skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a little optimistic?

Sure, for this immediate wave [more transmissible less virulent] is better than [more transmissible more virulent].

But that's awfully myopic. What happens after that?

Since mutation rate is a function of the number of viral particles, and more transmission means many more hosts incubating many more particles, we should expect to see more new variants, faster.

So the probability just went up that we'll get a new wave of a new variant that's [more transmissible more virulent] and will kill 10x more people than alpha through omicron will.

That's a probability and not a certainty, but life is probabilistic and our risk level just went up a lot.
Obviously not OP, but I don't think so: they give examples where they'd like improvements.

Seems to have just been an example of the best thing they've found so far...
All of them started with money and connections, do you think that these things would not exist without these individuals? or perhaps they just happened to be there first in a winner takes all market. In at least Bill Gates case he wasn't first, just better connected (having a Vice President at IBM for an uncle certainly helps!)
You don’t really need to register an llc or do any of that for your projects that are not big.
So I diligently kept a pen and paper journal about my game designs for three years (wrote about 100,000+ words on paper). Switched to digital for a year, wrote 120,000 words just in 2019 (starting every morning sitting at a Starbucks and writing it helped), switched back, then switched back again, doing less and less words each year (for 2021 I'm at like 15,000 words, so pathetic, it's only like 12 entries total, need to get back into it).

But for the pen and paper I was manually transcribing it to digital (and still only transcribed about half of it). I didn't know OCR had gotten that good (and still suspect my writing isn't clean enough for great OCR).

But maybe I should give this a try, might be enough to get me back in the habit. Also trying to avoid doing as much typing lately (because of some arthritic-like pain in the fingers on one hand, although it's my writing hand :/)
He's getting it from the line of code in everyone's head that goes `let imageOfWorld = exaggeratedAntithesis(self.ideals)`
ObjC and Swift are just application level programming languages. The XNU system kernel for macOS is written in mostly C with some C++. Anyway Swift is written in C++ last I checked and ObjC is a superset of C anyway. Everything done with ObjC can be done in C if the developer is feeling adventurous enough.

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu

C 82.5%

C++ 8.7%

Python 2.3%

Roff 2.3%

Assembly 1.4%

HTML 1.1%

Other 1.7%
Will Monolithic 3-D DRAM happen?
Woz has a chapter in his book about how a stable system magically became unstable after install IE. "Without making accusations" he says, but goes into some detail on how IE being installed caused a lot of chaos.
STM is super exciting, but also an old concept. Is the runtime penalty too high, or is there any other reason it has not gained popularity? I remember Intel touting CPU STM extensiona back in a day.
Yeaaaah, his handwriting is actual certified art compared to mine . I can't get anything to recognize my handwriting reliably, including the text recognition built into iOS with Pencil - it's just useless.
Using the language of the prosecution's summary of a classified indictment issued by a state shown to have orchestrated 2 failed false indictments on this individual in the last decade particularly does not convey considerable confidence.
So it sounds like LastPass will get better customer service and faster updates, but the actual day-to-day usage will remain more or less unchanged. And of course, there's no mention of the price dropping to where it was before LogMeIn took over, so users who were hoping to save some money are going to be disappointed.
It's not uncapped cost. Almost every service has a default limit to how many instances/butckets/etc that you can create. All of that creates a monthly cap of somewhere likely south of $1B. As long as you have that much cash on hand you shouldn't have to worry about getting ruined.
Well, yes, but if you’re naively comparing the severity of omicron infections to that of the previous strains then that’s just apples and oranges because the degree of immunization in the population is not the same, even if you only consider non-vaccinated people.
What if they don't but one group spreads a lie that they do so? Have you fallen for it?
Literary Origins of D&D
> everything was better back in the days

Sigh. As with everything in this regard: If it was better, how come we "advanced" to something else then?
I would say this market is due for some consolidation. AWS has basically has enjoyed a nice market share for the last fifteen or so years. In recent years MS and Google have become credible alternatives and in addition to that there are now numerous smaller players that you could feasibly use as well.

The key challenges in this space are standardization of commodity features, making the whole business of using any of these solutions less complex, and driving cost down. This goes against how the big three are making of course which is exactly through vendor locking aggravated by complexity. Once you figure out how to use this stuff, you have a lot of non portable stuff depending on that vendor. Replacing that costs money and is never a priority. That's why AWS stuff can be such a PITA to deal with. It actually ensures customers can't move away that easily.

However, the common feature set shared by most of these cloud hosting solutions (running vms, databases, docker, load balancers, networking, etc.) is a combination of expensive to use and still too hard to manage. So, the game for new players in the market is being more convenient and less expensive to use. Ultimately private cloud and the cost of getting started as a PAAS provider getting lower means that this is a race to the bottom. Most of the smaller providers already lean heavily on OSS solutions.

The question is whether the big three can long term afford to not support the emerging standard stuff. For example at least for me all the convoluted proprietary AWS stuff is actually increasingly a reason for me to avoid depending on them. It was great when they were the only company with decent solutions but that is increasingly less true.
I would expect that a large portion of cybersecurity workers are far too busy trying to properly address Log4shell issues at their organizations to be posting on HN
sense to me in the context of a business being an IT shop to begin with.

Lots of businesses outside of 'IT shops' use computers. I currently work in Civil Engineering and more and more of our product and service offerings have an IT/Online/Web based component which involves setting up some sort server.

I can spin up new servers all day on our on-prem vSphere cluster.

I what price? At my old job an on-perm vSphere 'machine' cost my department a lot more than what AWS was charging.
Hence the credulous articles about how India was 'special' when the virus first started spreading there because there were so few fatalities. Turns out it was spreading incredibly fast so cases were surging, but it took a month or more for the wave of deaths to follow. But follow it absolutely did.
First, don't fuck around with possibly RSI type things, you can make a temprorary irritation into a permanent disability that way. Possibly consult experts and definitely go read some anatomy texts and figure out what exactly hurts and and see if you can figure out why.

I've got psoriasis and associated arthritis symptoms have taken a lot of my dexterity from me the past year. Its a bitch; I am my hands in the way that dogs are their nose. I get internal join pains from elbows down, associated with finger movement, and sometimes cramps or weakness in particular muscles or groups that make some motions just not happen. Opening a bottle cap is pretty sure to cost pain and require a moment straightening that hand back out, now.

I can't say I'm managing it well. I push through the pain, try to retain patience as I drop things and have to find workarounds and new ways to do things i once found easy. I try to be sensitive to becoming irritable with others socially because ive been typing too much today or whatever, and not do that. It's not easy.

I've known this time was likely coming; early on I did things like acquiring a stack of Model M keyboards, learning some keyboard technique from old high typing rate secretaries and piano players (wrists up!), and adopting an index finger trackballs instead of mice (MS Explorer Trackballs; or Elecom M-HT1UR). That worked for my body and habits. Whatever makes your body comfortable while you're fiddling the small switches in a static position for long periods of time will vary. The "long periods" makes the "comfortable during" bit very, very important.
Due to how the difficulty system works, the real-world price of the reward for mining will always be equivalent to the cheapest energy price in the world. If the price suddenly increases, more miners get in, which pushes the difficulty up and now you have to expend more energy for the same reward - similarly if the price drops, miners who can no longer make a profit go offline, lowering the difficulty - in the end it's an equilibrium.

I don't think it was ever profitable unless your energy prices can compete with what industrial-scale miners get in favourable locations (right next to a power plant in an area with too much surplus power, etc).
Sorry, the whole title didn't fit and I had to make some choice of which part to remove :)
Sounds frustrating! I totally agree — I used to bike around the city and the pollution was pretty noticeable — smelled terrible in congested areas and seemed to make it harder to breathe. I really value the nourishment of clean air and I'm sure many many more people will too as we wean ourselves from fossil fuels.

I'm also wondering if you're familiar with or would like this book by a climate scientist living in Texas who's documented what's worked for her in talking about climate change with people who are resistant: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saving-Us/Katharine-H...
Yep, sorry. Sleepy :)
Use ternaries rather than and& in JSX
how do you legally accept money then?

clarification: i'm in EU
This reads somewhere between propaganda and faux-intellectual gibberish to me, what are you actually trying to say?
Infection risk but not hospitalizations risk or death risk.
That's what I meant, the previous infection doesn't protect against infection but might prevent severe cases.
You can grab global average temperature data from NOAA[1] or NASA[2] and play with it yourself.

Things immediately jump out at me, such as: Of the top 20 hottest years on record, the only one that isn't from the past 20 years is 1998. The year that got bumped out of the top 20 is 2008, which sits at 21st place. That seems like a pretty clear trend to me.

[1] - https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/time-series/globe/land_...

[2] - https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_...
Re: Invent in 5 Minutes [video]
The article assume's guys are "insecure" have an anger or anxiety problem, spend too much time on "4Chan and Reddit" and lacks physical connection. Which sounds like they aren't able to establish a relationship.
You're not allowed to question climate change like this on HN.

>generally, I agree with world is warming. Is that bad? I’m actually unsure.

The eemian period was around 115,000 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian

It was about 2 celcius warmer compared to today. Sea levels were ~6-9 metres higher. Which puts significant amount of current day valuable land under water. Flipside, this increase in warming also unlocks significant parts of the Canadian arctic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian#/media/File:All_palaeot...

You can also see that it's always sudden spikes up to peaks. I suspect it's related to solar cycles.

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

When the solar cycle ended in ~1820 and we went into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Maximum

This is also why so many graphs showing climate change tend to start around 1820. Including data before 1820 would just muddy their conclusions.
The Metaverse FB is pitching is either a ridiculously over-hyped video game, or vaporware. Arguably there may not be a difference.

In the media, the main reference has been the "snowcrash" novel or "ready player one" level of immersion. Which is tech we fundamentally lack a reference for how to build.
I have always assumed that the big use of blockchain is for supply chain management. If "everyone" had access to the same chain, would that not bring "everyone" up to the level of at least knowing where the stock actually was?

Edit: ok let me show how little I understand or have thought about this.

Its possible for every primary producer to create a new "chain" for each of its products. For factories this is in the bounds of possible. At this point everyone who touches it could use a public / private key hand off to confirm receipt and then append to the chain. I suspect this will hit massive problems that I don't know about, but the principle makes sense. I do not know if the incentive align - but globally the idea of being able to track every single manufactured good across the world seems like it should be profitable.
I wasn't implying they're big tech, or tech at all. I'm saying it's hypocritical because BoA is a big company that just wants to make money, and sometimes does horrible things [1][2]. Yet the author lobs profanities at tech companies for doing the same?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America#Controversies

[2] https://www.americanbanker.com/news/ex-bank-of-america-emplo...
Sure, but you need to put it into Powerpoint and sell it as the next big thing in cloud computing: your cloud provider no longer offers you shared, cheap virtual servers that anyone might be using at the same time, but 100% dedicated servers in the cloud, with unmatched reliability, stability and performance.

You just might impress top brass and convince them to get on this bandwagon before they are disrupted.
The choice of running in prem, or even changing cloud vendor is diminishing.

Yes if you only use compute and storage moving is easy.

If you want scaling in AWS then move to Azure I think that would involve a lot of changes (as it would the other way) I am not sure how much of it Terraform can translate.

I would guess K8 can do this is a vendor neutral way but I am not sure since I have never worked with it.

I do know for a fact that getting your devops pipeline set up in AWS
is really complicated. We ended up having to hire two "elite" AWS
consultants for 14 days to get it all working.
I was not involved directly in it, but my team had great need of the finished pipeline. If we went with Azure we would have to do it all over again.
But most of our stuff is in .Net so getting it all working o Azure would have been magnitudes better.

The more "premium"/ high level services one starts using the ability to move on prem
or switch cloud becomes harder and harder. Which is of course the goal for the cloud vendors.
I assume this means they will no longer be under the LogMeIn umbrella, though I'm not sure what exactly that will mean for the company short or long-term.
There is a sweet spot. Between around 2000-2005 ish the internet was available to a lot of people, and not yet fucked.

Until the MSN messenger rebrand in 2005 sounds like a good rule of thumb.
This is really cool. The idea to separate the writing part from the computer entirely (not just the internet) is genius. Also, GPT3 helps out a bit there too.
I guess "relevant" depends on where you are in the world (and/or where you're from which might be different to where you are currently) :)

It's also a tricky thing due to interconnectedness: I generally don't care that much what happens in the US, but clearly there are important things happening there, which can have knock-on effects the world over...
Impressions of Linux Mint and Elementary OS
Absolutely agree that it doesn't work for everyone. But it's a great thing for people to be able to opt into, especially families that are relocating to less expensive regions.

For example, a family may well be able to live off of one salary in their new location, freeing up the second parent to spend more time with/educating kids.
You don't need to keep SSDs powered continuously. You just need to power them on periodically and read all the data on the drive so the SSD controller has the chance to notice data degradation and repair it before it becomes unrecoverable. This does not need to be done more often than once per year. For SSDs that are exclusively used for archival and thus never approach the end of their rated write endurance, it may be adequate to do this once per decade. Basically, any backup strategy that includes a sensible amount of testing and verification should suffice.
Yes, it's almost similar to Selenium IDE. We capture more data like target screenshot and context of the element etc. We get rid of automatically generated IDs or classes.

We can access to environments behind the VPNs. But it's hassle-free if it's accessible through the internet.

Actually we also implemented Context awareness for SPAs with CSS Module to adapt to the changes. We are agnostic to HTML changes and if we can find the element we will update the selectors after the test is successful.

Thank you very much for the kind words!
I was saying critical thinking is not as common a skill as you may think. Most people aren't stupid, but most people ACT stupid by acting without thinking.
What extensions do you have installed? I've seen adblockers slowing down browsers significantly if anything other than uBlock Origin is used.
A Brief Note on Log4perl
Next question: when plastic-eating bacteria will start attack actively used plastic artefacts and will bring down our civilization?
This honestly doesn’t sound too bad compared to the soul-crushing suburbs by me. But, the problem I usually find with all suburbs is that you have to get in a car to get to even one bar (let alone having a choice). Is that the case there too?
it's not an argument against cities if we can get rid of emissions in cities. and we can.
What we saw 20k years ago was the end of the most recent Milankovich cycle. The warm period in that cycle is fairly brief compared to the whole, and quickly goes back to the cold period again.

What we’ve already done is likely to prevent the next cold period, even if we stop emitting completely tonight.

What we’re doing now under the “business as usual” scenario is about the same scale of impact as that cycle, but in addition.

Also the main gas, CO2, demonstrably makes us significantly dumber in the concentrations we expect from a business-as-usual scenario.

And yes, there are things we can do about it, and are doing some of those things. The better question is: can we make it profitable to do enough about it, because the greenhouse gases hang around so long it is not sensible to hope for altruistic solutions.
How is Hetzner not a cloud computing business? You click a few buttons and get a a ready-made infra from an already provisioned pool of hardware. This is by definition cloud. Maybe it doesn't have all the bells and whistles from the big 3 cloud vendors but Hetzner is very much Cloud computing
I'm in the upper Midwest and heard a pleasant owl "hooting" last night, but it was interspersed with just an awful squawk noise. My partner thought that other noise might be a juvenile owl, is that something others have heard of? I'll download that birdnet to see if they can confirm but it was just such a striking noise.
> Of course the web was better when only the intellectual elite were on it.

Well, people who thought of themselves as the intellectual elite anyway.
I think the product you are looking for is a weekly or monthly email/magazine analysis of the news. There must be a large number of companies in the space, fwiw I get my weekly update from worldaffairsbrief.com.
Generally, statistically yes, but not always. Most of the people that died in the Spanish Flu epidemic died in the second wave, a year after the first. A couple of years after that and less dangerous variants came to dominate but there was huge devastation before that came about.
I stated the deficit is critical thinking skills. You editing the quote to make it sound as though I said all people are simply "challenged" which is disingenuous.
That's... completely backwards? City dwellers have the smallest environmental impact.

Air quality within cities is actually a totally different issue from whether living in a city is in and of itself harmful for the environment.

As the OP mentioned, reducing fossil fuel usage within city centers (both power generation and vehicle usage) can dramatically reduce smog and improve air quality within the city. While even more dramatically reducing the city dwellers' environmental footprint.

Living in the suburbs is reliant on largely fossil-fuel burning vehicular transport, which even if electrified, is substantially less efficient than mass transit, cycling, or walking, all of which are much more feasible within a city. Not to mention the sheer land area used for pavements and stormwater drainage and such in spread-out areas.
If I wanted to see a capitalist hellscape, I'd just play The Outer Worlds instead of spending money on NFTs.
Absolutely. As things get more complex, the foundations become unstable and fewer and fewer people know how the underlying stack works.

You'll be interested in this talk, "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Back in my day! ....
If your turnover is low enough you don’t need to be VAT registered in the UK. Also, in the UK you can be VAT registered and be a sole trader.
The report wasn't for having the same last name as an HP character. It was for a photo of Hogwarts that was being used commercially.
The moral of the story is "Don't mix metric and imperial." Using that as an example of a trivial thing that shouldn't be corrected is foolish and ignorant. It's practically inviting Murphy.
Erm, kinda. The site does talk about POSSE (Post Once to your Site, Syndicate Everywhere), as well as using web 2.0 to your advantage. So I don't think it's hypocritical for the site to be SEO or social optimised.
You don't need to store the entire blockchain to know that from scratch. Download yes, but not store.
Well, look, you said it yourself:

"will do anything permitted by the law"

Exactly. So start changing the law. Blaming consumers will get us nowhere. Change the law. Enforce the law. Force corporations to act.
It’s not that bad - make an LLC right now (in most states, it’s a single form to start one), then you have no excuse. Taxes are easy.

You probably don’t even need the LLC, but I like having a bit of a legal umbrella (though chances are, no one is going to sue you unless your project gets big)
"A penny saved is a penny earned."

It may not make more revenue but poor security certainly affects profits.
This has happened before as a tech manager in different companies. When looking to implement some new technology (say, a new Cassandra like database) I have two options: either a) I choose ScyllaDB, and have to go through all the "additional vendor" internal process, that with ISO27001 gets terribly bureaucratic; or b) I start using DynamoDB or Keyspaces transparently and let the current AWS bill increase.

For me it has always been a no brainer to avoid the bureaucratic pain.