skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the data for this study is entirely pre-Omicron, which is known to have higher breakthrough rates (both for vaccines and for prior infection.)

Given that Omicron is now the dominant strain everywhere, unfortunately this study isn't particularly informative regarding a decision to vaccinate or not or for epidemiological purposes.
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John Campbell has a nice (but a bit lengthy) break down about it.

https://youtu.be/25-iJKPA1CA
This might just be the mix (and there might be second-order effects such as the mix changing as the mix engineers and producers get younger), but your ability to differentiate voices from background sound also depreciates as you age. The music can be substantially quieter than the background and still cause issues for people with age-related hearing loss (which is roughly universal), especially as they start to lose the higher harmonics that help us distinguish vocal sounds.
Well done - I’m working on something broadly similar for similar reasons. How do eventually plan to monetize to keep it ad-free?
Azure has its own CDN. If one wants to do Cloudfare -> CDN -> Azure Storage, then at least let it be Azure CDN in the middle, not another cloud provider in the mix. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's like bowls, or curling (the sports). It's a million mile curl. At the end of the curl, the telescope has close to zero radial velocity with respect to Earth (that is, its orbit around the Sun is parallel to Earth's and has the same period). At that point there will be an orbit injection burn to put it into a small elliptical orbit around the Lagrange point.
> Also, the paid version is for “Professionals”… who’s the free version for?

Hobbyist interviewees lol
My suggestion from a company that failed to set it up properly, is to find an expert.
Depending on the size of the objects, one could use Workers KV ($5 per 1M writes, $5 per 10M reads, 25M size limit) as a pseudo-R2 store [0] via Workers Unbound (~$1 per 6M requests), especially with the recent optimizations bringing the bills (of Workers Unbound proxying KV) down by 70% [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28747798

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-optimization-reduces-you...
> conjecture that the vaccines don’t prevent death or hospitalization, which is so wrong I don’t even know where to start.

The provided data is just raw numbers, not proper statistics. What is being compared is the mortality in those who chose to be vaccinated vs those who didn't. There is no control for confounding factors like if the first group are generally more health conscious, or if there are disproportionately more young healthy people in the vaccinated group, or even if hospitals are admitting more unvaccinated people under the impression they're more at risk.
There are some fundamental constraints there for both cases you mentioned, but more so Netflix. Their business model and physical infrastructure are structured around a small, popular, catalog. This enables dense storage utilization at the edge, optimizations like pushing content during troughs, etc. Because of that they're edge is generally optimized for a small number of bytes stored and a very large number of bytes served to clients.

Storing a large number of "cold" or "long tail" bytes is a different physical problem when it comes to storage and IO. And that's also the exact problem you have when hosting lots of third party content (or apps, or lambdas, or anything else). There you're also optimizing for bytes stored:served, but have to place it on cheaper media and with less duplication to make the physical space/power/dollar constraints work.

They certainly could change their business model and infra. But then they end up looking a lot more like a commercial CDN with hierarchal stores, more centralized POPs at IXPs, etc.

Disclaimer: Principal at AWS. Used to work on Amazon CloudFront and a bit of time in AWS Elemental, served a lot of video & streaming bits. Everything above is public domain knowledge.
StackOverflow isn't really for beginner questions/"help me learn" kind of stuff. In the course of trying to come up with answers to most questions, they knocked out the easy/fundamental ones early.

I used to answer question on the askprogramming subreddit sometimes, I generally didn't see a ton of negativity there.
Which would have the benefit of forcing those systems to be updated. Agreed.
The problem with the cloud is that the entire Internet is in control of your tap and can choose to open it and waste infinite amounts of water with no way to implement a cap.
Can I run my own node? If not, then I don't care (although a forum interface would I think be vastly superior to the usual news feed interface).

Edit: this is not meant to be dismissive, it's just that the main problem with social media right now is centralization. I'm simply not interested in jumping from one centralized option to another.
Good points. It’ll be interesting to see how other major (and growing) SW employers treat WFH flexibility and pay in the coming months/years.
Note there is a huge difference in costs between these providers cloud offerings and dedicated servers.
You can get Pro and that gives larger quality images and the ability to upload files like videos. It also gives larger content, but over time I will allow others to make longer content also. Just need to get some real usage under the belt to see what kind of resources it uses up.

https://wave.hey.cafe/pro
Firefox user. If I hit the Register button at the top of the home page, then it back, the register/login buttons disappear and I can't get them back without refreshing the page.
Anecdotally I remember first encountering it on the Something Awful forums. I always assumed it originated there (like lots of stuff did in the early 2000s).
> 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

Prove this first, then weigh the risk/benefits publicly.

> The U.S. government still runs the military draft,

The United States military has been all-volunteer since 1973, no?
Very interesting to zoom all the way in and note that some of the pigments had a tendency to crack as they dried, and others did not.

I imagine the paints were selected intentionally with this in mind, as the cracking where it exists seems to enhance the painting more than take away (dark background, hats, etc) while lighter colors that should not be cracked, are indeed less so (skin, armor).
Any chance you're familiar with Naver in South Korea? Naver has communities which are created by users and are called Cafes. The Cafes are essentially message boards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naver#Naver_Cafe
The Oracle cloud UI is extremely slow and terrible to work with. I'd prefer shenanigans every so often than having to deal with that crap on a daily basis.
I'm curious about why the DIP packages still exist. As a hobbyist I'm glad they do, but I can't imagine the hobby/education market is big enough to support a wide variety of ICs being made in the oversized breadboardable format. Are there any major commercial users?
I came here to make a joke about how quickly you'd blow through your data cap, but the article says:

AT&T's announcement said its new fiber plans have "no equipment fees, no annual contract, no data caps, and no price increase at 12 months."
You can't sleep standing?
A little yes, the thing with stuff like Cafés that are the groups users can join, the person who creates it can also do moderation and setup a moderation team but everything must still follow the global rules.

This means a lot more users can moderate content besides just the main staff.
Congrats! Love to see people bringing new ideas to the chat/forum space.

Can you talk about the FE/BE architecture. I know you said it's a single block of JS... all hand-rolled? What's the server and database, etc?
But why would you do that? When you can do exactly that with a traditional currency but much safer, much cheaper, much faster and much more conveniently.
This is exactly what the article [that you didn't read] talks about.

The end user can usefully participate in the network architecture debate if enough of their messages are vanishing. If the expert then says: "oh, but 1 in 2680 is rare" other professionals may adjust their opinion about them personally.

If they then go on a crusade to get the exchange scrubbed from the record it would make them more credible to you?
Due to my work, I'm involved in some WebRTC stuff and have been getting in touch with deployments on AWS, CloudFormation, that kind of stuff.
$400/mo 42u at what power? ;)
Easy Web3 Authentication
Now you peaked my interest, what's your website?
I feel the reason most Spring applications look similar is because the Developers have been copy-pasting from the same Baeldung-articles.

Copy-paste driven development is something you get a lot of when you are working with frameworks. Since the framework is itself inscrutable, it's nearly impossible to properly understand. So developers copy.
No, it's not a quine, it reads its own source code. That's cheating.
The article doesn't discuss what the fields actually are that got labeled. In my opinion things such as sociology, psychology, economics, and political science are all "soft"

Simply because the complexity of the systems makes them insanely difficult to analyze and we don't have a firm grip on the mechanics, not because there are more women.

Correlation != causation

Edited to add: from my perspective, the label of something as a "hard" science comes from the solidity of analysis and models. How well and how often, how reproducible are the models and results when compared to the real system? The closer the model is to reality, the more solid or "hard" the science
I think you missed a zero there
I was going to suggest it might have something to do with all of the fiddly bits that were a favorite of Slartibartfast.
Thanks. I know it's not for everyone, and the differences are huge once using especially the groups and longer form content and uploads. But it's not a design everyone will love.

Thats why I am making a open API that will be free to use with no limits so anyone can do anything they want as far as clients go.
As someone who worked at Red Hat, and has setup Ceph Clusters.

Get an expert, or a consultant. You'd need a really experienced storage admin at the least, and possibly more.
Not looking to argue, just wondering if someone could support a vaccine mandate under these circumstances. I understand if you don't want to say, or don't have reasons to support your feelings. It's a fraught topic!
This is 1gbps transit so not that low considering you will need a cdn anyway and can also peer
No never seen before. I will take a look.
Pssh, who wants forum content of all things to be accessible with search engines? Get with the times, man! If it's not rendered client-side and completely inaccessible in contexts outside of an entire browser stack, nobody will take it seriously in 2022! I mean, we might as well go back to cuneiform and clay tablets, and other things with permanence!
Both sides seem to be engaging dishonestly though. For example, there is no scientific basis for vaccinating children 12-18. They are not at risk. You don't even need to be vaccinating healthy people under 30 for that matter.

Children also do not need to be wearing masks at school or social distancing in the cafeteria. We are harming our children by robbing them of a proper education and the experiences of childhood. And yet good luck trying to convince a covid alarmist of any of this.
Oh, never seen that one before, I will see what I can find and fix that.
So this stable coin is "100% backed by the asset behind it", like a dollar, which is "backed by 1% real assets (go fractional reserve money!)". What did I miss?
You are arguing using a hypothetical future which doesn't even remotely exist.

And what's to stop FB dating from sucking. So the final solution is to replace one monopoly with an even bigger one? That's just talking out of both sides of the mouth.
The big difference in case of gas or electric (or even telephone) is that you and only you are in control. Someone would have to physically break into your house or steal your phone to rack up a huge bill.

In contrast, with the cloud the bill is directly proportional to the amount of inbound requests from the Internet, with no out of the box way to implement a limit (I guess you could install Apache/Nginx and enforce a limit there, but doesn't that kinda defeat the whole point of the cloud?).
I have lots of non-tech hobbies including being an amature car mechanic, welder, fisherman, nature lover, hippy. With youtube these days, u can learn timeless skills from the old pro's in your own time within your means and your budget.

I think key to being a dev long term is keeping the curiosity going. Do it in whatever way you want. I must admit, its a pretty cushy way to live a life (WFH senior+ dev). I feel like an artist without the money troubles.
I wish my employer’s “security” processes were running on efficiency cores. Looks like maybe I can make that happen!
Omicron is now 99.5% of cases in the USA. Other variants are nearly extinct.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
Icelandic pizzeria nods to pagan tradition by serving sheep's head as topping
If anyone wants to learn (as opposed to arguing), the papers on Netflix's TLS offloading work are a fun read.

And say what you will, something like 20% of all internet traffic has a FreeBSD endpoint. And doing 400Gb/s of encrypted streaming from one box is quite an accomplishment.

I would argue the reason someone like Netflix or any of the other large orgs using FreeBSD come there is for the simplicity/cohesiveness. If you're looking to do something like in-kernel TLS or something, way easier on something smaller, documented, and with an OS devel team that will likely incorporate your work in future releases.
With a middle ground like a micro ORM those transparent queries are barely visible anyway, literally a line or two lines of embededed sql strings. Especially micro ORMs that can handle dynamic filters. They're generally write once and only get looked at again when modifications are necessary, so they're not worth "optimizing" by adding the complexity of an ORM.

A common pattern seems to be over engineering these simple scenarios though. Someone decides that embedded sql is evil and needs to be extracted out of normal code, often to stored procs. Then these simple queries have enough friction that an ORM starts to look good, then you end up with an ORM generating simple queries dynamically in the same place that used to have a simple embedded string.
> Surely if manipulation at that scale and fidelity became possible it would be something to be concerned about?
results 15 hours after post:

L:236, M:168, W:108

L:46.1%, M: 32.8%, W:21.1%
> And those freed slaves themselves practiced slavery

Then again, freed Black slaves ended up practicing slavery of other Blacks in Liberia, of all places. Truly, there's nothing new under the sun.
What’s the plan for supporting this financially? If it grows at some point it will be too expensive to be a side project for someone to pay for. But usually when the ads come in but the site mentions no ads.

So will there be paid memberships? Sponsorships of some sort?
> Now, we do know that vaccines are protective against death from covid-19, but this study did not establish that fact.

Can you point to a source not associated with Pfizer that proves that claim? The only thing I've noticed among those I've seen with covid is that the outcome depends on age, overall health before infection, and how quickly treatment was administered, not with vaccination status.
Author might like to try Guix!

It shares all the advantages listed and fixes the main complaint via using Scheme Everywhere. That said, the EDSLs for package and operating-system declarations are pretty darn nice. You don't really need to know lisp at all to be effective. Plus, the extensive documentation of both Guix and Guile Scheme are all available right there at the command line via the info docs.

Even more, Guix already has tooling to spin up containers and VMs with profile content exposed on FHS paths! That addresses the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 and #!/bin/bash issues for using foreign binaries.

About the only advatage of Nix over Guix I am aware of is that nixpkgs has more packages than Guix. Curious if there are others?
I don't think there's much (anything?) in UFS that would lead to poor performance other than the usual suspects:

If your disk is slow or dieing, you might blame UFS, but it's not really UFS.

I've had some vague issues with the I/O scheduler, which isn't really UFS, but at the same time, UFS may be the only real client of the I/O scheduler, I think ZFS does it's own thing, anyway the systems were UFS only. This is super vague, and I don't have more details, but I just want to put it out there. For one class of machines that had a lot of disks (about 12 ssds), did a pretty even mix of reads and writes, evenly spread across the disks, upgrading from FreeBSD X to X + 1 wasn't possible because there was a large performance reversion. I think this was 10 -> 11, but it's possible it was 11 -> 12. Because this came up while my work was in progress migrating to our acquirer's datacenter which included switching to their inhouse Linux distro, it made sense to just leave those hosts on the older OS, and not spend the time debugging this. We didn't have a way to test this without production load, but that had user impact, and it would take a while to show up. It's quite possible this was just a simple tuning error, or possibly a bug that has been fixed for some time; the symptoms were obvious though: processes waiting on io, but the disks had a lot of idle time.

If you have a lot of files in a given directory, that's kind of slow, and IIRC, if the directory every had a lot of files, the extra space won't get reclaimed until the directory is deleted, even if most of the files are unlinked. (This isn't uncommon for filesystems, some filesystems handle it better than others, there are application level strategies to deal with hashing/deeper directory trees)

If the filesystem ever gets too full, the strategy to search for free space changes to one that's less fast; it won't change back, so don't fill your disk too much. (This ends up being a good idea for SSD disk health too, and again isn't super unusual in filesystems, but some filesystems probably do better). tunefs(8) says:

> The file system's ability to avoid fragmentation will be reduced when the total free space, including the reserve, drops below 15%. As free space approaches zero, throughput can degrade by up to a factor of three over the performance obtained at a 10% threshold.

UFS has snapshots, which is great, but everyonce in a while, you end up with a snapshot you forgot about, and it can really eat disk space and you may miss it. Not really a performance issue, but can lead to overfilling your drive.

Of course, there's the obvious that UFS has no support for checksumming, but that's not performamce. Soft updates do allow for some amount of consistency in meta data, and background fsck is nice (but could tank performance, I suppose).
Sounds a bit like reading too far into it without actual evidence this was the intent. Could just be the way the layers were done, could be accidental, could be an artifact of the way it has been handled over the years, could be an artifact of the capture. Could be intentional sure but to jump to "the pigments were designed to crack a certain way so the painting looks like it does nearly 500 years later" seems to be a product of being told it's a great painting by a great artist so everything about it therefore must be great than the cracking actually being great.
(on linux)
It also doesn't reveal the size of the effect, or their sample size. It keeps its cards very close to the chest.
Now, imagine letting a computer decide how to drive a 15 ton truck down the freeway at 75 mph.
I see the mainstream financial media a piling on with the anti-bitcoin message.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not really a fan (though blockchain tech does seem to have some promise), but let's just say these guys aren't exactly impartial.
> never want to use the product, despite being interested in it

Really? They made a bug on their website and you toss the whole product?
What would the response be if you complied but added noindex nofollow to the IMG tag?
You should have a decent size professional network given your many years in academia. Assuming you can narrow down which companies could benefit from your innovation, maybe you already know someone in industry who can make the introduction to an R&D person with hiring abilities at their company. To answer your second question, I have personally seen companies hire smart people and let them work on their own pet research projects and some suggest it is at times done to ensure the competition doesn't hire them. For extra fun (or stress), get at least two companies interested and let them bid on you.

On a personal note, the amazing opportunities in my career have come from the outliers of my professional network. As in people who I didn't even think would remember me. So don't be too shy in reaching out.

But as another commenter mentioned, getting a patent would be great. Is the cost of filing preventing you from doing that ?
You can get what's called Pro. Thats what lets you setup communities and groups and allows for larger content and higher quality media. This is my second large social network and the first was online for almost 10 years. It's extremely lightweight as all the generation and everything is all client side so the server just stores DB data and provides JSON payloads.
FYI they actually launched in 2020 [0], but there were a paucity of features back then compared to VSCode (like Vim mode). They've been updating it over the years so it's cool to see where they are now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24495330
Could someone explain what the « website assets » limitation of CloudFlare is about?
At that point some form of analytics will be necessary. I appreciate the ethos behind this nonetheless.
> making the darkness conscious

I don’t think “to make something conscious” means to make it clear, but rather to personify it:

* “Hate the sin, love the sinner”
* “Don’t hate the player, hate the game”
* “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people”
* “Memes should be considered as living structures, not just metaphorically”

So, morally, it is profound (“enlightening”) to admit a reality of evil as conscious.
May I kindly ask the make and model of your weather station please?
I just finished off a program to show which files use CRLF and which use LF. It also shows results for TAB, NUL, BOM-8 and BOM-16:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars

You can use the -f switch to help with pipelines and -j for JSON output.
To be fair, Hetzner doesn't nickel & dime you on everything.

Some things are legitimately very difficult to meter in a real-time way with adequate performance. Imagine if the S3 server had to do a DB query to lookup your account balance & limit on every HTTP request. That'll completely kill performance and availability (what if the billing DB is down? Should that DB now be replicated across all regions? etc).

The reason a lot of cloud alerts and metrics lag is because billing is done asynchronously by parsing logs way after the actual usage occurred. Of course, the real solution here is to just not bill for things you can't easily measure & limit especially when those things are super expensive, but cloud providers' C-suites have to eat & pay their bills somehow.
'Attempt' to collect dead man's pension is investigated
Yeah, Europe is way, way more dense.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+USA...

United States | 36 people/km^2

Europe | 104 people/km^2