skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Convincing that 40% to get vaccinated while members of our elected government preach to that particular choir about how things that are partially or mostly effective (masking, vaccines, etc) are NOT effective simply because they are not 100% effective is a losing battle.

Watch the widely circulated video of the Florida's nomination hearing for their new Surgeon General, where a democrat asks the nominee if he, yes or no, believes the vaccines to be effective. It was asked five times, his answers were nothing but stuttering, rambling, dissembling, meandering madness ('i mean what does effective actually mean' level bullshit). The republicans passed him out of committee once the democrats walked out in frustration.

We have a party that is in full denial mode because that's what their anti-vax constituents want to hear. The only upside might be that their vote share goes down because their constituents die in higher numbers.
The evidence is someone (person A) on Twitter's old notes about a story someone else (person B) told them, about an event involving persons C and D (and potentially others), with no indication of person B actually witnessing it.

Aren't we supposed to start by considering the accuracy of the information?
Let's hope for you guys that some government genius doesn't come up with the system Chile has: Inflation adjusted loan and contract payments, obviously excluding salaries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidad_de_Fomento
"Even though the victims required MFA to access cloud resources from all locations, including on premises, the threat actor managed to bypass MFA through the theft of Chrome browser cookies"
"Mechanism to scam leads to surge in scams in place where mechanism exists" yeah they scam you at the carnival too but you still go to the carnival. What matters is if you choose to ride the rides or play the games.
Just wish the quality control was the same as in the Jobs era.
A C++ shop was most likely using COM or CORBA back in those days, I really don't get that insistence with httpd.

So, our startup created a mod_tcl similar to AOLServer, basically a TCL Application Server, no else got to use our tooling besides our customers.
I don’t really see the either/or situation here. It seems like two ways in which states can control citizens, and with actors in the modern world taking lessons from both mixed with other sources.
Have you heard of this internet thing? it's full of SCAMS and people trying to get advantage of you (with penny stocks, nigerian prince, get-rich-quick websites, and all sort of crap).
Anecdotally we're able to differentiate ourselves by offering a native mac app over what our competitors offer but it's a niche, mac-heavy industry.
Is DANE @tptacek approved of? You say DNSSEC and it triggers my internal alarm bells.
How are they private when they're viewable by everyone in the world? All it takes is one slip up or security breach to connect your IRL identity to your wallet hash and every transaction is public for all to see.
"Not terribly high," I mean 99.5% of Americans will never spend even the lower end of that range on a single garment. It seems pretty high to me. Also you have to get pretty high up into the luxury market before you'll find a suit that costs $7,000. Armanis are synonymous with luxury suits in the public consciousness and they top out at $4,000, according to their website.

The cost of those luxury items don't come from the cost of making them. They come from the fact that they are luxury items -- it's the exclusivity and signaling that you're paying for. For more on this phenomenon see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
I am in Argentina right now. in the two weeks that I've been here I exchanged dollars for 196, 206 and 210 Pesos in each few days. I can't believe the rate changes this quickly.

Tip: if you're planning to visit Argentina make sure you're bringing cash. Using your credit card would mean paying double the amount due to the difference between official and "blue dollar" exchange rates.
This feels like what unikernels were aimed at. I wonder how this compares with that technology?
We are getting so many 'crypto=bad' basic articles (this one seems particularly devoid of relevant content) that I'm surprised the topic isn't auto-downweighed by now.
I mean, I have a job, but I am always on the lookout :-)
Where do the other 60% come from?
What do you call eleven people having a dinner party with an active anti-vaxxer?

Twelve anti-vaxxers.
way over 95% the same

> not sure I've ever met anyone that uses Safari on desktop

Odd conversation starter, I certainly haven't polled most of my acquaintances. The ones who have nerd-ish leanings overwhelmingly use it, though, as Chrome is a crapfire for laptop batteries and privacy.
> AI is not a printing press. It is a way to invent and apply the equivalent of a printing press to all existing and emerging labour markets in an exponential way. Very dangerous when you realize its impacts are not bounded like the industrial revolution. This is an existential threat that comments like yours waive away too easily.

I don't really see how you could possibly make this argument. When the printing press was invented people didn't know what would come of it... Do you know everything that will be possible with AI?

If AI makes programming obsolete, now everyone can create software that does cool things that people want. This would undoubtedly open up a plethora of new employment options.
As much as I like this, how is Nasm news? Fine. I have not done enough assembly lately, fair enough.

More seriously, is anyone still doing this outside of edge computing and embedded applications? Or… a hobby?
That was a poor choice of words on my part. Instead of "pointless" I should have said "impractical." I think most of us agree that we wouldn't want to live in a world where kids are forced to wear N95 masks all day, with tape binding them to their skin, with adults constantly supervising their proper fit, and with absolutely no lunch breaks or ability to drink fluids. If mask wearing done poorly is the only realistic option, then we would be better off without them altogether.
It supports video recording (without audio), screenshots, and post mortem recording which is called Tracing.
Everyone who cares about backups chooses a backup system design.

Anyone who cares about their stuff needs to practice a full emergency RESTORE.

I have met very few people who actually do that. For most systems I've seen, the first full test of the restore process is a very scary first production usage of the restore process.

Which is very exciting, sure. I don't want excitement in my data management life.

(I actually see weekly test of onsite backup power at the local banks, and at some large commercial kitchens. Those diesel generators are very loud. I've never seen systematic test of UPS or generators in a front-office environment.)
Google is entitled to stop offering a specific feature if they want.

The outcry was because they did not offer any migration strategy for accounts that had been created under the free GSuite offer - it was either pay up, or have the account and all associated data be deleted across all Google services.
I have never bought an Apple device that so much as had a spec of dust in the box.

But I’ve never had a Dell or HP laptop come without a bezel scratch or something like that. So in my books, Apple are still a league ahead on quality, even.
All Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers
Agree. This is the same reason why I'm skeptical on flying cars. There's so many fender benders. I don't want a Jetta crashing through my roof.

Sure, general aviation is safer than driving (e.g. less accidents per vehicle, and less accidents per hour/mile), but general aviation is more dangerous than commercial aviation. I suspect there's something going on with maintenance, training, and available safety features. Seems like lowering the barrier of entry to flying is simply going to increase the accident rate because there's just more less skilled people flying.

Of course most flights crash on takeoff and landing, and conceivably that would be automated, so maybe I'm just being paranoid. Still seems impractical, if for no other reason space restrictions on the ground.
Why do you think that is some kind of contradiction? It is technology that is largely useless for legitimate projects, as other solutions are always better and less inefficient. And it is inefficient, because it does use 0.5% of the electricity of the entire planet, which is not something people imagine, it is very real. The only benefits it has are mainly useful for criminal purposes, thus it does help criminals.

All of this is consistent, factual, and a huge problem.
A friend's not-so-bright boss was recently scammed into buying Amazon gift cards, scratching to reveal the codes, and then emailing the codes to the scammer. Can that be undone? This isn't intended as a "gotcha" question. I honestly don't know.
The internet also created things of value. Connecting people all over the world instantly. Businesses built on leveraging newly created efficiencies.

Crypto is intentionally the opposite. Imposing artificial scarcity on a world without, leveraging inefficiency and complexity at every level to obscure what’s actually happening. It’s an ideology not a technology. It’s just a linked list but much slower. Anything that can be built on the blockchain can be built faster, cheaper and more efficient without.

Ask yourself why in 14 years no industries have been revolutionized, no businesses built (except for trading) and no value created. If there’s so many industries ripe and begging for the tech why hasn’t a single one of them gained any value from even one blockchain implementation?
Incredible that folks have to jump through so many hoops.

At this point, AWS should offer versioned S3 backups accessible only offline or through customer support, enabled with a click of a button.
It's not like there weren't issues then as well - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/steve-jobs-says...
I prefer “retrospective”, which doesn’t sound like a police investigation or bring to mind airplane crashes.

It’s also easier to do those on a weekly basis, so there’s less of a Pavlovian association of “bad thing happens” then “synonym for postmortem happens”.
Finally some good news in this bloodbath of a market
It is pretty funny to defend Apple (or any other browser vendor) using the argument that standards are unfinalized. Running living standards was the coup done by WHATWG, a.k.a. browser vendors.

https://whatwg.org/faq
I don't understand this at all. Shouldn't "cryptocurrency" - I.E. currency based on an understanding of computational complexity and a view into abstract mathematics - appeal to those that have a vague idea of what their money is most-physically represented by?

If so, then why are these logically refutable scams ("Give me 1btc and I'll send you 3btc back!!!": Just think that the person would, if they can generate 4btc of value out their ass like that, simply likely keep it, whether they valued the fiat value of it or not) so common?

I understand the idea that the emotional gain from giving something to someone who has never had anything of that value may be overwhelmingly tempting or fulfilling on the "giver's" part but similarly, aren't there people more deserving of this than you, the "scam" victim? At that point, I don't even know if I would call it a scam.

If someone posed as a verified conveyancer and built a fake profile, payed legitimate businesses and entities off for positive testimonials etc. And encouraged me to hire them to re-mortgage my property for me then I would call that a scam - but someone asking for money with the vague promise that "they need it more than you" not so, similarly not with a "I will give you double the money you give me" scheme. It just feels more like something so stupid that you are entirely at fault if you fall for it.
> this goes so quickly

Many people don't realize how fast it is to work on abacus (or soroban in Japanese). Here is an example of what a 7 year old can do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQtqlB-jXO0

For many years I always did my taxes and other accounting using an abacus because it was sooo much easier than longhand (this was before calculators).

There is the famous Feynman story as well:

https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html

But you wouldn't impress an ancient Greek very much by taking cube roots quickly because there wouldn't be much call for that.
One of the qualifications for being romantic is being irreversible. Once you're in that container, you can't get out until it's over.
And it's the same kind of ideology that ruins both countries in spite of both being extremely rich in natural resources.

My impression is that the various offshoots of Marxism, e.g. Chavismo in Venezuela or wokism in the US, is a means for a coalition of mostly upper middle class people to replace the current ruling coalition with something that is effectively feudalism with themselves on top. These people seem to feel like they have the right to occupy the most powerful roles, either due to the excellence of their ancestors or envy of those that are perceived as their superiors, but doesn't because they are mostly mediocre and often have wealth as well as position through inheritance. That's why prosperity typically fall after their takeover, as these are primarily motivated position and not by an obsession about what the job entails.

Has this been your experience with the Venezuelan ruling class?
I am a tab hoarder. Super excited to try this out
You can't spend cryptocurrency at the grocery store. So your "money" can only at best be _backed_ by cryptocurrency.

But if all you want is your money to be backed by something that intrinsically retains value, there are many standard choices. Like _foreign currency_. Or something more involved, like stocks and bonds and commodities contracts.

Or you could just plain use precious metals.

Cryptocurrency doesn't uniquely solve the problem of inflation, but it does introduce a lot of others. (Including the risk that a country's entire Treasury gets drained because an office worker plugs a USB stick they found in the parking lot into the wrong computer)
If Bolivia is like sweet home, that money is concentraded as fuck so either their schtick would have to be ubiquitous for it to be worth it, or they would be selling to the ~10% richest in Bolivia (which probably have decent internet access).

For all that people sometimes go on about untapped market potential in poor countries, it really isn't that easy when >90% of the population lives on less than 350 USD/month.

Sauce: spent the first 1/4 of century of my life living in a third world shithole.
I concede this, but it is true. It is a fact of nature that if I've purchased a house with a $5,000 mortgage, I must pay for it.
Why not a “slowly rotating magnetar” would probably be better.
You claim that work is optional because you can choose not to work and become a homeless bum? That to me seems like a facetious argument.

The only time global CO2 emissions significantly decreased was when people stopped working due to the Covid pandemic. Thus, I think the evidence is against your claim that we would all be worse off.
OK who is feeding consipiracy theories to GPT-3 now?

This document looks like a moderately careful forgery intended for political purposes. Or,it could have been written by a member of the military who spent too much time watching FOX News.
Vaccines for Covid are available.
Vaccines do not stop the spread of Covid.
Vaccines do not stop you from getting Covid.
Vaccines do reduce the probability of severe/fatal cases of covid.

Masks are available.
Most masks in most situations do little to stop the spread of Covid.
Well fitted N95s are more effective.

Getting vaccinated or wearing a mask is clearly a personal health decision.
Vaccine mandates are ridiculous given the above.
Mask mandates are ridiculous given the above.
Mandates in general show little impact on actually changing behavior.

The risk to children is incredibly low.
The coronavirus is endemic, we are all going to get it.

Lets move on already.

If you are fearful of coronavirus or at risk you can do what you think is necessary to stay safe. You don’t get to use your fear or neuroses to control others.
Someone commented elsewhere on the thread with a video clip of Markovic talking to the Federal Assembly.
As Apple continues to dominate, we can’t forget that the iPhone is approaching >90% utilization by the youth:
https://www.howtogeek.com/778355/new-study-says-87-of-us-tee...

This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens. At this point a smart society would consider how to regulate this situation to safely prevent domination abuse, but I doubt it will happen.
Idle-stop is (annoyingly) a thing, now.
Leveraging the Beliefs-Desires-Intentions Agent Architecture
I remember back in 2008 they were trying to push Web 4.0 as the successor to Web 2.0, because it was the web squared.
I don’t think anyone here is giving remix enough credit for what they’re trying to do. In fact I’ve been a long time lurker and finally made an account today to share this opinion.

My company is building a B2B ordering system. We take reservations and store fulfillment details with some email and SMS functionality bolted on to a web interface; at least for now it’s a simple business CRUD app. We chose to use Vue for the frontend and Python REST APIs on the backend. And it has been thoroughly frustrating to just ship our MVP, because when I look into our frontend codebase, more than half of it is a bunch of API calls, state management, authentication, and error handling that honestly does not provide much value to the product that we’re offering. I half wish that we had built this in Rails or Django.

Except, we are geospatial-enabled and have a killer interactive map view that powers this whole thing. And it’s not just a single asset-tracking view, but this map component is going to be embedded in several places across the app. And when you zoom, pan, or search the relevant data on screen is updated. I wouldn’t dare try to build this in anything other than one of the big 3 SPA frameworks today.

Why do I have to choose between a traditional app with poor ergonomics for developing frontend JS, and a clunky SPA that reinvents everything the browser has gotten good at in the last 20 years? Remix is a hybrid and I think they are on to something really great here. I can write my server side models and controllers as in days of yore and pass them straight to a renderer that happens to be full blown React + React Router that does as many fancy interactive things on the frontend as I wish once the page is hydrated.

I think it’s easy for backend devs to discount how nice it is to use JSX across the stack if they’re used to a templating language and writing JS sprinkles to manipulate the DOM. And it’s easy for frontend devs to discount how much extra work it is to create an API when your team is only using it internally for a first-party app, because you need APIs for SPAs. But once you realize that you can eliminate these entire bodies of work (manipulating the DOM and writing an unnecessary API), you get the best of both worlds and everything about complicated web dev today feels so achievable.

Even if it’s early days yet, and Remix can’t hold a candle to comprehensive frameworks like Rails, this is much more than just Sinatra or Flask written in JS. I’m seriously excited about where Remix is headed and I’m rooting for these guys all the way.
"Some people" being mainly criminals and money launderers.
> Like what are you even arguing?

It is impossible to "correctly reverse a string" because "reverse a string" is not well defined. We explored many different potential definitions of it, to show that there is no meaningful singular answer.

> You added the requirement that it be a single correct answer.

Your original post says "they could produce the correct string reversal"?
For anyone interested in seeing what one of these scams looks like:
- http://ark-musk.com

They ran a YouTube Live stream on loop with an Auntie Cathy and Elon interview about crypto and made it look very believable. YouTube finally took down the video after about a day.

Hard work.
I've come to the understanding that tape-drives are for people who need to "build a custom-sized storage solution", especially if you need capacity but not necessarily read/write speeds.

A tape-drive is your read-heads. The tape is like a platter. The tape-library / jukebox is just a robotic mechanism for switching tapes into and/or out of the read-head.

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If you need a Petabyte of uncompressed storage, you can reach it with a tape-library consisting of 84 LTO8 tapes (12TB each). If read/write of 400MB/s is sufficient, one tape drive is sufficient. If you need faster access speeds, you buy a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th tape drive.

So lets say you need 2GB/s read/write speed and a petabyte of storage. You simply get 4x LTO 8 drives, 84 LTO8 tapes, and stick them into a tape library of some kind.

You then buy a certain amount of SSDs + HDDs sufficient for caching, so that you can read/write to this tape library at sufficient speeds (especially since it could be many minutes before a specific byte is accessed).
To me, this ignores the fact that a death of a loved/cared for individual is the most "minimum quality of life" you can get.

Sure, being able to go watch a family movie together used to be a big family thing, but we can't do that anymore. Our QOL has dropped in that regard, but it's far less impactful than saying to heck with it and going to the theater and having my kid or an in-law catch Covid and die. Long Covid even indicates there's a chance that surviving Covid leaves you with a long-term impact to QOL. Why take that risk over minor irritation in the near term?

Sure, masks are tedious and annoying. But to my youngest, so are shirts and shoes. If he had his choice, he'd run around all damn day in underwear or shorts. But society as a whole benefits from a general adherence to everyone wearing shirts and shoes in public. He's got the same feelings towards seatbelts. Just like masks, seatbelts are only a half-measure. They don't prevent you from dying in a car crash, but they give some modicum of benefit overall. There's a higher chance of surviving a crash with a seatbelt on, even if it's not guaranteed.

All of these "I'm done with masks/precautions" statements are made in a void while ignoring the ripple effect that stems from that.

There's a turning point where life will have to resume one way or another, but the longer we can go as a civilization with a reduced QOL the better the chances of resolving the pandemic with fewer deaths all around.
Was this of strategic importance?

I’m not familiar with the history.
New Star Wars 1313 footage reveals (canceled) Boba Fett game we always wanted
They don't change unit pricing if that is what you mean not even at very high volume.

That means bill increases become costlier at scale as the volume discounts are not deep enough in a build vs buy on a pure cost basis (Lock-in, ease of use, reliability, talent reasons apart) at 100's of millions or billions spends governments do not to consider inhousing.
The shortage of physicians is primarily caused not by regulations but by lack of government funding for residency programs.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...