skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That certainly used to be the case. In mid December for example (i.e. around the time the PBS article was written) active cases were roughly evenly split between unvaccinated and vaccinated. This is in a highly vaccinated population (85% of 12+, 73% total - out of 4.5M) so prevalence in the unvaccinated group was 3-4X higher than vaccinated at that time.

It seems unlikely that the Alberta population is experiencing a significantly different pandemic than neighbouring regions (demographics and responses are largely the same). I also wouldn't conclude from this data that vaccines are negatively effective as hospitalization rates are lower in the vaccinated group.
I like the custodian approach with the open-source software.
Absolutely, in war it's not just about how many soldiers you have or what guns they carry.

You need a leader to inspire your troops. Otherwise they start thinking "what am I doing here I just want to survive and go home".
Impressive if true, although I am very sceptical of the results. The real test is to put their neck on the line and predict/warn of the next significant variant. If the authors are not willing to do this, I doubt that the algorithm is useful.

As a side note, the first author on this paper is the CEO of InstaDeep. I see it as a red flag that the CEO of a 150+ person company would put themselves as first author on this paper. Perhaps I'm unfairly judging and the CEO really was the lead contributor to the study.
> It apologised last month for the "trouble" it had caused, saying that its commitment to avoid supply chains from Xinjiang was an expression of compliance with U.S. law, rather than a statement of its position on the issue.

So is the position of Intel that slave labour in concentration camps is an acceptable means of production?

To what extent are Intel chips designed and manufactured in China? Presumably, they are primarily designed in the USA and manufactured in Taiwan. And Intel is opening chip factories to boost production in the USA [0].

Why would Intel not take a position against Xinjiang slave concentration camps if presumably most of the supply chain does not depend on it? Would it be that much "trouble"? Or has some unrelated "trouble" been created for Intel that was not discussed in the article?

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
My routine is send the tab to a PC device and do it there later. I love Firefox Sync so much I think I might just host my own backend server for it some day.
I think, perhaps, one thing.

Guantanamo has kept some people (outside the US) aware that if they believe themselves to be on the right side of a conflict and they want to be seen by others as being right, then they'd best not do anything like Guantanamo. That no matter how popular you are now, doing anything like that will lead you to lose popularity karma.
I disagree that this would be a good idea. I think it’s important that the Standard rather than an Implementation is the source of correctness.

Also, rendering engines are so tightly tied to the underlining drawing apis of different platforms this would be impractical and stifle innovation.

Safari, for example, is more closely tied to the drawing apis in iOS and MacOS, which in turn are tuned to the hardware Apple sells. This allows it to be more energy efficient, particularly on mobile.

You could abstracts the drawing with an intermediate api, but that prevents different browsers from experiments or moving toward different drawing architectures.
That's not how I use the results page, though. I open the top x number of results in separate tabs, and then check those pages. I only go back to the tab with the results page after I've checked them all, so that might be a while, even if they all suck.

So if they look at my behaviour the way you say, then the feedback they'd get from me would be that the top x-1 results are always bad, while the xth result is always good. That sounds like a poor algorithm for them, but it might explain why my Google results always suck.
I did use Rails for several months while helping a friend with his business/sideproject/startup kick-off and despite I really liked it, I much prefer Laravel + Livewire and PHP (https://tallstack.dev/) over Rails + Hotwire + Ruby, but it's up to personal preferences:

- I prefer things to be more explicit than implicit and lean more towards configuration over convention.

- I lean more towards having types/typing information than not having it

- PHP is way, way, way more used than Ruby

- Performance (just talking about development environment performance) is a lot better in PHP (no server restarts, etc)

- Availability of third party libraries is a lot stronger on the PHP side, probably due to it being more popular

- Tooling and editor support. This is a big one for me, and I've found out things to work a lot better with VSCode for PHP than for Ruby. Probably related to it being both, more popular and more explicit.

- Overall, Laravel feels even more complete than Rails and just fits better my brain.

But, I think Rails is still great, and I would use it over building a microservices mesh of Go servers on kubernetes with React frontends, etc, etc.
I havent used pho for 10+ years now, but the point is - the tools mostly don't matter. What matters is the result.
The absurdity makes this more fascinating than cringe-worthy, if I'm being honest :)
> We need to divest our manufacturing from China.

Not gonna happen until you get rid of consumerism. People want to buy cheap shit, it gives their lives meaning.
Karl Marx or Lenin, Gretzky, or Michael Scott. It's often attributed to Lenin and Marx, but no actual evidence that I've seen.
I wonder if this also explains the weird >1 year delay for Denon adding the promised wireless speaker grouping support to its Soundbar 550.
Aha, that cleared up my confusion! Thanks.
I have zero faith in court's ability to see through techno-babble.
"Right" is relative to one's particular situation and social surroundings. One thing could be right for a remote-working individual living in a big city, and it could at the same be wrong for country dwellers. Different types of communities function in different ways.
Not just for getting rid of the annoyance, but uBlock Origin also makes the browser perform way better too. And it's especially noticeable on mobile.
Why not some animals have fictional mental states and others do not?
It's there, but it's missing the word "Gerson" in the description so it's easy to miss. If you search for 3230 you'll find it: https://www.armbrustusa.com/blogs/mask-review/n95-gerson-duc....
Mozilla is working as hard as they can to regress though!

I haven’t been excited for a browser upgrade in years. I see these announcements and I know I’ll lose time re-learning something or just missing old functionality that has been removed.

The Mozilla of 2022 is very much only the least evil option.
That's okay. Euler wasn't trying to arrange these army officers for any sort of practical purpose, the whole point of the puzzle is an exercise in mathematics. So it's mathematically interesting that the puzzle cannot be solved in a conventional manner, but it's also interesting that it can be solved by applying quantum concepts. Interesting research like this is the whole point of Euler's puzzles.

But yeah I guess it's a disappointment to all those army generals who were hoping for a way to arrange their officers in a 6x6 square according to Euler's constraints. The use of quantum ranks may have deleterious effects on battlefield effectiveness.
what he is saying is that chinese gov adopted capitalism but state is actually controlling it them - semi indirectly.

And they are big enough to be able to influence other big countries and foreign corporations to the point that they are now setting directions of where things are going.

Case and point Holywood and self censorship in movies to pander to chinese market

They are not saying comunism is good or bad, just stating reality of what is happening
Does this criticism also apply to the Linux kernel? Which is as widely used as Chrome on servers?
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) denies Oklo’s advanced reactor application
my dad plays game shows as a hobby. My main complaint is that he's really conservative and will basically fold at the earliest opportunity (many of these games are basically double-down, so you lose everything if you make an incorrect guess). I told him the amounts are so small (he won $5K on Who Wants to Be A Millionare and $15K on jeopardy) it's better to just take the risk to win a larger prize.

He used to be a reference librarian so he's good with facts, and does crosswords (cryptics) constantly so he knows pretty much every word.
It's quite surprise on how did they take this one.
> Over time every image collects entropy, mistakes, and bitrot like no one's business! Eventually it gets to be impossible to figure out how to fix it, or takes so much energy to maintain you won't bother.

That's an interesting perspective, thank you for sharing.

Smalltalk was trying hard to be different, and there were a lot of neat ideas in there, but while it seems like a very powerful concept to have your OS/editor and language all rolled up into one, that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Kind of like LISP macros. Seems like such a powerful and useful concept, but on the other hand, if you give programmers too much power, they are guaranteed to misuse it.
Sorry, I'm not native english speaker but what does crickets mean in this context? Good or bad?

I can see you have customers and nice ARR, but is this because of PH? I don't really understand your first sentence and can't figure it from others either...
There is another regulation called "2016/680" or "the police directive" that does: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2016/680/oj/eng
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy...

Nuclear deaths is 90 per TWh

Wind death toll is 150 per TWh

Solar 440/TWh

and leading the pack is Coal at 100000/1Twh produced

The question is, as always with nuclear: Do you want constant, verified, 100% certain deaths every day or do you risk a larger death toll that may or may not happen some time in the future?
I thought it was Movable Type?
I love firefox and use it avidly, but why does every firefox update keep trending on HN? I'm genuinely curious, most of these updates seem fairly minor
This is not reddit. The answers here might range from spent twelve hours researching the love songs of clamps to sex, drugs and rock'n'roll and they will be equally valid, because dealing in tech does not match with the US nerd stereotypes.
Seems like it would be a pretty natural fit in many embedded scenarios— particularly where your entire program is basically just a bunch of threads waiting for things to happen.

FreeRTOS is that anyway, except it's longjmping between heap- or statically-allocated stacks, and you have to unblock worker threads by poking them from ISRs. All of this is workable but I could definitely imagine it being more sane with first-class language support for the fundamental cooperative multitasking model that's at work.
This is a surprise. I really thought that Fanpage was still a gossip news site so I never clicked any link to it. I went looking at it now and its news look better then most mainstream newspapers/websites.
Who is complaining? I'm glad this guy got booted out of these (relatively) high-trust societies.
>And business-friendly frameworks are generally a PITA for us to maintain. And ugly. And wasteful.

I built this as an attempt at a "developer first business friendly" framework:

https://hitchdev.com/hitchstory/

It wasnt meant to be written by business folks but it was meant to be at least semi-readable by them, but more importantly it was to serve as a template to generate documentation that was A) truly readable B) kept in sync with the code.

I dogfooded it in sessions where I would "pair" with business folks looking over my shoulder and they would read/speak and I would edit. This worked well.

I don't believe it's possible to get business folks to write this kind of document but I think it's both reasonable and valuable to A) use it as a tool to go back and forth on specs and B) decouple executable specification from code that executes tests.
> All three (especially PVs!) are reducing in price over time, whereas nuclear is becoming more expensive

That's speculation. Nuclear could become much cheaper over time if standardized reactor designs are used.

Also, I don't believe that PVs will become cheaper over time. The hardware itself certainly, but installation and maintenance is already more expensive than the panels themselves.

> Importing nuclear power from France is especially cheap because the French reactors are already paid off

That's a weird argument. Do they offer discounts because their reactors are paid off?
That's for healthcare and surgery, not for going to the store...
Google used to let you do this itself when you were logged in. I never understood why they removed that; surely the information on what domains were deemed unwanted was valuable!?
Since the advent of surveillance cameras I suppose. So, 1927?

https://www.asecurelife.com/history-of-security-cameras/
Why Is the Nuclear Power Industry Stagnant?
> Many people interpret it as "Free as in beer", not "Free as in speech", so expecting people to pay for it disqualifies it as FLOSS.

Only for people with the wrong expectations. Just because there's many of them doesn't make them right.
Ask HN: How much free time do you have?
And what do you do with it?
There are other OSs available though. Including other POSIX compliant OSs
Money talks. Even though it's a seller's market, what a shame.
Yeah, but so can the spammers and fake pages.

And it all works together to make Google worse.

I agree that it would work as long as Google has an absolute monopoly on search. Google wouldn't care how bad their search results are, because there's nowhere else to go. But if there are alternatives, users should stop using Google and use the alternatives instead, and then Google has an incentive to improve their search results for users again.
What CL versions could they be? Even in versions with their own, very interactive IDE (LispWorks), we work with source files, with git and all, and we can run a program either from the sources as a script or from a pre-built binary (which is built from clean sources, not from our development image).
For me its Java with Spring or maybe something like Micronaut. Its what I'm most familiar with.
Plus the massive Java ecosystem means I can probably find a library to do just about anything.

Database would be MySQL or Postgres.
The application containers would run on something like Google Cloud Run, other serverless options are available.
If it's crashing your computer you can pretty squarely place the blame on the driver, not the browser.

Without bugs in the driver, even bad behaviour from the browser shouldn't bring the whole machine down.

Graphics drivers are sadly famously buggy, and occasionally the hardware is buggy too, and the driver needs to work around those bugs in the hardware, and occasionally the users hardware specifically is broken in some way, and then there's no winning.

It's probably true that Firefox has less workarounds for buggy drivers hardcoded into it than Chromium, but in the end the blame is on the driver, and if they had blacklisted your driver the likely "improvement" is you'd no longer have any hardware accelleration, which is not exactly a great result - the real fix needs to be better drivers that don't crash the system for no good reason.
indeed he will, unless we learn how to manipulate him. This is why I'm confused as to why rationalists seem to have done basically no research into complexity theory (systems/cybernetics). Scott Alexander's done the Moloch pieces, and this one article on dynamical systems [1] but aside from that the closest they get is machine learning, which is a descendant.

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatri...
The main financial contributor to Mozilla is Google. So in a way, Firefox is run by Google. Some say it's convenient for Firefox to exist to avoid anti-trust lawsuits.
If Microsoft, Apple, and Google all disagree with WHATWG or W3C, they're winning regardless of whether or not Firefox exists.

The second scenario is just repeating the problems with Chromium.

In theory, if one engine was agreed upon as ideal and collaborated on fairly, the other parties could just fork it and maintain that branch separately from the usurper and make that the standard.
You can manage the Smalltalk image the same way you do with Emacs by starting with a base image that loads only the extra packages you want.
What does this even mean... care to elaborate?
The Laundry Files: never has the end of the world been so entertaining.
I also had the Hangouts/sms combined app on my Google Nexus. But as you said, after annoying everyone because the sms app was suddenly gone, they annoyed everyone again because it was suddenly back. And then the annoyed everyone with several new messengers, though I am not sure who still payed attention at that time. Leaving out how annoying the death of google talk before all that was.

Google has messengers on every android phone preinstalled and nobody uses them, because they create them, never significantly update them and then abandon them. It's completely their fault they don't even get a mention when people talk about messaging apps.
> I don't think it's necessary to legislate for that per se. This is just indicative that Google has monopoly power in online advertising.

Unless the government actually steps up and breaks up the monopoly, the only other possible solution I can see is legislation.
Did I see this correctly? The author has posts that date back to 1978 - has he been keeping a log that long?
> Survivors of WWII also base their claims against the aggressors on the assumption that despite being held a gun on your head doing the "morally right thing" should prevail.

Did they prosecute every single soldier of nazi germany for war crimes? For good measure did they also prosecute every single civil servant of nazi germany, because they helped the regime operate?
It is for it's suppliers and partners. Examples of this would be Intel supplying chips to Lenovo, who are based in Beijing and who may have some components sources from that region, or Intel's fabs sourcing Silicon or other manufacturing materials (or their suppliers) from that region.

Supply chains are broad and it's not hard to have goods that pass through or originate in those regions even if all your parts are produced outside that and you have no direct partnerships there.
For companies in Google's situation, a common tactic is to stop infringing ASAP and then find a workaround. Since patents are typically for mechanisms rather than features, Google might be able to implement a roundabout mechanism to achieve the same goal.
"some embedded controllers in racks in the auxilliary deisel generator control rooms have EPROMs which have been known to be erased by camera flashes in the past"

echoes of the Raspberry Pi camera flash reboot story, 13 years apart :)

https://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/photonic-reset-of-the-raspbe...
> The debt burden isn’t that high.

It's much higher than other countries. There's also a 7 to 10 year period of medical school and residency where you're making no wage or a poor wage. People tend to get fixated on the attending-level annual salary while ignoring that piece. That's 7 to 10 years where you're not really building any savings, retirement, or wealth.

My wife (a doctor) and I (a non-SV software engineering who's career has taken a backseat to hers) ran the math. On an hourly basis, she will likely never come out ahead of me. She just has too many unpaid and low-paid hours in med school and residency to overcome. In aggregate, she will likely out-earn me - but that break-even point will be in our 50's with her having worked many more hours than me. That's 30 years into our careers.
Even Discord can’t search inside Discord
Doesn’t git:// transport use SSH? How is SSH possibly unencrypted on the wire?
Seeing a massive 500 megawatt turbine in the generator hall of a nuclear powerplant is an incredible experience, dwarfed only by the knowledge that there are 3 more at the facility.
TL;DR ?
Sure, but what is the leverage for others to join their fork?

If Chromium had better governance that is "leverage" for Mozilla to join as an equal party and for them all to work together on a single engine.
I've been dealing with Python for 8 years at 2 big tech companies in the Bay Area.

The main advantage in Python is that it's easy to learn. It just doesn't scale. Once things start taking off, there's always a migration to something more scalable like Go or Kotlin.

Gunicorn is probably the "best" tool for making a Python based website or API for Python users.
It can also be problematic in the US as peeping tom laws have not really caught up with surveillance cameras and drones yet.

I had a neighbor that was allegedly pointing cameras at his neighbor because he didn't want a black woman in the neighborhood. He was also an officer of the HOA. He was trying to intimidate her with cameras and staring at her all day. She sued and won. The judge ordered him to remove the cameras. I got out of that HOA in a hurry. They've since doubled the fees to compensate for the law suit, so they should have it paid off in 25-30 years.
You're probably much less likely to leak PII to non-community members through Discord than a forum.

I also think ephemeral-by-default seems to result in much fewer long-running fights than you would have in public-record-by-default communities like forums.

Like when a thread gets heated in a forum, it keeps getting bumped and none of the people involved can resist picking at the sore.

On Discord it seems like someone steps away, the channel moves on, and the fight actually dies
> I think a good first step is to reject Christ's innovation, reject every meme that tries to make you into a spreader

I vehemently disagree. I think it's good to "spread" ideas that you think are valuable, but without being a zealot/activist about it. On the contrary if you've stumbled upon some idea, philosophy, etc. that is valuable to you personally, and you decide to secretly keep it only to yourself, that seems a bit selfish.

I think a good first step is to reject browbeating, bullying, pile ons, and other tactics used to force ideas upon people. Another thing that needs to be rejected is the type of idea sharing that mainly generates heat (stokes outrage). So maybe in that sense I think "sharing memes" might be counter productive.

But sharing ideas, philosophies, etc. (religious, political, scientific, or otherwise) human-to-human at a personal level seems valuable to me - at the very least it keeps the marketplace of ideas (and therefore idea discovery) healthy without the heat of stoked outrage.
Your source says 400 have died of Covid, not of flu. One kid died of flu. Covid is a far deadlier infectious disease for children than the flu and would have been deadlier still without the mitigations that reduced flu deaths to 1.

The FDA advisory panel unanimously approved the vaccine for kids. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-advisory-pane...
> The only reason we cannot have a single browser engine that everyone uses is governance and ownership.

Consider the governance and ownership angle a little more.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are LARGE companies. These companies do things that many have ethical issues with. Putting a bunch of large companies in such a point of control is something that should give people pause.

Large multi-national companies aren't democracies and their end goals are fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders. These are often super wealthy or large funds.
210 MW? That’s rather small, no?