skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As of last week, a total of 727 children 0-17 have died from Covid since the pandemic started

Using death as the only negative outcome will produce completely incorrect conclusions.

We know the death rate is low for children, assuming prompt access to ICUs when necessary.

That doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
It's a neutral point. Neither the vaccine or the virus have been around long enough for long-term data.
Absolutely agree that "isolated installations" are the future. Plan9 was way ahead of their time when they used their version of chroot and mounting to achieve basically something like that.
And now the Fuchsia team is making this a pillar of their architecture even going so far that all installs are transparent: almost like running an app directly from an URL. And sandboxing it like a webpage, even when it's a native app. Ooops, I digress. But I really see this as a trend and NixOs one of the systems which are used to collect experience on the concept of isolation and refine it.
what's the point of buying sth because it's uniquely identified in the digital space if it's not even unique and can be changed at will?
> I really want to think there is few people left out there leaving their 0’s and 1’s unencrypted in the cloud

This describes most everybody.
I wonder how well would a dog+GPT/transformer combo work.
What is "The Rift" you mention?
The article states the far side of the moon will be impacted, surely that would make visibility much less likely...
> At that point you know the answer, you just have to add up the differences.

What if your sum in this step is zero?
Perfect timing mwahaha
Yeah... yeah. What data goes out and what is done with it after it leaves are absolutely not the same thing.
Really?! I'm actually kinda surprised, I would have guessed it's a much more recent abbreviation than that. I think I only started seeing it around 2010 or so.
It is nice, and the things you can do are amazing. As an adult I enjoyed playing it.

My 9 year old brother found it quickly too hard though.
Sam Harris kinda does this in his guided meditations. At times he asks you to sit in a noisy public place. His aim seems to be to to try to get you to quickly turn your attention on the thing that is currently doing the noticing. The point being a realization that there’s nothing there when you try to turn your attention to it. And that’s supposed to produce some kind of realization. Never worked for me in practice.
the DMCA relies on something called a law and the power of the State to enforce such law, using the force if necessary.

your suggestion is to give up centuries of refinements on law making/enforcement and rely on personally checking every single trnsaction, because if you don't and are scammed, you're screwed and there's nothing you can do to get your money back.

I'm not sure it's an improvement.
I have repeatedly, your inability to observe data from the CBO and BLS is not my problem
Plaid Settlement Affected Services Google Spreadsheet
Replying to all the post above as well.

FreeBSD networking during WhatsApp and Netflix starting era was definitely better than Linux. Both in their specific usage pattern. So it wasn’t some ideological reason but actual technical one. But that was 10+ years ago.

If I remember correctly from reading Meta / Facebook successfully switch all of WhatsApp large bare metal 4U server to their standardise Linux blade by 2017. They also spent 3 years working on Erlang BEAM and Networking so it was working close enough.

Netflix continues to use FreeBSD and it is working well for them. Both the lead engineer comment and submit update on HN frequently. Do a search and it should be easy to find it. ( on my phone now so can’t quote links )

2022 now I think any general advantage of FreeBSD over Linux in networking performance would likely be minimal. But it also doesn’t make sense to switch to another for the sake of OS unification.
It's safe to say there is a wealth of interesting computational work to do on RNA. It's been very instructive to learn computer science through sequence data analysis, and RNA is one of the most interesting. Most 3D RNA structures can be parsed using fairly simply levels of the chomsky parser hierarchy, but some violate the common rules and require stochastic context free grammars (pseudoknots). Neural methods like this through all that out of the window (at least, afaict this loss function doesn't consider the parse tree of the fold).
The CDC says the unvaccinated are 5x more likely to get Omicron:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/unvaccinated-5x-more...

Even if COVID-19 didn't hurt kids directly, a rational state could require them to get vaccinated to tamp down on a major source of community spread and protect people who are hurt more by the virus.

Getting vaccinated is far from the worst thing the government makes people do. The U.S. government still runs the military draft, and has forced unwilling people to go fight and die in miserable circumstances for a cause they think is unjust. By comparison, getting a vaccine to protect the community is small potatoes.
Isn't a stable ordering just an n-tuple of pairs? Or is it more like a hashmap you access in O(1)?
As I mentioned in other threads, it is up to the consumer to be discerning, no different than anything else a consumer has to do. If they want to be part of a community to upgrade the artwork in their possession, then find those kinds of NFTs. If they don't want any ability for their art work to be upgraded, then find those kinds of NFTs.

Some people buy things based on hype.

Some people buy things based on their ability to resell it.

Some people won't be able to.

Thats how market work. Whose problem is that? Its not mine, its probably not yours, so who cares just because NFTs are involved.
That's not how culture works. Nothing is truly new and most creative works have been variations on those that precede them. The obsession with originality is remarkably recent and doesn't withstand much scrutiny.
> Do you by chance know whether a non-Turing complete language like Dhall would be enough to “replace” nix?

Realistically, I'd say Dhall should be viewed as a complimentary typed DSL for Nix instead "a replacement". Dhall shines when it's used as a code-generator for recursive Nix expressions from typed configs that capture the intent of a build pipeline. You can see how it can be generated from this Haskell example, for instance [1]. The [2] shows you the available constructs, that do support recursive calls and recursive Nix sets.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dhall-nix-1.1.23/docs/Dh...

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hnix-0.14.0.2/docs/Nix-E...
Yes, that’s what I was pointing towards.
As someone else who feels similarly about my own circumcision: I encourage you to work on those feelings of shame and disgust in therapy. Being ashamed of something you can’t change is just going to make you miserable.

You may find more peace learning to accept what you have while remaining vocal that this practice needs to end for future children.
> The fact that Wyoming's vote is 50x more valuable than California's is the case for any Federation that grants co-sovereignty

No, it's not.

Co-sovereignty is not incompatible with the different levels of co-sovereign entities all being democratic republics with equal suffrage.
Wow, I did not expect that! Fantastic, I'll check this out when I get a few spare cycles.

EDIT: Couldn't wait. This is an exceptionally well put-together FAQ, explaining the design constraints: https://amoffat.github.io/supertag/faq.html
Direct link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hCjPz_gNYVcvhek5_fd8...
Where’s the link to reduced policing? Crime rates are most definitely not as simple an equation as more police = less crime. There’s a myriad of factors at work and taking any simple assumption of a single cause and effect is bound to be wrong.
Netflix Stock Drops Again on Weak Subscriber Growth Outlook
In 1999, front end templates were written in an internally developed macro language named catsubst and served by a C (maybe C++?) application named Obidos. Later (starting in 2003-ish), front end code was written in Perl (Mason) and served by another application named Gurupa. The transition to Gurupa was very long and arduous. I've no idea how the site works now.
> With all due respect - what on Earth are you talking about?

These are recycled anti-vax talking points. The “neutralizing vaccine” angle has spread like wildfire in the past couple of weeks as the anti-vax influencers pivoted to using that angle. I went from never hearing that phrase (outside of research papers) to seeing it everywhere almost overnight.

The (fallacious) argument is that because the COVID vaccine can’t completely prevent infection, it’s worthless.

This is obviously false as we know the vaccine drastically reduces disease severity.
I implemented this for my email. Each email can have any number of tags. Each tag can have a directory hierarchy.

So for instance an email can be tagged fun/ski, social/facebook/marketplace, money/receipts.

If you open the social/facebook/marketplace “folder” you’ll see the email, but also if you open the money/receipts “folder”. You could also see it in the intersection of the social tag and the fun/ski tag, etc.
wr to linq to sql: the difference is linq works by making objects to tables and dotnet primitives to sql types, often producing really poor queries as a result
> Except that 1) these aren't vaccines,

Nope, they’re vaccines.

> 3) children rarely even show symptoms from SARS-CoV-2 infection

This is beyond false. I don’t know where you’re getting these talking points.
After getting a bit more used to the way python handles things I've come to realise that properties are basically only necessary if you need to do something special with the setter (even if just to absolutely forbid setting a value).
Now IceCat.
Apple TV+ has a logo with an animated white-to-black gradient in which I always notice banding, even on a 4K OLED with Dolby Vision. I bet it would look better with this kind of dithering.
I'm so confused-- there's a user upstream reporting something about having to grep for a variable name, then having to grep for the function that created the variable just to figure out the type.

Are they using Nix wrong? Or is this seriously a limitation of the current state of the tooling?

If it's a limitation of the tooling, that almost sounds like satire. I.e., someone builds a powerful functional DSL, uses it to painstakingly construct a monstrous package graph, then gets tired and wonders, "Wouldn't it be great if there were a language and data structure that were both custom suited to automating the grep'ing of argument types for my DSL's package graph..."
A binary diff (or even plugin) mechanism could potentially optimize the download size even further. Such that only the parts of the app that change need to be downloaded.

That said, for now, downloading the binary really is a solved problem for me, with a relatively simple solution. I'd rather work on new features that drive revenue. =)
For those in the Bay Area who are a bit more adventurous, Hurricane Electric charges only $400/mo for a full rack in their Fremont datacenter, along with 1Gbps of bandwidth, and 12A of usable power.

It’s totally overkill for the article’s use case, but it enables many cool things that need sustained bandwidth, and has been pretty fun.
The Time Value of Time
I use this for Slack only. No other sites.
Scaleway has awful customer support, beware.
Is this an unintended adversarial attack to some copyright classifier?
In my case, the back button didn't go back past the root page of the site. It trapped me where I did not want to be. I didn't know about holding the back button down, and I appreciate the tip, but I don't want to need to know it.

The back button not functioning made me:

- feel frustration and distrust

- associate those feelings with the product and its creator

- never want to use the product, despite being interested in it

Clearly, I'm not the only one who felt these kinds of things. It seems to have completely overshadowed the product.

My takeaway is this:

Do not ever alter fundamental UI behaviours of the browser.
Strange how https://www.redditstatus.com shows everything operational.
Nobody has ever told me in any way, shape or form that not caring is cool. In fact, in my generation the opposite is true, caring is 100% cool. See the scene in the remake of “21 Jump Street” where Channing Tatum’s character is thrown off by how “activist” everyone is.

My point though was more specific to the poster I replied to, they hand-waved the parent comment away (partially) by mentioning that they boycott Nestle. It rings hollow that all of the other points are less relevant because they boycott what is quite possibly the easiest company to boycott. I would have more respected a response of either “yeah, I pick and choose what I boycott based on both logically tangible and emotional reasons, so trying to find consistency is not only impossible but also foolish” or just to say “who I boycott and why is up to me. Maybe I boycott all of those companies, maybe none. I don’t boycott to be performative”
This looks great! Am I understanding correctly that all tagged files need to have a unique filename to be addressable?
I've wondered why there isn't a potential cost to false claims to disincentive them. It costs time for someone to respond, so to file a claim there should be a deposit put in escrow, where if the takedown fails then the money is given to who was claimed against - else it goes back to copyright holder who made the claim.
The transition from the 4.x branch of FreeBSD to 5.x.

5.x had all kinds of problems and then 6.x was the first release that barely got out into public use before 7.x undercut it ... and that is the cycle we have been in ever since.

4.x had minor releases going all the way to 4.11. Nowadays, major versions generally stop at X.3 (for instance, 11.3).
Since you keep editing your comment:

Not sure what you mean, but the custom Windows Server that the US government uses is likely more secure than BSD.

>Yet I see BSD on the STIG list as well.

No you don't. DISA does not provide STIGs for any of the BSDs. The US government does not use the BSDs for secure systems (TS+ etc.).
The faster the fix can roll out, the faster a breakage can also roll out. Move slower and break fewer things.
Isn't this hacker news, not hacker olds?
I agree. The vaccine was not about perfect protection. The risks were minimal for what it did provide. It was a reasonable decision. Being able to deploy a vaccine efficiently is what we want.
I don't get it - how is this problem any different than simply comparing two very long integers. Given integers "a" and "b" - determine which one is bigger. You don't know as "a" could be seventy six billion trillion quadrillion digits long and "b" could be even more digits and you never stop comparing them as there are more and more digits. No need for square roots or sums.
"You can potentially distinguish the two cases of 'completely satisfied' vs. 'completely unsatisfied' with a bunch of other weaker signals (clicking through to the long tail of SERPs, trying a bunch of search variations one after the other), but most users today won't try further no matter what (Google, ironically, has all along been training users that the first result page of the first query they try satisfices)."

Arguably, Google's training of users has worked. Bing offers few results, with no option to receive, e.g., 50 or 100 per page. When Brave announced their new "web search engine", they offered only one quarter page of five results max, regardless of whether on desktop, laptop or mobile sized screen.

It is perhaps worth considering where ads (paid "results") appear. Pre-Google, AltaVista used to mix them into the "organic" search results. Google separated them out. How many ads per page are feasible if paid results can be mixed with organic versus if paid results must be separated out.

Even more worthy of consideration perhaps is that once users are trained to only look at the top of page one, then that becomes more coveted real estate for ads, and arguably allows the price of the ad to rise as it encourages more competition for the top position, in most cases the only place eyeballs will be found.
My observation with statements like this both for and against some event occurring is that you'd have to be very specific with the definition of "AGI" and "human intelligence", otherwise everyone ends up claiming they predicted the outcome correctly (e.g. ray kurzweil's prediction evaluations seem to me like an exercise in motivated reasoning)
I've never seen A/B testing used for crash reporting. Perhaps it could be used for this, but it's flabbergasting to me that you see it as only for crash reporting.
I'd hardly consider 'we have no idea what the long term effects of this disease are' a neutral point. Would you rather catch the flu, or a new virus that has no symptoms and hasn't hurt anyone in the last 3 months since it showed up? If you had to think about that at all, then you have to admit a lack of long-term risk data is itself a risk when it comes to viruses.

The relative risk that the vaccine has some unknown long term side effect is far smaller than a virus, especially when you consider that the vaccines are composed of non-replicating parts of the virus.
Yes, run.
That is a surprisingly small amount of bandwidth for such a large amount of space. A single machine in the rack could easily saturate the network.
Yep. I get egg mcmuffins with my distinctly average coffee.
You can use the Support Forum link on the homepage or on the purchase page there is a reference to my email address (in the bulk purchase section).
I don’t think it’s cherry picking so much as maybe working with the limitations of merging 50 datasets vs 2?

They at least acknowledge the dataset bias in the discussion section, and they cite a couple similar findings from other countries, and also they start with this:

> By November 30, 2021, approximately 130,781 COVID-19– associated deaths, one in six of all U.S. deaths from COVID-19, had occurred in California and New York
I live on the beach on the East coast of Australia. We had a marine tsunami warning. We were a few floors up so I wasn't really worried about myself.

About 12ish hours after the initial eruption I thought that anything that was going to happened had all passed by hours ago and I was talking with friends online.

Randomly I started hearing this white noise kind of sound (it sounded like the bubbling water of a kettle without any whistling). I took my headphones off and opened my door trying to find the source of the noise, thinking that the kettle had turned on.

I looked outside and what was small surf conditions only 3 minutes before was extremely turbulent with white frothy waves moving in every direction. It looked like it was reacting to an earthquake but there was no movement in the ground. (I've felt an earthquake there before which is rare here but since our foundations are in the sands I've had the experience and could tell there was no earthquake in the ground on the morning after the eruption)

Since the waves were moving in every direction, some of them were colliding head on. When this happened and the peaks and troughs were interacting in the right way they were shooting out jets of water spray at my eye level about 15m above sea level (I could tell since they were intersecting the horizon from my perspective).

It continued for about a 30 seconds, calming down over another 30 seconds. After the surf had lowered itself to its previous levels, the whole top of the water going back about 50ish meters was covered in thick brown foam. All of the turbulent waves had dredged up the sand beneath it.

The foam slowly disappeared over about an hour with the last bits being the foam that ended up getting washed ashore and out of the water's reach.
Those examples seem somewhat contrived. The exchange is not that of physical depreciating assets or even consumable goods. A worker is not giving a coupon to a company for a one time purchase but forming an ongoing contract for knowledge services which can be performed from anywhere to (arguably) similar levels of proficiency.

Whether you believe WFH is equal in value to on-site is another matter. Google apparently does not hold this view.

Regardless, in those cases I’d still expect a competitive market to reach some price convergence, holding all other factors constant — especially when the seller knows that a buyers willingness to pay == $x and != $x-d for the same utility (say, from already getting paid $x repeatedly for the same work). If I am mistaken I’d definitely welcome the chance to adjust those expectations.
Sure, you can do all that and set it up manually. I'd love to be corrected here but last I checked this was not done automatically in any BSD. Systemd recognizes this is so common that it does it automatically for every service using the Linux equivalent (cgroups). IMO now that we have these tools, every sysadmin is always going to want to use cgroups/jails for every service all the time and never want to use pidfiles because pidfiles are tremendously broken, error-prone and racy.
Yeah, they are small but growing...

"Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD"
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf
Hopefully you pay for the content you enjoy then?
Absolutely, but the main match will be between China and the US. I'm puzzled why the US is being sidetracked and is intent on fighting Russia in Europe and they are diverting resources away from the main game.

The US is being forced by two reinforcing doctrines, the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Thucydides Trap, to try to prevent China becoming the 'Number One' country in the next few years. China just has to keep growing its GDP as normal, at a higher rate than the US's GDP growth, to become 'Number One' very soon. It's an arithmetical certainty that China will come out on top. And that crossover-point is around 2025.

The US needs to initiate a conflict about 5 years before the crossover-point to be certain of winning that war. China needs to hold off any war until after the crossover point, in effect to 'turn the other cheek' to US provocations while the China grows and the US declines in relative terms.

Note that I said above that the US needs to initiate the conflict about 5 years before the crossover-point. That date is now two years in the past, the US should have started that war back in 2020. It's very likely that the US has 'missed the bus'. It might start the war now, but its chances of coming out on top now are very much diminished, due to those two years of lost opportunity.

China does NOT want a war now, because a war now would only get in the way and would only slow down China's climb to the top. If China starts anything it would only be 3-5 years after the crossover-point, say after 2028. By then the US will be very much 'Number Two' on the ladder.
Not gonna lie, this is not the first time I've been accused of being a bot
Back when I had a 500MB data plan, a partner sent me an 80MB gif which kicked me offline for several days. It's good to warn people about large files.
Yes, it's called a timestamp.

Revocation of trust here isn't automated. "I just greenlit ransomware" is a very different category than "Attacks got better, as they do".
For all but the smallest work I don't think it actually makes any difference. I always dump the disassembly to a file so I couldn't care less where it comes from, when debugging real code at least.

Testing the code generator is a different question, which I hope will be helped by vasm since I've actually had to move demonstrations off dmd and onto GCC since the code was so bad (in particular bad register allocation, I'm not that bothered about redundant cmp-s).