skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I somewhat agree with your overall point, level of control is important here. I can choose whether to get on a plane or take a drink. I can't control if someone farts standing next to me, or if they exhale smoke in my face.
Roblox is not a startup, and has a significant sized footprint (18,000 servers isn't something that's just available, even within clouds. They're not magically scalable places, capacity tends to land just ahead of demand). It's not even remotely a simple case of just "run a script and wee we have redundancy" There are lots of things to consider.

18k servers is also not cheap, at all. They suggest at least some of their clusters are running on 64 cores, some on 128. I'm guessing they probably have a fair spread of cores.

Just to give a sense of cost, AWS's calculator estimates 18,0000 32 core instances would set you back $9m per month. That's just the EC2 cost, and assuming a lower core count is used by other components in the platform. 64 core would bump that to $18m. Per month. Doing nothing but sitting waiting ready. That's not considering network bandwidth costs, load balancers etc. etc.

When you're talking infrastructure on that scale, you have to contact cloud companies in advance, and work with them around capacity requirements, or you'll find you're barely started on provisioning and you won't find capacity available (you'll want to on that scale anyway because you'll get discounts but it's still going to be very expensive)
I disagree. I have a friend on there posting content and was getting harassed by a troll, the way the current blocking system works they can 'block' them, but it's a 1 way block, the abused can no longer see or interact with the abuser.

But the abuser can still comment on every single post/comment of the person they're abusing, which is just backwards. And they can't even report that any more because they can longer see it, even though it's still happening.

The point of a block feature is to remove the abusers ability to interact in any capacity with the abused, and this new system looks to be a step towards that.
> Why_ would misdemeanor arrests result in less murders.

That's an unanswered question (crime is complicated), but there are probably many factors, not least of all that people get arrested for misdemeanors and then they're found with felony amounts of drugs or weapons and thus removed from the street.

> I don't agree with Charles Fain Lehman's analysis in your post

It's not his analysis, he's reporting on the findings of studies.

> while he thinks that because violent crime arrests when misdemeanors dropped that somehow proves that police aren't to blame I see the opposite in that data.

He doesn't profess that belief in the article.

> As I argued above, that says to me that a drop in public acceptance of the role of police and the justice system leads to self directed dispute resolution, which more often turns violent.

The article posits that as a factor as well (specifically that loss of trust in policing leads to less cooperation from the community).

> The idea that cities reaching a boiling point in distrust of the justice system, followed by no meaningful reform continue down the road of self directed and often violent dispute resolution is consistent with the model I've presented.

"Your" model also requires us to believe that the evidence of decreased proactive policing is merely a coincidence, which is hard for me to stomach. I don't doubt that the loss of trust contributed, but I only think this is the "fault" of policing as an institution to the extent that the activist and media narrative is accurate (which is to say, "not very").
I wonder how much he could raise for charity by selling autographed copies. The man is a legend.
:exploding-head: thanks, I completely missed that. There goes the productivity for the rest of the day.
I think HIPAA is something we should be re-evaluating as a nation. Back in '96 it was certainly a good idea given how devastating things like an HIV diagnosis could be for a family member in a fundamentalist family. Or the impact of said diagnosis on insurance coverage.

With the ACA, the insurance coverage problem is gone. Pre-existing conditions can't be used as a reason to deny or change insurance rates.

The Fundamentalist problem exists, but seems like much less of an issue with LGBT acceptance being so much better now than it was in the 90s.

I just don't think that health information is so valuable that guarding it like a state secret is warranted. I'm ok with the notion of putting in basic safeguards like not attaching a patient name with the information but I don't see it has horrible if some system can infer absolute identity from that stuff.

After all, seems far more scary that my web browsing generates a far clearer picture of who I am than what you could glean from my medical records.

Having health information public and easy to gather would (potentially) be a significant boon to the study of health information. It would also make it a lot easier for us to make health information sharing systems so you don't have to fill out the same 500 forms every time you go to a different hospital or doctor.
Those two things can easily both be true, and it doesn't change the fact that shallow comments are bad for HN and therefore against the rules here.

It's perfectly possible to write a non-shallow comment about work that you consider shallow. More likely, though, there isn't much that's interesting to say about it, in which case you shouldn't post anything.
And ?
Where is the bad thing to open a dataset of comorbidities and related / suspected effect of vaccines / medications ?
Did you look at any of the references at the bottom of the page? There are many, many dozens of studies in the report by the surgeon general. On page 421 when they analyze lung cancer risk, they have studies with volume and frequency of second hand smoke based on the volume and frequency of the smoking habits of the one spouse being a smoker and the other being a non smoker.
My Overview of the AI Alignment Landscape: A Bird's Eye View
Not easy, but much more easy, because wolves are pack animals who accept a leader, which can be a human.

Bears not so much and therefore much harder to control. Same with cats, which is why they have been kept around to hunt the mice and rats - but only small cats.

Also I believe the first dogs did not came from wolves, but other wild dog breeds.
> If art gets involved with politics, it stops being art and becomes propaganda.

Does that actually make any sense to you?

Would you consider Guernica by Picasso[1] propaganda?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
sure, I can accept a multipronged explanation, I already acknowledged that both of our observations are related to the food supply issues chronic on that continent, I don't think their specific correlation has been studied though so there's nothing to really say. My hypothesis is that my observations (which have been studied and are actively being addressed by many organizations) are going to have a greater weight by mere deduction: there is nothing unique enough about people in Africa that would make cancer appear earlier, and since they die earlier there and have worse preventative treatment to know other upcoming ailments, the cancer wouldn't come up because they're already dead from other basic infrastructure issues.

What I'm reading is "hey here is this ailment people get in their 60s, here's this continent where people barely survive until their 60s, do you have a citation for why people there don't frequently get that ailment there? we should really study that"
The power to tax is the power to destroy. The same overzealous power they have to tell me what my usage intent was also allows them to totally ban items that aren't actually banned.
What's a good way? Certainly not reading individual scientific studies yourself.
Couple suggestions:

* Ponylang. Pure Actor model. Static typing to enforce safe concurrent semantics in almost all respects. Plus ORCA GC. Upshot: high performance, and type theory grounded guarantees of no deadlocks, no livelocks, and no data races. Chief downsides are that MS Research has hired its founder, and it's a fledgling language/community.

* Elixir. Kinda Actor modelish. Dynamic typing, solid community. Someone else has posted about it.

* Raku. Someone else has posted about it. Chief downsides are that it's got slow single core performance and small community. Upsides include ease of use for multi core code. `start` schedules a lambda or function or statement on a virtual thread. cf Go's `go`. No `async`.
>> It's hard to find any benefit to smoking...

Ritualistically, as an exercise in getting out of one's 'normal' consciousness, it can present useful information for self study. In habitual form, it is of course very destructive.
This isn't politics, it's safety. I accept the argument that the CDC has become overly innumerate in how to live a healthy life, but it's not a liberal or conservative idea to be cautious.
Exactly, with alcohol I know play that's my 2 drinks of the night on weekends, call it a day.

Weed : the effects can last for days, paranoia, delusion, short term memory loss, not wanting to socialize, depression.

Sample size of one, I know! Your mileage may vary .
Improving onboarding. What socialization traits signal that some might quit?
I would argue, that a more narrow font gives you more bang for the buck in terms of information per area of foveal vision. Even if something looks aesthetically more pleasing, if it serves is purpose better, you'll get used to everything else.

My history is: Monoid -> Iosevka SS05 -> Essential PragmataPro

I just compared the latter two to JetBrains Mono, and at least on my settings, doing a blink comparison, they both look more clear to me.
How do you know I don't 100% agree with you? The comment is just as much against the site guidelines either way.
Can, perhaps, but do they? I'm thinking people who misspell stuff might waver a bit, and not be as consistent as those who know for sure how it's supposed to be spelled. Just a WAG, though.
@pygy_ So, i just checked (because you got me curious too)...and the Zoho Mail Lite plan (I'm U.S. based, so i pay $1 USD per user per month) does indeed have the catchall feature available. But, please note, it is present within the admin console...so not within, say, the user's mailbox. If you were a single user, that would not be an issue...but i think i recall you saying about needing for your family...so not sure if/how the set up a catchall at the admin console level interacts with each user's email address/identity...hmmm...Likely it only activates assuming, say, amazon@your-domain.net is not being used by one of your family users...but it merits a little more research on your own, if you in fact use this feature alot. Good luck!
I'm not saying this would affect a court ruling, but as a point of curiosity: technically "human" means the homo genus, not just the sapiens species. So Neanderthals for example, or homo erectus, are both human. The X-men would be human too, if they were indeed homo sapiens superior.
Funny how you use words like "insult" yet don't see the irony in the tone you use when talking to other people :)

Good day to you too.
Seems like it would be the opposite to me: If there are only 2 lanes, you need both for travel. But if you have 7 you can reserve some for speeders.

And in all my driving, I've yet to be overtaken legally on the left - they always speed in order to do it, which is illegal. So I'm not clear why "it's more important to keep the left lane for passing".

Just make the left lane "speed limit" lane, and the right lane slow lane. Meaning if you are going the speed limit you can stay in the left lane.

(This is a hot topic, I'm sure I'll get downvotes, I don't care about that, but I would appreciate replies more. Specifically about what's wrong with staying in the left lane if you are going the maximum legal speed.)
>And ?

What's not to get? OP said:

>... I strongly believe there is enough information to re-identify patients.

Their concern is that just dumping raw data like this into the public would be a massive violation of privacy for countless individuals.
> An app can lie about what it does, and nothing at a technical level can prevent that

I was thinking of the tracking restrictions when I wrote this. The OS simply doesn’t give the app the data.
Remember, we're talking about a very motivated 9 years old here.
I sketched out plans for the idea a while back (and have been too busy to do anything about it.) I'd have bot only games, and mixed games. I'd also have tools built into the game to let you pull up full stats on any player (there's add on software right now for major platforms that gives asynchronous advantage to players who use it, so to mitigate that it'd need to be adopted.) I think if the stats were good enough it'd be relatively easy to spot bots, which might make human-only tables possible also. The system would be punitive against bots which didn't declare themselves as such, but it would fully supportive of bots being part of the game on the online sphere.
What do you think Solutions Architects and Developer Advocates (between the two groups who do most Re:invent sessions) are?

Hell, what do you think re:Invent is? It's a sales conference.

In any company you have two groups of people: Those that build the product, and those that sell it. Ultimately, solutions architects and developer advocates are there to help sell the product.

Of course Amazon is customer obsessed. And genuinely interested in ensuring customers have a good experience, and their technical needs are met - through education, support, and architectural guidance. But ultimately, that's what it is.
This has also been my go-to monospace font. I like the ligatures though they are strictly optional. More details about font features can be found in the Git repo [1].

[1]: https://github.com/be5invis/iosevka
I did. I'm also tracking those in a spam section of each update.

If you want REALLY bad options, post to Career Builder. Last time I did, I got approached about jobs in insurance sales, door-to-door sales, and cashing checks for forging rings.
Wordler: A Wordle Autosolver
Yeah, that was absolutely ridiculous. What are they doing, evaluating it pixel by pixel? That's 25 pages a day (20 working days a month), or 3 pages an hour (8 hour day). Does it really take 20 minutes per page to prepare the data for release? Do they really only have one person they can put on the task?

They deserved to have that both mocked and slapped down. It was an insult to both our intelligence and our right to know the truth about what they want us to take.
C'mon, Boomers were also in the Civil Rights movement. Yeah they're not the Greatest Generation. Yeah they're maybe too individualistic (whether on the left or the right). But if you're going to talk about the far right you should at least acknowledge how many of them were on the left.
USB 3.2 Gen 2 Supports “up to” 10GBs, same as 5G.

Seems like there would be no reason to upgrade to PCIe, since (I assume) it would be a pretty expensive update for no meaningful change in theoretical max speed.
p ⊕ q is still not equivalent to ¬p ∧ ¬q, though in this case they're just unrelated rather than being opposites.
The solution to actual harassment (rather than justified rebuttal) should be for the harasser to get suspended.

Instead this system allows an abuser to, for example, preemptively block you and then make posts about you that you'll never see and be able to rebut or know to report.
You know what else could undermine public trust in institutions? Classifying this data as a matter of national security.
This was my first reaction also and I think it’s understandable but having looked at proposed solutions to it as well it actually doesn’t seem like such a big deal.

I apologise if I get some minor details wrong here as I am doing this on a phone and recalling this from memory because I don’t have the time to grab the sources right now.

However… the short version of the plan to solve this that I seem to recall to this:

The Flutter team specifically seemed to indicate that they are already used to operating in non DOM environments where they have to support accessibility across Android, iOS, MacOS, Linux and Windows that doing it on web actually isn’t that big a deal as it first seems.

They already have all of the code in place that builds a full tree (like the DOM) which does a complete mapping between every element (widgets in Flutter lingo) on the canvas to their respective bits of accessibility info. They then just take that tree and hook it up to the respective accessibility APIs that each platform exposes.

At no point have they indicated that this looked like it was going to be a serious roadblock or challenge for them. I believe them and they have a history of this approach working elsewhere.

There is just too much money riding on this investment for them not to get accessibility 100% correct in a web native way.

From there if you are able to expose everything through accessibility APIs then you presumably also have everything you need as a search engine or an adblocker to actively read and modify that canvas. At this point the entire argument that it’s just an opaque set of pixels seems to vanish for me.

This is also AFAIK already a solved problem for them in other products where they are using canvas based rendering such as Google Earth and Google Docs.

I don’t have the details beyond that right now sorry but that passes the sniff test for me at least.
But we actually don't need the VAERS data to examine if the vaccines are better than the alternative. We do need it to provide accurate labels for side effects, but that is all.

We can simply look at infection, hospitalization and death in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations. If we properly match the populations, we can determine if the vaccine saves lives, and it turns out that they do save a lot of lives.
> When I hear the phrase, to me it's more about shifting resources from punishment based (policing), to community development

Nothing in the phrase "defund the police" says anything about any of that. It is the goal, but the slogan doesn't reflect that anywhere in any way. When you hear it, you think about the intended meaning, while the vast majority hears only what it actually says which is "remove funding from the police" and no one wants that.

Conservatives are fearful people and those against police reform took the opportunity handed to them and reinforced that very message: "If you let these liberals have their way they will make it impossible for police to protect you by defunding them". It's too bad because lots of people who would support reforms to police want nothing to do with any effort under the "defund the police" banner. No one wants a police force that doesn't have any funds.
In this case, the question is informative and stimulating because it challenges the assumption that human interaction has a different dynamic to animal interaction.

Bringing this question to conscious awareness is a different category of social discourse to “What is the meaning of life”, which is not really a social question at all.
I was thinking more in a broad sense, like the government (or "society") is pulling the lever.
"We enjoyed seeing some of our most dedicated players figure out our DNS steering scheme and start exchanging this information on Twitter so that they could get “early” access as we brought the service back up."

Why do I have a feeling "enjoyed" wasn't really enjoyed so much as "WTF", followed by "oh shit..." at the thought that their main way to balance load may have gone out the window.
The largest football stadium in the US holds around 108,000 people. If Bill Gates and 107,999 minimum wage workers attend a game there, the mean net worth is over 1.2 million dollars. How many of them are retiring at 50?

Median net worth is what you want here not mean, right? Median net worth at age 50 is around $150,000, also, I think, including home equity. Still not going to be retiring early.
Are you going to add smtp relaying / sending mails too?

Otherwise this is a one way street, you can receive mail on your domain, but not send from it.
I tested it (very easy to extract the Matryoshka of files with "7z x") and it looks very nice, actually very similar in size (not shape) to Ubuntu Mono. Gives me a feeling of being a tad more "packed", and letters look more "squareish", but nonetheless a very good looking font...

I'll evaluate it over a couple of days. Thanks!
Googles pet peeve with URLs in full effect.
From Cotton's opinion column itself:

"For instance, during the 1950s and 1960s, Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson called out the military to disperse mobs that prevented school desegregation or threatened innocent lives and property. This happened in my own state. Gov. Orval Faubus, a racist Democrat, mobilized our National Guard in 1957 to obstruct desegregation at Little Rock Central High School. President Eisenhower federalized the Guard and called in the 101st Airborne in response. The failure to do so, he said, 'would be tantamount to acquiescence in anarchy.'

More recently, President George H.W. Bush ordered the Army’s Seventh Infantry and 1,500 Marines to protect Los Angeles during race riots in 1992."

What Cotton suggested is expressly permitted by an act of Congress and that act has been invoked many times over more than two centuries. It's been used half a dozen times to suppress riots since the 1960's. Not one of those actions has ever been found to be unconstitutional.

Second, if Tom Cotton and only two other people in the entire US want habeas corpus suspended, than no, I would not want the Times to print an opinion column suggesting that. A poll had 52% of Americans agreeing with sending in troops to stop the riots. If Tom Cotton and 52% of Americans want habeas corpus suspended, then I think a paper that calls itself the "paper of record" is exactly where that case should be made.

Just as it would have been appropriate to make the case in those opinion pages for why we would send the 101st Airborne into Little Rock and Detroit, the 197th Infantry into Baltimore, the 1st Marines Division into Los Angeles, and military police to the Virgin Islands.
> Big props to the on-calls during this.

Kind of curious about this. I know this is probably company specific but how do outages get handled at large orgs? Would the on-calls have been called in first then called in the rest of the relevant team?

Is their a leadership structure that takes command of the incident to make big coordinated decisions to manage the risk of different approaches?

Would this have represented crunch time to all the relevant people or would this be a core team with other people helping as needed?
Good, because it’s gotten people to realize the police weren’t coming to help when you were in danger anyway.
OMG thats soo yummy!!!
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Followed by a night of headaches and sleeplessness. I understand not everyone gets the side effects though.
Signals protocol is designed so you don't have to trust the server.

Just look at how much information they hand over to the feds:

https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

I'm not sure what you mean by walled garden, but I assume you mean that you can't setup your own servers and join the network? What's stopping a federated network from forming a cartel and blocking small players, or servers they deem morally objectionable?
> “the horizon problem”

It looks like the author was referring to this: “In relativity theory, a horizon is also a boundary on the region which an observer can see. Horizons pose an issue for warp drives as one cannot control the warp bubble if one see or communicate with it.”

And for more context, the author seems to note that faster than light travel is possible under Einstein’s physics: https://www.sciencealert.com/faster-than-light-travel-is-pos...