skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've not seen a convincing argument against simply looking at excess deaths.

The upset from lockdowns and delayed or canceled treatments/surgeries is why. I don't think we have final numbers for 2021 yet, but the numbers from the US in 2020 showed a jump in non-covid deaths about half as big as covid deaths.

Cancer didn't have a big jump that year, but it is one of the things that got postponed diagnoses and treatments, because it doesn't kill immediately so it's not an emergency, so one expectation I've seen is for it to spike in 2021.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234#24...
Only the higher-end CPUs like i5 and i7 in laptops. IIRC and no clue about AMD
> non-commercial drivers subsidize non-drivers by paying fuel and other taxes that pay for roads.

The costs of roads are far from fully paid out of those taxes though. So non-drivers are also subsidizing commercial drivers extensively in practice.

> Commercial (semis et al) benefit everyone (especially non-drivers that depend on commercial drivers bringing in goods to them from outside the city)

Only to the extent that their shipping is providing value, and it's hard to assess that given the distorting subsidy that they're getting. They might be outcompeting more efficient alternative modes of transport, or they might be making marginal-benefit deliveries that actually aren't worth the road wear and space that they're taking up if those costs were fully accounted for.

> Non-drivers in NYC are taking drivers for a fiscal ride

Nonsense. The land value of roads alone is a huge implicit subsidy to drivers.
I do that regularly in all stick shift vehicles (rev matching). It's a lot more challenging without a synchro at all, though!
Couldn't you do passive dedup somehow by having a periodic task that searched for dupes and replaced them with hardlinks?
You need to choose a marker that you can "afford" to use for destruction - which either doesn't exist at all in healthy cells, or, more likely, it exists but losing all your healthy cells with the same marker won't kill you (but is still likely to harm you, just in ways that can be treated). Such markers are scarce, and not guaranteed to exist; if we find one for this cancer (like CD19) that works, but if it fails, then it's exceedingly likely that targeting "cd21 or another target" will simply kill you because it will also destroy some vital cells in your liver or veins or brain.
Surely whatever SoC they're using already has the capability, so yeah, it's probably a few $ at most. I bet they figured they'd save money because of people's shitty wifi setups in their gargantuan exurban homes.
The BLM protests ended up in a lot worse. A few murders, a LOT of property damage, and a whole lot more. And yet they were largely supported by the media despite the bad apples.
In a similar vein: Most of the adverts I see on Reddit are for very obvious Ponzi schemes. But I guess because they're "social media" and "disruptive" it's ok?
“I also kind of think that he might become a librarian,” Hartman added. “We in libraries love stories and love to share them.”

I'm hoping the kid figures out ZIP files, HTML, and PNGs so he can compose an epub for wider distribution.
Things like this was really hard to learn. Now thankfully there are many open source projects but sometimes still hard to find suitable project.
I find it not quite as unintuitive when there are more than two fields: 1.2.0 is almost impossible to be misread as greater than 1.18.0.
It is "code that changes together" but also an expression of which code depends on what and in what kind of manner does it do so (e.g. is one subsumed by the other or is used by 3x other modules). Understanding where things live is also a statement on the composability of the code and how many assumptions about the outside world that the interfaces make.

It's also worth noting that there's likely not one single "correct" organization/taxonomy, and certainly not one that's static and guaranteed to last forever. It truly is one of the most complex parts of programming because it's subjective, subject to change and is in a lot of ways right through the center of what it means to abstract something in the first place. I don't think there are any simple answers because it's equal parts philosophical and mundane.

Software mixes things that model the real world, convenient fictions, abstract truths and guilty hacks and I believe trying to make sense of it is at least as much an art as a science.
This is great thread as someone who aspires to pursue independent contracting,
later in future.

I would love to hear someone's perspective on how technology blogging landed them clients
Seconded, 100%
GUI Appearance Settings
The main FTP ISO mirrors are a bit slow - thankfully there are torrents available here https://seedbox.slackware.uk/
I reject the framing.

The problem isn’t the lack of personalizabilty(?) or customizability. The problem is that we’ve collectively allowed providers of content to warp the www into a state where they have the ability to control our experience.

Consider what the web would look like if instead of html and JavaScript, it only consisted of a content description language devoid of any ability to control layout, fonts, colors, etc. My browser, under MY control, can present the content to me in whatever way I prefer. There might be a rich marketplace of both free and paid experiences that I could download and install into my browser.

Just because the web currently acts a certain way doesn’t mean that things HAVE to be that way.
Now try booting off it with it 1) not being supported in the kernel, 2) not using Ubuntu, 3) figuring out how to boot into a previous snapshot easily
>>Actually, Square via CASH App just enabled LN tx on it app to both iOS and Android users

LN has less than 3.5K BTC for channel collateral, meaning relatively few people use it.

>>With that said, you don't have to run a node to take advantage of low tx fees:

I didn't say you need to run a node to use it. I said you needed an always online hot wallet. You need it because even to receive a LN transaction, your private keys need to sign a series HTLC of transactions linking the originating node with yours.
Do it yourself hyperspectral imager for handheld to airborne operations
Oh, for some reason I read that bit as "the Linux kernel non-consensually personalizes." You're right, though: it's definitely referring to userspace libraries, not the kernel itself. And yes, you can still easily avoid GNOME, Unity, and anything else you don't want to use: Openbox, i3, dmenu, and countless other window managers and GUI applications exist and work perfectly well (as they did a decade ago). That plethora of choice makes "Linux" nearly immune to the effect that the author's talking about.
This removes copy-on-write though, which is why it's a bad idea. Editing a file in one place and having it surprise edit everywhere else is a good way to wind up with a disaster.
I don't know if it ended up implemented, but there was talk of patching Linux to re-enable the necessary symbols for ZFS. This would let it use SIMD again, and speed it up to where encryption isn't a performance hog.

It'd explain why you get different results on NixOS.

EDIT: Seems like it was, but has been removed as unnecessary on newer ZFS versions.
Generate GPG Keys with Curve Ed25519
There's a lot of room for improvement on the compiler and library end. RE2 and Hyperscan demonstrate the ceiling here.

The NFA simulator is heavily optimized for readability, which means lots of recursion, and fewer special cases outside of small regexps. The compiler also doesn't perform certain optimizations like vectorization and emitting jump tables, which might be useful here.

There isn't a metaprogramming facility to generate equivalent Go code like in re2go: https://re2c.org/manual/manual_go.html. The best we can do is pre-declare the regexps globally as to initialize them once, but we still have to run the interpreter.

Moreover, thus far, a DFA matcher is out of a picture, as discussed here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11646.
I've had a great experience using DVC for both data versioning and pipelines before. Can you tell us why Ploomber is a better solution than DVC?
> At time of writing there are 387 open issues with Type: Defect label on the ZoL Github and the bulk of them seem to be genuinely important problems, such as logic bugs, panics, assertions, hanging, system crashes, kernel null pointer dereferences, and xfstests failures.

My impression is that zfs is generally considered to be less buggy than btrfs, which is the filesystem that is most often used when directly comparing to zfs. Though I admit I mostly use ZFS on freebsd, not linux (and I think the article is mostly focused on ZoL)
I tried it twice and got completely hosed drives twice somehow.

Have had zero hosed drives with ZFS. Although with ZFS not being supported in the kernel, it's fairly hard to do a ZFS-on-root setup unless you're using Ubuntu.

YMMV.
I agree, but simplicity of implementation is a net positive in a vacuum. When balanced against things like performance, it's definitely worth some trade-offs for better performance... but simplicity of implementation definitely has lots of upsides that users indirectly benefit from. Therefore, I think it's important to at least have a balance.
I searched a little and saw many references to 15,000 reduced deaths in the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 due to air bags.
More likely to be a tech lead in those cases, or to be helping hold the project together while they are hiring a full time resource. Also in certain cases the companies are so far from ideal states that a lot of good can be done in 6 months. Overall, I agree that most times it won't make sense for a company to plan on switching dev managers or tech leads after < 6 months, but again that assumes ideal conditions or options.
How is performance nowadays if you have a couple thousand snapshots? And can I assume there's no admin overhead, like manually balancing things?
As a practical matter, I'm not sure to what degree it makes sense to think of stock prices in those terms these days. But, yes, stock price in principle is the net present value of dividend flows.

It is also reasonable to ask what the more mercenary employees or would be employees of companies like Facebook do when stock becomes a lot less attractive.
Funny the article mentions macOS - I actually had an issue with this recently, when I upgraded to the new OS version, my desktop background was changed to the new default macOS image, and I actually had to re-download the one I was using before. I'm a relatively new macOS user, so not sure if that's common/expected when upgrading, but I really didn't like it.
Why not bcachefs? It has many of the features of zfs, but without the problems

https://bcachefs.org/
> No one would care about them being shut down, or no one would care what they said? Small people get de-platformed quite often from both political tribes, including shadow bans.

No one would care what they said. There are a lot of smaller fish saying things much worse, and they largely do so with no consequence.

> Is it the one where he was with the Australian journalists where Rogan was saying...

Yes, that one. Rogan never really corrects himself. He starts pushing back on the data source and then they just transition on to something else. I did see that later on Twitter he did seemingly admit to being fact checked. And blames it on it being a long form show where the topics aren't disclosed up front. In those cases why do you submit a thesis, rather than simply stating, "I don't really know the facts here"? That's what reasonable people do all the time. Rather he is counting on you to not know the facts or be able to fact check him in real time. He just steam rolls you.

> Some interesting things I noticed is when the news would do a segment on a Trump speech and how outlandish it was, then I watched the actual speech, it was pretty obvious the news was being disingenuous.

With Trump in particular I felt that the "mainstream" media largely gave him a pass on most of his speeches unless they were nationally televised. Some of his worst comments were stump speeches that never were aired nationally, but could be found on YouTube and other sites. I think he was much worse than most America believes.
Is anyone is arguing that it's unobserved? Top comment said there is situational awareness.

But in this instance, it's a US company.

They didn't get "caught out". It's an acceptable or even intentional release, rubberstamped by the overseers, likely of the NGA flavor.

And since the jet was there on multiple days, it's almost like they wanted countries with less than full satellite coverage to have time to get a peek.
Probably switching to transparent pricing is the way to go. Calculate the costs of things ($X/year for maintaining transmission lines and other over Y customers = $Z infra fee) and charge separately for each of them.
Not sure what the deal is, I haven't really dug into it at all, but pretty much any time I run htop I can see a 100% CPU process like:

2710046 root 20 0 1121M 85744 6848 S 102. 0.3 0:05.76 /sbin/zsysd
I'm going to say one more time: there are > 0 illegal 53' trailers in Manhattan, but not by much. It's incredibly hard to get a trailer onto the island. The tunnels aren't tall enough and only 2 of the 21 bridges allow 53' trailers (they are the entrance and exit to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Manhattan_Expressway) at the far northern end (~170th St). The bridges are all controlled by Port Authority not NYPD. The trucks that end up on lower Manhattan are lost drivers, not making illegal deliveries to Target and Whole Foods. If the NYPD enforced the law _perfectly_ it would not be "unsafe" like you suggest. It would instead make almost no difference to the availability of goods on Manhattan.

I figured you'd focus on HK specifically. I don't agree it's incomparable, but forget I mentioned it. Big trucks are banned from big cities all over the world. The police forces that enforce those bans are not all sat in their cars playing games on their phones like they do in NYC. And yet life goes on.
If the surrounding area where the plane is parked is coherent (which pavement and concrete usually is) then you will see an incoherent region in the SAR imagery where the plane resides which would be quite suspicious.
You run apt-get. Kernel gets updated. The ZFS module doesn't compile under the new kernel.

I'm not aware of any distros except NixOS which will then proceed to roll back the entire transaction.
Relativism is a western concept
They could do that but you deeplink back into the Netflix app to actually watch to solve the DRM issue. Which I think shows that it's about more than just DRM. They want to control the experience.
I've had this thought that natural ability to fight of cancer cells was a precision/recall problem for the cells. Good to see that the body has ways to approach this problem. Really cool to see us use antibodies to really improve the recall
> Do you seriously believe that people having to put $400 on their credit card isn't a sign of increasing poverty? You are that daft?

Less people would rely on a credit card for $400 today than 10 years ago. That's a sign of decreasing poverty.

I'm not arguing that everything is perfectly fine. There are people struggling. But the trend is undeniably positive. People are better off today than 10 years ago, and the same was true 10 years ago as well.

> Furthermore the sign of bankruptcies declining does not disprove the claim that the majority of bankruptcies are medical related.

This was your claim:

> Honestly the point was to demonstrate the declining standard of living of Americans.

Yes, most bankruptcies are medical related. But bankruptcy rates are down, so your point that this indicates declining standard of living is nonsense.
Since its initial release, Go has used a stack-based calling convention based on the Plan 9 ABI, in which arguments and result values are passed via memory on the stack. This has significant simplicity benefits: the rules of the calling convention are simple and build on existing struct layout rules; all platforms can use essentially the same conventions, leading to shared, portable compiler and runtime code; and call frames have an obvious first-class representation, which simplifies the implementation of the go and defer statements and reflection calls. Furthermore, the current Go ABI has no callee-save registers, meaning that no register contents live across a function call (any live state in a function must be flushed to the stack before a call). This simplifies stack tracing for garbage collection and stack growth and stack unwinding during panic recovery.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/changes/78/24817...
Antibody tests. It's possible to tell if you've been exposed, and to which viruses and vaccines.
As a developer
I want the damn thing to work
So I don't have to tear my hear out
It is the birthplace of the pc. It started in the 70s and 80s and turned into the center of the tech world.

They do come, more than any other place but most don't come because uprooting your life and getting through the visa process is a lot more friction than working locally or semi-locally. If you live in Greece you would go to Germany before coming to sf.
At least packet loss and ping stability can be measured, unlike "sounds fuller".
I assume because it's still a great position for a base (wide stretch of easily defendable flat land) and the infrastructure is already there.

Plus, anyone capable of seriously surveilling such a well-positioned base will most likely also be aware of any other "secret" base that's usable for launching stealth aircraft; the space requirements alone make those hard to hide.
The High Cost of Cloud Talent
I've been working in centralized cloud management teams for a while now and I've been thinking a lot about the problems of understaffed teams and application complexity. I had a week off between roles and figured I'd compile my thoughts. Let me know what you think.
There is an elephant in the room.

btrfs filesystem defrag -r /

You can't do that with ZFS.

People can really hurt you with that.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_sum...
btrfs is the default for fedora workstation 35 and seems to work well for normal use cases. However it failed miserably when I tried to download the monero blockhain, either through raw import or incremental p2p sync. The fix was simple - set the database directory to nocow, recreate the db from a backup and all was well. But btrfs has that sharp edge users need to worry about in case they do have a large, regularly written file (say, like a database) hosted on the filesystem. XFS never had such an issue.
I wonder if the pool can tolerate freezing solid in the winter, or if it cracks the concrete? Flat roofs might be okay if they're built right. In Oregon, people would look at you funny if you built a house with a flat roof, and yet almost all our commercial buildings have flat roofs, so apparently it works out somehow.

(Oregon has one semi-famous flat-roofed house that I'm aware of, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I suspect FLW hadn't actually ever been to Oregon: it looked like a house that belongs in Arizona or California. Anyways, the eventual owner of the land the house is built on wanted to tear it down and build a mansion, and after much protests they allowed some people to come in and take the house apart and reassemble it near Salem. After putting it back together, they found some of the original contractors who had built the house originally. Supposedly they took a tour of the house and declared that it must have been properly reassembled, because the roof leaks in all the same places.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_House_(Silverton,_Orego...
If anyone hadn't noticed even entire countries do this. I'm looking at you Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
Has anyone actually tried to formally approach Oracle about the CDDL licensing problem?
Yes. I think the question always is where should I stop?. Cos it is a tool to get things done right?

While I think it is difficult to get Arcg going, the whole point of that effort is that I don't have to deal with it much after that. It is a rolling release and get the latest upstream releases which is not meddled with by distro much. Unless you are meddling with it too much, it is very stable IMO.
Someone wants you to not use your power. Who benefits from that? Who will gain power?

> There are no democratic governments, we have republics which are just a bit better oligarchies.

That's what people who want a true republic or oligarchy will tell you - quit, give up, it's hopeless. We not only have democracy, they work well - but they are made of people. If you vote out the bad people, they leave. If we the people do a bad job, we'll have bad results. If you do a bad job, that's what you'll get. If you don't even show up, we will fail. It's straightforward. I'm counting on you.

> Of course in every system there is a possibility of corruption, but for crypto that's obvious and people are actually working on sloving this as a problem while in the real world that's a feature.

People are and have been working on that in real life for centuries, with great success. Democracies are far less corrupt than other systems of government, and until recently - until people started quitting and not supporting the work - they have been continually improving. What have you done to help?

> crypto

It's a sci-fi story; what you say is happening is a fiction (like many things on the Internet). We need to get serious about the real world and our real communities, now. We are losing ground every day.
connectx, not from Mellanox but Cloudflare
I've thought about making something like this for a while, happy to see it!
To be able to critically, objectively evaluate decisions even in the face of overwhelming conformity.
But you repeat yourself!
> New rules could require them both to allow app side-loading — installing apps from non-sanctioned marketplaces — and alternative payment processing systems. Apple and Google have argued vehemently against the bill.

Doesn't Google already allow side loading or is that no longer so?
I don't really find that compelling.

Some level of discomfort is ok. Some is not. There is a line somewhere. Usually it involves the level of violence involved (terrorists after all are just making people very "uncomfortable" [what's more uncomfortable than being blown up] to achieve a political end.).

To make the ad absurdum argument explicit: if your argument for why this protest is ok applies to 9/11 to the same extent that it applies to this protest, maybe its a bad argument. That doesn't mean that this protest is neccesarily not ok, just that this is a really bad argument to use to prove the point.
> Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.

What does that have to do with RtR? We have endless knockoffs today, as-is, with nothing but cheap manufacturing and copycat products; even if RtR lowered the bar to reverse engineering (which is possible but I'm skeptical that the effect will be significant), make more blatant ripoffs that happen to have slightly better internals?

> Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.

Or we could legally force it and carry on in public.
If it were 1% (it's 0.3% in the UK and US) then it's about a normal year, again.

So over two years we go from losing 2% of the population to losing 3%. Assuming you're talking excess deaths.

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

I don't think it's "make it illegal to visit your mum, ban all social events, close the schools, bars, pubs, stop flights, wear things on your face, stop going to work normally, ..." bad.

But that's just a value judgement thing. Without those things there is no life to save. YMMV.