skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, worldwide is still at "promoting vaccines at all cost because Covid is worse than Black Death". So doubt these research results would be freely allowed to get published or supported. China now only doing trials on mRNA (many countries stopped using their non-mRNA vaccines). India hasn't fully vaccinated their people yet. Large part of Africa is even worst situation. So at least 2-3 billions people havn't exposed fully to mRNA benefits or negative effects. Take dengue vaccine that was shelved in Philipines which requires multi years to see its side effects. We are now just entering year 2 or mRNA. Give it 10 years to know "acceptably" mRNA vaccine increases unnecessary risks of heart-related problems. If you know personally doctors working in vaccines research field you probably will know the negatives better. Many doctors scared to even mentioned these negatives for fear of retaliations (this is worlwide phenomena right now). There is a reason FDA needs 75 years to disclose mRNA vaccine related papers. There is also a reason why all statistics on negatives effect of vaccines is so few. Try mention any of those on Youtube or Facebook now and you'll almost instantly get retaliation as anti-vaxxers.
Apple typically tries to enter an existing product category that they think they can execute better on or otherwise disrupt.

Depending on your viewpoint these can be highly disruptive plays - smart phones were going no place for many demographics until the iPhone came out. Android was going to be a cheaper blackberry clone until they saw what iPhone was doing.

But another view of the iPad famously was the Slashdot single-line review, "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

Phones were a bit of a blind spot in the market. There should have been a lot more investment going on.

Phones are expensive devices that people update often (with "often" really being a function of the demographic), where the price was disguised in many markets via carrier subsidies and cellular contracts. The carriers were often trying to figure out how to get more customers and get them to pay for more services, so charging for data tiers on top of minutes and messaging was attractive.

Nokia had teams that understood this and obviously the company in general was capitalizing on how much money was going into phones, but they were highly dysfunctional in terms of massive amounts of duplicated work (e.g. little commonalities between hardware or OS on dozens of phones released every year). An example of Nokia trying to leverage cellphones to go into a new market would be the N-Gage.

In terms of markets they tend to go after, VR would be the one where I might worry they missed the wave. Some of that is not knowing if VR actually has broad demographic appeal though - there are technology leaps still needed for many people to tolerate longer headset usage, and most computer applications aren't really VR as much as they are 'large virtual monitor' - you don't see N-dimensional word processing as much as games and experiences. Their money is obviously on AR having much broader appeal.

There are certainly cases where market disruption attempts have failed, such as the HomeKit ecosystem. The more open (and cheaper) ecosystems that Google and Amazon have had managed to get significantly more adoption by manufacturers. For that reason they now seem to be aligning much more with and driving new industry standards instead, such as Matter.

All the rumors about them investing toward a full self-driving car product is really odd, because it goes against so much of their formula for incremental evolution of product lines - seems about as likely as them releasing a television or refrigerator.
Ehh, in this case it is, they are spending much more than we earn, and to cover that they used to take debt. Now no one lends to Argentina at a nice rate, so they emit internal debt by printing a ton of ARS to finance themselves, thus generating inflation.

If they stop printing, they have to stop spending as well as cutting spending, leading to a raise in interest rates and a quick economic crash instead of the slow burn situation as of now.

The current government is just trying to hold on until next elections, so when the economy explodes they can blame the next government for it.
Yes, we're not at the top of spending on education as a percentage of GDP. Similarly, we're spending less on food as a % of GDP than Mexico, and much, much less than Somalia. Does it mean that US is not spending enough on food? That we're underfed compared to Mexico or Somalia? No, it just means that using percentage of GDP as a measure of something being over/underfunded is ridiculously wrong.
I had to give up on Xcode. I found it so damn buggy and weird I just couldn't use it. Just yesterday I tried opening a json file and it attempted to open in Xcode... Xcode just froze, never opened the file.
The actual reason why this happens is that when someone controls the money supply, they will eventually start creating more money for their own benefit, or the benefit of those who vote for them. It's almost as whole societies get high on 'free money', while stripping capital away from productive activities. This has always happened in human history, and it's the actual reason for almost all societal collapses and wars. Centralized monetary systems have this inherent flaw, and it can't be fixed. The only solution for this is Bitcoin, which is incorruptible and can't be inflated by anyone.
And why is that the fault of the general public? These hospitals had 2 years to figure this out.
Like this? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/convertfrom-string...
Also what WordPress? .com .org, WP VIP or some self-hosted instance?

UPDATE - WordPress 5.9 is out before few hours and this caused some issues on some sites.
Linux magic, mucking about in the kernel, M1 compatibility hacking, this writeup has got it all!

Unfortunately, having read this, I feel rather stupid.
Possiy not, in a system where voting is non-compulsory! It's compulsory where I live and one of those idiots simply couldn't win as a consequence. Democracy is something you do, not something you have.
That's not true.

You might have invented electricity or the computer through ingenuity, but who is going to build the infrastructure that supports it? Who is going to build the poles in your suburb to get the electricity to you? Who is going to build the telecommunications infrastructure and maintain it such that if it breaks there is someone there to fix it?
We did explosive decompression from sea level to 10,000. Fun stuff. Clouds form in the chamber. Going higher than that isnt actually much more violent as the bulk of the atmo is below 10,000. As for oxygen, what matters is the partial pressure of the oxygen rather than the pressure of the other gasses. Breath pure nitrogen at sea level and you will pass out just as quicky as at altitude.
We couldn't wait either so we talked with other TFE users who were using Infracost and we learned from them to make an example of how to run it with GitHub Actions: https://github.com/infracost/actions/tree/master/examples/te...

We have similar examples for GitLab (https://gitlab.com/infracost/infracost-gitlab-ci/-/tree/mast...) and Azure DevOps (https://github.com/infracost/infracost-azure-devops/tree/mas...).

Happy to help with any issues via infracost.io/community-chat
We dont make this distinction with the vast majority of personal choices. Obesity causes a ton of strain on our health system. Should we start a class system based on BMI?
One again I agree with most of what you're suggesting here. One more point of nuance though.

What is the carbon foot print of replacing all the rail and freight? Do we have the funds to make these changes all at once? How quickly can we realistically change out our entire fossil fuel infrastructure?

The first motor car was in 1886, over 130 years ago.

The first mass produced motor car was 1908, Over 110 years ago.

We've built this current system for over 100 years. Rebuilding a new one may also take a similar time line. The tragedy is we may not be able to BUT... you are right.

We should try!
Similar experience—I came across his HoTT lectures on YouTube and was absolutely blown away by how clear and concise his teaching was. Absolutely transformed my understanding of the subject in just the first lecture.
That's roughly how governments work too. Reduce spending, raise taxes, or devalue the currency to make debts less costly.
It's both, honestly.

(1) I can't incorporate Hibiki into anything (A)GPL licensed, which many of my projects are.

(2) Ideologically I can't get behind something non-free, even though I completely understand why you wrote the license the way that you did. Realistically all it's going to do is hinder adoption (see parent comment of mine).

(3) You can say I'm not going to get into trouble, but your license says otherwise, and I really can't use something unless I'm 100% sure I'll be in the okay, ya'know?
Debt inflates away.
> Humans evolutionarily think about movement with a 2 dimensional mindset

The humans evolved to brachiate for a lot longer than they've been wandering around savannas.

> even a kid could operate a 2d vehicle.

Trying this was a mistake and nearly got me killed. Twice.
Having been in the aviation community for some time and having seen more than a few accidents with these things, it's worth to mention that they are way more dangerous than they appear. The thing to look out for is "collapsing" the wing, which is likely fatal at the kind of low altitudes normally flown. That "wing" always needs a positive loading. Downdrafts at the perimeter of a thermal, orthographic winds, rotors, fronts, convergence lines, other causes of turbulence and vertical drafts - there is a reason why you often see paramotors in the calm of the evening, when you can cut the air like butter. If you like flying, a more safe hobby would be gliding.
Both these 2 were old Etonians and Oxbridge students - pillars of the establishment. They were from the upper classes - the classes that believe they rightfully rule the oi polloi (everyone else).

So, whatever they wrote about is framed by their experience and understanding of reality. As part of the class that believes it is right to manage us, do you think that they were trying to warn the proles about the future? Were they trying to help us live a more meaningful life?

They were not. Their works were not a service to mankind, they were not warning us about the future or that old trope. What they were doing is putting down in writing their best understanding of the plans that were in store for us. It was a mental exploration of how future management might pan out, what it might look like.

I suspect that this writing was partly as a tool to give to the upper/administrative classes so that they had a clearer goal in mind. I also suspect that these works were disseminated more widely, as a population that is aware of the ideas does not respond in shock and reject them - mentally they have acclimatised to the future horrors. (Aka Predictive Programming.)

If this sounds implausible, consider the fact that Aldous's brother Julian, created UNESCO. His grandfather Thomas played a role in establishing the theory of evolution (which in many ways provides a biological justification for the role of the elites as 'they are the fittest'). George Orwell's actual name was Eric Blair - and of course there is a famous British politician - Tony Blair. (It is claimed they are not relations, but it remains possible - how can we know?)

The books themselves are purported to be set in the future. However, it is possible to read them in a different light (as I suggest above) - as a sort of visionary guide for those administrators of the 30's and 40's. This is to say, that a lot of power was already in existence then. Eugenics (a feature in both books) was an overtly accepted ideology of the upper classes at the time. The nazis made the term unfashionable, but there is are reasons to think that this ideology is still popular amongst the self-proclaimed elite class.

In direct answer to the question, I think the elites would prefer us to self-select our future slavery along the lines of BNW - we can have moral degeneracy (its already here!) drugs (ditto) and just do our epsilon/delta jobs. However, Orwell was right about the talking screens, and ultimately if we won't self-select our slavery there is a harder form soon available - Chinese credit scores (aka bio-medical-ids/crypto-wallets) which thanks to the technocracy we have been working hard to achieve (esp in IT), will mean some of us will be locked out of life in the system. So, its a mix of both visions.
Honestly pretty useful maybe, just add a bit of polish and I can see myself using this.
Yes, it's up to the listener to judge whether the criticism is valid, and if it's wildly disconnected from my understanding of reality, I label the speaker a kook. I didn't mean to imply the kook label was objective.
You can use the very close relative of the Bezier, the uniform B-spline, for drawing curves, it’s a more natural fit. Yes, this way you can collect a sequence of mouse events and use them as-is as the control points of a curve. Depending on how you render your curve, in 2d, you might want a “normal” for the curve in order to rasterize a thick and/or textured stroke. You can do it easily and unambiguously by rotating the tangent (derivative) of the curve by 90 degrees. In 3d, it’s harder.

The B-spline is just a math name for a connected sequence of curve segments, setup so that the segments join nicely and so that there is a continuous “parameter” along the entire curve.

For a sketch interface, I personally prefer the quadratic B-spline to the cubic (but you can use any degree you want). The background for curves in general isn’t easy to pick up and understand quickly, but you might check out the “Chaikin” subdivision which is super simple math and equivalent to a quadratic curve.
This is how the EU (and some associated countries) have it set up. One obviously would like to centralize the signing just so for some basic auditing and to limit the number of public keys that get installed. But that just means a central signing service, it does not need to have persistent storage in said central location. In practice having the generated certs in a central DB is very useful for the users though, since it makes it trivial to install the certs on a new phone etc.
I requested a refund of my tax money as well because of the pot holes in the road.
I love their cooking content.
Medical services do not have price-elastic demand just because they are offered in a free market. It's the other way actually; I'd imagine medical services are some of the most price-inelastic things you can buy.
What you’ve written is just a tautology.

USD are valuable because USD are valuable.

Pesos aren’t valuable because pesos aren’t valuable.

It doesn’t demonstrate why that is the case.
Sure, but part of how it keeps itself alive is it recruits all these mullified people to work for it, and throwing off some reward to them. This can sustain itself for a long while, as it seems to be doing.

Perhaps the thing that happens is people see it's all BS and just decide they don't need all the toys, and once they don't need the toys, they don't need to work either. Plus they'll get more critical of the system.
Climate change while serious is nowhere near an 'existential threat' on the level of a planet-destroying asteroid. It's also harder to understand, and with a longer time frame so it's not comparable.
> That study showed that the effect of surgical masks was statistically significant when used by the elderly 50+ population. For other age groups and for cloth masks, the advantage was statistically insignificant.

The study could prove that the masks worked in 50+. And this was with a maximum of 40% of people complying.

This does NOT mean that the masks didn't work in 50-. It means that the statistical power was insufficient to prove that they worked.

It could also mean that 50- didn't comply with masks as well. It could also mean that 50- engaged in other risky behavior. etc.

Why everybody seems to think that "Provably works in 50+" and "Provably doesn't work in 50-" are completely compatible ideas is completely beyond me. "Provably works in 50+" significantly increases the Bayesian prior on "Works in 50- even if we can't prove such."
> Are there any other cloud providers who have started by reselling another cloud providers products?

For government, yes. The USAF has a common infrastructure provider called Cloud One, built on top of AWS GovCloud. You can try to go to their website at https://aws.cdl.af.mil, but you won't be able to, since it requires a CAC and mutual TLS.

Among the things it gives you on top of AWS:

- CAC authentication, so MFA isn't optional like with vanilla AWS and you don't need separate IAM for human users (at least not the "I") since every user already has an externally provisioned and managed identity

- Air Force managed firewalls, so you can't just choose to be completely open, which vanilla AWS is perfectly happy to allow

- A limited subset of AMIs and managed services that are pre-approved as being sufficiently mature and secure for DoD production use

- Only pre-approved roles and policies, i.e. you can't accidentally create a publicly accessible S3 bucket because the system won't even allow that as an option

And yes, there are economies of scale and volume discounts and what not that have allowed some DoD infrastructure and platform providers to operate without any appropriated spending at least for some period of time, as in they fund themselves entirely by charging other government programs that use them. Platform One was like that I think for at least the first 18 months it existed, but then eventually received its own direct funding.
I would have died if I weren't wearing a helmet a couple years back. The conjecture on the part of this brain surgeon about how people _would_ act is a flimsy supposition.
Will Tokens Replace Equity?
In my case it's drastically simpler and easier than the types of interviews I've had at places with even higher applicant demand like say Game Companies.

There really is no comparison in difficulty from getting a few simple binary search or iteration questions from a FAANG company and the kinds of things higher end game studios ask you.
Sure it is, just render the same string in right to left!
> Us societal rejects would greatly appreciate it.

Don’t do this. Even if you’re in a bad place socially this is the internet. No one knows you’re a dog. Offline it’s a bad idea too because you’re at least as likely to provoke “kick that whining puppy” as pity and both of those are bad.

If things are shit that sucks but they can get better.
> I presume Apple will suffer the same fate.

Why? Has there been any trend to indicate they're headed in this direction?
An open source X64/32 debugger for windows
Reqwest – An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
Looks good. It reminds me of The Great Courses and its streaming service Wondrium [1]. They have (from the top of my head [1]) at least two courses that would be the equivalent to this one.
The courses are taught by experts in a field who also happen to be great teachers (usually teaching award winning professors).

1. https://www.wondrium.com/art-and-craft-of-mathematical-probl...

2. https://www.wondrium.com/home
Depending on what your metric is, whenever it came out.
Every 4 day work week company I can find on the planet
Congrats on the funding and soft launch.

I'm a believer in serverless, and think it could be better still! The continued progress of companies like darklang, replit, singlestore, planetscale (to name a few) have been super exciting.

And so: How'd you compare your approach with James Cowling's convex.dev which is a slightly different take on marrying data with serverless [0]? Thanks.

[0] https://docs.convex.dev/guide/convex-fundamentals/intro
Every new release was like "we broke backwards compatibility but we got it right this time", rinse and repeat
Why is this stuff even reinvented for every programming language?

Isn't it about time that we have some common language that every other language builds on?
Can tar control block size and maximum file size? If you can't set those to 1 MB and 20 GB respectively, then for LTO-5 and later you will be leaving alot of performance on the table. Like half or more, check file size graph in https://www.bareos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/optimizing....
It's passing the buck but it also isn't a problem that needs to be solved for several hundred years. And you'll notice I said this isn't a problem as long as we keep researching, aka. not abandonment. My bigger point is that it wasn't like climate change where every day we ignore or don't solve the problem then the problem gets worse (a positive feedback loop). In the case of nuclear, this is not actually true. We also have a substantially larger timeframe to solve the problem. I believe it is naive to also believe that we can come up with a perfect storage solution (long term, doesn't rely on known languages, can handle apocalyptic events, loss of history, and many other factors that only matter when we're looking 10k years out). I think it is a bit naive to believe that a solution we could implement today would be a descent solution. It is better to continue researching and sitting on it (which is safe for now and the next few hundred years. Which is only unsafe because geological effects come into play). No matter what we do you can define it as "passing the buck" simply due to the underlying issue of humans being dumb.
> Yet German electricity is two times more expensive than France's one. One is nuclear the other is """green"""

Please add more logical fallacies
https://www.wondrium.com/home
> Who hurt you?

Every time I have to show my vaccination card to be in public.

> Listen, if you're hell bent on willfully increasing your risk of death/hospitalization, that's on you.

I am vaccinated and boosted. I MAY not want to get boosted AGAIN because it was extremely painful and made me sick for more than a day. I MAY not want to go through that again while taking into account what is happening in the FUTURE with the variants. but I may not have the right to make my own decision due to mandate fanatics

> And yes, you were unlucky. The vaccines are still 70+% effective at preventing breakthrough infections based on the data we currently have.

do you even know what that means? what does it mean to be '70% effective'? How long does this effectiveness last? effective against what (covid19, delta, omicron)? Are you talking about vaccinated 1, 2, or booster? I know personally 20 people who have gotten it. 15 vaccinated 5 Unvaccinated. We have been having more than 600k cases per day since the beginning of January. I'm guessing there is A LOT of break through cases in that.

> And as far as OP is concerned, there is a high likelihood that their boosted status did protect them from infection.

If they were sitting across from me when I was feverish from omi, they would have gotten it. keep in mind, I was infected by someone who was vaccinated.
I think we need some air quotes around "praises" in the title here...
Disclaimer: I work at Google.

My current impression is that - on average - Google is known for having the best WLB across the big tech companies.
In fairness, if you let the word compact do a lot of heavy lifting, I don't see why a sufficiently compact power source would have to be dangerous to fly. Give it enough redundant cells and enough AI to keep you upright, sure why not? From an abstract physics perspective, flying is only a little more complex than keeping a Segway upright. Look at what modern ejection seats can do.

The problem is that we are orders of magnitude off in terms of power density, and it seems unlikely that we'll bridge that without some sort of major revolution in physics. So sci-fi it remains.