skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can probably just lie down and sleep though. The tidal effects would be interesting, but I'm not sure they'd be uncomfortable. Walking would be more difficult, as you'd feel you are about to fall on your face (or back) but I don't think it's something one wouldn't be able to get used to.

Wouldn't work with the 4.5 m size limit of the current ISS modules, it's barely doable with a Starship-wide module, but seems totally doable with inflatables. Bigelow was designing 12m+ wide modules and that was a limitation of the rocket fairing that was launching it. With, say, Starship, the module could be much wider.
AND you would get to live in Falkenstein, one of the most exciting places in Europe.
I wouldn't say this complete discredits the author if that's the worst you could find.
Went looking for later studies with larger population sizes and found this review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S204908012...

It's not that much larger -- I guess reinfections are hard to find -- but surprisingly this found that ICU admission was higher for reinfections.
Oh look, another article asking ordinary citizens to shoulder responsibility for something that is almost entirely perpetrated by corporations.

Yawn.
Nice site!

What tools did you use to build it?
What is happening is more melting is occurring in Summer then what freezes during Winter. This a net loss of ice.

In the past, over a period of time, an equilibrium existed, CO2 broke that equilibrium.
The ghosts of the past, they never go quiet.
Exactly it's just a job description and name. In my last job our org rarely promoted anyone technical (only managers and above) so almost everyone was either Lead Software Engineer, or Senior Software Engineer. Other orgs promoted everyone to the max no matter what they did - I knew a group where the lead was a Director but coded, and all of his reports where Principals; yet they did simpler work than anyone in our org did.
The billing system runs each night.
In my younger days I was a loud crusader for keeping the web (and Internet in general) as free as possible both in the "free speech" and "free beer" sense of the word, but now I see that I was wrong.

What's now going on is that the huge mess of SEO techniques and ad tracking is solving one particular problem: monetisation.

I don't know exactly how would the web have spread if the early HTTP monetisation codes, headers and efforts were actually continued (like the "402 Payment Required" response), but I do believe now that not having monetisation built in to the new medium has caused the majority of freedom and surveillance issues today.

The web is not just fucked up. We fucked it up by not planning far enough.
freedom to work on whatever they want!
Just to make you aware, these views are extremist.
Someone will probably tell you if it's important enough to affect your life. Barring that, the best very low volume news Twitter, IMHO, is @disclosetv . They don't tweet more than about 20 or so times a day and anything really important always shows up there. They are definitely right wing, so if you can't stand that, you're out of luck.
Are corporations emitting carbon for fun, or are they doing it at the behest of "ordinary citizens"?
> China is busy creating the next silk road through crafty debt tactics. Once again: Something the West could do to help us, but won't. Which is going to cost you a great deal more in the long run

This is something that bothers me too. The west seems to be totally ignoring China's activities in sub-Saharan Africa.
> Facebook is pivoting to a non existant technology, and no one even knows whether anyone would want it if it existed.

This is not true. The tech exists, Facebook is creating hoopla about a VR video game to distract from its offenses and to dissuade regulation. You can’t regulate something that is undefined.

I don’t disagree with the rest of your point.
Thanks for the response, as I was unaware of this. Unlike the GP, you've provided reasons for the criticism which is what I'd rather see than bald assertions of "person bad".
I love the ending. Seriously, if you're a TLDR; person and just here for the comments, go read the article (it's short) and come back.
I reckon the scale is simply not linear.

The likes of FAANG or banks, they have a big target painted on their backs; so they are scrambling for cover. However, the overwhelming majority of other businesses are not under similar pressure, because it's unlikely they will be targeted first - if at all.

I was actually talking about this with a friend who works for a company that provides a few niche services. They've had log4j 1.x in production for eons, which is also vulnerable to bad remote exploits, and nothing ever happened - simply because hackers are extremely unlikely to target their services. Obviously it doesn't mean they shouldn't upgrade, but the pressure is basically not there - at least until something Really Bad actually happens. He was actually pissed off at his manager making a big deal out of this exploit simply because it ended up on the mainstream press.
It's FUD from a self-reported Facebook survey earlier this year: https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/fact-check-setting-...
"Prolonging the inevitable" still has a benefit for hospital capacity. If every uninfected person went and got it tomorrow, it wouldn't be pretty.

I'm still wearing my KN95 to busy indoor places in part because it's been nice not getting colds/flus for the last two years, too.
Coding for FAANG
>Then you clearly don't understand the TCO of using a data center vs cloud. The datacenter cost itself isn't the cost - the people who operate it are.

I guess I find that a bit humorous. I've been architecting solutions that span on-premises and cloud for nearly a decade so I'm intimately familiar with both. I don't actually have a horse in the race. You want cloud, buy cloud, you want on-prem, buy on-prem. But the marketing about one-size-fits-all is EXTREMELY tiresome. And the idea that every single business can or should be moving their entire infrastructure to the cloud is as well.

The fact you imply that somehow you don't need people to manage the cloud makes me seriously question what at-scale deployments you've been a part of. I have yet to see a single enterprise customer save money on staff by moving to the cloud. More often than not what they end up doing is laying off the "tape jockey" and replacing him with an SRE who costs 3x the salary. Congratulations? Now you're paying more for an SRE, and you're backing up to S3 at about 5x the cost of what you were spending on tape? But I guess the 7 years of backups you're legally obligated to keep are more agile?

>If you think cloud computing it's just about a lift and shift from a traditional data center, then you don't understand how to calculate TCO.

I don't think the concept of cloud computing is lift and shift and never said it was. But that's not really relevant to OP's question, what is relevant is what's happening on the ground.

What's actually happening is that most established businesses "moving to the cloud" are lifting and shifting and finding out the hard way. I'm not saying that's what they should do, I'm not saying that's at all a good idea, I'm telling you that is what is happening. And if you think "well they'll mature into a more cloud friendly model" - you're as delusional as their management. What ACTUALLY happens is after they lift and shift and get a year's worth of those bills, they lift and shift the stuff that never should've been in the cloud in the first place back on-premises. Hopefully by that point they've learned their lesson and have a thoughtful evaluation of their applications: re-home, re-write, leave in place.
I like Ben's writing but this one seems a bit of a stretch for me. I do like the bucketing of tech eras. Though in regards to the Metaverse I feel like he might be drinking too much of the kool-aid.

Metaverse feels like google glasses to me without any of the actual quasi benefits/hard-tech that google glasses created. That and Zuckerberg has killed any good will to build a project with such grandiose vision with the general public.

And any experience to unite it under one roof seems a bit optimistic.
Damn. I forgot that's how the Internet worked - if you disagree with something, that means you cannot use it to your advantage ever again.

I disagree with working a 5 day week too...I suppose I'd better call my boss.
So in conclusion, the narrative that execs at large firms push is a self centered one that is intended to keep the status quo just as it is. They may not realize this, but doing so makes it ever more likely that there will be regulatory pressure on them sooner or later.

Apologies if this is not super well written, i'm writing this during travel and English isn't really my first language.
Our ideas may be wrong and may even be dangerous, but right now our Tribe is bigger. That’s what counts.
And yet many factories continue to operate.

Notice how we have a backlog of ships to unload and not empty ships? That’s because factories continued operations.
I havent seen any evidence covid is seasonal. it may become seasonal. but nothing in the past 2 years as indicated it is.
I've found that the shield toxic people have around them is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leadership can be in a difficult position, because their interface to the people suffering the toxic element is often through the toxic element -- and the same is true in reverse -- which masks the problem. Leadership might think "this person is unpleasant to work with" but also think "their team is delivering so they must be doing something right!" which a team can perceive as protection or an endorsement from leadership, but can be challenged quite easily by demonstrating that their behaviour is harming the team.

Even if you're confident they do have immunity, and that there's no way to pierce through their immunity, there's still opportunities to have a positive impact. A great place to start is with junior employees: every time there's an incident, reach out to them and let them know that this behaviour isn't normal or acceptable. Junior employees are in the worst position: they don't know what is normal and what is not. As a senior employee, you can say with confidence whether behaviour is normal or not, and so just saying "this is not normal" can make the world of difference to someone junior. Also, depending on the organization, reporting incidents can be useful even if it feels like you're just shouting into the void: you never know when these reports will come in useful.
7.5/7.6 was the switch-over to the "Mac OS" name.
Yes and: Ezra Klein provides a lot of context in the book Why We Are Polarized.

It was long argued that partisanship (Dem v GOP) should become polarized, so that voters knew what they were getting. (Careful what you wish for.)

Sorting proceeded polarization, then became self reinforcing.

To your point about identity, somehow sorting and polarization led to a stacking of our identities, creating super identities. So that any given belief becomes strongly associated with many others. Like a NASCAR fan is more likely a GOP voter. This is somehow like homophily and schismogenesis.

Klein concludes by punting on how to unwind polarization. Instead, he advocates majoritarian rule by ending the vetocracy. So then our polarized parties are better held accountable.

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This paper's Attraction-Repulsion Model is worth considering. I really like their use of dynamic simulations. Coolness. Alas, I currently have no clue if ARM has any predictive power (real world use cases).

To noob me, sorting and polarization -- tribes and wedge issues -- kinda look similar to k-means clustering and bee colony optimization. ARM isn't so different.

I've been reading about voter behaviour modeling. Starting with William McPhee's work. Again, I have no idea if what they're actually doing is any better than phrenology.

Having worked on campaigns, I actually know the mechanics of polling, profiling, GOTV. But the work of orgs like Data for Progress, fivethirtyeight, and our local party's quants has always struck me as black magic. (Or complete bullshit. I still haven't decided.)
* you can stay at home

* you can social distance

* you can stay outdoors

* you can choose well ventilated businesses (which this place is, I've been there personally as recent as Friday)

* you can get vaccinated

What others are doing is none of your business at this point. Furthermore California is hosting the SuperBowl, NCAA tournaments, firing nurses, and the governor is on a book signing tour.

Lastly, Bentonville is marked by a massive population of people that bike and represent an extremely healthy segment. They are neither at risk for contraction or spread of the disease.
i love that it doesn't scale!
This is an entertaining video on that topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSu5sXmsur4
I don't even use one handle on HN or Reddit over time, I change every couple years.

But those are sites where there's not much value in keeping the same identity for the average person. Only at the very top end is your identity meaningful on some sites.

On Twitter and Facebook, however, I've keep my real name identity for well over a decade. There is value for the average person there to be known by a consistent identifier.

I don't know which approach I'll take with the metaverse. My instinct is that I'm going to want my identity to be quite malleable. In a place that's all about expressiveness (or at least that should be its core purpose) I think I'll want different identities depending on what it is I'm expressing.
Right, but accuracy with respect to reality is not the distinction between aphantasia and non-aphantasia, that's more about memory or technical knowledge than about the ability to visualize itself. Someone without aphantasia can also visualize fantastical scenes with no connection to reality, either because it is fully fantastical (dragons and dwarves) or not a real memory (imagining meeting with someone, but it hasn't happened yet for you to be able to recall). They could visualize cartoonish scenes or cel shaded scenes or animated XKCD stick figures. None of those are realistic, but they could still be visualized in detail.
It's TCO through the lens of "do you really want to have to have specialists in that?" Akin to running your own power plant -- MAYBE you can do so "more cheaply" than grid power through a one dimensional cost of inputs lens but all of a sudden you're running a power plant which is a bummer when your customer complains that the burger doesn't taste right
Hm. I don’t think that’s a good model. The temperature isn’t the same everywhere, and the line on the ground between “fine” and “not fine” moves around much more within any given year than the average between years.

First time I visited the USA was Dec 2014-Jan 2015; strong and opposite temperature anomalies across the USA, so I found people surfing in California on Christmas Day[0] while around the same time Trump was tweeting sarcastically about the snow in NYC disproving global warming.

[0] for all they know that might even be normal for California, I’m not American
- need a hot side/cold side

- generates electricity, which isn't directly useful for most life

- fairly terrible efficiency

- and the big one: life evolved photosynthesis instead, which was so effective it transformed the atmosphere of the planet.

(There are some interesting "volcano powered" creatures living around thermal vents in the deep ocean, but they work by metabolizing chemical output instead)
Of course it matters. You probably haven't written low latency server daemons. A busy memcached might be serving 20k to 100k requests a second, it's not serving 1 user only. 100k requests all being translated to memory vs disk reads will have a huge performance impact.
OP presents a perfectly reasonable statement and your rebuttal is to strawman/argue in bad faith. You are exactly who they are talking about. You are part of the problem.
is it really profitable to get in like now?
Competition only works when you understand the service process, and can make a decision to go to another provider with little cost. When they bring in a medical provider or have to perform another procedure while you are unconscious, you can't defend against gouging.
This game is fun, can I play?

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

> In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed, eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy
Thanks. I'm actually checking Gitbook out as we speak. I actually don't mind the team using Git and Markdown, as long as it's easy. In Gitbook's case it seems like it is, the editing is easy.
One thing that makes Covid-19 a bit different from other viruses that have trended towards milder infections is its long incubation time (while still being infectious). So it can already spread pretty easily even if it's killing those people, and thus there's not a lot of darwinian pressure to become milder.

It might still trend towards that over time, but it will probably be slower at it than other viruses, and thus the 'it gets milder over time' aphorism about viruses doesn't apply as strongly to Covid-19.
It has 1200 validators, compared to 260,000 on Ethereum, and it's basically impossible for anyone to run a node at home because it requires 300Mbps+ internet connection to run one.

The problem with this you can't yourself verify what is happening on the chain, you have to trust that the node operators are acting in good faith and not censoring transactions or forming cartels to manipulate history.

This is ok if you only have a small amount of money or are using it for games or something that doesn't really matter. But it'll never be able to run the global financial system or store things of large value.
Gartner is fine if you understand what they are.

Basically analysts mash up what vendors and customers tell them what they think. They have conferences with large enterprise customers and vendors sponsor those conferences. So there’s a element of indirect pay to play. Many companies use them to review contracts as well, so they know what kinds of deals are out there.

If you expect to understand technology from Gartner reports, that is dumb. But if you want to understand the market and offerings for large commercial/gov enterprise customers, they are a great resource. If you are a startup, you should not pay any attention to Gartner unless you are selling in that space.

In the case of this topic, the information that’s key to understand is that Gartner is getting feedback that their customers are adopting cloud services, but are seeking to optimize the spending, including with some of the smaller players in niche areas.
> seems a wee bit hypocritical

Also the fact the author appears to work for Bank of America... hard to take seriously his complaints about big tech just wanting to make money, in light of that.
not the OP, but Stripe has a Tax feature (they bought TaxJar last year)

https://stripe.com/en-gb-de/tax
Of course we should be optimistic that omicron and variants that will follow will be less severe.

But that hope should not be treated as a fact like the headline does.

Another hope could be that omicron is actually not as virulent as delta, but only spreads so fast in South Africa, because people can get reinfected.
Climate change is a slow-moving problem, and the situation with the Thwaites Glacier is no exception.

From the scientific article's[1] own plain-language summary: "The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf is the floating terminus of the Thwaites Glacier, one of the fastest changing glaciers in Antarctica and contributing as much as 4% of global sea level rise today. This floating ice shelf is stabilized offshore by a marine shoal and acts as a dam to slow the flow of ice off the continent into the ocean. If this floating ice shelf breaks apart, the Thwaites Glacier will accelerate and its contribution to sea level rise will increase by as much as 25%."

So, this specific ice shelf's collapse would increase global sea level rise by up to 1%. Over the coming decades, the dominant driver of sea level rise will continue to be thermal expansion of the ocean itself. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet in total may contribute 3 m of sea level rise... over a period of 13 thousand years[2].

[1]: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/978762

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655561/
IIRC, this was predicted, which is hopeful and good thing. I remember reading an article last summer that generally diseases become less severe over time.
All hard-to-argue with pain points that could be addressed in a novel way. There’s a lot of unsolved problems in the new media morass and it would be great if a couple of new white hat firms emerged in this space to cut through the noise and the bullshit.

But identifying what’s wrong and even getting an MVP together is one of the easier problems.

The burning question is how do you monetize your efforts without giving into the ad cartel? Will people pay a premium for a link tree? Unless this is more of a civic minded volunteer type thing?

Either way, best of luck. There’s a sack of coins somewhere in here.
Where to even begin? It's like assuming a car is easy to operate that you have to build from parts
It's all good until you remember you have to now higher an entire team to manage your bare metal servers. Companies don't like adding new employees, even when it's comparable in cost to hiring an outside vendor or paying for an outside service. Firing 10 people is very messy, reducing your AWS budget by 20%, however is not.
Humanity can be awesome. I Love the whole spirit of this project.
Don't forget this part:
"South Africa has a quite high seroprevalence of prior infection, particularly after delta, and in some parts of South Africa up to 80 percent of people were exposed to previous infection"

So it could simply be that the mild cases were previously infected, what happens to an unvaccinated without prior infection is a different story.
Web3 is even more money driven than web2.
ha oddly enough in AltSpace I've actually had a number of great engaging conversations.
How spent nuclear fuel is turned into borosilicate glass
I'd love to expand my horizons but apart from peertube I have yet to see a web 3.0 project that's not some thinly veiled pump and dump coin shilling operation. The disguise may be novel, but the underlying motive is always the same.