skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatively small compared to the impact for severe cases, but it looks very relevant if you consider the amount of people that are getting COVID and that many governments and societies are basically throwing the towel and accepting that people should just catch it.
It's really not shocking. Those people could then possibly buy entirely imported food if it was cheaper and wipe out domestic agricultural. Ensuring domestic food production is geopolitics 101, above domestic energy production. A nation doesn't want its bellies depending on a foreign adversary. You aren't a sovereign nation then.
Lol, you’re trying to talk about the credit multiplier as it relates to crypto with a crypto fan.

Maybe a lost cause?
What's the pattern for implementing a cache without state? How about a command buffer? Not trolling, seriously curious.
if you're not trolling: you might want to seek some help.

These are not convincing arguments, though I don't doubt you believe them sincerely.

One of the most troubling things about our society right now is that there's a lot of easily refutable lies spread via social media; but people are unable or unwilling to question them.

The energy required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude more than to spread it.

If we can't trust empirical data and instead rely on gut feelings and rumour, we're all fucked.
VW are also in that price range. I think I paid $850…
That's ok if you book a single hotel from time to time. But if you book several hotels for a road trip (our last Scotland road trip would have been 12 different hotels/BnBs, and because it was during a holiday season and we intended to visit islands just doing the classical "BnB" strategy of driving into town in the afternoon and look for a BnB was not feasible) having everything on a single site is hard to beat.

And with Covid hitting in early 2020 it was even easier to cancel everything on one site with just a few clicks.
I am particularly interested in the first two projects. Care to share a bit more information about them or some blog I can read about?
If your “opinion” is contrary to observable facts and puts others in danger, yes. Pretty straightforward actually. Those posting this nonsense ignore the facts, so ignoring them seems prudent.
Google had to invent a role in order to promote those two and you know who! - Not mine.
> You might as well say that gravity has nothing to do with up and down.

Gravity doesn’t have anything to do with up and down. It deals with mass and center points.

It only appears as up and down to you on earth.

Probably a lesson in there somewhere.
Apollo – Reliable configuration management system
You still don't get it. Its not that there is no yielding. Its that you as the developer have precise control of when and where to yield.

...But anyway, forget it. I'll be more than happy to use a multi-threaded UI system when such a thing exists.
I don't believe or have claimed this will "change history".

Had in fact offered to let the whole matter slide if and only if two judges ruling on health insurance matters hand in their resignations, as I consider them a danger to the general public.
I think it is actually the Russians.
I think you were hitting some kind of limit regarding submits per day. I think if you were to throttle such a bot to maybe a few submissions from serious sources per week, then it would likely work. I would guess that many submissions to /newest are indeed autogenerated.
The question is how much of the capacity they are going to retire in the next few years is going to be replaced. It's a highly political issue in France and it's an election season.

Nuclear from a cost perspective continues to be expensive; also for the French. And they will in any case continue to build out solar and wind as well. So, there's that.

And finally, building nuclear plants is something the French do abroad too. So, it's actually something they export that generates jobs and revenue in that way. So, they would want to at least build a few plants to keep that going. And of course they also have military interests tied up with uranium enrichment. France is fiercely protective of its status as a nuclear power.

But I think overall nuclear will be slowly declining proportionally in France; just like almost everywhere else. Unless something changes on the cost front. Which does not seem to be happening
Rated TBW is not actual endurance.

My 980 Pro 1TB has about 3 PBW (about 5 times its rated warranty) and it still operates great.
Well, now France is not being serious about climate, and has not been since at least 10 years, when we had Hollande on the throne. We've had talks about closing down nuke plants that are still in working order, the next one is taking forever, and we still have many people who want to shut it all down in the very name of the environment (overall, the French people are woefully misinformed about the pros and cons of nuclear energy).

I think it is getting better, though. Environmentalists are slowly waking up to the fact that nuclear energy is not nearly as bad as we make it out to be, even compared to windmills & solar panels, which requires many more times the ground surface and/or concrete.

Oh, and we got a recent report from our national energy company (or something close), that laid out several plans to reduce our CO2 emissions, and most contingencies involved both nuclear and renewable, including the "nuke max" scenario. We'll definitely need renewables, but it's pretty clear shutting down nuclear plants is one of the riskiest plans — hopefully our politicians will wake up to that.
I vividly remember learning the short and long vowel sounds in elementary school. With the marks over the vowels explained and used in lessons.

Things like băss and bāss. Obviously those marks can be confusing if they're substituted in for words where the spelled vowels are different than the pronounced vowels (like yo̅o̅ for "ewe"). I guess those were the advanced words we'd learn after the basics were taught. But first, the "Evil E" :)
Jancovici is a legend. Listenening to him and reading his latest comic book (Le monde sans fin) made me very aware of climate issues and directly influenced my behavior.

He deserves to be better known by international audiences. Here are some of his talks in english:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGt4XwBbCvA

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s254IPHXgVA
It's always a great pleasure to work with people that aren't only at the same level, but also recognize and use that to not dwell on things that are obvious to everyone in the group.
This is what I did too.
Regardless of your position - pro-vax - I love that you point out the political elements to this.

The politics goes deeper: the definitions of the terms 'vaccine' and 'virus' were changed, governments have undertaken the biggest advertising campaign in history effectively bankrolling the media, people who died of unrelated causes but had a positive test were counted as covid deaths which plainly skews statistics, governmental psychological units were given a few rein, large corporations were allowed to remain open but small businesses were not, etc.

These are examples of how this was handled not in a neutral way, but to advance a political agenda. Especially when you consider that most western countries were implementing the same measures in a coordinated way.
I sometimes wonder if a mild COVID infection could also cause behavioral and psychological changes like more aggression, risk taking, depression, or even schizophrenia and could it be driving some of the conspiracies? If you think about it any kind of behavior change that avoids vaccination, masking, or other precautions would be selective pressure on the virus to further evolve in that direction.

How would you even begin to understand and deal with this kind of situation on a massive, global scale... it's an interesting problem.

Makes you think about the sudden and almost unexplainable push from aggressive, vocal experts to have the public unmask and drop all COVID mitigations immediately after the latest surge too...
Swiss and Austrians are an exception with the hydro and should stop rubbing it in all the discussions. In Slovakia much of whatever could be dammed already is and still hydro makes only up to 20% of the mix, despite being one of the more hilly countries. Were it not for 70% nuclear, I have no idea how to even go near carbon neutral electricity. Having German electricity prices to pay for renewables is completely impossible.
Pretty cool to hear about those, didn't know there was such a dynamic approach to the problem.

Either way, the problem in my view is that the question is silly to begin with, Squares and Rectangles should be PODs (or, even better, simple structures), and not have any associated behavior. The decision of whether they are mutable or not then depends solely on the needs of the software, and not on irrelevant modelling constraints unrelated to the problem.

There's no need for them to have a taxonomy relation unless the problem being solved involves taxonomies of shapes.
If you're programming an early 1980s minicomputer, almost certainly not.

On modern hardware, you will struggle to write large programs that have decent performance in C. It lacks a bunch of obvious intrinsics - things the hardware can trivially do, but which you can't really express in C, and so you end up maybe writing a bunch of macros to try to persuade your C compiler to emit the desired machine instructions. Now your code is harder to maintain, either you encapsulate all this, losing performance, or it gets very difficult to write more of the software and while your notional "performance" is good for the parts that work, the system as a whole doesn't work, so you don't have any performance.

Languages like C++ and Rust provide better intrinsics which means that actual human programmers can write the more sophisticated program that would technically be possible and just as fast in C except you'd never have written it.

As an extreme end of what's possible, WUFFS has much faster image codecs than are available as C libraries. But, WUFFS is under the hood just a transpiler, the output of WUFFS-the-language is horrible spaghetti C. So, in theory a human programmer could have written say, a C PNG decoder that's just as fast as the one in WUFFS-the-library, after all the C code is in theory code a human (a completely insane human) could write. But humans wouldn't do that because unlike the machine they can't keep a thousand step proof of correctness in their heads and be quite sure that variable can't overflow, they'd chicken out and write the overflow check and lose performance.
Is there a blockchain version yet? I am tempted to code one up.
I'm putting out this message to Booking.com engineers/PMs/etc. who have wisened up to their employer's shenanigans. We aren't in the call center business so don't have any openings there (and yes, was aware of their call center ops, have called myself in the past.)
It's certainly possible to build and even buy a very robust umbrella. I suspect the reason most people don't is that they know they're going to be lost or stolen.*

It's why Amsterdam bicyclists don't ride $5000 bikes.

*Especially in Tokyo. If you drop a wallet full of cash on the street in Tokyo, someone will chase you down to return it. But if you turn your back on your umbrella in Tokyo, kiss it goodbye. Then you have to steal another one.
Distributed system probably isn't precise enough in of itself.

But I was very much thinking of multiple leader distributed systems.

Anecdotal. But dealing with clock errors and multi-leader issues are of far greater complexity than caching data.

Replicas, load balancers, and all the vagaries of single leader systems are not absurdly difficult technical problems.

They're problems that can be solved by a team with a single senior engineer who knows what they're doing.
Embedded Systems Week #87: A lot of C and C++, a 3D Lidar for $100
HN and Algolia should block his script with captchas.
I am not free to use add-supported US services when they stop being provided to EU citizens due the onerous requirements imposed on them by privacy laws.

I am not free to use a website and give away "my data" by default without having to click Allow All on a damn cookie popup.

The EU politicians unilaterally decided to steal these freedoms from all EU citizens.

The right to privacy is not a freedom. I am not sure it's even a real right. But it was easily accessible even before the current privacy laws, even if it needed a little technical competence. It wasn't the default though. And the current laws do not provide me the privacy I actually need: from EU government(s).
It was abused a lot in C++, mostly because of weaknesses in other parts of the language.
Yes, if you link random libraries you find in /usr/lib you are going to have a bad time. And you can make things arbitrarily complex if you insist on compiling around the latest hot new distro and then try to hack your way around new symbols but even that is not an issue of fragmentation but an issue of the lack of an official SDK to target older glibc/etc. versions: you can't just target Windows 11 and then expect the .exe to run on XP.

But the "easy" solution is really that simple: compile on the oldest distro you want to support and statically link everything you can.

If you have additional requirements like needing a newer compiler or needing dynamic linking then there are more gotchas but even those are not really things that are hard to solve but rather things you need to be aware of.

And even those are all about ABIs not being forward compatible so you can't run things targeting newer system with older systems and instead need to take care to target the older ABIs that are still supported (or to remove unnecessary ABI depencencies). But that has nothing to do with fragmentation. You'd get that even if there was only a single distro.

Unless by fragmentation you mean that that no everyone is on the latest version supporting the ABI of your bleeding edge dev environment which is a ridiculous requirement that you only get if the ABI is frozen. Pretty much no platform has a forward-compatible ABI except if you count dead ones that don't change at all.

I do agree that toolchains should make it easier to target older ABIs. Something to control the target glibc version akin to the WINVER or _WIN32_WINNT macros would be really nice to have. But again, unless have some nonstandard requirements, just compiling on the oldest distro you want to support and statically linking most things works.

> I'm curious why, since you seem to believe the process is so straight-forward, you think it is that so few people distribute a simple binary?

Plenty peole do. Unity spits out such binaries (+data) most games outside of steam are distributed like this.

OSS projects often don't bother because they can get into distro repos. Some do though.

> Why were Flatpak and AppImage invented?

Besides sandboxing (which users care about, not apps), Flatpak and AppImage primarily make it trivial to distribute software that was designed for the distribution model where it depends on other libraries in the distribution. They also try to solve desktop integration which is not important for Games.

Even if you could not easily distribute binary software without Flatpak et. al, nothing is stopping devs from using those tools for games distribution so I hardly see how their existence is an argument for fragmentation making it harder .
Heart decease comes from the vaccines but they will never admit that of course.
What I find most interesting in this is the pseudo detective story of hunting down disappearing post-mortem and "lessons learned" documentation. Optimistically we'd hope that perhaps the older systems no longer reflect the existing systems in any meaningful way (possibly as the org structures and/or software stacks shift and change) and they're no longer relevant.

I'd imagine most lost knowledge is not an explicit decision however which means such historical scenarios / documentation / ... are just lost as part of business. Lost knowledge is the default for companies.

Twitter is likely better than most given their documentation is all digital and there exist explicit processes to catalogue such incidents. I'd also be curious to see how much of this knowledge has been implicitly exported to their open source codebases.
Mhh.. down?
Looks like it uses some platform called Vercel..

From their homepage, it doesn't sound like it's too obsessed with performance ;)

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end- user performance.
It's weird to see all those negative anecdotes about Booking.com. As a counter anecdote, I've used them several times and they always seem to have much cheaper prices then the competition. I was also able to cancel my booking once without issue after talking to customer support. PS: Not in any way affiliated with them other than being a satisfied customer.
I have been in such environments and I while I hadn't considered that the reason they worked so well was that they were great people: they were, in fact, great people.

An interesting thing happens when there's a high level of respect.

People stop being so anxious about not "winning", or "being heard", people just remove themselves from their ideas and feel comfortable and confident.

I left that company because the company around that team was a bit shit, but I wish I could foster an environment of high trust and mutual respect like that again.
The Square vs Rectangle issue is just an example. They shouldn't even be modeled as a hierarchy they should just be simple structs. It's just an example on how OO taxonomies are a silly (and detrimental) exercise.
I just misread Twitter instead of Twitch.
They have a golang client. And there was an attempt to write a Java client[1]. Someone could help ShaileshSurya (the java client maintainer)

[1] https://github.com/ShaileshSurya/edgedb-java
She was permanently disfigured by those burns. The coffee was 82-88C or 180-190F. If you went to a diner you'd get coffee 20C colder. And it would still be hot.

McDonalds shouldn't have to print a warning, I agree. They should not be allowed to keep their coffee at temperatures that would cause someone to need skin grafts after three seconds of direct contact. It was also settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, something the link in your comment mentions. A judge reduced the 2.7 million in punitive damages to less than half a million before the parties settled out of court.

It's a marvel corporate capture of our media is so complete that people are still going to bat for McDonalds over a case so old it could vote. Especially when their reasoning for keeping the coffee at that temperature is to save a couple of pennies.
There are enough idiots like you in this threads that spread lies or comment stupid shit like "If YoUr OpInIoN iS dIfFerEnT fRoM mInE, i WiLl IgNoRe YoU" that I don't want myself to be associated with them or you so you are absolutely right. You are ignored.
>There's not some program you can "donate" bandwidth to and make money off of it.

There is one:

https://pkt.cash/

from the maker of https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns

And there is https://sia.tech/ (Network too but mostly about storage)
It's worth considering that the treatment could also be the cause of the blood clotting though. Do you agree?
How do the politics of a Mars colony work? Say Elon controls the sole means of supplying the colony from Earth - do the colonists effectively become hostages? What if they mutiny? Will the supplies stop coming? Is this murder? Many questions.
I always use booking.com to find hotels and then just book directly at the hotel. Normally, I would not do such a thing, but considering booking.com's shady practices I do not feel bad.
> Lockdowns have also broken everyone’s regular exercise and healthy habits.

Why do you make assumptions about "everyone"? I'm sure there are as many diverse experiences during 'lockdowns' as there are people who experienced them. Obviously if you include the rare cases where people were actually kept indoors (how long did those actually last?), then healthy exercise might have been more difficult.

In my case, my health has improved immeasurably, as I no longer need to sit in an office all day, eat an unhealthy lunch and eat office-supplied snacks the way I did before.

I eat more healthily, get more fresh air, walk and cycle at lunchtimes - and even get more work done in fewer hours.
Haha, right, my nostalgia blocked off that part of it. That was definitely a thing. IRC BNC:s became mandatory to avoid the risk.
Congrats with 1.0. A couple of things I’m curious about:

1. How does EdgeDB compare to Supabase? Thinking both of realtime functionality and row-level security.
2. If I was to use EdgeDB instead of Django, how would I go about it? In other words, how can I set up a batteries-included, server-side web app?
I have an Olympus XA that similarly has a light meter that's active when the shutter's open and closes it when it's "full."

It actually has two light meters, and one of the problems it can have (mine did) is that the light meter that tells you what your exposure will be in the view finder and the light meter inside the body may not agree. The issue was that the internal meter became far slower such that I would see a (correct) value in the viewfinder and then the film would be overexposed by 2 stops. I tested this using slide film and lying to the camera about the ISO by 2 stops and suddenly everything wasn't blown out anymore.

There's a potentiometer hidden inside the body that you can use to adjust the internal sensor's timing (fill rate?) and using audacity to measure the ms between shutter clicks I was able to adjust it to match the viewfinder's reading again.
When I was using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 with Linux it would hit a thermal limit and throttle the CPU speed if I read from NVMe at maximum speed for more than about 30 seconds. That was partly due to an issue with the way Linux and the BIOS interacted which gave a lower thermal limit than expected.

But it really depends on what NVMe devices you use, I've seen cheap ones bottleneck at 30MB/s when doing continuous writes with no downtime.

RAM is getting so cheap and easy to get that in recent years I only really use swap on laptops. Using a CPU core for compression isn't a big deal in a laptop because you usually have 4 cores and only 1 of them in use most of the time.
Link problem. Try

https://www.wgtwo.com/blog/manual-on-me-matt-long/
While this was a case of omicron (which is more flu-like in terms of which parts of the human body it targets), pre-omicron variants of Covid were certainly very different from the flu, and in particular more likely to target the nervous system.

And a lot of respiratory viruses (both flu and other influenza-like viruses) do cause major effects on the human body sometimes. E.g. when I got hit with the flu in 2009 (might have been H1N1), it took me months my lungs to get back to normal.

As to treatment, most people who get Covid don't receive any treatment.
WSJ is tagging on bold political emphasis
SNES Development Part 1: Getting Started
Hotels.com and some others have reward schemes; while travelling for business, I got 50+ free nights. Booking the hotel directly would need to be at least 10% cheaper and it just is not unless you are a regular or stay very long stretches.
I remember reading Facebooks caches had a dedicated standby set of “gutter” servers that would take over a failure quickly (otherwise inactive and unused) that was an interesting mitigation for some failure scenarios.
If they are making such big upgrades before even getting to orbit, it suggests the rest of their design is falling short of expectations on mass/performance, and they need more thrust to make up for it.