skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can empathize with this line of thinking but its incredibly unimaginative. Censorship is a symptom of a larger problem and users reliant upon something that intentionally abuses them, like Facebook, is a different symptom of the same problem. To me that larger problem is centralized information ownership and people shouldn't trust it.

This is the compelling motivator of decentralization.

Decentralization isn't blockchain, web3, or whatever. Blockchain is third party storage.

In a decentralization scheme data resides at destinations. Nobody owns it but the destinations. Nobody observes it but destinations. There is no third party censorship.

The only users that have to suffer third party censorship are influencers and broadcasters who don't want decentralization.
JWST isn't build to fascinate humans with unbelievably pretty pictures, it's build to better understand the early years of the universe.
Yes! Everyone let's support Google's monopoly on the web!
Another thumbs up for VoodooPad. I've run it for years without a glitch. And it serves pages to my local net, navigation links and all.
to be pair those compilers course should cover much more than parsing. Iirc correctly it was like 10% of the course at my time.
Of course that's unknowable, which is why I said "usually".

As for the second part, that's not been my experience with commercial software at that point in its life at all. Maybe yours has differed.
And again I do not debate that. But they are too few to have an impact on the overall statistics of unvaccinated people. It they were not such a small minority, you would not be seeing so many more severe outcomes among the unvaccinated.
Ahhh, sorry. Thanks for playing. We've got some lovely parting gifts for you...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmI77ZBeJrQ
Basically, yes. That's been my experience. Even though I listed all of these annoyances, I still really like them :)
I completely agree with your comment and to help summarize why you are having to explain all of these things to these people, I suggest everyone on this thread read the following link to understand their error.

Dividing groups of people up without going deep enough into categorization creates contradictory conclusions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
They effectively had a long production outage for those models when they upgraded to the most recent version, with the steering yoke. Wait times were on the order of 6-12 months.
The standard for criminal HIV transmission (in California, at least; it varies by state) is not "accidentally infecting someone while not knowing your status." It's not even "infecting someone without disclosing that you're HIV-positive while knowing you're HIV-positive." It's "intentionally infecting someone with HIV." And, explicitly, your knowledge of your positive status is not sufficient to establish intent.
One problem I am having is that on the left I thought things were pretty high quality from a facts / science side, and that has eroded. Fair disclosure - I'm a max dem donor and will likely continue to vote 100% dem.

7,000 (!) scientists have signed the John Snow memorandum. It states that "Furthermore, there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection".

https://www.johnsnowmemo.com/john-snow-memo.html

6th paragraph

This is despite the fact that our immune system has shown to work, pretty well, for almost ALL other influenzas and pandemics, that almost all analogous types of infections have LONG lasting natural immunity (MERS / SARS etc) etc.

The CDC director has signed this letter.

So we have a problem. CDC blocks testing, then says masks don't help, then says only vaccines can protect us. All these have (or will likely be) obviously false.

So trust in the left I think is diminishing - too many lawyers? Too many folks focused on politics? Too many public health officials / scientists and not enough hard science folks?
> ...postgres server process listens to one network port, the default port is 5432

> Whenever receiving a connection request from a client, it starts a backend process. (And then, the started backend process handles all queries issued by the connected client.)

> To achieve this [server] starts ("forks") a new process for each connection. From that point on, the client and the new server process communicate without intervention by the original postgres process. Thus, the master server process is always running, waiting for client connections, whereas client and associated server processes come and go. [1]

So, Postgres is using process-per-connection model. Can some explain why this is? And why not something like thread-per-connection?

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/tutorial-arch.html
Kind of interesting to see what will happen as ARM makes inroads on the desktop.

Games are the major app on Google Play as well as the iOS App Store, so it will be interesting to see if any of those ecosystems expand onto the desktop as well.

I wonder if Google will make version for macOS on M1. Or a webasm version that could run in any browser.
Elderly doesn't mean > 40. More than 81% of COVID-19 deaths occur in people over age 65.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...

Fortunately the vaccines and other treatments are still very effective in preventing deaths among the elderly population.
I'm 99% sure it's the AMD graphics driver, yes. I did see someone link the "amd-osx.com" website, but it seems unlikely that Apple would be issuing security fixes for that.
"I don't agree with this argument but have no substantive criticism, so I'll call it ridiculous. Also, I'm sure there is a good argument against longtermism, I just don't know what it is. Maybe something involving <buzzword>?"
I think what happened is capitalist forces looted the american middle class via immigration and money printing, then construed those political issues as leftist "for the common man" causes. People got swept up in that idea, the capitalist is now long gone from the public eye, and useful idiots are picking up the torch of middle class destruction, confused about the cause and effect of their politcal leanings.
> There's a relevant XKCD

So... what? Don't try? Don't bother? That's like saying don't bother cooking your food because even cooked food can get you sick some of the time. Or do you believe that a hypothetical future authoritarian government can hire an army of thugs to kneecap everybody who they believe shared an anti-regime meme? Censorship-resistant tools are being used by dissidents today to organize against repressive regimes such as in Hong Kong. Laying the framework for anonymous communication today while it's easier just to be on the safe side is worthwhile.
We don’t have a trust problem. We have a lack of trustworthy people in positions of power problem. I see how one can be easily confused. But we (the People) don’t trust politicians or business leaders because they have show repeatedly they’re not worthy of trust.
I celebrate when I see first images come out. Feels premature to now say that it is going to work. How long did it take until we noticed and understood the flaws of Hubble?
>Why did ITER decide to present Qplasma as the core metric

This one is easy: they did not.

https://www.iter.org/sci/Goals

You'll notice that the goal in question is the power output. Regardless, Qplasma is there because that is the plasma physicist's yardstick. Change it after 50 years because we're closer to ignition? For what purpose?

I think the wording towards the end of the first goal could be better. That feels like headline bait, but it isn't why the goal was set.

>most would consider the critical to decide closeness to commercial viability

The goal of plasma physicists is to straight-line achieve fusion on the grid, not put on a song and dance. The straight-line path has nothing to do with making a number go up, but everything to do with developing plasma models in new regimes, performing materials studies, and just plain old doing it. ITER wasn't conceived as a demonstration power plant.
Well they refreshed S and X. To do that they had to completely shut down production lines and sold 0 cars in first quarter. The demand is strong and at some point I tried ordering a non plaid X and the delivery estimates were almost an year out. That’s mostly because there’s a pent up demand that they need to fulfill for the plaid versions before they decide to sell the regular one.
I see the editor as the code reviewer :p
The most egregious of all is suppression of Lab Leak theory from the beginning. Emails between Collins and Fauci are absolutely chilling. Do yourself a favor and look up unredacted versions (Alina Chen’s Twitter) through FOIA requests. Holyshit was my reaction. The Lancet letter was also riddled with misinformation, suppression and conflicts of interest (Dr. Drazdak).

I expect more from our leaders.
You're replying to a misunderstanding they didn't make.

> The Court ruled that the abortion clinics' lawsuits against certain state officials may proceed as they have direct involvement in the enforcement of the law,

Yes, but in doing so, they didn't enjoin enforcement of the law until the SC hearing, which is to say that the court "hasn't immediately dismissed the Texas "nullify the constitution with this one weird trick" approach of deputizing random citizens to end-run around civil rights using civil lawsuits."
You could probably design a very similar one of tbese wirh a standard enclosure ($5) tactile switches, and a custom PCB for the top. Custom PCBs are ridiculously cheap now and even pick and place has gotten affordable for small runs.
Not as such, that was only ever an empirical observation anyway, not a law of any kind.

Having said that, IBM just unveiled a 127 qubit machine, and their roadmap is to to to scale to 433, and then 1121 qubits in the not too distant future.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-16-IBM-Unveils-Breakthrough...
In 360 a channel could connect to a number of control units that each connected to a number of devices. Early on, just one IO could run on a channel; so all other devices were locked out until the IO was performed (several details omitted).

Early disk IO held the channel until the desired record came under the head. That was after the arm was positioned. 370 brought in rotational position sensing allowing other disk IO to take place.

Later on, tapes also accommodated record positioning. Forward Space File came with 360.

Remember though that these days tapes are often archived in a virtual tape library physically on disk, but processed with tape channel commands.

Back in 360,control units that could handle simultaneous IOs appeared. They were connected to two channels.
This is one of the more important lessons about goodwill and trust. It takes years to amass, but only a moment to squander.
Ding ding ding. Now, let's take a look at the prizes...
> What is the rationale for companies to do this kind of short-sighted thing?

Saving money is pretty much the only thing I can come up with. I certainly don't agree with any of it. The laptop piece might be a bit of DR (everyone has their work PC with them, so we don't need an emergency office).

Everyone in our company gets Threadripper workstations these days. Currently we are handing out Thinkstation P620s. We don't play games with bullshit dev machines anymore. All of that frustration is reserved for our cloud vendors.
I feel you I got a massive macbook pro. I complain everyday because it's so slow and heavy. I only want a small linux laptop that runs perfectly fine docker...
The difference here is that Fanhouse has to compete with other similar apps, thus the current 10% is driven by the market, not artificial restrictions.

Also, Netflix got some really special treatment: https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/05/netflix-apple-in-app-purchase...
They made tens of billions of dollars with zero liability and a rubber stamp from the fda...these are still the same toxic companies that have been sued for billions of dollars and benefitted from decades of lobbying and regulatory capture. They have an army of lawyers on standby on the off chance that someone does find a loophole through which to sue them over adverse effects if they prove to be substantial. Meanwhile the pandemic rages on a year after introducing these vaccines, which have gradually been proven less and less effective than these faceless megacorps repeatedly claimed.

Why on earth would you suddenly trust them "more than ever"?
Wifi has an ad-hoc mode which doesn't require a router.
Can anyone speak to using a rails app to reach global users using fastly's surrogate tags or cloudflare's cache tags (Enterprise only)?

After reading the OP, the tradeoffs seems more complex than a single origin in us-east and having CDNs cache HTML pages.

The most appealing advantage I see with running rails at all these regions is you can authenticate users really quickly and redirect them to a html page in a CDN.
> If you are a rational person who wants to see good science and are unemotional and detached from outcomes, then you will want to see proper study cohorts, and combining prior infection in with the "unvaccinated" cohort, is just bad science.

Not sure what you mean. Science detached from outcomes is bad science. Science is trying to suss out cause and effect, not to avoid reality.

> This bad science fuels the anti-vaxx movement even more, and honestly, it is hard blame them.

Ah. There it is. Nope. It's still easy to blame them. It's not a sufficient criticism to cede moral superiority. "You didn't adjust your tone to distinguish 'unvaccinated' from 'immune-because-infected' from 'vaccinated'." does not suggest that antivaxxers are any less morally bankrupt for promoting the course of action which results in serious illness and death.
In the winter, with all the various layers over my ears and possibly tangling with the cord? Cord all over the place while I'm biking or running? I definitely do not miss cords.
ssh server.org cat /index.gmi

not sure if that's much simpler though.
Just do what you are told. Follow your leaders. Everyone else is doing it...
Right but it wasn’t obvious to me (at the time) what a change to the source code would do to the ast, so it wasn’t easy to know all the cases to handle, especially with quasiquotation (I think double-backtick style programming was basically impossible).

For example, maybe you want to handle something that looks like:

foo ~~> bar

In lisp syntax (and recall that is what the Julia ast is: everything is a head and then arguments) it might look like:

(~~> foo bar)
; or
(op ~~> foo bar)

But if you change to e.g.

foo ~~> bar + 5

You might get

(+ (~~> foo bar) 5)

Or

(~~> foo (progn (+ bar 5)))

I don’t remember what you got or which cases were tricky, only that I could never guess what the output of dump would be.
Chattanooga area.
Society has good reason to miss-trust governments, corporations, media, the education system and the entire pharma industry. Society does not have a "trust problem". The problem is that leadership in all the pillars of society have been abusing their position by controlling what people are aloud to do and what people are aloud to say by demonizing and even criminalizing anything that does not support their agenda.
> But the entropy of a large system is low, because it's physically attached with the Strong Force of physics. There is a low risk to other neighbouring satellites (space junk collisions). A swarm of small satellites has high entropy, and is loosely-coupled with the Gravity force of physics.

I'm going to go and assume that you used the strong force and gravity as metaphors here.
If you can get the volume, yea. But seems like the total robo market is smaller than everyone thought.
I wish people didn't take every opportunity to self promote and pat themselves on the back.

Substack is just another primitive blog platform, with a little 'pay' button attached, nothing more.

It reminds me of that Chris Rock joke about black folks bragging about not going to jail, selling drugs, cheating on their wives or having multiple baby mamas. You're not supposed to do any of those things, you dumb muthafaka!
The person you are replying to is talking about hospitalizations for severe ilness. The study you are quoting is talking about covid infections in general. These two are not the same and the vaccine protects from the former (severe illness and death).
Let me give you a real life example: my company, very large, US-based with global presence, non-IT.

- we buy every year about 10,000 laptops. Not one model because some are not available on all continents, but a small number of models.

- we buy less than 400 laptops/year for IT people, that is 4% of the total

- out of the IT people, over 80% are using the laptops just for emails, Excel and PowerPoint, so regular computers are fine.

- the rest of ~100 laptops/year out of 10,000/year means just 1% of the total. The guys in charge of equipment purchasing are measured on cost savings, they could not care less about the 1% with special needs

- out of the 100/year, the smart ones don't do heavy lifting on their laptops, but on servers or special use desktops (ex: Threadripper machines) that are very adequate for their needs. The less smart ones get what is called "engineering laptops" with more CPU cores and RAM and larger screens, but the thermal limits in the laptops are still there, so the problem is just partially solved at a high cost.

In the past I worked in an engineering department where the dept manager took care that everyone had equipment matching their needs. That was a great manager and this is how this should work, but in modern companies mid-level managers are mostly a bunch of politruks and I am saying this as a long-time IT manager working with many external parties.
This year S/X production dropped not because there's lack of demand but because of a design / manufacturing refresh.

Here's the story in numbers:

Q4 2020: 16,097
Q1 2021: 0
Q2 2021: 2,340
Q3 2021: 8,941
Q4 2021: 13,109

As you can see, the refresh required Tesla to redo production lines, which were shutdown for the whole of Q1 2021

After that the production is steadily climbing up and is on a clear trajectory to surpass before-refresh numbers.

S/X are sold out months in advance and Tesla reduced number of variants and options, both facts pointing to being limited by production not demand for the cars.
I had a dream once that life started on Venus, multiplied like crazy and fucked up the planet with overproduction of shitloads of greenhouse gasses ending in the acidic madness that is present today, and then jumping over to Earth.

In retrospect this does not seem THAT insane and I really do wonder why we have not focused more on Venus as a whole. It seems to me that in the long term it might be easier to terraform a planet like Venus than it is to terraform a planet like mars. Stripping something away is often easier than building it from scratch - and Venus has a whole lot of atmosphere on it!

It could also just be that my brain finds the idea of T-Rex's using their little tiny arms to operate computers and spaceships on the journey from ancient Venus to Earth extra hilarious.
AMEN to that
> Longtermists use this reasoning to justify many controversial stances; for example, longtermists rate climate change as a relatively unimportant concern, since it will only have a direct effect on the billions of people who live on the Earth, and not the countless multitudes, who, they believe, will one day live in various star systems across the galaxy.

There's longtermism and then there's longtermism. Climate Change is a problem that will affect our kids and grand kids in this century and the next, hence it's a longterm problem.

But worrying about the future diaspora of "potentially hundreds of trillions or more" humans across the Milky Way Galaxy is so far off and unforeseeable I'm not even sure "longtermism" is the right word for it. That's more SciFi territory.
Zipties are all over the place in any modern car. They are used especially to hold wiring and hoses securely so they don't flop around and abrade against other parts of the car.
Sorry, how is this a left/right issue? The actions you describe the CDC having undertaken were under a right wing government. I don't know how you're making this a political divide issue.
Because laptops are a standard hammer for most organizations. Optimizing everyone into a standard laptop configuration saves money and time for the entire company. They don't need Xeon's to run excel.

The CFO/CTO is looking at the macro picture. You are a subset of that organization. If your engineering director wants more powerful laptops, it should be up to him or her to work through the CFO/CTO to do it.

Also some companies have a policy where the less the executives spend, the more money they get in bonuses. It's effective for management, but it sucks for you.

Edited to add:

Increased performance is a "soft" metric, in that it's hard to quantify. Costs are a "hard" metric, in that it's easy to quantify. Which do you think the CFO is going to look at when making a business decision?
Lovely area too. 37377 is a excellent zip code here for families.
Run Node.js from Google Sheets
Why? If the fastener works, what is the issue? This is the exact sort of thinking that compounds into large delays.

In this case, Tesla obviously ran into an unexpected problem, and did not have a part to fasten this piece. They used various fasteners to secure it, and I'm not aware that anyone has had any problems with it, except that it seems strange.

At the time, Sandy Munro saw something similar in his tear-down, and didn't think it was a big deal. Obviously not a permanent part, but nothing to be worried about, either.
As far as solving well defined problems, I don't necessarily think brainstorming is great. That's never how I've seen it used.

But for better defined unstructured problems and then turning to novel solutions, it is great.

It bothers me that corporations don't use it that way MORE. And I dearly HATE meetings.

Also, the hip term these days is "ideation" not "brainstorming". Get with the times, boomer. (Just kidding--almost a boomer here)
You could argue that one begets the other. I am not going to argue chicken an egg, but US has generally been very anti-government. If you poll Americans about their representatives, the responses are uniformly negative. And yet, we keep re-electing them in massive numbers.

It is absolutely fascinating.
I'm not even sure if there is such a thing as a honest and trustworthy politician.
Did ddevault specifically say that Gemini should be regarded as a replacement for the web? I never read him that way. As far as I can tell, people are constantly stressing the converse, namely that Gemini is not supposed to be the next web. It's even in the FAQ [1] -- if that's not part of the "marketing material", then I don't know what is. It would be very kind if you could provide specific citations to substantiate your claim about Gemini marketing.

[1] see 1.6 in https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
This is true... but I like the automatic switching when it does work :)

I try my hardest not to adjust Apple defaults too much because on the whole, I really like their design decisions and their UX. So I don't want to start straying too far away from their core defaults. It's a slippery slope :)
The other big difference is that you generally can’t make mistakes in woodworking. Made a mistake in your code? No problem, you fix the bug. But not in woodworking. Cut a piece too short? You’re hooped. Drilled a hole in the wrong place? You’re hooped. Misalignment during glue-up? Hooped.

Woodworking scratches many of the same itches as programming for me, with one key difference: it’s unforgiving of mistakes, so requires a lot more care.
I do not know and by now I do not care. I switched to contracting/freelancing and hardware/tooling is mostly my own responsibility (was one of top 3 reasons why I switched). Loving my mildly overkill desktop machine now.