skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do not consider it seriously. Both assume no economic cost from the no-lockdown scenario. Of course in that situation lockdowns cost, but it is an incredibly naive way to look at it. The assessments of those papers can only be done from a place of willful blindness and ignorance.

Things they do not take into account:

- The effect of a saturated healthcare system on the treatment of other diseases and accidents.

- Non-linearity of the death rate. The more people are sick in the hospital, the less resources there are and death rate skyrockets.

- The effect on the economy of thousands of people unable to work at the same time, due to being sick or having to care for sick people

- The mental health effects on people surrounded by sickness.

- Self-imposed quarantines and lockdowns.

- Possible public order breakdown with the combination of stressful situation plus reduced government strength due to COVID.

I mean this with no offense, but thinking that the only "bad" outcome of not having lockdowns is "a few more people die but that's it" is stupid. You should think seriously about it. There was no pretty way to come out of the initial wave of COVID. Lockdowns were awful but I really prefer them to the alternative. In fact, I would have preferred them to start earlier. If the lockdown had started seven days earlier we probably could have shortened by a month.
Cinnabon comes to mind
I'm new to Slack (just leaving a FAANG for a startup) and all the inbox management skills I've built up over the years seem to be useless now.

Is there a good way to create an async task list from Slack? Right now if I get a message on Slack that I want to handle later I can:

a) Ignore it, so I keep the unread "red dot"

b) Use the "remind me" feature to make it synchronous but later

c) Just ... handle it now (sigh)

What I want is a list of threads I am meaning to get back to, but without having to actually use a separate list-making app. Is there a Slack app or workflow for this?
The issue is that a company like Facebook no longer thinks in terms of "what would be a good product?". They think about revenue, margins, cash flow, business relations.

If anything Facebook should fix existing known problems with social media, work on the trust relationship between the company and the users (e.g. by retiring Zuckerberg) and then maybe think about how to integrate a social platform with augmented reality and VR on a big scale.

But as of now Facebook/Meta is not in the position to create a new userbase around some mediocre new app. Either it is so undeniably good that everybody understands it without a second thought, or they need to find a way to move their old userbase over to the new thing slowly.

But having a mediocre thing from an company that most people actively distrust is not enough.
same here, I'm in my late 20s and was generally unhealthy because of the pandemic, and I burn 630-700 calories per 30 minutes worked out
Seems like QR code readers automatically opening URIs is a great way to trigger CSRF attacks in vulnerable sites
Reading urls even with a standard font is way way harder than reading a QR (for computers).
Often when you see a QR code they will print the url below.
Blackfella boxes – Can Indigenous wisdom stop AI from running amok?
I just have a hard time believing it to be true that no amount of exercise will increase the overall caloric expenditure. For example, I've done a few multi-week bike tours, and we ate an enormous amount of mostly pasta every day, and managed to peel off a few pounds each by the end of it.
You don't need any money to go in the woods. Stop complaining and vilifying other people to rationalize your false beliefs and hatred towards the world. How ironic that you even have the gall to say "I think you are terrible", perhaps you should heed the OP's advice and take some time offline because clearly you're a toxic person.
IPv6 is pretty much IPv4 with more bits - at least compared to the alternative of the time that was CLNP/DECNet (which had 20byte addresses and is quite different).

And the very slow transition hasn't really anything to do with the standard itself, but with the transition technologies (NAT64 like you mentioned).
It would have happened with any of the proposed alternatives. Hindsight and all..
NAT itself wasn't even a thing yet (not an RFC anyway) when IPv6 was being developed.
Flag days had worked in the past too, so why not again?
For various reasons (usually control, but frequently spun as "needing to be cutting edge"), some groups or companies do reinvent those wheels and in some lucky cases we get progress. For example Google has recreated several of those things and especially in the data storage field they've probably moved things forward.

But in general I agree with you, the crushing majority of developers out there won't work on those things and won't ever even need to.

It's also a source of not always deserved elitism from the people that work on those things, and I definitely dislike that (there's enough elitism in this field, as-is).
Which publications take on Cook’s pay would you prefer I read?
My Samsung Galaxy S9 scans QR code if I point default camera app to a QR code. It doesn't open it by default, but shows a link I can tap on. Within settings you can disable QR scanning too if you like.
+1 - AWS Systems Manager Session Manager [1] is the future! (although it does have a ridiculous name...)
It's free, and configuring its agent can enable you to do other useful maintenance tasks through it.

Assuming you're using Amazon Linux 2 as your AMI, it's just as simple as assigning a instance profile with the right permissions (you can use the managed AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore policy [2]).
And you'll then be able to connect through the AWS Console or CLI.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...

[2]: https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/policies/arn:aws:ia...
Do you have further resources on how to optimize for comprehension?

I find this topic incredibly interesting but lack access to good and sound strategies. Most of it are medium style "hacks" I despise.

My problem with my writing usually is, it's too scientific, too elaborate, and the best part usually comes at the end (inverted pyramid might help with this one).

Thanks!
You're right, I should not have gone on that tangent.

To get back to the main point, though, don't you think that the fact that Microsoft includes a disclaimer (kinda) in their docs lends some credence to the idea that they're not really proud of this?
What is “really” a race anyway? Why wouldn’t Hispanic be a real race, but being black be?
I don't understand why hiring in academia is so weird. People are strung along for years, and then you are suddenly either out or you have tenure for life. (A friend compared a professorship it to being the pope, which I think is fitting.)

You need to have a perfect track record. You have to have worked in a couple of different places, with no gaps, you need a lot of publications and "visibility". And even then, in my experience about 50% of positions are given on merit, and 50% are given seemingly randomly. Even if you are incredibly self-confident and count yourself among the top 5%, it is still a gamble.

Academia works like a guild, or maybe like the military (up or out). But it seems everybody would benefit if hiring was changed to be more like outside academia. No more temporary positions vs unfireable professors, but instead hire everybody on regular open-ended contracts. Don't insist on an unbroken career and years of travelling journeymanship, but value broad experiences and career changers. I know a lot of people who are considered academic failures but were welcomed in industry "with kisses".

I don't think the cause is just resistance from entrenched people, or ideology. There is a lot of neoliberal pressure to run universities more like companies. And I guess hiring is one of the few areas where this would not be a bad thing. Is it just shortsightedness then? Or lack of funding, and scarcity of jobs?
> What's so controversial about it?

Your body burns incredibly more energy just "being there" than you burn moving about.

Exercise certainly increases your calorific expenditure, but it's much easier to ingest less fuel than to run 5 more miles because you had a portion of fries.

There are benefits in exercise, apart from the obvious ones the raising of the baseline metabolic expenditure, because muscles are expensive to maintain, but again, if you want to lose weight eating one less portion of fries is easier and takes less time than going for a 5 mile run.

> body optimizes for energy expenditure

No that's wrong, it optimises for energy maintenance. Genetically it's better to maintain fat and survive the next famine, than burning all the energy today. Which is why the body is so efficient at _not_ losing weight unless it has no other choice to maintain homeostasis. And thus to lose fat, we need to preferably eat less, not run more. Do both, and you'll do great.
> what happens once you reach 4650 calories?

Well, we probably need to look at the direct quote again.

> There seems to be a hard limit on how many calories our bodies can burn per day, set by how fast we can digest food and turn it into energy.

Maybe i'm reading this wrong, but if one's body were to burn calories at 100% of this supposed possible rate, then by the time you'd reach 4650, a new day would start.

If digestion would top out at 4650 calories at day, with 24 hours per day, it would come down to 193.75 calories per hour. Or, in other words, it'd be about 3.23 calories per minute.
We solved the problem of deleting old files early in our development process, as we wanted to avoid situations such as this one.

While developing GitFront, we were using S3 to store individual files from git repositories as single objects. Each of our users was able to have multiple repositories with thousands of files, and they needed to be able to delete them.

To solve the issue, we implemented a system for storing multiple files inside a single object and a proxy which allows accessing individual files transparently. Deleting a whole repository is now just a single request to S3.
Yes, but it is a step further, the QR code is an URL that you (normally) can not read/parse so that you have no way to judge whether it is to be trusted or not (besides the known fake URL issues with Unicode characters which I believe is still a thing).
Most candle wax is made from paraffin (derived from petroleum). More expensive candles made from beeswax won't be so polluting indoors, but a candle flame will always produce some soot.

An alternative is a fake LED candle with flickering 'flame'. All the ambience of a real candle without the noxious emissions! Of course, you still need a source of power, but LED candles can be powered by batteries and the battery power lasts longer than a wax candle melting.
The engine was extensively scanned recently (https://www.3dsystems.com/learning-center/case-studies/reign...), so plans of what was actually built exist. If we don’t have plans for the rest, we could use that technique on the other parts.

That doesn’t mean we can build a 100% copy, though. Apparently, some of the welding requires techniques that have been replaced by better methods, and welders who can replicate the original do not exist. I guess that’s solvable by using robots, but if, e.g., 3D printing or even glueing works better, and the goal would be to get a rocket that size again, why bother?
Right - in scientific parlance, accuracy and precision have distinct meanings:
https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11...

In this case accuracy is appropriate :)
> Does the federal government pay the same rates we commercial third-parties from abroad get to go to launch?

Every launch contract is bespoke and the customers can request additional (sometimes significant) amounts of documentation of part providence and the rest. The US government often requests significantly extra documentation so it increases costs quite a bit.
> If I start lifting 20lbs and 3 years later I still lift that of course I won't lose weight.

This example is kind of bad :-)

You don't lose weight by lifting weights, in general.

And amusingly, if you did want to lose weight by lifting weights, your example is precisely how you <<would>> lose weight. You lift 10kgs over and over and over again, or even better, incorporate the extra weight into some sort of cardio routine.

Instead of increasing the weight, you'd increase the reps or the motion you use for lifting weights.
> I hope to one day see Starship up close in person as it takes off to space.

That would probably kill you. Better keep a safe distance of at least 20 miles.
This is a great tool to explain how unaware we usually are of the environment that has so many implications for us.

But I'd like to see this go one step further: How about we measure this continuously to see whether awareness drops?

That might show that (a) humans are getting more or less aware (I guess we grow more aware since information diffusion has grown immensely) and (b) the world gets more complex and thus harder to be aware of (pretty sure on this one, see reflexive modernity)
Citation to indicate what he was responding to, not scare quotes.
A CGM, app like xdrip and a smartwatch to display the current glucose value, trend graph and insulin on body has completely removed these situations from my life. As people normally check the time, you'll be checking the glucose value when walking outside
Always when these arguments come up I wonder: is there actually a tangible way to measure how much of this was because of Cook (or whatever other CEO)? Maybe he is just riding a wave of success?! Maybe someone else would have the exact same results?

To me it always seems that the success of a company is projected onto its upper management in an unhealthy way. Maybe I am just clueless however.
Am I alone on HN in being perfectly happy to get a bit of insight in the human nature of scientists doing impressive work?

Seriously, yeah, some of this stuff may be fluff, but it does matter. Two scientists can be doing equally good work on a similar topic, but one's work makes headlines and the other's gets buried in some obscure journal and forgotten. Why? What can I do to be more like the former rather than the later? One popular magazine article may not give me that insight, but after a bunch of them patterns emerge.
It does make sense if you realize that it is also used for fields and that a.!b.c = d is different than a.b.!c = d. The first makes a copy of the object at a.b before assigning a new value to its field c.
Given the overall Teams hate, what alternative is there for a business with both technical and non-technical users? It needs to have great chat: 1-on-1 and groups, voice and video calls. Low memory/cpu usage. Preferably a native application. Not self-hosted, but a SaaS. Great markdown support.
Important details. One it’s not gone. Two apparently despite current conditions forcing the owner into bankruptcy processings his phone is “ringing off the hook” with interest in buying the business... If that’s just because someone wants to renovate it into overpriced upmarket housing investment assets or to start running the pub again is not clear because this is a tweet in the form of a business insider article.
That's funny. SEO optimization for keywords "woods" and "Appalachians"? :-)

No, it's written that way to turn the person into a) a character, b) a relatable character.

Regular people like stories, not dry facts piled up.
Yes, when possible it is better to give people time to figure out things by themselves. That's how you learn.

The question is why pointing out something wrong would have automatically damaged your relationship with her ?

Everyone can agree that making mistake is natural. Can't people learn not to get upset when being told they made one ?

One way is by exposure in an environment where the feedback is factual and without drama.
Just don't look at slack that often?

I work at an all-remote company and I just... don't notice when someone messages me on Slack, and i check it on my own schedule. It all just works.

I mute all channels I join apart from a few directly related to me on a daily basis. I very deliberately completely silence Slack so it's impossible for it to make a noise. I'm on windows so I don't get the notification toasts or the jumping in the Mac dock, so someone messaging me isn't distracting.
Yes. This is the Citicorp center in New York.
I'll go contrarian and argue (for the sake of arguing) that the decision to transition to Meta now makes sense if you think that two things will occur:

1.) Wearable VR becomes affordable, unobtrusive, and ubiquitous

2.) You can monetize real life

Meta has first mover advantage through Oculus, as well as a lot of resources. It comes down to whether or not the technology matures enough for mass adoption.

My guess is that they're betting on eventually becoming a main player in the smartglasses field, either on the hardware or software side. If Apple Glasses or something similar launches and becomes popular, they may succeed.
Pardon me, I haven’t done more research. But how does Temporal save/manage state for Go? Are there any API which let you access state of a Goroutine (like thread state)?
This was a good read, thanks.

> but I hope that someone noticed the issue and insured that two sets of eyes hit everything they typed.

I think you mean ‘ensured’.
From 2004.

Quick search finds no mention of "black" or "racism" and only one use of "African-American".

Why are either of those relevant?

Because a modern publications would have to include research which identifies racial disparities in gifted programs.

For examples:

> The Other Segregation / The public focuses its attention on divides between schools, while tracking has created separate and unequal education systems within single schools. -- https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/gifted...

> Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked /
Is it even possible to make a concept that has racist origins more equitable? https://hechingerreport.org/gifted-educations-race-problem/

> K–12 gifted and talented programs have struggled with racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, native language, and disability inequity since their inception. This inequity has been well documented in public schools since at least the 1970s and has been stubbornly persistent despite receiving substantial attention at conferences, in scholarly journals, and in K–12 schools. The purpose of this article is to outline why such inequity exists and why common efforts to combat it have been unsuccessful. In the end, poorly designed identification systems combined with larger issues of societal inequality and systemic, institutionalized racism are the most likely culprits. - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00169862211002...

> We acknowledge the injustices of structural and systemic racism and recognize the field of gifted education has historically been part of the problem by promoting these injustices, even if inadvertently. Some early researchers and thought leaders who influenced the field were involved with the eugenics movement, and early gifted identification and programming practices often became vehicles for de facto segregation. - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02783193.2021.1...
There are two kinds of outcomes from a DDoS:

1. an outage, which in reality is just an inconvenience, not the end of the world, unlike what most IT people seem to think.

2. a bill that can bankrupt you, which may as well be the end of the world for many people or small businesses. It can be literally "game over".

A bare metal box doesn't need protection from the 2nd risk. Its costs are fixed, irrespective of the amount of traffic attempting to hit it. A 100 Mbps link can't put out more than 100 Mbps, so even if you're charged by the terabyte of egress, there's a cost ceiling integrated into the hardware itself.

The cloud generally has no such limits, or much, much higher ones than is typically desirable.

Okay, here's another random example your WAF will not protect you from: cloud-hosted DNS.

The bare metal scenario is a box sitting on the end of a 1 Gbps Ethernet link. If attacked by some crazy UDP DNS flood attack, it could probably saturate that pipe and send out... 1 Gbps. On a fixed-cost-link plan this costs $0.00 additional money. You might have an outage, or merely a brown-out, but you won't see a cent added to your next bill.

On Azure's DNS Zones service, there's no "1 Gbps" pipe to rate limit them. They have infrastructure deployed globally, typically with 100 Gbps links. In practice, the DNS server probably only gets about 10 Gbps per region, but there's many regions. At 100 bytes per packet, you could be looking at a billion requests per second billed to your account, at an eyewatering $200/s or $720K/hour. Ouch!

Now, Azure will probably forgive that bill because it's clearly an attack.

But what if it isn't clearly an attack? Application Insights by design puts the Instrumentation Key into client-side JavaScript. It charges $3/GB on ingress! It's trivial to charge someone thousands or tens of thousands of dollars before they notice, and then they'd have a hard time convincing support that the traffic wasn't legitimate.

I can send a terabyte out for cents, each of which would cost some poor fool $3,000.

Good luck plugging every such hole, monitoring every alert (there's literally tens of thousands of metrics to alert on), and keeping up with every spike in billing that's a day late reporting on costs that can ramp up to thousands of dollars per minute.
This article really needs a TLDR. Reading it in between the cookies notice, the subscribe modal, and trying to slog through a detailed history of everything this guy has done since he was 10…

Has anyone managed to get through this who could post here: what is the conclusion about humans burning calories?
Exercise is portrayed as virtuous in our society, whereas counting calories and portions isn't.

I have problems with doing deliberate intentional exercise (though I am very 'active' just in my usual day to day activities) so do absolutely zero gym, zero running, etc. Yet when I started simply counting my calories and limiting myself to 1800-1900 a day, the weight dropped off. I'm down 8% body weight so far and set to have a BMI under 25 in the next couple of months, and it hasn't been a struggle at all despite a total lack of deliberate exercise.
I consider my race to be Hispanic. I otherwise would have no race, right?
My kitchen TV is a 43-year-old Sharp brand 26" color cathode ray tube model from 1979 and I've no intention of changing it as it still works fine. When digital came out I added a STB/PVR and that's the only change since new.

The CRT still performs well and there is no sign of the picture blooming or losing focus (that's to say its vacuum and cathode emission are still OK).

As far as I'm concerned, CRTs are still alive and well.
The difference here is, that with classic urls, you have: "visit www.cdc.gov/info2022", so you know the domain, you see that there is no tracking, and you usually recognize the domain itself and can gauge the relative safety just by reading the domain itself.

With a qr code, especially with shorteners and tracking (adding a location token in the url in the QR), you usually get a huge url, that people don't actually read and check but just open... so you open a "www.cdc.gov.someshadeyurl.cn/?...tracking...".
The practice of indicating kcals as "Calories" always seemed to be an American thing to me. I don't know how widespread this is outside the US but there are plenty of countries that use "kcal" in nutritional tables and such. People will still colloquially confuse calories and kilocalories a lot but that's largely due to bad translations (similar to mistranslating short billions).
100% agree! I suspect that Teams is just a fancy front-end to Sharepoint, so it was "easy" to build. Just fire up Electron and duplicate Sharepoint features. Oh, and tack on a chat function while your at it. Done!