skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3+ hours to get a test

Did you mean days or is it faster in Quebec? Where I am in Ontario, it takes 3 days to book a PCR test appointment. God forbid anyone who might be positive interact with other people in those 3 days.
Mostly because it is quite polluting if it gets into the groundwater or in your well.
It is heartening to see folks concerned about being lightweight. I keep running out of space on my 32GB Debian 9 VM because every time I cargo build or npm install I feel like I am downloading all of the internet and generating more of it locally. And then docker build creates a few "diff-only" container images that need another 32GB of attached storage of their own.
Is this sarcasm? I don't mean any disrespect or negativity, I just don't understand. I'm not familiar with this space, but I don't see why the aforementioned expectations are unrealistic. The only issue I can imagine is big media companies strong arming a player in this space (which I assume is what happens to existing companies mentioned). There's nothing technically impossible mentioned.
Putting it in a list makes it's pretty clear how much people are expecting from these "media theater" servers, yet it's kind of depressing to get backslash from wanting to "go commercial".

I find it already pretty incredible we have so advanced solutions mostly open source.
I mean, as commercial software I only used Apple's offering (FrontRow ?), it was financed by an already pretty strong company who had all the incentives to make it a compelling thing, and it only did a tenth perhaps of what is requested there. Doesn't feel like a surprise if Plex was trying to get more funding to keep the product dev ongoing for the next years.
My local clinic is so overbooked with work, that I had to come in before they opened and stand in line. Even though I was in line before they even opened, it took me 2 hours to get some basic care (just a TDAP booster, wooping cough, for reasons completely unrelated to COVID19). Yeah, there was a line long before I got there.

This is a major story because all across the country, our health care system has been stretched to its limits. We had a nursing shortage before COVID19 started, but this pandemic has only made our nurses and doctors even _MORE_ overworked than expected, as they deal with case-after-case of COVID19.
> The data from all the provinces fairly clearly shows that the pandemic exists mostly among the unvaxxed, to the point that if we had near 100% vaxx, I'm not sure if R0 would be anywhere near 1, i.e. it could not spread. That said, Omicron is a game-changer in that regard.

This is entirely wrong. There's now over 15 studies showing that vaccinated, even in mild cases, have the same viral load as the unvaccinated, especially after 2-6 months of the shots. This shot is not preventing transmission as has been clearly shown several times now - before omicron. If the shots don't prevent transmission and mild cases have same viral load, then the R0 is unaffected.

Also Ontario has 76% of cases in fully vaccinated while having a 77% full vaccination rate in the population. Canada had under 10% vaccination till June 10. So vast majority of our vaccinations happened since June 10 and as they wane off in 3-6 months, they are now all getting infected.

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data

So it's not "pandemic exists mostly among the unvaxxed". This lie being repeated again and again is how we ended up in this situation where triple vaccinated people are now being surprised that they caught covid.

The shots are merely a potential severe symptom mitigator and might be useful if you are old, obese or have health conditions. The mandates of something which doesn't prevent transmission has been the most illogical thing to ever come out of the government.

The cafeterias at malls have these waist high metal barricades to prevent unvaccinated from sitting down in the cafeteria and they are checking vaccine status to enter inside the metal barricaded area. The entire thing has air exchange with outside the barricade. It's the most illogical thing I have ever seen.
If you use iOS, I can recommend OTP Auth. It's free and also has a great Apple Watch app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/otp-auth/id659877384
Since two people quoted the same text it means that the GP maliciously edited the comment after some time to remove the reference to 14 years.
There is an export option in the menu, but it does require you to still have your previous device.
I use Cloudflare for domain registration. Cheap, reliable, honest.
This and cloudflare, cause google domain's not available in our country.
I think this is one of the saddest aspects of the progression of our current expression of Civilization as we forge through time:

The lost knowledge and, even more importantly, the fundamental resource depletion/extinction caused by our activities which result in both the knowledge of *how* to do/accomplish/build/mend/heal, as well as the actual natural resources required to execute that knowledge in a meaningful or impactful way on your life...

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However the Chestnut appears to be largely wiped out by two separate blights

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bri...
He had a heatsink; just didn't bother to put it on:

Success! I cleaned off the CPU with alcohol because I had been touching it, and fully installed the heatsink/fan.
Even Ontario has 76% of cases in fully vaccinated while having a 77% full vaccination rate in the population.

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data

Canada had under 10% vaccination till June 10. So vast majority of our vaccinations happened since June 10 and as they wane off in 3-6 months, they are now all getting infected.
> such as CloudFlare

If he's going to use Cloudflare DNS, OP might as well transfer the domains to Cloudflare.
Yes, but a) it is 10 dollars a year and b) comes with a bunch of other great features.

I personally pay, but if you only use it for that feature, I can see how it is too expensive. If you also use the app, it is a pretty good offer.
It blows my mind that the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for 4,440 years (give or take 10), until the Eiffel Tower finally dethroned it.
I think it becomes FUD when the same message is not applied to other similar products.

Windows Media Player must also be used a incredible amount to watch pirated content, but it's not a label we put on it.
Hospitalizations are not flat. They're doubling roughly every week [1], and are at close to 50% of their Delta peak [2].

[1] https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NICD-COVID...

[2] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-updat...
I'm providing some perspective. What about the vast majority of patients whose lives were saved? The "doctor" doesn't know the massive benefit he provides to his community because of one angry woman? I have a hard time believing any doctor would throw a lifetime of education in the trash because of one person's reaction, never mind a grieving mother who just lost her husband.
Romulus remus asyncronus
Price of electricity has been very high in Finland during last month. And finally they can start this thing (it should have been started 12 years ago)
https://www.news24.com/fin24/International/finlands-olkiluot...
I tried a bunch of things on the N2+, but I kept having to install Kodi on whatever I was running and ultimately settled on CoreELEC to keep the things simple and running.
For HTPC there is really no good competing ecosystem
my head isn't exploding, this is just a one-dimensional understanding of what conservatism and progressivism are. Institutions aren't conservative just because they're stable or preserve existing power structures. Progressives can be in power and conservatives can be out of power.

When it comes to crypto in the US this is is largely the case. It's politically clearly a tool of a self-perceived dissident (libertarian) right that attempts to 'exit' from what they see as progressive establishment institutions.
'It’s easy to understand why there aren’t any A tractors in Stockholm, where the public transportation system is extensive and reliable. However, in rural towns they’re a common part of the automotive landscape.'

Actually, they are getting very common in Stockholm and the type of base car is more often a newer more expensive model, like BMW 5 series, Porsche Cayenne, Nissan Navarra etc.

I have even seen an example of a Dodge RAM 1500 EPA.

https://www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/827888343996178331/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CC0lhSan6XX
I understand your point, and note I didn’t say 1:1 time.

I don’t think you understand though how bad Boeings case was and that we will never be rid of that kind of risk taking when the trade off for the risk takers is piles of money if it goes right but essentially a slap on the wrist if it goes wrong.
Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2021?
> I think the consensus on whether they are sufficient is very clear.

Who’s consensus? People offered the choice or people running housing policy? I didn’t see any complaints in the article about living in the tiny houses, only complaints that they were run out of them.
It wasn’t that long ago that the scientists were suggesting 70% was sufficient. Is it that >90% is required when the vaccines don’t effectively impede transmission? Is it possible 100% would not be sufficient?
Fine, I'll bite.

Any stats to back "the vast majority"? Isn't that to be expected of literally any media player software? You obviously need a number of non drm-crippled media to watch and you care about quality/features/availabilty:

https://xkcd.com/488/
When I'm a bit cheap I use bookmyname because they make zero profit over DNS. It can't be cheaper. The company behind, Iliad, is big and rich. The website is old and not user-friendly but it is maintained.

Otherwise my default is Gandi.

https://www.bookmyname.com/?wl=en

https://www.gandi.net/en
They aren't required on the rear indeed, because they're essentially tractors. Which is why you're not allowed rear seats for example.

Where would you stick the license plate on a tractor?
This could be a comparative description of digital vs Chemical photography
Pulumi supports 5-6 languages, not just TypeScript.

Also, Pulumi feels like a distant second to Terraform.

Also-also, writing Terraform code for SRE/infrastructure tasks mostly feels like unrewarding grunt work.
I don't really get this. Both Flutter and Xamarin are hybrid frameworks. Mixing them up just seems ..... pointless. What's there to be gained?
Just a thought:

There are a couple factors that would result in a longer lasting tool of Yore...

There were no plastics and other ephemeral materials, and so tool handles were wood, leather or metal.

There was no 'mass production at global scale' - effectively every tool was hand made, or made by machines that were made by hand to make the tools -- and all of which were done without aid of computational mathematical prowess-by-proxy...

So, smaller batches of potentially longer lasting product because everything was continually being crafted by hand and observed by human eye...
Perhaps it has about 10x the odds of causing severe post-viral syndrome than flu does, just as it has about 10x the mortality? We don't know much yet.
Correct. They've had some success crossbreeding them with a Chinese variant, but the jury is seemingly still out if they'll actually repopulate and how good the wood will be. The wood from American Chestnuts is legendary, and I can personally attest to that. So much so that old barnwood can be sold for good money. Shame nothing else has replaced it properly.
But why link the subreddit instead of the game itself?
What a blast from the past. I remember running glftpd.
I’d rather the app be a master of one than a jack of all trades

Plex is very good when it comes to “just works” for media consumption. That “just works” experience (API enrichment, artwork sourcing, device verification etc.) isn’t easy to maintain.
I think there's a good possibility you're correct, but I'm also holding out hope he instead says we need to stop looking at cases as a focus of concern.

Given his recent message of doom and gloom, chances are you're correct. I just hope people start actually start following the science and work to eliminate all of these people
Try "cars are used to commute". Still insane? No, because that's a very likely usecase. Just like playing pirated content via a media center.

Now why would your reply completely ignore the actual likelihood of an event?
I've been using happily Namecheap for quite some time (slowly migrated away from GoDaddy which is kind of horrible). However, this shared experience could be a big red flag for many people :|.

I'm wondering if someone else can relate?
It also optionally syncs with iCloud. If you use that, that’s a huge plus if you use that and lose your phone.
Plenty of countries that have simple majoritarian systems, even on what the USA would consider constitutional issues haven't fallen to tyranny.
Will the price of electricity now fall with the plant?
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The flight crash that changed French history
First in Finland for 40 years, first in Europe for 15. (According to the pr release)
I was so confused over how a small GA aircraft would be abandoned in the woods just outside the town where I lived. Until I realized it was probably flying when being photographed!
But if you also use bitwarden for your passwords, aren't you making your two-factor authentication a single factor again?
I think most technology professionals refer to the concept of Cargo Cult [1] to describe the same phenomenon as the fable.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
I never said anything about people working at Uber.

However, Uber as a company has so far lost over 20 billion dollars and only turned a profit once. Yup. A very successful and sustainable business.
I also use Porkbun, but the first thing I do is forward DNS to DigitalOcean, since they have Terraform support.

I like the wide range of TLDs they have.
"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes
Beginning to think that HN has alot of chinese investment they are trying to protect.
My concern is these apps will make the situation worse, I don't buy the argument of "something needs to be done so lets just do the easiest thing"
The term for these sorts of categories is called "Wastebin Taxon"
And the benchmark has been updated : https://github.com/facebook/zstd#benchmarks

- lz4 1.9.3 ; zstd 1.5.1 -1 ; zlib 1.2.11 -1 ; ...
The parent comment's point about increased infections still stands. Omicron might be less dangerous to the individual but its a disaster at the population level because many more infections mean many more hospitalisations even if more mild.
So I had some experience similar to this with an awful substance called cosmoline. Russians used it to store old guns, and they did the same thing really by sweating some chemical every time they heat up.

After some reading and thinking, I decided just to bake the thing at 250. It sweated tons of that awful red jelly out, then never again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not for polluting the groundwater, but seems it can be mitigated with proper heat treating prior.
Well the most successful gacha game is a AAA game with a pretty nice story, a very large and detailed world, fairly complex mechanics, etc..., So it's clear those things still have a lot of value.
I'm pretty new to Zig, but after taking another look recently I was pleasantly surprised by the progress on SIMD operations via builtin Vector types [1],[2]. For an application of "I want to speed up my math-intensive code with SIMD while supporting x86-64, aarch64, and non-SIMD fallbacks" it might be suitable for you now, and Zig certainly exposes more readable SIMD syntax than with C intrinsics imho [3]. But if you have a particular CPU instruction in mind, you're still a little bit at the mercy of the compiler as operations on Vector types aren't explicitly tied to particular CPU instructions.

1: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/903#issuecomment-45950...

2: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Vectors

3: https://godbolt.org/z/P73MPncGP
I did run into an issue where any WebRTC application like Google Meets would have a lower sample rate and trying to stream in higher sample rate audio would be 2-3 times slower than the original. Really weird but amusing.
virulent means serious (in its effects), not easily spread.
No, that’s the Doppler effect. This is a time delay between when different colors were captured.
Except that happens all of the time, there's plenty of reason to expect it and it wouldn't be an anomaly.

From the AP's "Viruses can evolve to be more deadly" article[1]:

> Day said there are documented cases of animal viruses that evolved over time to become more lethal, including myxoma virus in rabbits and Marek’s disease in chicken.

> Some viruses provoke severe symptoms in their hosts that make it easier to transmit the virus to others. But those same symptoms can wind up killing the hosts.

> Adalja said one example is Ebola, a deadly virus that spreads through the blood and body fluids of infected people. Another example is norovirus, which causes diarrhea and vomiting, and leads to hundreds of deaths each year in the U.S.

> “The virus, speaking anthropomorphically, just wants to spread and have its genes replicated,” said Adalja. “If the best way for it is to spread by causing severe symptoms it will continue to do that.”

[1] https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-011488089270
I still remember a GeForce MX440 I bought once. It was stuttering as hell in games. Overclocked it for better performance. Still stuttering.

Looked at it and two of the plastic clips (yeap, no screws back then lol) holding the heatsink+fan were snapped so the heatsink wasn't even touching the die... WTF!

That was pretty hilarious. It worked fine for years after I fixed it, long enough for caps to blow and be replaced.

Basically, they're fucking sturdy.
Cargo doesn't enable warnings for crate dependencies, by design. In fact, it won't even emit them if those crates say #[deny(warnings)]--there's a special rustc flag called --cap-lints that it uses for this (RFC at [1]). The reason is that a lot of crates say #[deny(warnings)], and this was creating no end of backwards compatibility problems when new warnings were added.

There is an interesting thread with community consensus against the use of #[deny(warnings)] at [2]. The most important takeaway for me is that the right place to deny warnings is in CI. You don't want end users who compile your crate to be have their builds fail due to warnings, because they might be using a newer version of the compiler than you were. You don't want to fail developers' builds due to warnings while hacking on code, because of the overhead warnings-as-errors adds to the edit/compile/debug cycle. CI is the right place to deny warnings, because it prevents warnings from getting to the repository while avoiding the other downsides of warnings-as-errors.

[1]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1193-cap-lints.html

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/f5xpib/psa_denywarnin...
I think you're confusing the process of changing a policy from the policy itself.

You could say that getting rid of regulations is bulldozery and adding new ones is vetocratic and in that way be describing the process rather than the policy.

Now imagine a regulation that requires the driver of a car to have at least one hand on the steering wheel at all times. This is clearly a vetocratic policy -- it effectively prohibits self-driving cars.

But you could also have a bulldozery policy, like a law prohibiting homeowners' associations. The HOA is a vetocratic institution, so banning them is bulldozery.
One other explanation is that many of these monuments didn't stand around undisturbed for 2,000 years, a lot of work of hundreds of generations of humans went into these monuments.

The Porta Nigra is a great example - it's an ancient Roman city gate in Trier, Germany, still standing since it was built in 170 AD. The ground floor was buried for a long time (>800 years?) preserving it. The gate was a ruin for a few hundred years, around 1000 AD a church was built around the gate keeping the construction in place. As part of a general de-'churchification' 1802 Napoleon had the church-part taken off and had the gate and its insides fixed up (while the ground floor was still buried!).
So the gate didn't have to survive on its own.
This may be unpopular, but after using Kodi and similar software for many years (and enjoying it!), I just gravitated back to the basics. Want to watch a movie? Navigate to it in my file manager and play it with VLC. Music? Just use Winamp 2 or Audacious. I realized I was messing with odd HDMI passthrough issues, database issues, audio sync, broken plugins, stressing about tagging, etc etc every movie night much more than just enjoying my media. My friend (Plex and Kodi user) had the same issues, we'd usually spend an entire beer at the start of the evening troubleshooting things. The most lasting thing from those days was setting up a proper NAS, first to house my media, then everything else.

The main thing I miss is wireless controller support, but KDE Connect on my phone has completely obviated that. It even integrates with streaming sites, youtube, VLC, Audacious, almost everything that exposes a media API. So I can sit on my couch or walk around and control my KDE machine with minimal effort. My PC audio playback even pauses when I get a phone call. If I need more control I can use my phone's screen as a touchpad mouse. You can't easily remotely compose playlists with this setup but I usually listen album by album or on global shuffle, and that's good enough for me.

Am I just old school? What are people's favorite "killer apps" for software like Kodi? Is it just convenience and I've have had bad luck?
Kodi is awesome... I'm currently developing a little helper to link RFID cards to specific actions (like play an audio or video file). Everyone who is insterested in Kodi should definitely take a look at the "all in one" distributions for Raspbery and friends:

Libreelec (https://libreelec.tv/, sucessor of OpenElec) is a superfast standalone OS that can be flashed and has autoupdate - due to readonly FS it is not as customizable, than raspbian, but therefore very easy and fast.

OSMC (https://osmc.tv/) is similar to Libreelec, but with support for installing extra packages, but a little slower boot time and non-readonly-FS. Ideal if you would like to make use of custom scripts, GPIO buttons, RFIDs or webcam.

Kodi also has a HUGE JSONRPC-API (https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v12), that supports nearly every feature to be controlled remotely via script or App and has a pretty nice webinterface.
Projects like this are commonly used by opponents of nuclear energy to demonstrate that nuclear energy is expensive compared to solar/wind and thus should not be pursued. I wonder how fast the Hanhikivi plant will be built and how much it will cost in the end. Recent Rosatom's record is quite good, so hopefully they will be an example of economic feasibility of nuclear energy and that the nuclear expensiveness is mostly not technological, but an organizational problem.
Same here, I would have never paid if insurance didn't cover it. I also realized a lot of my problems were due to being young and I think I would have gotten over it all anyway.
> Nobody would say “I’m on painkillers” while taking aspirin.

Really? That's exactly what one would say in my country... though they'd more likely to be talking about paracetamol. The strongest one that most people know about is Panadeine Forte (paracetamol + codeine).