skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the government has them anyway, it's just that in addition to having them, the tax payer also has to pay clearview AI or whoever else for providing that service privately. That's actually exactly how the US government acquires license plate and vehicle data in states where collecting that information directly is prohibited, they just use your money to buy that from the private surveillance industry. [1]

By believing in some sort of mythical distinction between private and public business you've created the worst world of all, in which a government can superficially claim its hands are clean, buy unlimited surveillance data from unregulated private firms, without any democratic accountability. You now have the privilege of filling up Peter Thiel's bank account, while Palantir runs a precrime division that your city council has never even heard of[2]

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/22/22244848/us-intelligence-...

[2]https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...
If Omicron is less severe, will an Omicron infection likely provide immunity against delta?
I didn't read it that way myself.

For HN comment readers that skip citations (I'm not saying you did, just helping the conversation):

First paragraph

> cgo is an amazing technology which allows Go programs to interoperate with C libraries. It’s a tremendously useful feature without which Go would not be in the position it is today. cgo is key to ability to run Go programs on Android and iOS.

Last paragraph

> To be clear, I am not saying that you should not use cgo. But before you make that Faustian bargain, please consider carefully the qualities of Go that you’ll be giving up in return.

I don't see this as devaluing.
I think the original claim is that it can be inner nil or outer nil and those are two different things and often you should check for both.
If SSE supported binary data I might agree with you. I think WebSockets have their place, but are overused. I definitely agree long polling should be implemented first and then only add WS if you've measured that you need it. You're probably going to need to implement polling anyway for clients to catch up after disconnect.
Imagine running an organization based on public opinion, especially an opinion so wide as the whole internet.

Groupthink is so dangerous.
“Holland is building”.
No. In the coalition accord, a study is ordained (https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/twee-nieuwe-kerncentrales... : “de nieuwe coalitie wil laten onderzoeken of het haalbaar is om twee nieuwe kerncentrales te bouwen in Nederland”, for non-dutch speakers: https://www-deingenieur-nl.translate.goog/artikel/twee-nieuw...), but many think that the study will conclude it is not feasable.
Belgium has a nuclear phase out plan and while it is not realistic, it still threatens supplies to Zeeland, Rotterdam and the industrial west.

Just look where powerlines go from Doel.
Well one can argue that the Shanghai police was also quite transparent about it, given the following:

> On May 21, a branch of the Shanghai police posted a notice online seeking bids from private contractors for what is known among Chinese officialdom as public opinion management.
Yeah, threatening civilian organizations isn't how you gain soft power.

The has the power it does because, aside from being very rich, before the 20th century they made extremely reasonable foreign policy decisions.
They are. RDS multi-AZ replication is synchronous. Aurora is asynchronous, and multi-region replication is asynchronous, but a multi-AZ deployment of the "traditional" database engines in RDS is synchronous. It's rather the opposite of what you said before: if you stick to the old fashioned databases, this is easy to set up, failover is automatic, and no app-level changes are needed.

I think you may have been thinking of multi-region, since you mentioned geographic failover. Multi-AZ isn't really geographic failover.
I do not read anything, close of a statement "cambodian genocide is just us propaganda"

What I read is:

"What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered"

a much more nuanced statement.
I met my current girlfriend on Match.com(US) in 2019. She was unemployed back then and we lived 2h+ hours apart. First 6 months of the relationship, she was unemployed. We are still together and now she has a job. I don't think unemployment should immediately be a no go for the relationship.
> had the nerve to ask my friend whether they still needed to be vaccinated after

Considering the unlikeliness of being able to get COVID twice, that is, in fact a god question with a very non-trivial answer.

McCullough on getting COVID twice (2m54s): https://youtu.be/5kGK_dZsQ4U

s/Being anti-vax is basically a religion/Being informed is basically a maze/

Not all people who are not vaccinated are anti-vaxxers, not all who are vaccinated think that the vaccination policies are sensible, and criticizing vaccination policy is not the same as being anti-vaxxer.
Does it hang with ssh timing out? In that case, next time it hangs try opening it up and logging in via the UART interface available on most Synology NASes. Also it may give you extra info if the kernel panicks.
Averages do not matter when you need to keep the heat and lights on. Wholesale electricity rates are already 5 times as high as last winter. What matters is what generation can produce electricity when you need it and starting here in 10 days you will need more production.
Will Germany remain a net exporter without their nukes, and by getting rid of their nuclear capacity will they be forced to delay shutting down their coal plants?
Lol no, it couldn't for any meaningful definition of "small part" if we're being realistic.

We're not talking about examining a black box here, you can just look at Norway's socioeconomic history and realize is not because they share salaries.

Not mismanaging profit from massive natural oil reserves, tiny relative population to all their resources (not just oil), and having a largely homogeneous population that valued education and social benefit.

All such major factors that sharing salary can't really be considered a meaningful data point.

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It's more an effect of their situation than the opposite, they can still share salaries because things went so well, and the idea is to catch people who are abusing the tax collection system.

A quick search shows that while you could theoretically get someone's salary historically, it wasn't until the early 2000s it was made easy (presumably by making a standardized digital system)

Then in 2014 they added alerting to know who looked which resulted in a 90% drop in inquiries...
Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA
So the US regards cyberattacks as acts of war if it comes from a non-nuclear country, and tomfoolery from a nuclear one?

I don't disagree with your point, simply saying that IMO the US doesn't take cyberattacks seriously precisely because it leads down a dark path with China (and probably Russia too if we're being honest).
In my opinion, these charts are quite out of context. See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29654571
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-...

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

> the Committee found ample evidence to suggest that the Russian government was developing and implementing capabilities to interfere in the 2016 elections, including undermining confidence in U.S. democratic institutions and voting processes.

Calling it hysteria is counterproductive. With that said, I'm not sure what happened or what has been done since.
There is this particular app I have to use for work which relies heavily on web sockets. It works great so long as your latency is good. But as soon as your latency is over some threshold the sheer volume of websocket requests compounds and it becomes unusable. Normal sites just load slower, they don't fail entirely like this.

I guess it goes without saying but devs really need to test their apps under unfavorable conditions.
The public opinion around me (I live in Eastern Europe) does seem to have caught on to that fact, I mean the normal people, the problem is the media that, even here, keeps treating this like a thing that we could eventually get rid of.
Hospitals fill up every winter from respiratory viruses. The healthcare system is designed to fill up. There's no point having expensive rooms, machines, and staff sitting idle. Planners forecast seasonal requirements and build healthcare around the maximum.

We're probably going to see increased demands on hospitals simply due to the larger numbers of old people.

For example, 2009 Swine Flu (remember that?) is about as deadly as 2020 COVID. But now in eg. the USA, there are 2.9m 80-84 year old men (elderly men are in the prime risk category for COVID deaths), compared to 2.3m in 2009:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

These demographic trends were exacerbated by weak flu seasons in 2018 and 2019.

Crises always bring light to pre-existing failures in systems. COVID is simply exposing Western societies as aged, overweight, and Vitamin-D deficient.
Primary energy consumption looks quite a bit different though:
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Also worth noting that "biomass" often gets hidden in the "clean energy" part, but that just means burning something other than oil/coal/gas.
Irrelevant. As the new strain outcompetes the old, the old dies away forever. For example, Delta became 99%+ of cases in the US.
U.S. authorizes Pfizer oral Covid-19 treatment, first for at-home use
> One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource.

One important thing to notice is that place on earth to put wind turbines and solar panels is limited. Now imagine that electricity needs greatly increased ...

At the end of the day, everything is finite
The flu has been feared throughout history, as it is... frankly quite deadly at times. Now a days we have excellent flu monitoring, and flu shots, and have been able to manage it, also at great cost. But to dismiss the flu, and covid-19 as "nbd" is... not the kind of analytical strength I am expecting on HN. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

At the time of the breakout of Covid-19 in Jan/Feb 2020, the reports on the ground in Wuhan and Italy were pointing to a catastrophic failure of healthcare systems leading to significantly enhanced death rates, CFR of 10% or so was being observed in Wuhan. Yes, everyone knew that not everyone was being tested, but having 10% of everyone you tested died... well that ain't good. And China has a powerful government and can mobilize resources when they feel like it. Witness the building of hospitals in Wuhan in 10 days. Turns out they were probably more like convalescent centers, but they were fighting the multi-generational housing problem where younger sick people would get their parents/grandparents sick (who lived with them, and weren't able to isolate in their apartment/houses).

Back then, people noted "if we do this right, then we will be accused of over-reaction", and sure enough that is what we are seeing. Fun fact: by the time the first lockdowns in SF/bay area were announced, domestic flights were down... 97%. All major conferences had been cancelled. Tech companies were already allowing/requiring WFH. If that seems like an overreaction, imagine if Google Search went down in spring 2020... that isn't an impossible situation, after all if staff were spreading covid to each other readily without being aware and having a 1% death rate as a result... that is devastating. The notion that life would have been fine if we just ignored it is kinda nuts considering we had 800,000 deaths to date, and yet our mask effort resulted in the extinction of a strain of the flu, and reducing the pediatric flu deaths from 200 -> 1. Yet still 800,000 deaths.
Hmm, good question. I guess I can go full pedantic on this because it's HN but probably on any other social setting this exposition would drain everyones vital life and just fuel my autistic dissociation until I have no idea where I am anymore.

Giving "natural selection" as a force the capacity to "want" is probably less controversial that saying that a virus "wants". For example if you are a religious evolutionary biologist you can think that natural selection is an entity that makes some kind of conscious decisions that may appear random to us only because we don't understand them. I don't think that believing that will hamper your ability to actually understand natural selection as much as any other scientist, specially if you go by the Roman Catholic tenet of unquestionable faith in unsolvable misteries.

If you go by the more neutral terms used in evolutionary science I think natural selection is more of a process than a system or force and then it "wanting" things is also anthropomorphism.

My personal line for when anthropomorphism is tolerable and when it's not is when as an analogy it can make you come to dangerous conclusions. For example "oh COVID wants to mutate, we should just let it mutate because when you give something what it wants it will usually leave you alone" or stuff like that.
You and I stand on opposite sides of the fence. Neither one of us will change the other's mind. I also will respect your view points, but I won't back down on personal choice. That's the main issue with the pandemic right now.

My ex-wife knows two people who've died after taking the vaccine. One at the 2 week mark and the other the day after. She also knows a body builder, in excellent condition, who ended up on a ventilator from Covid. He was in that condition for months and has less than half of his lung capacity now. Those two would be alive if not pressured or forced to take the vaccine. And that is one category of people (dead from vaccine) that gets hand waived by the numbers, as if those people meant nothing. We all have stories...

I had Covid and recovered nicely at 51 years old, as did my ex-wife at 50. So there's another counter story. And I never said or advocated that vaccines are pointless. They absolutely work for the purposes of reducing severe illness and chance of death. I encourage people who think they're in a high risk category to get vaccinated, but not everyone needs it. But that's what's being pushed right now because if we can just vaccinate everyone, it will effectively go away. No, it won't. The vaccinated get Covid and spread it to one another because they don't get sick enough to stay home. I didn't have the energy to go any where. I had to get in bed and nap every two hours.

Why can't you show the data and allow everyone to make a choice? If you want to talk numbers, it's very rare that you'll end up on a ventilator or in the hospital from Covid. And don't talk to me about the collective good. People don't give a shit about me or you. I get one chance at life and I'm making choices for me, not for strangers. And I won't blame anyone else for doing the same thing.

My condolences to the loved ones of all who've died from Covid and the vaccine. I encourage all to make their choices without consideration of outside influence. It is your one life and you must do what you think is best. It's better to die free than live in collective chains.

Good luck and godspeed.
Personally, I'm just waiting for the day when the 2^64th death happens.
As the other reply says, this didn't really happen this way. The Dreamcast was already on its way out after the PS2's launch by the time piracy really started up. Piracy was a footnote, not a cause.

Internet access was one constraining factor. Not everyone in 1999/2000 had broadband to download entire CD images. And an even smaller portion ever knew where to find the piracy methods and content - most of it was on Usenet.
When they weren't doing school work during school hours, like watching YouTube and playing games. Here is an example document sent to parents explaining how this works. https://www.pointschools.net/cms/lib/WI01932907/Centricity/D...
This is the effect of stupid scare, not any real danger.
Media reports about case counts are useful because they precede hospitalizations by days or weeks. This allows the risk averse to modify their behavior sooner.
When something negative about China is posted: "Everyone does it!"

When something negative about the US is posted: "Downfall of an empire!"
This seems to be your opinion when one can read it also differently. After Fukushima she and her government (backed by the coalition partner FDP) started a risk re-assessment process that involved two commissions (the reactor security commission and an ethics commission) that resulted in the government declaration below. Hence, the assessment was not done on a whim, it was backed by several months of work by experts. Could it still be a mere power play? Possible, but unlikely - she ran the risk of alienating her own party and to be seen as a flip-flopper.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/service/bulletin/regi...
> How are they supposed to know the nationality of the user of a phone?

That's why you do recon before targeting somebody.

Do you suppose they just sprayed the malware onto random phones?

I get the impression that Pegasus is meant to be used in a very targeted way, at people you have identified before, and have some reason to spy on. If you do that way, what are you chances of wanting to target somebody else, and accidentally getting 11 US embassy employees?

NSO promised oversight, they can't just weasel they way out by saying "there's no way would could have implemented effective oversight".
SA severity may not be representative because of greater prior immunity and a younger age skew.
I don't think putting the hardware into the rack is really the sticking point; what people like about the cloud is that it abstracts all kinds of details away for them and provides a cohesive system to manage it. AWS, Azure and Google are actually selling something like what you are talking about now [1], where for whatever legal/legacy/performance reason you need it on-prem but still want to pay AWS 5x the cost just to give you the same management interface, and they have some kind of pod they slap into your data-center.

What does it tell you that there is a market for this, where essentially what you are buying from them is a management and control plane, when other companies like BMC have been selling that as a standalone product for decades (and for the most part failing to live up to their customer's actual expectations)?

[1] https://www.bizety.com/2020/06/28/aws-outposts-google-anthos...

edit: I actually think a big pull of the cloud is also about shutting down archaic internal IT organizations that have been slowing people down so that it takes weeks and weeks to launch a simple new webservice. Better to give your programmers a cloud account and let them get shit done.
Breeder reactors make that concern go away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
Antigen-Triggered Logic-Gating of DNA Nanodevices
6. Wholesale electricity rates have increased from 50 Euros/mwh to 250 Euros/mwh over the course of the last year.

This isn't about averages. It's about meeting demand, which is especially important during the winter heating season.
Synthetic Fuel is not going to be for the masses, it will be for the elite driving Porsches (hence the research funding), as part of a giant green-washing scheme.

What's sad is that the EU will throw subsidy money at it, instead of just doing the sensible thing and adopting EVs at all levels - simply to maintain the corporate legacy of soon-obsolete German automakers.
I am very certain that within 10 years we will all fail at distinguishing bots from real people posting online. What that future holds is scary and I hope that humanity will be smart enough to not destroy democracy just because Russia, China, et cetera told them lies via those bots.
What’s Up with the CDC Nowcast?
In order to get the TPMS to transmit on demand--at least on cars sold here in the United States--you have to send a 125 kHz signal out. The car does this periodically when it takes a reading, but unless you send this signal yourself, you won't reliably get a read as you're pulling up.

https://www.brakeandfrontend.com/decoding-tpms-wireless-sign...
We shouldn't act until we have a peer reviewed study published in 18 months.
There isn’t a marketing team for Matrix, unless you count me & the dev advocacy team. I actually have another (big) blog post called Metadata And Matrix which attempts to enumerate the privacy properties we have today to try to educate everyone, and how we’re improving it in future - will post it shortly. Agreed it could be better, but if you’re on your own server you are in a pretty good place.
Might it make you uncritically believe anything the NYT and Washington establishment media claims? Even if their primary sources are extremely dubious?
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Same in Europe and Australasia but without the guns.
None of this is particular to websockets, and in addition:

> you must employ people who are willing to become deeply knowledgeable in how TCP works

You already needed that for your HTTP based application; it's a fundamental of networked computing. Developers skipping out on mechanical sympathy are often duds, in my experience.
You confuse "legal and regulated" with "transparent to the public".

When Ford pays money to product place one of it's cars in a movie, that might be declared and invoiced in some contract, but you as a film watcher will never know it (unless they make a point of announcing it). So please explain how movie product placement is not covert.

The same with PR, think tanks, and a lot of advertising.
It was only the best in terms of hype and sales. Video-quality-wise, it was likely the worst of its generation.
Oh, I stand corrected.
Considering the details of the business they're in I don't think they have much choice other than to chart the course that enrages the fewest people even if that course is non-optimal.
You can't decide when the wind blow and when the sun shines. And you can't either decide when people turn on their washing machine. So it is obvious there is a problem
I think you mean NANP, nanpa is somewhat different...
I think it depends on your intended audience. I've use it without a fallback and without consequence because my visitors almost always use evergreen browsers.
I don't understand why you'd expect anything from Facebook to be a reliable source? Or from any platform about their own integrity? Their historical record on truthful reporting is dismal, and they have every incentive to report what the moral fashion of the day is about.
You don't think the WHO has an agenda?
You're completely right on this problem, of course.

Just as a cynical observation, we'll see how price-sensitive consumer energy demand really is.
I really appreciate the response.

I will admit to having a lot of fear about how the cultural swells are cresting right now, and I'm hanging my hopes on some sort of rediscovery of repair/mercy/forgiveness/mutability. I fear that without these, there's no way through these overlapping cultural clashes , both in America and more generally in the world.

Not that you owed me anything, but your response made me feel a little more hopeful than your original comment (which I don't begrudge you in the slightest, just being honest about where I'm coming from). Which is to say: thanks

Anyhow, I hope you're well over the holidays!
Consent for what exactly? A direct war with China is not going to happen (MAD). I could see USA pushing to set up more defences for Taiwan, if Taiwan would allow it. And that would be a good thing. Far better to spend money on setting up defences for a peaceful and valuable ally than to spend on wars in the middle east.