skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did we not see major outbreaks elsewhere at the same time?

It's a difficult question to answer (and ask?), and we may never find the real answer. Coincidence, chance, luck?

For now though, for all intents and purposes, Wuhan was ground zero and the first public cases in Italy and - I don't know, possibly these ones in Norway - can be traced back to Wuhan.
That's assuming there is something to sell.

A page like this is absolutely fascinating, but not something you'd ever find on the major platforms, and also isn't helped at all by Google Ads: http://www.jamesriser.com/Machinery/Machinery.html
Blue collar work vs. white collar work is actually the issue.

The assumption is that blue collar work is the stuff that gets automated away. The reality is that blue collar workers are getting more productive instead but are still essential. And we already have vastly less of them than we used to due to the industrial revolution and the wave of automation in the last centuries. Meanwhile a lot of white collar work is melting away or increasingly of the "bullshit job" variety where the added value is dubious. So, a strange side effect of automation is that we've created a lot of bullshit jobs instead of creating mass unemployment.

An even stranger side effect is that a lot of people with college degrees are now doing artisanal stuff instead of committing to a life long of a meaning-less and soul crushing office dwelling existence. So, they're choosing to become blue collar workers. And artisanal here of course means "choosing to do things by hand" instead of maximizing quantity and revenue through industrialized processes. Artisanal is more fun to do and quality of the goods means they are worth more. You can buy bread from a factory, or buy a sour dough bread from a hipster with a college degree. Lack of automation is the whole point there.

What the lockdown last year showed quite convincingly is that a lot of white collar jobs are not really that essential and it doesn't matter that much if productivity there drops by few tens of a percent. The economy suffered a little but mostly that's because of reduced consumption and not of reduced production. And even that is hardly proportional to the productivity loss of masses of people suddenly no longer doing what they were supposed to be doing or doing a lot less of it. A lot of those people never got back to their former level of "productivity" and it continues to not matter economically. Their most important job is spending the money they earn. The labor performed earning that money is secondary.

It's a great argument for basic income: give people money and get them to spend it in order to boost the economy. It's a lot more effective than funneling it to the offshore accounts of the 1 per-centers. They hoard rather than spend their money.

And it frees people up to do something more valuable than stare at a cubicle wall doing something that absolutely and provably does not matter economically. Like bake bread, create art, or do something else that people might spend on.
yeah, this annoys me as well. although maybe not intention, appears deceitful.
actually, maybe this could be useful for blockchain tech.
i don't know of another way you can check the date on a webpage from frontend?
It's worth noting that there are several projects built on top of Redis pub-sub that add more functionality, such as BullMQ: https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq
I get your point. But my opinion is that you will benefit more from a method to get things done, than from just waiting for your mood to improve. I rather not take drugs if I don't have a health condition.
Expect performance issues when running RabbitMQ with persistence? What kind of issues?

Also the comment about Redis not being persistent, Redis has lots of persistence options that allow you to choose trade offs between durability and performance, with the most strict setting using an append only log of every query.

Decent 1000 mile view of these solutions, but some more depth would have been nice.
> Google will return irrelevant results from today rather than relevant results from 10 years ago.

Tip: leave Google behind for now.

That site has the last few years been very useful but only in the same way as my very cheap electrical saw: because I didn't have access to anything better.

For someone who has tried good tools like Festo, Milwaukee, Hitachi or old Google it is just a painful reminder of the past and how good life used to be.

It works but hasn't sparked joy for close to a decade.

After kagi and marginalia came into my life my life has improved significantly.

Note: I'm not saying Googlers are evil or dumb now but I will point out that engineers there have incentives stacked against them.
Yeah, my mum got pretty sick in January 2020 as well; it might have been covid, it might have been seasonal flu, at this point we may never know.

Anyway two years later now and it's my turn, yay. At least I'm vaccinated and it seems to be fairly mild by now.
I read that as saying that even if we adopt climate change measures necessary for their 'Sustainability Scenario', that will invariably hamper economic growth, the IPCC still believes we will achieve more than a five-fold increase of the global economy this century.
Just a random guess.

The security of TLS-ALPN-01 relies on TLS implementations rejecting a connection if an unknown ALPN is present.

It is possible that TLS 1.1 and earlier do not require this behavior leading to exactly the SNI confusion that this mechanism was meant to prevent.
This is very annoying. I write for an AI site, and have requested a change to the CMS, which changes the publication date to the 'updated' date, leaving no visible evidence of the original date behind. If you open up the HTML, the original date is in there as a token, but the casual reader won't know, and Google is annoyingly unpredictable as to whether it will display the date in SERPS (it almost always knows the date, whether it shows it or not).

I have taken now to including 'Original publication date' as a codicil in my pieces.
I don't imagine many people would trade sitting on a throne in a grand hall enjoying a feast whilst watching the era's leading performers personally dedicate performances to them for the possibility of selling their body to download a superhero movie and buy a burrito and packet of cigarettes.

There are some tradeoffs where the average person doing a boring middle class job really does have better opportunity and greater security than pretty much anyone in pre 20th century history (and some forms of ancient kingship that really weren't pleasant lifestyles), but let's not take it to reductio ad absurdum levels
and a lot closer to 1 out of 650.
FWIW, I started hating putting dates on most of my stuff because I simply got sick of people incessantly asking "is this still up to date?" because the date happened to be from even just a few months ago much less a year ago.
I guess this is the reason in Germany it is very common to run your own business when you are employed while countries like India most of companies add very brutal moonlighting clause in job agreement.
This comment is not up to the standards of this site, or indeed of decent human discourse, and I suggest that you delete it immediately. Specifically, you are lying about what I have said in order to smear me, while contributing no insight of your own, and all of this on a sensitive emotional issue.
Nice to see that they support HTTP/2 (which BTW is 6 years old now), unlike Heroku
That is a very clever implementation, and indeed feels like magic for someone who makes relatively small Rails apps.
> A car today cost much more than 3 months salary

Depending on where you work, not that much more. But you don’t get to spend all of your gross salary on cars.
The current shareholders and editors of the prestigious journals contribute nothing to it being prestigious. It is historical accident and network effects that now let some journals charge $10k for $100 of work, which many rightly perceive as unjust profiteering.

Moving away from Elsevier and Springer Nature is a coordination problem just as difficult and just as desireable as moving everyone in your school off WhatsApp or iMessage or Facebook towards some less odious alternative...
I'm not sure that is the whole story. Countries like Singapore don't have much home ownership yet they have a productive and compliant population.

There are problems with land ownership but to me they seem related to inequality rather than anything else.
dang: Please change the link to point to that study.
It seems to me that the death rate and transmissability of the wuhan strain of covid means it is unlikely it was around in other countries prior to its discovery in china, the deaths would have been noticed. Is it more likely that a less lethal strain was circulating, a few people developed antibodies, then it mutated in wuhan to become the more deadly version?.

This would explain early antibodies, the lack of corresponding deaths in europe,but we also know how easy this thing mutates now.
Modifying the BGP Path Selection Process on iOS (2010)
This seems to be the only comment on this thread making sense.
Alas, I feel like the word "Ordinary" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this title!

The upshot is, so long as your postgres + rails app isn't doing some kind of DB write with every request, and doesn't do much - or ideally anything - with Redis, and you want 200ms time-to-first-byte globally (or at least, in multiple locations across the world) then you can easily get better performance with Fly.io than most other solutions.

It's a really clever solution, and one day I'd love to work on a project that fulfils all of those constraints. Haven't found one yet though.
I think that is a personal listening test. Especially from Kamedo2 whom is quite bias towards Opus LOL.

The last group listening test was in 2014. Which was touched on in this thread [1]. And in general I believe and agree with IgorC. Opus has gotten better, but the last test results still remains largely the same.

On the subject of looking this up my HA account is over 20 years old. Oh My.

[1] https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=118446.0
"...the colour most westerners consider blue" - are your saying this because they have a different word for blue in other countries or because there is some sort of dispute over what is considered blue?
Bull is great ! It's only NodeJS but I used it at work and it has been super easy to setup, use, and maintain.
Do you use DDG for code related searches? If so do you have any advice on how you search because I can't seem to get relevant results with that engine 70% of the time. Usually when I search to debug issues Google has a way better contextual understanding of what I'm looking for, whilst DDG would love to show me the official docs page or something.

It does seem like DDG works for a lot of people though so I'm sure I have to rethink how I am searching and what keywords to use.
What’s better than Google?
There are open source apps that ignore PDF "encryption"
Interesting and useful site.

Given how prevalent COVID is at the moment and how constrained availability of PCR-tests is, you probably want something that is triggered at high viral loads and has few false positives.
Did you at least update your relationship status, or were you dating long enough for the transaction fees to have gone up enough to make that unreasonably expensive? ;P
I simply think your previous argument is disingenuous. We have a free to use CA who's code can be vetted, such mistakes can be caught, potential problems can be averted. If this is the price to pay, okay, so be it. Imagine what must fly under the radar of other CAs who do not have thousands of eyes vetting their code base - as in, those would never be visible.

So okay, maybe you don't have certs revoked and you don't need to restart your Traefik but are you really sure everything is okay?
> The comparison of Lenin and Marx is also flawed - Marx argued for the dismantling of the state, not a highly centralised state.

Marx still believed in some sort of state-level synchronisation or command and control - otherwise he knew that you would just have lots of little communes / barracks-communists inefficiently working at cross purposes, e.g. with resource utilisation. But he never spelled out in detail how the central planning function should work - it was in effect an implementation detail. It was in this space of undefined behaviour that Lenin, Stalin and Mao created the totalitarian states that they did.

I think a lot of people forget that there was no actual collaboration between Marx and Lenin and the others. Lenin was only 13 years old when Marx died, ill and in a city on the other side of Europe.

Although there is a mass of academic detail in Marx's works, the communist manifesto itself is very thin in terms of the remedies to the problems it identifies. The 'call to action' part of the manifesto is essentially ten short bullet points, one of which is 'etc etc'.
I think it's more rotten than ever. Almost every video or article I see is possessed by the evil SEO devil. Sometimes I think I finally found a norm al one to only find out later that I was too dumb to recognise some new tricks.
For websites that are 25kb [25kb Club]
The modern internet is bloated more and more to full bloat!

The 25KB club came to add and create a club where alternative websites have their space. We went back to the initial culture of the internet where people didn't follow standards but made their own art ;).
Still true for so many living in India
My biggest gripe with SO is when someone asks "How do you do X?" and someone responds, "you don't need to do X to solve your problem, you can do Y."

Y solves their problem and is marked as the answer.

But X is exactly what _I_ am trying to do, and would solve my problem. But any other question regarding X is marked as a duplicate of this first question which only solves Y and not X.
So here you made me think for a moment if I was being inconsistent, but no, I don't think so.

You see, my employment _is_ with Meta now, and was with Google before — it never was with Alphabet, of which Google is a fully owned subsidiary of.

I think the distinction makes sense, among other things because with few exceptions, going from one Alphabet subsidiary to another requires a full interview cycle, not just a transfer request.
An Xbox Series X or PS5 is $500. Comes with everything you need to play except a TV. A Series S or Switch is $300. A Mac/iDevice + eGPU + controller is not going to cost less than PS5 and especially not less than a Switch or Series S.

Apple positions themselves as a premium brand with a premium price which runs completely counter to the console model of subsidized hardware. It just doesn't make any sense for them to enter the console marketplace. Especially when the "big" games on Apple's platforms are essentially all Gatcha titles that are ALSO on Android. Sure the Apple console has a better looking version of Raid Shadow Legends but the Samsung Galaxy Player is a third the cost and the Chinese one from some brand you've never heard of is a fifth.
Biden administration officially withdraws vaccine rule
It was a rare disease. You can't expect a rare disease to be found often.
Prions don't appear from thin air - and you can already get deadly prions eating meat, the reason why you don't is the same why you don't get all kinds of deadly diseases from meat - it's (usually) well regulated and any outbreaks are immediately culled. A pig genetically modified to be "more like a human" wouldn't spontaniously get deadly prions.
I cleaned it up for you.

> Specifically, you are lying about what I have said in order to smear me

I did not.
Not OP, but here are some things I've personally experienced:

1. Supposedly more secure challenge types such as TLS-ALPN-01 are far from stable, as the current incident shows. Your cert can be revoked at any time through no fault of your own. After being burned by TLS-SNI-01 the last time, now I refuse to use anything other than plain old HTTP-01 and DNS-01.

2. As soon as the version of the Linux distro I was using (not in my power to change!) reached EOL, certbot suddenly refused to renew, despite the fact that I'd been using more or less the same version of Python and certbot for a number of years and the HTTP-01 challenge requires nothing fancy at all. Why does everyone these days insist on making ops decisions for other people?

3. On a server with existing nginx virtual hosts, certbot injects configuration directives including stuff the nginx team officially recommends against, such as `if` statements. It frequently breaks existing configuration such as rewrites and redirects. After seeing this a number of times, the only conclusion I can make is that certbot has no idea how to manipulate nginx config files.

4. If I have multiple domains pointing at the same application, and remove one of them at a later time, certbot is oblivious and repeatedly fails trying to renew the certificate that now contains an invalid domain. Again, certbot doesn't know how to work with nginx.

Maybe 3 and 4 can be improved if ACME was integrated as a proper nginx module instead of certbot trying to change things from the outside. My experience as a whole, however, makes me feel that the LE/certbot teams are rather cavalier about the commitment to stability they need to make if they really want to become an essential part of the world's internet infrastructure. If you want to be paternalistic about managing TLS for people who don't know how to do it, at least try to do it properly!
I'm not sure there's a silver bullet, it's a lot of small things that add up to a meaningful life. So my advice would be to look at the small things, and it takes time, you can't change everything at once.

For me, physical health is important (and for everyone really), if you're not physically healthy, you can't enjoy life. There are a lot of aspects to this, exercise, daylight, nutrition, sleep, stress, fun (which contributes to stress-reduction). There are a lot of different things you can do there, and it takes some experimentation to find out what works for you.

Then in the same way, you can look at career, relationships, what you do with your leisure time. My general point is, it's an accretion of small changes, changes in behaviour, that add up and compound, not one big 'eureka' moment.

In terms of general direction. There was a book I enjoyed recently, 'The Van Gogh Blues - The Creative Person's Path Through Depression' by Eric Maisel.
Maisel's idea is that depression can come from a lack of meaning in your life, and that creative people are more susceptible to this than others, because by nature, they seek meaning more.

He had one exercise in the book, which was to write down what constitutes meaning for you, a kind of a personal manifesto in a way. It doesn't need to take long, I thought about it for 15 or 20 minutes. And for me it was generally: learning/growing, relationships with friends & family, having time to relax & reflect, and not being afraid to do hard things.

This helped clarify my thinking. After doing that exercise, I could think, 'How does this activity fit into what constitutes meaning for me?'. So for example, I could ask myself 'Am I going to play some computer games?'. And I would reflect and say 'this doesn't really serve any of my criteria for meaning, so may not be a beneficial activity'. I find this useful in general, in our capitalist society that seems to want to push us all the time to fairly mindless, unchallenging experiences that don't provide long-term meaning.

The nice thing about Maisel's idea is that it's subjective, meaning for you could be a bit different, but it helps to define it.
Absolutely - why wouldn't you? Serious question.
Congratulation for still not understanding what a distribution is.
While working on my own implementation of the bytecode interpreter / VM, I built a little tool [1] to render the polygons outside of the game.
It can load unpacked resource files of the game (the GOG version comes with uncompressed resource files for example, other versions need an external tool to extract them).
It helped me to debug some issues with my renderer.
Currently it's hosted in my private GitHub Pages repository, but the source code isn't obfuscated :)

There's also a demo of my (private) Another World interpreter compiled to WASM [2].
It bundles the game files of the DOS demo, which means the intro cannot be skipped.
My native desktop version supports loading of files from multiple versions of the game (some, like the unofficial GBA version lack support for their music files).
Some time in the future I'd like to add support for "uploaded" game files to the WASM version as well.

[1] https://max-m.github.io/aworld/index.html
[2] https://max-m.github.io/yaw/index.html
Autonomy founder loses bid to delay decision on extradition to US
>Agree about ACH. The Fed's FedNow instant payment system due out next year should deprecate all that is trash about the ACH rails (switching to a push from a pull model being one of said deficiencies).

Are they actually going to get rid of ACH though? It's all pointless if they still have ACH for legacy reasons. Take our EMV implementation. Not only do we have "chip and signature" if the chip fails to read three times most readers just fall back to mag stripe.
You shouldn't have to wait 2 weeks to get paid: proponents of new payroll system
You're absolutely right. Updated the comment to reflect that.
Why are Germany and France at odds with the US and UK over how to handle Russia?
> They don't want it to look stale.

But that can also be extremely counterproductive when the content you publish has a natural expiry date - and in many areas of expertise (pretty much anything other than pure marketing talk) things change over time. Potential client seeing the obsolete information might rightfully presume that the company is out of the loop or just plain unprofessional. If you have a date on the page it's far less likely to happen.

COVID recommendations and measures are one such (rather extreme) example where many big players endangered their credibility because they've failed to properly mark the outdated content.
Is there any reason a subreddit wouldn't work for that community? Or is that not "forumy" enough?

I'm genuinely curious.
(pretty sure most people will miss this answer, but anyway)

So, to clarify things considering all the answers:

- Qualcomm's development cost is shared amongst all OEMs (Except Google), because all OEMs share the same development branches Qualcomm-side. So 1M$ isn't 1M$ for Qualcomm but more

- Qualcomm's development cost is shared amongst a lot of SoCs. Qualcomm have like one shared tree per year. So one development tree spans maybe 10 SoCs, including XR, automative, IoT, and smartphones. So yeah, from Qualcomm's PoV, it's not 1M$ additional revenue it's much more.

- "Extended support" is +30% of support time (so just one additional year). My source tells me that the actual content of "Extended support" varies a lot. Sometimes it's just security patches, sometimes it's Android major upgrade

- Qualcomm "standard" support is 3 years,

- My source is currently writing a full-blown article about Android upgrades. Not sure you'll trust them more than me though
You posting on this website is a thing it totally matches, it's just the value proposition keeping you from big VC bucks
I think the problem is not that software somehow would become worse as it ages. But that tons of software is and has been pretty crappy to start with, and to lesser degree has been worsened over time by modifications. At the same time our quality expectations for software have been dramatically increased over time, making the original poor quality even more apparent.

That viewpoint also partially explains Djikstras opinion; the software he made can be presumed to have been above average in quality so therefore it probably also aged better than most.