skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is only true if you believe in conspiracy theories that the PRC is 1) hiding millions of COVID-19 deaths and simultaneously 2) remained the only growing economy in 2020. Or you reject 2) and include the entire global economy in the conspiracy.

Otherwise, the PRC (CCP = world's largest bureaucracy) has clearly had the most successful response to the pandemic due to its decisive measures, which goes against your conclusion that less governance is needed to effectively combat pandemics.
> I'd like to understand why certain people would rather prefer a compulsory extortion for everyone than a voluntary action for themselves and other like-minded people

I think if you don’t understand that already, it’s likely I can’t help you understand either. I suggest traveling to and reading about functioning welfare states and high-tax societies. Perhaps it’ll clear up. If not, reading and traveling is rarely a waste!
I thought the "lizard brain" was the part of our nervous system that would respond before the actual brain had time to process. Like I've heard we'll pull our hand away from a hot pan before we feel pain.

Now I both don't know if I've misunderstood peoples references, and have no idea if my version of a lizard brain does exist.
I think people who refuse or are reluctant to be vaccinated do it for a variety of reasons. Some (I think a minority) are some degree of conspiracy nuts who think it's all a plot to reduce population and enable government mind control via altered DNA, etc.

Some don't trust that the speed of the process as well as the immense political pressure to "do something" really sussed out the true effectiveness, safety, and immunity conferred by the vaccines, noting that coronaviruses have never had successful vaccines before now, as they mutate too rapidly.

I'm in the second camp. I viewed the situation as entirely different from traditional, well studied vaccines for endemic diseases such as measles, mumps, etc. I eventually did get vaccinated as I was under threat to lose my job if I didn't. I didn't want it otherwise, and time has shown that they aren't nearly as effective as initially promised. Most of the initial promises that the vaccines were the key to ending the pandemic have turned out to be wrong, the only thing we can really now say is that they offer some (short-term?) protection to the recipient, and at least in the case of the Janssen/J&J vaccine they are not as safe as promised either.

I will add that I don't like doctors, and I'm not a pill-popper. I don't take medicines that I don't need. I would be loathe to take any long-term prescription meds for any reason. Short term courses of antibiotics I will use. Other OTC very sparingly. I don't think I've taken more than a few Advils in the past 5 years, and that was when I had a tooth extracted.
2 time survivor of exactly that. Pencil in 12-18 months to recover when they happen. Anything less and you'll make the chronic injury permanent IMO.
What worthwhile infosec stuff is on tor?
During the first crash immediately after the initial start of the tournament, the entire site did indeed go offline for a few minutes. Even address resolution failed. Then things went smoothly for about an hour after which the 2nd crash came. This one just seemed to affect the particular tournament (participants couldn't get fresh pairings) while the rest of the site was still working, as the article mentions.
Sure you can. As the experienced engineer in that setting it is a great opportunity to teach the less experienced engineers. For example, "I have seen data loss on S3 at my last job. If X, Y, or Z happen then we will lose data. Is this data we can lose? And actually, it is pretty easy to replicate - I think we could get this done in a day or two."

It's also possible the response was "That's an excellent point! I think we should put that on the backlog. Since this data is already a backup of our DB data, I think we should focus on getting the feature out rather than replicating to GCP."

Those are two plausible conversations. Instead, what we have is "these arrogant 25 year olds that have 1-2 years of experience and know it all." That's a red flag to me.
That’s it’s whole own thing; people who are incredibly attractive can move on really quick because they know they can get something else. Then they hit their 30s and that all dries up, and they don’t know how to have a real relationship that lasts longer than a few months.

Obviously not everyone who is hot is this way, but it’s one of the “types” you’ll find if you date around a lot.
Ah, fair enough. I was thinking OP meant Tinder specifically, but at the very least OkCupid could be split out.
Apple offers pirated movies on the App Store
At this point all Covid restrictions need to be gone. It’s time to go back to normal. Triple vaxxed people are not dying and are barely being hospitalized.

Kids can be vaccinated and now there’s antiviral pills. All empirical data shows that if you’re boosted you’re fine.

It’s over.

It’s time to stop listening to Doomer politicians and bureaucrats until vaccinated people start dying at rates similar to March 2020.
Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter
> Is there any reason to believe these same folks would willingly take this?

There are also a lot of folks who can't get vaccinated, who would take this.

I suspect a lot of the folks who refuse to get vaccinated would take this if they were hospitalized with Covid. But since you don't usually get hospitalized until a week after you get symptoms, many won't have the option anyway.
I agonized about this for years. I wanted a proper server, not something embedded or a Pi with a rat's nest of cables, that would still fit in a credenza in the living room.

Ended up getting an HP MicroServer Gen8 and absolutely love it. Same cube design as the DS918+, but with proper iLO (remote media, etc.), lots of boot options, and very stoutly built. It feels like a real HP DL300-series server (the Gen9 does not IMHO). I bought it as it was being discontinued.

It's running VMware ESXi with FreeNAS on top of that, with an LSI SAS card connected to the drive bays, then hardware-pass-through'ed to the FreeNAS VM. I've got the home's DNS server, Pi-hole, Unifi controller, test VMs, etc. happily virtualized alongside FreeNAS. 16GB RAM total, with 8GB dedicated to FreeNAS. Boot is off a microSD card (on the motherboard, naturally) and VM datastore is on an SSD connected where the optical drive would go.

I know I'm violating several recommendations here (low RAM, virtualized FreeNAS, SAS card passed through, etc. etc.) but it does indeed work, very well in fact. 2+ years of serving the home. With the Gen8, HP built almost the perfect home server for tech-oriented types... pity they cost-reduced its successor.
I suppose the caveat is you have to have customers to lose them :) We don't know what the data is or the size of the company.
Fascinating. How is your ability to do math problems? Can you do them on paper at least?
:q

:wq

:q!
Ah I see. That makes sense.

Would be interesting to know what caused the entire site to go down in the beginning. Wonder if it was just too much traffic.
I remember that the Dreamcast was already dead by the time piracy started becoming rampant, at least in the USA where I lived
I'm happy to hear that the wait times are nonexistent. It's a nice service for the occasional beefy game one doesn't have the computer for.
Browsers don't use VRR even in fullscreen. But yes - that's the correct and by far best solution on S&H displays and would make it a complete non-issue for all common frame rates (24, 25, 30, 50, 60); alas, software.
Isn't it possible(even likely) that they're just.. not telling the truth? I mean when you're in the business of hacking high level politicians, it's not unexpected that you would also lie a bit about how who you do that to.
Ask HN: Is Web3 gonna fix rel=Nofollow?
nofollow is the best embodiment of how web2 became a zero-sum game. I don’t understand web3 completely, but it feels like decentralized authority will embody trust in each.
Biden Extends Student Loan Pause to May 2022 – What Borrowers Should Know
Yup, I wonder if tinder noticed multiple accounts associated with the facebook/phone # he provided. I'd suspect they would proactively prevent you from creating a new account, but I've never used the service so perhaps you put in your facebook after the account is created or something, and that is when they got the multiple account signal? Or if he has a completely different name associated with his facebook account.
It seems plausible that some people who might otherwise want to have decided not to given the very vocal contingent of the Go community that's been opposed to generics. After almost a decade of people saying Go didn't need generics, it seems like it would be hard to convince people who are knowledgeable in that field that their efforts would be welcome.
One of my friends is an ICU nurse. My friend just laughs now when asked about whether vaccination works because nearly every single person in the ICU for the past few months has been unvaccinated.

One patient was basically 50/50 to die on the surgery table during a mechanical heart transplant due to covid destroying their natural heart, miraculously lived through it, and had the nerve to ask my friend whether they still needed to be vaccinated after they were being wheeled into the recovery area. It's almost comical the cognitive dissonance to challenge the team of doctors who literally just saved your life when they tell you to get the vaccine.

Being anti-vax is basically a religion at this point, so there's no use trying to convince people.
> There have been news stories

We call that propaganda and advertisements...

We don’t see the millions in the other category.
Excuse me for the late response. I logged into the router and it’s called their trademarked “TP-Link OneMesh”, it’s likely useful if you buy more TP-Link products and want easy integration, however it’s unnecessary for my home. You’re lucky with your Fritzbox, my area has no competition in the ISP market which means I’m stuck with overpriced low quality, from the copper to the modem to the customer service.
> I believe the "specialized brain regions" idea has been over-debunked. It was the source of so much woo woo in the late 20th century (are you right-brained or left-brained!?) that we've come to think it's complete bunk.

I still see PopSci articles with a title along the lines of; "Scientists have discovered the part of the brain responsible for X". Even in studies or experiments in the literature, I still see color gradient scales used for fMRI. These are known to vastly over exaggerate the discrepancy between functional areas. And yet they allow for a more easily digestible view of what the study is after, which is probably why they're still used.

I think what the author is getting at is that, yes, some parts of the brain are more specialized than others. But there is no specific part of the brain that regulates a specific function and nothing else. Rather, it's an enormously complex system.

edit: Color gradient scales are fine for academic studies and research. However, they can be misleading to laypeople.
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Vitamin C and Ivermectin aren't experimental. I'm not against the vaccine, but to say that an emergency approved drug is as circumspect as older drugs (e.g. Ivermectin was approved as early as the 1980s) is misleading.

That being said, I still think it's the right move to take the vaccine because the statistics show that it is effective.
Fully remote. 2 "check-ins" per week. Other than that, let me work whatever I want, as long as I get the work done. Maybe some sort of core hours for coordinating with others(4 hours, Tue-Wed?).

That's my ideal.
In my opinion programming blogs shouldn't touch the font settings in `<pre>` and `<code>` at all. Then everyone can view the code how the prefer.
"It’s the digital age. My digital items are my possessions. This dichotomy in your head between the “real” and the “digital” doesn’t exist for the younger generation."

That's a weird way to put it. It may not exist "for" someone, but as you seem to acknowledge, it exists "for" numerous corporations and legal systems which even those someones are subject to. I thought this was the primary purpose of NFTs. An NFT physically cannot be revoked without the permission (coerced or otherwise) of the holder, or a fundamental problem in encryption.

And just so other people don't get confused by this pretty misleading hyperbole:

" The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services. "

source: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/

No judge is going to weigh what the "buy" button omits over what the EULA actually states. If anyone has an example of a digital content service with an EULA that DOESN'T contain this kind of verbiage I would be fascinated to see it.
Geographic partition is what we did to Bell, and that really doesn't seem to have helped much. If the only way to choose a competitor is to move, there's still really no competition. No one spent thousands of dollars moving across the country because the telephone company there was better.
If they used and published a fair algorithm for matching, they wouldn't really be involved in the matching they would just be providing a venue. Similar to a city providing public space for people to meet, like a fair.

Do you think the FBI, NSA, etc doesn't already have access to photos posted on dating sites in the US?
> "Social Login via multiple SSO providers (MSC2858) - almost 50% of new registrations on the Matrix.org homeserver now use social login!" Interestingly the split of SSO usage is roughly 70% Google, 12% GitHub, 11% Apple, 6% Facebook and 1% GitLab.

Congrats to the matrix team, really great work. However, I'm a little confused by the excitement around "social login". Why is it such a great thing? Aren't you just giving someone else power to shut you out of Matrix? We hear so many stories about lives ruined because of arbitrary (often automated) account locking that I just don't understand why anyone would risk using social login at all.
Have you heard of event 201? I'm not a conspiracy theorist but this is quite the coincidence. They simulated a pandemic in October 2019 and one of the things they focused on was "misinformation". There are too many similarities to the current pandemic to list. The world economic forum and Bill Gates sponsored it.

https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about
Synapse is bloated and mostly good for very large organisations.

Use conduit.rs or dendrite.
I use conduit and it takes a couple of MB ram even while I’m in large rooms
I’ve found this to be the case for most of the time Raspberry Pis have been around. The cost proposition has always relied on using other components people have “lying around”, like the power adapter, SD card, etc. However as the power quality requirements have gone up for each Pi release, old AC adapters can’t be used anymore, SD cards need to be better quality to handle the writes, and you want a case for it, etc. From my perspective you’ve always been looking at close to $100 to get everything you need for it to be useful.
Yes, this!

It’s because cloud should have been just custodianship of the data in order to funnel it into their application but it was all too easy for these companies to want to profit further by prying on the data, monetising the data, curating the data and ultimately taking control away from the owner of the data.
If I say I one day hope atheism is just an interesting footnote in history, would I get the same response as your statement?
> And my contention is that the federal government is not granted the power to provide funds for public education

Which violates the 14th Amendment, which is arguably more important under Federalism than the 10th.

[0] And my contention is that the federal government is not granted the power to provide funds for public education
"I didn't do it on purpose" and "no one knew what we are actually doing". I gonna call it the "data scientist's switchblade...
How the Jacobin JVM loads methods
How is this an example of monopoly? Are you positing that Tinder is the only way to meet other people? That seems insane. Not only are there are other dating services (yes, I know the parent company of Tinder also owns bumble, but there are still plenty of others), you can also meet people on other social media apps. This is all in addition to something called "real life" –– through friends, your workplace, or getting involved in groups and activities.
So how are the new owners going to squeeze more than $525 million out of it?
To address the security concerns

- All code should require manual review from at least one other person (some orgs require 2+). It should be impossible to introduce a code change to any code base with a single compromised developer account. This is true of mono or multi repo

- The only really dangerous shit (like private keys, admin credentials) should not be accessible or committed to repos at all, ever.

- I've never worked anywhere where a source code leak was a legitimate threat (note: not that it wasn't a concern, just that it doesn't normally have drastic consequences, your code isn't as special as you think)

- I have worked places with silo'd repos with granular access and I won't do that again, I ask about it in technical interviews and if your company is doing this it's not really a positive - making it harder for engineers to get work done for bad reasons is a sure fire way to get a toxic engineering culture. There's plenty of places that give us engineers access to everything in the meanwhile.

So to me I don't see the utility of multi repo from a security perspective - I'd argue the infrastructure problem it solves is the same as a package manager (having portions of systems moving at different rates without breaking dependent systems). If you have this problem in your code base then a multi repo org makes a lot of sense.
Not going to happen in a world where linking to illegal content makes you legally liable for it. Instead of grousing about Google or AWS or Cloudflare, you'd be grousing about Comcast. And Cloudlfare, because they'd still be in the picture, with all the same incentives.
You've probably already heard of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, but if you haven't, you should look up "My Stroke of Insight". The TED talk version is quick and interesting -- she talks about exactly this. I'm working through her "Whole Brain Living" book and it addresses many of the exact points in this Nautilus article, although I can't resoundingly recommend the book as it has its own flaws.
We're discussing the eagerness of people to create outgroups out of anything.
What you are proposing is essentially using a different number basis, and the simplest applicable one would be a basis which expresses numbers using whole numbers{...,-1,0,1,2...} times pi. This allows you to exactly express pi as just 1, and all such using only whole numbers which is nice. It also unfortunately means that simple things like y= 1_{decimal} x would have to be expressed using the relative to basis transcendental number pi i.e with precision problems. And every basis you could chose behave like this.

Different basis have different advantages, same as different function basis. The classic example would be that in a standard basis, its easy to add and subtract, but more costly to multiply, divide or factorize, while in the prime basis the former is expensive as hell, but the latter is trivial.

As a result, rationals and pi in a sense disjunct domains. You cannot express either using less less than an infinite number of the other, and the same holds for combinations of a rational and pi. Numbers which behave this way relative to each other are more common than the rationals, and pi is just the most common example.

It does lead to a rather neat requirement for the fundamental physical constants though.

The reasoning goes like this, imagine that a model K2 of physics could be described using two constants, a, b. gravity and the speed of light say. Now lets say we managed to prove that a = 2b and therefore that everything predicted by model K2 can also be predicted by model K1, which just uses the coefficient b. K2 is equivalent to K1, sure, but only one constant would then be fundamentally required, and if K2 is sufficient to describe all of physics, physics would only have one fundamental constant.
The same reasoning would hold if a=b^2, and so on. But, if the function required to express a as a function of b requires infinite information, this does not meaningfully apply, as this will always apply to every pair of numbers. Meaning that we know that if the fundamental constants of a model of physics does not lie in disjunct domains in the sense above, there is a simpler version which has fewer constants. For example, since pi has infinite information, if a=pi b, then the simplification cannot be meaningfully made without introducing pi as a fundamental. More generally this also fundamentally means that true physics cannot be expressed using finite precision if ideal grand unified theory as more than one fundamental constant.
Reducing vaccine rejection down to "political tribalism" is probably wrong and definitely not helpful. There are people across the entire political spectrum who refuse vaccines, and this is pretty much a global phenomenon.
You know, i think that ARM is really good for personal computing!

However, right now i'm planning on adding more HDDs to my current homelab, which is made of low power last gen x86 hardware, but even so just 2 boxes with 200 GEs inside currently pull around 100W in total from the wall (PSUs are probably not awfully efficient either, to be honest).

That said, having PCI lanes does keep me hopeful - while i have 4 SATA ports on the mobo, expansion cards could bring that number up pretty nicely. I reckon that i could have about 8 HDDs in each box on consumer hardware with few to no issues, while also using them as servers with ~32 GB of RAM for my container clusters.

If i had to start over, would i go for a Raspberry Pi or an equivalent cluster, or maybe a dedicated NAS? Maybe, as long as ARM software isn't too hard to come across, and the limited RAM or other expandability doesn't become too much of a problem.
It's the only way I can see it. Otherwise, I might as well give up and call it a day.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

My understanding is people change their whole tune pretty quick when they're in abject misery from catching Covid.
Nice! Seems like a good way to help redefine what residency and civic engagement can mean for a city or just improving efficient deployment of capital. Greenfield innovation opportunity
AWS going down means I've lost it or temporarily lost access to it? Those are two very different scenarios. Of course S3 could lose data - a quick Google search shows it has happened to at least one account. My guess is it is rare enough that it seems like a reasonable decision to not prioritize backing up your S3 data. I'm not syaing "never ever backup S3 data" only that it seems reasonable to argue it's not the most important thing our team should be working on at this moment.

I have my family photos on a RAIDed NAS. It took me years to get that setup simply because there were higher priority things in my life. I never once thought "ahh I don't need backups of our data" I just had more important things to do.
It's also too late for antiviral drugs, though, FWIW. This drug needs to be taken within three days of symptom onset. By the time most people are hospitalized, the viral phase of illness is pretty much over.