skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skimmed through the analysis.

Figure 1 is pretty funny, given it's x-axis of 1.5 to 1.7 it on first glance seems to show a 50% drop in the deaths per 100M vehicle miles traveled in between 1996 and 1997 (1.7 to 1.6). That is even though they do show the exact numbers (1.69 and 1.64). But let's blame that on the word processors of the time (1999).

The difference in deaths per 100M miles of vehicle travel between 1995 and 1997 of all States that Raised Speed Limits is -5.6%, while it's -6.3% for the states which kept the old one.
Actor or not, you can’t paint an entire protest based on a fringe group of people waving racist flags. Imagine if you had some radical far-left hate groups showing up to a BLM protest, it would be unfair to say their protest is all about those hate groups.
Perhaps I over estimated. I know that my 15 Gb hotspot allocation only lasted a few weeks (days was perhaps too strong). I used two carriers to get 30 Gb. But one MacOS upgrade (on one computer) and the allocation is gone.

And then there is Zoom.

I think that it is difficult to estimate one's internet usage if you can go somewhere else when you need do to something big. If 15 Gb is your only allocation, for home and work, it doesn't last long.
I am sorry I did not cite these things. You can find this same reporting about Google paying Apple from many sources including Forbes.
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-apple-default-sear...

Google's main business is surveillance advertising, and they pay Apple for the privilege of surveilling their users and returning them advertising. I am sorry but I do not know what else to call it other than surveillance advertising.

Here is a study showing that Apple collects data from Iphone users pretty much the same as Google does from Android phones. https://irishtechnews.ie/trinity-study-privacy-concerns-abou...

Apple has a $5B advertising business of their own. I would be naive to think they do not use any of the data they collect about individuals for their advertising. Their closed source platform and business practices does not enable us to verify what they claim. I have plenty of other resources of information about this, but it is pointless to share if someone does not really want to see it.
Huh? What is wrong with "bare" EC2 instances?
>out of context soundbites

A link to the entire transcript of an event is an "out of context sondbite"? You're clearly not discussing in good faith.
Why would it write to internal flash at all? The flash on my OpenWRT router is mounted read-only.
Magnetic seeds used to heat and kill cancer
Can I ask what tool / plugin you use to do this in Logic?
Yeah the websocket server is having an absolute meltdown. It was written in a rush in 2017!
The comment you think you are agreeing with is one that you are not agreeing with or one that you don't seem to understand.
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it _looks_ like its carborised, ie slightly burnt, so it should last pretty well.
I'm continually amazed at just how easy it is to get people to completely dismiss the legitimacy and message of any movement. All you need is for someone to take a few photos of a unidentifiable individual in the vicinity who is carrying a Nazi flag.
> Interesting how some "dark patterns", especially of the psychological kind, are actually important elements of good game design.

Right.

I really think this website is a great idea, but I'm surprised to see people reporting "dark" patterns in Lumino City, for example, when what they are actually talking about is a game so beautiful and gently maddening that you want to finish it.
This time, the bill appears to not be limited to messages: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220201/11235048400/senat...
Wow, that brings back memories! I wrote this message, and it was a direct result of some very bad experiences from some people who thought they knew what they were doing -- but in fact had no idea. I don't know how well this message worked, but it warms my heart to see it again; thank you!
Part of a recent project I worked on involved this very issue, and significant savings are definitely possible. As an idea this is great, there's a gap in the market for this and very few addressing the issue, least of all AWS.

However, there's a couple of little things that may block its wider adoption.

1. It's a big ask for some companies to create any sort of IAM role for an external company or contractor. Even though they send and receive sensitive data from any number of 3rd party APIs, most will be uneasy about IAM access. It's just a hang up more than a concern, but still.

2. Engineering managers either don't understand or don't care about cloud spend. They get their budget at the start of the year, and they grow it based on the previous year. They usually don't have anywhere to put savings later on in the year, and don't want to reduce spend, and hence budget targets, for the following year.

3. I'd half expect your idea to be bought out by Amazon and shuttered. Kudos to you if that's what happens! But it's costing Jeff Bezos another yacht, so he may not like that.
But it's still up for renewal at a particular, well-defined time, whether or not that is important to you.

So the statement you challenged makes perfect sense.
> So invariably the people bitching about natural immunity are just doing it to make a point, usually political.

Bodily autonomy is kind of an important topic, is it not? Why should some asshole force me to get an unnecessary medical procedure for a common respiratory virus I already had in order to work or enter many places of business? Why does the government get to force this medical procedure on me?

You can't argue for bodily autonomy and simultaneously support vaccination passports and things like that. I mean you can, but it makes your argument a whole lot weaker.
We are, AMA.
Word of mouth - they find me. I'm not on LinkedIn, my hatred of it is well-known, but I have met enough people over the years that keep me busy with work.
The point I'm making is that this says absolutely nothing about their ability to eat a $320M loss because they didn't eat a $320M loss if what they put up was ETH because they can't transact in ETH, they don't fund their operations in ETH, they don't pay their LPs returns in ETH, etc. etc. etc.

It might well be that they can eat a $320M loss on the regular, but if so, this situation isn't any kind of indicator of it.
Yeah good point. A built in AirTag would be handy for zero power events.
I agree with you, but I find it important to note that it seems like the people who are most into VR gaming also hate the broader concept of the Metaverse.

That is, VR gamers just want to play games, including collaborative games. They don't want to sign in to Facebook to do it, they don't want to "live" in the metaverse, they don't want some shyster hocking their NFTs in VR while they're just trying to play a game.

This whole Metaverse BS just completely feels like Second Life 2.0 (Third Life??)
I had the exact same take on the riots in 2020 and I don't condone rioting in general. Disrupting public order, destroying property, or just causing economic damage and thinking the law is just some suggestion seems to be an increasing and pretty bad trend.

Expressing yourself is fine, disturbing public life because you don't get your will isn't. That's not how civilized societies resolve issues. This is now apparently a controversial take on multiple political sides.
This is really cool and even more impressive given the blog post is from 2019.

Is there any instructions on how to “host” this ourselves? Not seeing anything related to that in the post nor the GH page:
https://github.com/humphd/browser-shell
The attitude isn't cultivated by Hollywood. It's the media and business. And that attitude is that successful, worthwhile ideas, and the persons generating them, are the ones who are successful at climbing the grant career ladder under current funding regimes.

Not saying that what you're referring to isn't also a problem, but the immediate problem with reference to the paper is the meritocracy-funding-complex that underlies modern biomedical academics (and by extension, other areas of academics that are held up to it as a profit source by universities).
Believe me or not, I know a number of engineers at FAANGS that turned down opportunities to move to the US even at 3x the salary.

The bizantine bureaucracy without clear guarantees and timelines, the theoretical risk of being deported, the less theoretical risk of being under surveillance, the limits on what you can do on H1B... it makes people feel very unwelcome.
As the Surgisphere affair has showed, publishing null results opens its own can of worms: No one will bother replicating them. Surprising positives at least have a kind of target drawn on them, but a negative result that matches people's expectations is really not something anyone disinterested would want to replicate -- there is no fame in that. Fraudulent non-results will be blocking fruitful directions.

I wish I had a panacea for these things...
With 4 layers, it would be a trivial extension to drive a y axis
Hard not to view these expiration of permits or recommendations of ethical committees as calculated moves to create leverage and to increase valuations. Especially when within 12 months a 5x return on investment is realized followed by an immediate policy reversal or when the Israelis suddenly gain the blessings of the gulf to annex Jerusalem.

What a shame on every computer scientist involved and every one who is an expert in this domain and. Is staying silent.

You know these efforts don’t work without the involvement of academics and venture capitalists and skilled programmers. And what did they create? A tool that was used to spy on a dissident journalist in order to put together a savage assassination operation.

Shame on the Saudis and shame on their Israeli enablers.
Interesting... they just now switched to PAM and Python 3? And the package management tool now supports file locking to prevent installs from clashing?

I knew that Slackware was rather bare-bones, but I didn't expect it to be that bare bones. I knew that SUSE was built on top of Slackware about 25 years ago, which now I understand... If it was that bare bones back then, it must have been rather straightforward to improve on it.

Even more is it impressive that Slackware is still around after such a long time. It inspired one of the oldest desktop-capable Linux distributions, has seen others like Mandrake/Caldera come and go, and is still releasing.

Congrats, honestly! Sometimes it pays off to keep things as simple as possible.
Points 1-4 seem to be promoting a vision of individual researchers working independently with low cost instruments. A sort of yeoman farmer model of research?

Why not aggregate those independent researchers into a single place so that they can share ideas and the cost of high quality instruments? Like a university.

Also, I don't disagree with any of these ideas, I just don't think they're relevant in a university setting, at least in the US. Most universities have good libraries with access to all the luxury journals. They have core facilities with high quality equipment. There's some red-tape but you can study just about any chemical in a university lab.

Edit: I should note that the current journal publishing system is a terrible fucking scam and should be immediately dismantled. That said, it's not currently limiting my research because everyone at my university shares in the extortion fees charged by publishers.
DACA is a workaround for people who are functionally "American" but not legally so. Them moving "back to Mexico" would work out about as well as telling a bunch of people working in car factories to move to Mexico to keep their job.

Also, the law itself is a slap in the face to everyone who made the decision to follow and respect the law. Immigration law is deliberately designed to be at least a little dehumanizing to the immigrant: it's NIMBYism, but for people instead of duplexes. The only thing that we should be giving the people who followed the law is an apology for having to go through such a nightmare. We absolutely should not retain such a restrictive system purely for the sake of making people who followed it feel like their sunk costs went into something.
I think the efficiency impact is important over the highway. There’s a pretty big drag difference. Drag being about half of the force needed for the engine to overcome at highways speeds in the US. Especially if you’re already making efforts to reduce rolling resistance, drag can make a significant impact on the range of electric Semis (plus of course the operating costs and time to recharge and cost and lifetime of the battery).

These things are easy to overlook if you’re just using diesel, but they matter a lot for electric.
A cab-over semi might have a combined drag coefficient of over 0.7, whereas the Tesla Semi is around 0.35. So the 500 mile range of the Tesla Semi may be just 375 miles if using a conventional European cab-over design. That reduces the life of the battery as well, increases the proportion of the time spent charging, the cost per mile to charge, etc. And it can’t just be compensated with a bigger battery, either, because the vehicle is already near or at the weight limit.

Drag actually matters.
They look free but they aren’t I can’t register them with any provider even if some say they are free during the domain search.
The way scientific papers are ranked - ie how many citations a paper gets, means consensus is rewarded and dissent is punished.
Yeah, spots is where it's at. The problem is to leverage spots, the application in question needs to be 'cloud native'. Many companies moving to the cloud are simply picking up legacy app servers and dropping them on an ec2 instances and declaring success. Those will simply not survive the properties of spots.
This is so much up my street its practically in my house!

A few days ago, I just released a mobile game focused very much on the wellbeing of the player.

It's called Kanso, And I'll be submitting it here for sure.
Thank you very much for posting!!!!
The CDC publishes weekly data on variant percentages.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
Badges and achievements definitely are a dark pattern. You can tell they are because game developers have gone so overboard on them now that you are like, oh I got a badge, yes I'll claim it, no I haven't a clue what it does...

The rest of the things you identify, as you say, that's just games.

(I think this website is a very, very good idea)
Lol yeah fair :D
These days it is nearly 100% of the time because browsers will put up lots of scary warnings for non-HTTPS requests (and most video these days is delivered in chunks over HTTPS instead of custom or lower-level protocols).
I don't even have that expensive of a bike, but I have two on mine

There's a 3D-printed housing for one that sits between the frame and the water bottle holder. If someone does ever steal my bike, and checks for AirTags, I expect them to find this one

I have a second wedged inside the seat cavity. You have to take the seat off the seatpost rails to remove it

It's pretty common for thieves to have a lot of stolen stuff together, so if there is a second stalker notification I'm hoping they assume it's from another stolen item in their possession (having already removed the water bottle AirTag)
I'm saying this as someone who lost a family member to a combination of myocarditis and endocarditis resulting from a flu infection: I'm not attempting to downplay it. Myocarditis has the potential to be extremely serious, especially for those with pre-existing heart problems.

However, _in my opinion_ with how infectious omicron is, it is likely inevitable that everyone will eventually be exposed. The literature (linked in my GP) currently seems to indicate that vaccines have a lower risk of myocarditis than an active SARS-CoV-2 infection. Most literature that I've seen (so far) indicates that occurrences of post-vaccination myocarditis tends to be rare, and not life-threatening, and the patients tend to recover quickly.[1]

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[1]: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.0...
> Aurora on spot

How would that work for a database? And have you considered or tried Aurora Serverless?
The reacharound assist. Let him decide when to resume face-to-face.
we have for all intents and purposes eradicated polio in the areas that trust vaccines. it's in basically 2 places now because of a few factors but a large one is that the taliban doesn't trust them and think it's a sterilizing campaign... pakistan, and afganistan.
Probably but it looks like this is lacking Gmail access among other things. It’s in no way comparable to the G Suite product.
AWS has many competitors, definitely not unassailable. For a new company to go cloud, I would be happy shopping between Azure/AWS/GCP(but not really) to get a desirable deal.

Amazon however has this logistics empire built over past decade. It would remain untouchable for a long time.
Not sure what you mean by bare, but my ECS clusters are backed by a mix of ondemand and spot instances.
I don’t think they are from my somewhat limited exposure to them through events
If you don't know the truth, at least try not to lie. Nothing I've seen in the dozens of downtown live streams jives with the smearing I've witnessed on places like r/pics and the news. It appears from the commentary that there is such vitriol towards the protesters that I wouldn't put it past some opposition group to fly defamatory flags that have no apparent connection to why they are protesting. A prominent trusted newspaper even ran a cartoon presenting the trucks as fascist... for protesting against a perceived government overreach. What kind of cognitive dissonance is going on there?
I find peoples' reactions to this to not be a new phenomenon, but I do have the pandemic to thank for making me far better at identifying such personalities and not letting myself judge the person having them. In my experience it's pretty rare to find someone capable of removing emotion from an argument. Perhaps 5% of people I know are capable of this. The other 95%, given enough debate, put you in their idiot or "basically Hitler" box and cease to listen to or respect anything you say. This makes me very sad, because we've got other huge challenges needing faced as a species and I can see the same crazy nonsense we've seen with COVID happening for all of those too. Before we can begin to fix real issues facing civilisation, we're going to have to fix our ability to tolerate and debate arguments we disagree with.

One thought I had recently is how up and downvotes on sites like HN must contribute to tunnel vision in debates. I know I have self-censored in the past knowing that something I would say would get downvoted into oblivion, and I've posted stuff that hasn't been very constructive but that I've known would be a crowd pleaser. This surely creates echo chambres resembling the opinions of the loudest in the community. Old vBulletin-style forums before likes and up/downvotes were a thing, where all you could do was quote-reply (and one-word "+1" and "disagree" replies were brutally deleted by zealous moderators), were perhaps in hindsight the closest to optimal we ever reached in the realm of textual online debates. What a sorry state of affairs.
In this case, the message in question was written at Sun -- by someone who would turn out to be one of Oracle's biggest critics.
They likely have a peering setup with each of these companies, so they know the IP address ranges they're using for this video traffic. They can tag the traffic and shape it (drop packets in excess of some rate).
I would have preferred jumpers… but I’ll accept this.
I would think that a significant proportion of native born American households (including most politicians) have at least one immigrant grandparent, and the conditions that led to them leaving their native home. You would think that a people who are well acquainted with their own relatively recent roots in the country would be more open to the idea in general.
Thanks for explaining that. The article just jumps right into using "de novo" all over the place with minimal explanation, but the link they highlight it with is broken.
It sort of depends where you are - I think most of the ones people in cities would see are cab over but the moment you head rurally it’s almost exclusively conventional - Kenworth and Western Star are by far and away the biggest brands. Try driving up or down the Newell Highway - conventional would outnumber cab over 10-20:1

Driving a road ranger gearbox is a lot of fun. And a jake brake makes an awesome sound! I agree with the comment below me - you almost never use the clutch, just match revs to gear. It’s a nice skill, you can do it in any manual vehicle but you’re more likely to torch the transmission in the average car - Toyota landcruisers are good practice though
Also in BC/PNW you can buy old houses that are going to be demolished. Some friends on Lopez Island had an old home shipped over and plopped on their 40 acres where they then started growing wheat and baking bread.

https://www.nickelbros.com/residential/homes-for-sale/
> for instance, prohibits teachers from discussing any topic that creates "discomfort, guilt or anguish" on the basis of political belief.

I mean, sounds reasonable to me.

Teach the facts of history. Tens of millions of Jews, Queer people, and POC were slaughtered by nazi fascists. America's economy was founded on the enslavement of Black people and racist behavior is encoded in some of our systems of government and behavior to this very day. That's not teaching something on the basis of a political belief, that's just a fact that happened.

You don't need to sit a K-12 student down and bash them over the head about how they should feel bad for a belief. First, that's not going to change their views. Secondly, we have enough teachers imposing their own political biases onto students.
Misleading headline; the graphic in the article makes it quite clear the device is much larger than the "salt grain" that most of us would imagine. And the text of the article mentions a "coarse grain of salt" in a rather slippery attempt to gloss over this.

Still very impressive technology, but, a very misleading headline.
> they must however take precautions to protect others from their risky behavior

If the vaccine was so good at protecting others, why the hell do vaccinated people still need to wear a mask? How is it even ethical to force people to vaccinate in order to function in society and yet still require them to wear a mask? Seems kind of bullshit to me.
Actually, this model has been suggested by former heads of NIH and NSF, who have publicly expressed concern about the current funding paradigm.

The problem is that impact by reasonable metrics is correlated about 0.30 with grant score, so it's difficult to predict what will be successful. (Note that impact itself is controversial, given self-fulfilling fad dynamics in research -- FOMO popularity spikes and so forth).

One of the biggest predictors of grant success is having previously published with people on the review committees.

The idea is that you randomly fund research because it's difficult to know what will be important, but try to balance that against grants that might be poorly conceived to begin with.