of dead by retribution to said terrorism!).

Enough information can make almost anyone a criminal or at least cause embarrassment enough to not let people be a force in society anymore. Even having the information is enough for people to stay silent, so tools like this may become essential for basically everyone, even if such a arms race against state actors does decrease overall security.
On x86 you can use self-modifying code without explicitly flushing caches. However, if you execute the modified code soon after writing it, the penalty can be tens to hundreds of cycles (source: Agner Fog’s optimization manual).

ARM quite famously requires the explicit cache flush, and will usually fail to work without it. However, some emulators, e.g. QEMU, don’t require the cache flush, which can lead to confusion if you usually test on emulators.
And training. Training is massively expensive. You gotta train pilots, crew, mechanics, baggage handlers, etc, etc.

The more situations in which you can say "the new one is just like the old one you know" the better.

Part of the reason pilots weren't initially properly trained on the MAX8 was because Boeing and the customers were winking and nodding at each other and trying to perpetuate the farce that the new plane was the same as the old plane and giving the pilots minimal training was part of that. If everybody knew how the new MCAS system worked there would likely have not been any crashes but that couldn't happen because it would have created a paper trail that indicated the MAX8 was pushing the limit of what was allowed under the old FAA cert.
I feel like you're undervaluing the role individuals and private enterprise have on civilization. If there were just a bunch of roads and power lines without homes and businesses it wouldn't be much of a civilization.
" I highly doubt they're of the size required to sustain multi-week storm/bad weather events"

Those bad weather events come usually with lots of wind - which you can harvest, too. So the solution might just be the often propagated energy mix.

And you can build batteries without any rare elements(natrium instead of lithium), so if you build enough of them and enough solar and co. then who cares if some of that energy gets lost, as long as the grid remains stable?
This is the biggest complaint after generics, and there are a few proposals to dynamically resolve it in either libraries or language features. These proposals are in the go2drafts section, but keep in mind that this is where generics were originally placed on the timeline. Yet here we are with a backward-compatible change to the language in the sub-2.0 version of the language.
3x is nothing, 10x or 100x and we're talking.

The only real bottleneck we're going to have is CPU, so they should compare that.

Everytime humans make an improvement we scale up to fill that benefit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Once upon a time in a former life I had an industrial customer that used 10BASE5 and it ran all around their factory. One of the many jobs I did for these folks was installing vampire taps and AUI drop cables.

As you mention the optimal placing of a tap should be on these marks, or as close to as possible. Unfortunately the reality was that where these cables ran and where the taps needed to be fitted and where the dots actually existed never really aligned well, especially in high up confined crawl spaces. We soon discovered that 10BASE5 is pretty forgiving even if you install a tap in the least optimal positions, e.g. dead centre between the dots.

Previous installers even managed to install two to three taps more or less next to each other and there were no complaints about performance degradation.
power users come and go.

general population don't need macs, a $ 200 smartphone is more than enough for the majority

who would spend 1.500 euros (in Europe) for a laptop that has a limit of 16gb of RAM?

only people with lots of money to waste.
Why can't we just have cross-continent UHVDC cables to counteract that issue?
We are a .NET shop and have been using DbUp (https://dbup.readthedocs.io) for years now. It is fantastic. We had so many false starts managing production databases and keeping them consistent. DbUp has taken all that away, and now every upgrade or patch is repeatable and predictable.
It is worth spending time identifying what in your database is idempotent (e.g. stored procs, functions) and what isn't. This way the idempotent objects can be upgraded every time and everything else just receives a single incremental update as required.
Hi, the pricing page was not up and I put it on after getting some feedback from the community. It's per month. It was a quick page. I'll update that part.
If you think pigs are bad with the environment, watch until you see the environmental damage that goats do. They literally graze everything to the ground. They fatally wound most trees. They leave behind desert.
Wait til they find out that methods cannot introduce generic parameters. I predict that complaints will shift from ‘no generics’ to ‘no generic methods’.
FYI, BTC is not fungible. Otherwise companies like Coinbase wouldn't be able to ban people's accounts if they transfered in BTC with a tainted history.
I remember seeing something likes this as a do it yourself a while back on hacker news.
I'll gladly be part of a movement to opt out of this. I tend to be very selective about technologies I let into my life. My wife hasn't always shared my view, but the metaverse she agreed doesn't need to be part of our lives.

I hope the bifurcation is real because that will make it easier to keep the metaverse separate from the real world.
Tried it again, it works fine. Thanks
If they wanted to be dubious, they could've put up some fake/stolen information.

Then you wouldn't question it, which just makes the whole thing rather useless.

I always found it funny how people trust Stiftung Warentest. It's the German equivalent to "Which?", but at least Brits know they're full of shit.
Probably something the Shortcuts app could do, I couldn't find a Watch specific entry when creating one though. So it's just lock/unlock for now.
Found this out recently when my 250GB database had to roll back a transaction and was stuck for hours :/

Restoring a new database from the AWS snapshot and transaction logs was literally faster.
Why not use an accelerometer IC? Then you don't need the cord.

Another idea is to use voice recognition.
Might have protected Ross Ulbricht, but he’s an edge case. Anyone had their laptop yanked away while using it?
Anecdotal, most of my internet use is still finding and reading text based information.

...I mean it's to build a web application, but that's different.
That is correct but irrelevant. When I reach a landing page that mainly has text content (whether it's a news article, a blog post, a company's "about us" or a product's features list/matrix or something else), the page should load fast.

My browsers shouldn't need to make 100 network connections and download megabytes to display a thousand words of text and some images. It should be about 1 network connection and maybe dozens of kilobytes (for images).

We are not complaining about the web version of productivity apps like email, spreadsheets, project management, etc. loading slowly. But a newspaper article should load faster than a social media feed, and often they don't.
In theory, I agree. But it is somewhat akin to saying - why use strong encryption since a three letter agency can just brute force your device. If you're in that deep, maybe it won't help. But for the average reporter in a hostile zone, keeping the local police from snooping on their machine would be preferential.
The human toll of Log4j maintenance