skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't multi-actuator drives alleviate the issue?
This kind of anthropomorphism is acceptable, it's not like the poster doesn't understand how evolution works... I'm pretty sure "experts" have used the phrase as well. The gist of the comment is correct though.
And with Firefox having full support for uBlock origin, I am pretty sure the time to actual video content is shorter on Firefox.
I am currently a principal engineer and have exactly the work life you described. Maybe in a bigger company the Principal is split from those archetypes but in my smallish team (within a large global org) I am the Principal because I do all of those things.
I think cost might be the main factor there. SDI is serial instead of parallel like all other consumer digital video cables. Hardware to serialize and deserialize bits this fast on a single conductor is expensive. HDMI 1.0 had a max transmission rate of 4.95 Gbit/s in 2002. Today, HDMI 2.1 goes up to 48 Gbit/s.
Ordering from an established supplier connection (in China) scales.
True. And some apps using log4j2 might escape any user input in a way that they can use the flawed versions and be safe. I believe there is just one theoretical exploit of 1.x known that relates to its socket server. It isn't supported anymore and 2.x is recommended, but I wouldn't call it a security flaw if you use it.
What is an L2?
A slight tangent, but the commercialisation of Christmas was a source of annoyance back in the 1930s and 40s. Louis MacNeice wrote about it in his epic work Autumn Journal (which he wrote while travelling through Europe just as fascism was taking hold); the excerpt is titled A Week to Christmas. Note: I've substituted the word "logs" in place of the original here, which was an abbreviation of golliwogs.

A week to Christmas, cards of snow and holly,

Gimcracks in the shops,

Wishes and memories wrapped in tissue paper,

Trinkets, gadgets and lollipops

And as if through coloured glasses

We remember our childhood's thrill

Waking in the morning to the rustling of paper,

The eiderdown heaped in a hill

Of logs and dogs and bears and bricks and apples

And the feeling that Christmas Day

Was a coral island in time where we land and eat our lotus

But where we can never stay.

There was a star in the East, the magi in their turbans

Brought their luxury toys

In homage to a child born to capsize their values

And wreck their equipoise.

A smell of hay like peace in the dark stable -

Not peace however but a sword

To cut the Gordian knot of logical self-interest,

The fool-proof golden cord;

For Christ walked in where no philosopher treads

But armed with more than folly,

Making the smooth place rough and knocking the heads

Of Church and State together.

In honour of whom we have taken over the pagan

Saturnalia for our annual treat

Letting the belly have its say, ignoring

The spirit while we eat.

And Conscience still goes crying through the desert

With sackcloth round his loins:

A week to Christmas - hark the herald angels

Beg for copper coins.
> The title is misleading.

Just because you disagree with something does not make it "misleading". The question of prior immunity is not unknown, is an obvious question, and in fact is mentioned in the article and discussed in the study.

The title accurately reflects the contents of the study. I have many issues with Washington Post's coverage of Covid, but this is actually fair.
Exactly the point: factories operated, but the managers tried (to various level of trying, some not very good) to protect the factory.
A great developer product company is more than building things for developers
When considering someone's claim the web is fucked, it's always worthwhile to ask "For whom?"

I can tell you who didn't enjoy web 1.0: most people I knew. The infrastructure was too complicated to use, and if they even owned a computer, they didn't have network access independent of their voice phone line, and even if they logged on, there wasn't much content they'd care to see anyway.

The web we have now is ubiquitously accessible, content-rich, and hosts billions of users. Of course it's different than the web of a few million users spread across tens of thousands of sites with little way to discover others.
You could also punish people who vote for unpopular content. Similar to how captchas work, if you vote in the minority, you could be assumed to be a 'bot'. This would also require some kind of ML to account for your interests, so you would be compared against others with similar interests.
well gpm's idea doesn't necessarily involve any writing from my read of it.

Actually I'd like to see a news site that has no story telling, no explainers, no narrative. Just the core facts as much as possible, but presented over a timeline. So the timeline itself ends up providing the narrative/structure to a large extent.
I understand that this is enterprise storage related but can we just get cheap optical storage back? My DVD drive can read CD's from the early 90's I used in my 1x CD-ROM drive with caddies in my 486. Those same CD's would also work in a Blu-ray drive. That's true backwards compatibility.

I want a 1TB optical drive with ~100MB write speeds which supports incremental writes. I know I'm asking for a lot but if you could give me the ability to buy a 1TB disc for $1 or less I'm all over it. Archival discs that last for 50+ years would be a huge bonus as well. Perfect cold storage solution.
I . . . Bet he could buy more . . .
I think the limit was reached with the backlash against Google Glass. Having a camera on your face was a bridge too far. Phones you can put away.

Some people like VR but they use it at home.

On the other hand, earbuds and smart watches haven't had the same issues.
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It's an incredibly complicated problem that is currently being worked on by ETH developers. However eventually this will be seemless for an average user. You can be using Uniswap for example on an L2 like arbitrum or zksync and have no idea your ETH is even there. Also ramps are being built to directly deposit into L2. The gas fees from bridging in and out of L2 will be solved when the majority of the traffic is happening on L2, the ETH L1 blockchain will only be used as a settlement layer for L2 traffic and much fewer transactions. Sharding which is coming will also bring down fees a ton for all settlement transactions in ETH L1.
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All his projects are fun…one of his prior projects (mentioned in the article) is Mailoji.

I registered a few and messaged him suggesting it would be cool if I could transfer the Mailoji email addresses with a code so I could hide them in NFTs only the owner could see…I think by the very next day he added the transfer code feature (and didn’t fail to give it the attention of his own style complete with an emoji gift box).
Ask HN: Has the open office contributed to the remote work diaspora?
I never experienced cubicles or actual personal office rooms, but I wonder if part of the reason people like remote work is because the open concept office is just not the way people want to be working (commute time aside). Does anyone work at a closed office, and if so, are you just as interested in working remotely?
Expense is coming down, and form factors and weight are rapidly shrinking while performance of displays improves.

Whatever gripes you have about the space, it is hard to deny the rapid evolution we're seeing due to the influx of investment.
Give it a few billion years it will both cool down AND wipe out the inner planets. Win WIn.
> What if we stopped trying to monetise every single action from every single person every single day?

But it is already monetized, we just don't get the profit.
I worked at a place that had a large, underutilized data center. The DevOps team was stuck in the past and operated too slowly to provision capacity when it was needed so a lot of it was just fallow. They had spent months and months working with a vendor to get these into a k8s fleet, but I never saw the outcome. The devs teams in my office were just throwing shit up on Azure or even Heroku and just not asking permission. We got substantial increases in revenue and the incremental cost of hosting was negligible.
Coming here to second this. I am not signing up to find out how much it costs, and I am actively in the market for a tool like this.

Why won't I sign up to find pricing? Because gaming pricing makes a bad impression and makes me think you will try to obfuscate other critical information once I become a customer and generally be a difficult vendor to work with. Nobody needs to add a difficult vendor, especially in a competitive category.

Edit: there are 6 top-level comments on this post besides yours. 4 of the 6 are looking for pricing.
Yes. There was a time when the tape drive wasn't so expensive; the densities weren't there either but that market climbed the wrong side of the curve in a couple of ways.

The modern tape drives are miracles of precision and the tapes are these cool little cartridges but why? The meat and machines handling tape carts liked the of 3/4in format just fine. With modern electronics for the write heads and slightly less ruinously expensive loading and running hardware we could still get decent data density, even if we have to hunt for the tracks each tape load.
> There is no reason the Guardian must control its own hardware.

No, but it has potential political ramifications, right?

All the Cloud providers are US. Does this mean the guardian will be more wary about saying anything negative about the US?

All the cloud providers are big companies, does this mean that the Guardian might be less critical of big companies?

Obviously being completely vendor agnostic is difficult; but we shouldn't pretend that there could not be backlash in unexpected ways- even if "hosting is not a core competency".

A thing that comes to my mind is Edward Snowden's revaluations: given the things he talked about (NSA was even tapping Google lines, for example): how could any whistleblower expect to not be exposed by accident if everyone is using a cloud provider in the US?

It just strikes me as marginally naive to assume that nothing can/could go wrong here, you hand off an immeasurably large amount of control to an ambivalent entity and whatever regime they happen to be under.
A variant could emerge which is more contagious and more deadly.
Yes, this is definitely a concern: while the public nature of most content hasn't changed (even in the 1.0 days, your blog could be read by anyone who could access the URL), what public means has changed as the userbase has grown from several hundred thousand or a few million to billions of people.

I don't have a great solution for this other than for people to remember / realize that everything they put online is that visible (including this comment. ;) ).
Amusingly I would never hire a sysadmin to do security. Sysadmins were taught how to administer and apply this knowledge. With security the field is constantly shifting, you don’t want someone who knows how to apply you want someone with a deep understanding of the underlying principles able to design and explain new solutions. It’s really an engineer job.
I worked in the US. Most of my clients during this period were large government agencies, large healthcare providers and several large multi-office legal practices. With the exception of the healthcare providers all of them ran Novell Netware networks using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on client PCs.

The healthcare providers usually ran a mixture of WfW 3.11 and OS/2 on clients. Many of these clients were at nursing stations where the OS/2 machines had replaced 3270 terminals and were used strictly as terminals. When Windows 95 and Windows 98 were released they replaced WfW 3.11 and at the healthcare providers also OS/2 on clients.

I had one customer that tested NT 3.1 on a couple of servers but ultimately passed on deploying in production. With NT 3.51 deployment on certain application servers started to happen and with NT4 it pretty much replaced Netware on file/print servers and was deployed for Exchange which quickly upon release started taking large market share from other mail solutions. The only deployment of NT prior to Windows 2000 on clients I saw was system administrator PCs. Windows 2000 was deployed more widely but mostly to those doing specific types of tasks. Usually replacing unix workstations. Normal client PCs only moved to NT with XP.
> Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants.

In this very specific demographic. Other countries will have different outcomes, as seen with the current state of the pandemic (looking at Europe, for example).
> What if we stopped trying to monetise every single action from every single person every single day?

Commoditization of labour (and of pretty much everything else TBH) is one of the founding pillars of the capitalism that survived pretty much unchanged from its inception to the modern days, so you proposition is a non-starter. You see, if you prohibit to monetise something that curbs the free entrepreneurial spirit and so inevitably lowers the efficiency and growth of the economy as a whole: if something can be done for profit, it should be done for profit and that will only improve the resource allocation and in the end, the wealth distribution too.
This is an area of thought that I am interested in learning more about. Humans globalized too quickly - we are not evolving quickly enough to meet the new demand it has put on our mental wellbeing. Our tribes used to be small, and they slowly grew and grew. Now the tribe is essentially the size of the world - if you permit that firehose of that data to your mind. I do think it is healthy to turn that off. It's a slippery slope though - I want to know about atrocities happening on the other side of the world. I don't care that some province in Canada has reinstated an indoor mask mandate.
The biggest issue with blockchain is the need to match the virtual blockchain to the physical goods. Once that link is lost, which happens every day, the blockchain is basically useless. Also, you uave to trust whomever that what the blockchain says is correct. Sure, you can audit these things on site, but then I don't see the benefit of a blockchain.

Also, supply chains are made up of often times competing players. The amount of insight one could gain on other companies from a comolete blockchain is, IMHO, a big hinderance as well.
He's patio11 though that's his identifier like any in-game name, it make no difference if used as a username or as a 'metaverse' identifier. If I want to verify metaverse user 102372193, I'd go to their profile hoping they've linked their twitter
If I read a paragraph of text and then try to write it down from memory, I would probably produce something vaguely similar but not quite exact. Maybe I would change some words or phrases with similar ones, or miss a part entirely. The better I understand the underlying idea, the closer it is likely to be to the original, but unless I reread the paragraph many times with the specific goal of memorising it, I'm unlikely to reproduce it exactly.

Same with visualising a bicycle. I've seen many bicycles and I know what parts a bicycle has and roughly how they fit together, but unless I've paid attention to the exact shape and position of each part, I could at best visualise a rough approximation of a bicycle.

I'm not aware exactly what is wrong, just as I would not be aware of what part of the paragraph I changed. But in many ways it doesn't matter, because the high-level idea is there mostly unchanged, just as with the text. The difference is that if you don't fit the parts in exactly the right way, the bicycle will not work, but I'm unlikely to completely change the paragraph by substituting a few synonyms.

This is not even getting into the jump from visualising to drawing, which would depend on my ability to draw.
A similar argument can be made about cigarettes and lung cancer. One cannot point at a tumour, even in a heavy smoker, and say with certainty "well, that's from the smoking", as opposed to air pollution, or just bad genetic luck. (Or quite possibly a synergy of all three.) When you look at it statistically, it's like what you say, smoking lowers your life expectancy on average.

Yet if you took two large and matched cohorts, one smoking and one non-smoking, after 50 years the smoker population would be much smaller than the non-smoking. On the population level, I think it's reasonable to attribute those missing people to having died from smoking, even though individually we can't say much.
That is still misleading. We don't actually have enough evidence to make such bold claims because the unknowns exist.
Hasn’t VR been gaining steam for a while now, as in, never coming around? All I see are companies massively pushing for it, but I don’t see any real take up. Anything that I’ve seen seems like a gimmick and not something that will actually stick or resonate with people.
Death is merely the most extreme outcome. Not dying doesn't mean you're OK.

Long COVID is a big deal, and it apparently affects half of those who get COVID [1]. Furthermore, even double-vaxxed, while protected against hospitalization or death, are still at risk (reduced about 50%) for long COVID [2].

Until/unless Omicron has been proven to have less severe long covid symptoms, yeah I'm treating it with the same caution that I'd do with Delta.

[1] https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-many-people-get-...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03495-2
> So you're saying out of thousands upon thousands of protestors three had guns.

You were saying there "were no guns". I am saying there were. One of these is an accurate statement.

> WOW SUCH INSURRECTION.

Firearms are not necessarily for something to be classified as an insurrection.

Firearms aren't even necessary if you want to have a revolution:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

> Were they overthrowing the constituted government or protesting?

From the court filing above:

> On January 7, 2021, the FBI received information that CLEVELAND GROVER MEREDITH, JR. (hereinafter “MEREDITH”) had recently sent a text message in which he wrote, “Thinking about heading over to Pelosi CUNT’s speech and putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV [purple devil emoji].” Additionally, Agents learned that MEREDITH was likely in the Washington, DC area, and that he allegedly had firearms and ammunition.

* https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1353311/download

To me, personally, threatening to kill someone would fall under a "violent" label, and so would lean more insurrection.

There could have been other people at the event that did not have violent intentions and simply wanted to voice their grievances, and that would lean more towards protest.
It feels less like a paper website business and more just like a traditional website builder except with some OCR to turn notebook pages into web pages.

Like, you've still got to edit the page to add links, images, colours, etc. In fact, that seems like the most complicated part.

It's a fun gimmick and a nice selling point. But someone will be able to use this idea for Wordpress/Wix/Squarespace plugin. Would be surprised if they didn't produce their own feature to do the same thing eventually.

It'd be way cooler if you could draw links on the page and it would figure that out. Or draw a box with some links in it and generate a header. Draw a box for a place holder image and generate that. The next iteration would obviously be using paper to design the actual site and then using CV to generate the markup/styling.
Just to clarify, as it's not clear from that sentence: it can still be detected with PCR, just not distinguished from other variants as easily.
just wait 2 decades and maybe he'll be top1 online shop
Again: Just because you disagree with something does not make it "misleading". Your opinion is not truth.

No research paper stands alone, and we never have all context on a given question. You disagree with the conclusion for reasons -- that's fine. Make your arguments, and see if you can convince people. That's how science works.
Trolls and kooks were around on Usenet even in the UUCP days, and on dialup bulletin boards as well. They've become far more visible and destructive, and manipulation has become far easier, as it got easier to go online. I hate thinking that the Eternal September meme should be anything but an oldtimer in-joke, but looking at what social media has done to society makes me shudder. Making the grapevine worldwide and instantaneous, which I once thought was a Good Thing, is now looking more to me like a mistake, but that genie is long out of the bottle now.

I'm glad to see old-school forums soldier on, at least. For specialized information and advice, they tend to be a lot more reliable than social media - mostly because they're communities that have no patience for trolls. That doesn't stop them (and spammers) from trying to cause trouble, though. Once you let the general public in, it's inevitable that some will be jerks. Just a look through the "New" queue on HN with "show dead posts" shows it vividly. :)
Definitely, Wolfram Alpha can do way, way more than Google can. I just mean that the simple time zone conversion is one of the things Google can do; it's not a super ringing endorsement for Wolfram Alpha to be doing time zone conversions with it. Also not a ringing endorsement for DDG -- if he had used Google it would have just answered his query inline without having to use a special exclamation point query.
Many color-blind people do not discover they are color blind until teenage years (or even later). You can live without realizing you're different even when people use different words that to them seem to be describing the same thing.

I recommend reading the classic The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks to learn about the variety of ways brains can malfunction without people ever noticing. For example seeing only the right-side of the world (and, for example, when asked to draw a clock, drawing half a circle and putting all 12 numbers on it without any concern the object is incomplete).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
That works out to 1-in-400. 6 times more deadly than base jumping. Not factoring the risk of long-term disability from post-viral CFS.

I'll happily give those odds a miss.
I would question Apple's fast and furious update schedule. Fundamentally there is very little difference between Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and macOS 12 Monterey. The operating system itself has probably seen very little changes since NeXTSTEP's first release in 1989, it only appears different, and the vast majority of changes are in the graphical interface. It begins to appear like the software philosophy pioneered by Adobe: buy the same software every 2 years. But Apple upped that game to every stinking year. Why? What is the benefit to the user? Wouldn't it have been far better to not place so much attention on a constant, never ending stream of so many new features so few use, and instead focus on the necessary features everyone uses, as well as security, and fixing the bugs. I also don't understand Apple's philosophy of abandoning compatibility. Was 32-bit compatibility really all that crippling to Apple's 64-bit endeavors? Or is it just an easy way to break production software to force purchase of new software? Imagine if the automobile industry changed fuels every 10 years starting in the 1940's, such that every decade that passes, any car older than 10 years would no longer function for lack of access to fuel. I don't think we would have let that stand. And yet we eat what Apple puts on our plate. I like macOS, but this "new OS every year!" sucks, has no benefit to the user, and it is, fundamentally, a lie.