skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps less related to the original post, but I found this interesting:

> Let's Encrypt is such a huge part of the Internet now that I don't think browser vendors could decide to just stop trusting their certs. Even if they did, another free certificate vendor would appear and we'd be back at square one.

I wonder how come every large provider out there doesn't have their own free certificates in an attempt to compete with Let's Encrypt, get a piece of the free cert market share and possibly upsell their premium services in the process?

The only viable alternative to Let's Encrypt that I personally know of appears to be ZeroSSL: https://zerossl.com/

Though from what I can tell, they have a 3 free cert limitation, at least when provisioned through the website. Which actually seems like a decent attempt to encourage people to pay for their other products (and things like wildcard certificates).

Sure, many might just stick with Let's Encrypt, but why isn't every vendor out there doing the same thing?
There will be at least one Zen 4 CPU with 3D cache coming this year, with DDR5-6000 it will be the belle of the Factorio ball.
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It'd be good to see Patreon face some more serious competition. They are by far the dominant force in their segment.
The problem is that there's nothing stopping them from removing that 25m limit and jacking up the price tomorrow. It's putting your company at the mercy of another company which is not an ideal position.

It's also sort of a meta problem. You generally want to use well known libraries/frameworks so that you can hire people with experience. If other companies stop using it because of the above you probably want to stop as well even if you are not worried about hte license.
South Park famed Casa Bonita display items up for sale
I personally find that many of my ideas have similar themes.

A great mechanical way to build a repertoire of ideas is to pick a big theme and start crossing it with different concepts and see what you come up with. Thinking of how things could work rather than how they won’t also helps!

That said, I’ve got a newsletter just for this[0].

[0]: https://unvalidatedideas.com
Casa Bonita renovation: Photos, documents reveal $12 million plans

https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/casa-bonit...
Maybe - the blood isn’t collected for DNA sequencing so they aren’t DNA samples. Furthermore DNA could only be realistically extracted from them for limited time (about a decade). If you want to view it as a DNA bank, it’s a pretty terrible and temporary one.
I think the 'console wars' are still relevant, maybe even more so now that both Microsoft and Playstation have their own subscription models. I think there will always be a market segment for console gamers, despite how many Xbox and PS titles go to PC.

> Sometimes I feel like Nintendo is becoming a brand for middle age millennials trying to relive their childhood.

As someone coming into middle-age, I relate to this. With less free time, but more money, I personally suffer from 'choice paralysis' sometimes. I almost exclusively played PC games in college, but now I don't want to use a computer after work to play games. Consoles give me simple, high-quality bursts of fun - and for less hassle than a PC. Nintendo specifically gives me that hit of nostalgia wrapped in new experiences.

Everyone has their preferences. But I've been leaning away from PC and towards consoles.
Do you want a openly malicious company or a inept/secretly malicious regulatory body
> just like any other _novel_ invention--plants are no different.

They are. E.g. Monsanto didn't invent the glyphosate-resistance gene for their Roundup Ready GM crops. The gene was already present in nature, and Monsanto merely copied it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready#Genetic_engineer...
I use it for groups. Many of our local clubs do great on facebook
Well there's an enormous can of worms.

I share the common emotion that this is awful and shouldn't happen, but I have trouble justifying it intellectually.

Let's say, instead of DNA, it was an outstanding bench warrant. It seems pretty clear to me that the victim should have the help of the police in apprehending the rapist, but should also be arrested for the bench warrant. You might disagree, but there's no solving the problem of both needing the help of the police and being wanted for crimes. Waiting a day to serve the warrant, out of respect? Does that help?

This is different, yes, but how different? What changes to the database should be made here? Completely separate victim and suspect lists? It's burglary this time, what if it was homicide?

Not that you can separate victim and suspect when processing rape kit DNA! Eliminating common subsequences reduces the entropy and makes matches harder, we share a lot of SNPs in common.

My complete disgust that this happened remains, but this is one of the gnarliest ethical dilemmas I've seen.
You have to be on the "Premium Ultra" tier for rain, lightning, and storm notifications: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/
This is because the ba.4/ba.5 vaccine is so incredibly close to the ba.1 bivalent vaccine, which did see more human trials and showed a similar safety profile as the original vaccine.

Kinda like how we get a new flu vaccine every year that doesn't go through a years long clinical study

(Edit to fix a typo)
They have nine as of 2021. https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-366

They even have a chart of lines of code in Factorio over the years.
Corpspeak for “your call is very important to us, all our operators are currently busy…”
BeOS allowed widgets (I think was their term) whereby parts (or entire) of applications could be embedded in others

- https://www.waltercedric.com/gadget/beos/

- https://www.howtogeek.com/696193/what-was-beos-and-why-did-p...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
I'd be surprised if they didn't already know
Oh, devs might be paid for their work, how abhorrent /s
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Prices are always rising. Even on a good day, inflation is targeted at 2%. For much of the past 15 years, inflation was under 2%, which worried the central banks -- but prices were still rising.

What you can say is that 8.3% is clearly still much too high. That's true. But it's no surprise that it's still above zero, since it's widely thought that numbers below zero are dangerous, and avoided at all costs by central banks.

What's required is to first reverse the moves made to get inflation back over 2%, which went on much too long. That trap sprung all at once, driven by the supply side (first the pandemic shutting down production, now the war in Ukraine). And that's what they're doing.

Inflation is therefore expected to do precisely what it's doing: come down, slowly. It will take some time to shake out the price increases that we should have seen a decade ago, and more time to reach the new equilibrium when things settle out in Ukraine one way or the other.
>Needless to say, earning money off of your looks (something you didn't work hard to gain in the first place) doesn't qualify as hard-working job.

Even if you're very conventionally attractive, you need to put in a lot of networking and marketing before you can make money off of "your looks". Even then, you don't just sit back and let your looks do everything.

Porn stars generally spend a couple hours DAILY in the gym. Then there's all of the events you have to do to remain relevant in social circles. Then there's actual shooting. But before that there's hair and makeup. Then there's outfits. Selecting garments that match your personal style and also are sexy enough to excite your fans isn't easy and it usually isn't cheap.

Going through all of that to get paid by the fans is absolutely a job. If the fans didn't pay, it wouldn't be a job.
I appreciate and respect your comment above.

I want to point out that your (unintentional I believe) misspellings above make for a pretty funny sentence. "Fowl language is not suitable for my porpoises." It seems as though your dolphins don't like it when you talk about birds. Maybe something to do with the flying.
> Now this study shows that the reverse transcribed DNA is active as well.

> [...] implies that new cell lines will have been created which can produce SARS2 spike proteins

This is nonsense (in the most polite sense) - the study does not show any such thing. In fact, it makes no mention of DNA or transcription whatsover.
I'm seeing the "You broke reddit" screen as well but you can still access the post if you use .compact or the `new.reddit.com` domain.

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is...
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It takes a LOT of work to "earn a living off your looks"

Ignoring the time spent setting up shoots, editing, engagement, etc, and focusing just on "looks", you have to spend a lot of time on working out, make up, shaving, putting together outfits, etc.

If you think that looking good is something that doesn't take any hard work, it's because you've never tried to put in that work yourself.
What about overloading of hospital systems? Wasn't a major point of the lockdown that these systems were at a breaking point and any increase in patients risked catastrophe in certain places?
By that definition, real jobs are doctor, dentist, and software developer. We don't pay the worst in most jobs anything more than the legal minimum.
Funny, I see the opposite on Instagram - it's loaded with "suggested posts" based on things you liked, other accounts you follow, or apparently just things that you stopped scrolling for a second or two on, which I guess it detects. It even switches you to an endless list of suggested posts to scroll through once you have seen all of the posts from people you actually follow since the last time you opened the app - you have to click to an alternate screen/feed if you want to see an "old" post again.
The “various shapes and sizes” is what offends my sensibilities about USB sticks. I kind of wish there was a single form factor for USB drives, purely for cosmetic reasons. Yes, I know that only the connector has to have a standard form, but it’s kind of ugly that every time I buy a USB stick, I’m subjected to the random wacky design taste of a random hardware company.
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> The US military tries hard to put decision making at the front line where it is most up to date.

Business leaders love to imitate the military, but isnt it ironic they are emulating the institution that has the most government involvement and central planning?
You mean the same video that's embedded in the fine article?
Factorio is CPU-bound if you run a metabase

It can run on just about anything when you base is "just finish the game in style" size
>In the US, teammates leaving Patreon will be given three months severance plus an additional two weeks for each half year of tenure beyond the first year.

Pretty decent IMO.

>You’ll also receive COBRA health care coverage through the end of the year.

Odd that that doesn't match the pay period, but oh well.
I don't know what the deal is with the #39, but it's copyright 2011 and by a different author than most of the originals. The #39 does seem to conflict with the copyright year.
Google is supposed to be able to understand this given how much data they collect on individuals and the web.
Ask HN: How would you want (indie) software to be sold?
I have been working on an desktop application for the past two years. I expect it to have limited appeal because it targets a niche of power users (I would be happy if I manage to get 10.000 paying users).

What would be the "best" way to sell it? The simplest for me would be to make it a monthly subscription, but I dislike them, especially for my scenario.

Here are my considerations that I struggle to reconcile:

- WANT: Ideally, users should be able to try the app before buying it.
- MUST: Once you purchase it, it is yours forever.
- WANT/MUST: I plan on continuing to improve this app for the years to come. How do I do that sustainably?

By the way, I am thinking of using the Mac App Store and Windows Store to distribute it so I don't have to deal with licensing, anti-piracy, etc. However, they might not be flexible enough to enable all these scenarios. So, I'm open to alternatives.
How do you find consulting gigs without using recruiters?

I had a lot of trouble with this. . I'm not a speaker at conferences nor am I someone who gets coffees with ex coworkers regularly.
> Most, but not all, of the people on the committee believed that it was worth the risk with incomplete information

This is hardly surprising considering two of the people most likely to disagree resigned from the FDA after the last booster approval, due to their disagreement with the process. [0]

The people who resigned were FDA Office of Vaccines Research and Review Director Marion Gruber, Ph.D. and Deputy Director Phillip Krause, M.D.

After resigning, they also published a critique in the Lancet of the policy of boosters for everyone. [1]

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/af8da7d4-43ea-41d6-90ee-f959b3675...

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
That might be the reason for you, but there are many other reasons why people still use the site. For example, coordinating events with friends, discover local events, discussing on messenger, sharing photos, discussing in groups...
"Life may be sad, but it's always beautiful."

--
From "Pierrot le Fou", 1965
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Full post from Jack Conte's Instagram post:

"Hi everyone - I have some sad news to share: today, Patreon is doing a layoff of about 80 employees, about 17% of our team. This was ultimately my decision, so I wanted you all to hear directly from me about the reasoning.

Before I do, I want to say two things: first, today will be painful for many people, and I am deeply sorry to the incredible teammates who will be leaving Patreon - they are good, kind, creator-first, exceptionally talented, and smart people.

And second, I remember how nerve-racking it was when I was a full time creator - before starting Patreon - to watch companies that I depended on go through moments like this. So for those of you who rely on Patreon for your business and communities: I want to assure you that the company is making this move precisely for that reason - so we can continue to be a rock for your business.

As the world has recovered from COVID lockdowns and entered a broader economic slowdown, it has become clear that the original plan we built doe he year, to support outsized growth through the pandemic, is no longer the right plan for the company.

I take full responsibility for choosing that original path forward, and for the resulting changes today, which will be so difficult for our team.

It's important to me that we continue to deliver for our creators and patrons with new features and products like native video, new content creation and organization tools, a wold-class mobile experience, and new ways for creators to grow their membership and strengthen their communities. To ensure that we make progress on that roadmap, we are increasing our investment in product, engineering, and design, which means decreasing our spend on other ares of the company.

Ad difficult as this is fo our team, I know this is the right thing to do for Patreon, because it ensures that the company maintains a position of strength, even through an economic downturn, while continuing to deliver for our creators.

If you want to read more about this decision, I just published the internal note I sent to our team this morning, and it's linked in my bio. I'm going to stop posting here for a while to be 100% present internally for our teammates at the company. But I promise to come back in a bit - I will see you all soon.

- Jack"
Works fine in DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22high+tc%22+record

Edit: and also Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22high%20tc%22%20record
What's stopping someone from taking the money and giving them nothing of value in return? Missed opportunity.
> My impression is that it's memory-limited, and it has a builtin limit.

Factorio is primarily bound by memory bandwidth, believe it or not. You need a healthy amount of memory for really large factories, but the limiting factor ends up being the fact that a significant amount of it gets accessed every frame.

There is no built-in limit on factory size.

> Anyway, your factory size is FPS-bound

Not at all. FPS is only influenced by the amount of stuff on screen, which is bounded by the size of your screen. The most expensive scenes tend to be dense forests, not factories. :)
You're assuming that the mess is a side effect rather than the end goal with Cockatoos. Don't forget we are talking about an animal that evolved with a flag on their head that goes up to indicate the level of chaos in the area is about to increase
I find it really weird that this isn't a universal experience.

I've been coding for 15 years and could not imagine myself in your classmate's place - but I feel exactly the same while learning to draw.

I try to draw a somewhat straight line or something at least resembling a circle, fail, and feel like it's completely impossible to me, be close to tears, and everyone who can do it might as well be a wizard.
HPAs can definitely save you a lot of money when running Kubernetes and they are extremely useful, especially for non-production environments where you want to be efficient as possible.

Strategies I have used in the past for saving money are:

1) Set requests very low for your pods. Look at the minimum CPU/Memory that your pods need go start and set it to that. Limits can be whatever.

2) Set min replicas to 1. This is a non-production environment, nobody cares if an idle pod goes away in the middle of the night.

3) Use spot instances for your cluster nodes. 80% savings is nice!

4) Increase the number of allowed pods per node. GKE sets the default to 110 pods per node but it can be increased.

5) Evaluate your nodes and determine if it makes more sense to have `fewer large sized nodes` or `several smaller nodes`. If you have a lot of daemonsets then maybe it makes sense to have fewer large nodes.

6) Look at the CPU and Memory utilization of your nodes. Are you using a lot of CPU but not much memory? Maybe you need to change the machine type you are using so that you get close(r) to 100% CPU and Memory utilization. You are just wasting money if you are only using 50% of the available memory of your nodes.

7) Use something like knative or KEDA for 'intelligent autoscaling'. I've used both extensively and I found KEDA to be considerably simpler to use. Being able to scale services down to 0 pods is extremely nice!
Instagram turned into being what Facebook was supposed to be.
The software/systems architecture and factorio is a real thing.

This is something I wrote a few years ago and has been sitting in the drafts of a blog... https://gist.github.com/shagie/696b98749b7978444a267e5e02c6a...
In the time since 2014, Ukraine got stronger while Russia got weaker. Had Russia pressed forward with their invasion in 2014, they might have succeeded in taking the whole country before NATO-aligned countries worked up the willpower to do anything about it. But because Russia stalled then, the cancer of corruption and hardware decay ate away at their power, while Ukraine began preparing for the inevitable.
One idea that I have is to sell every major version (would be cool if I could give a discount to users of previous versions). Then, I could plan about 1 major version per year, while continuing to give bug fixes to the previous version for 2 more years (a core feature of the app is to connect to 3rd parties APIs online so previous versions will break without updates).

I would also want to give early access to the next major version, so the users don't wait up to a year to try some of the new features. My idea is to start selling the next version as soon as the previous one leaves early access.
The control featured in the paper is Europe, where the domestic cat is younger and not as well adapted, environmentally, as that in America. There is significantly less environmental destruction, despite the controls featuring similar numbers of the animals. Simply having cities has not had a similar effect.
So glad I deleted that crap years and years ago.

Also you can deactivate your account and still use the separate messenger app
> it is abject nonsense to state that this DNA is expressed as is implied in the study to which this thread is linked

Umm... well, yes? The study does not prove (or even suggest) any such thing.
I'm kinda surprised it's only 7,000 people. $5B in revenue last year means each employee was bringing in 3/4 of a million dollars. Not bad.
And many first party games, of course. It's not a great experience, though - on the OG switch, at least, the screen is really low quality.
I wonder how much of it may just be "keeping up with competitors". You can lose a lot of ground in a year or two, and recovering that ground may be more costly than the additional hiring-and-firing cost.
The elderly actually have a strong survival incentive to limit exposure, unlike the bulk of the population. For instance, take the 8% non-vaccination rate among the elderly versus the 32% among non-elderly [1].

Bhattacharya's main point is that "Flatten the curve" is really "widen the curve". Reasonable to do for the at-risk population that are likely to get hospitalized and could create a shortage of hospital resources if they were infected all at once. Not so much for the vast majority of people, and especially not reasonable for children who were at minimal risk. Again, people talk about the need to reduce the load on medical without considering the fact that most non-elderly people who got covid didn't end up in the hospital.

> Note outside of China I don’t think there has been any actual lockdown or quarantines despite people abusing that word. Advice to stay home and business closure is not a lockdown. A lockdown means you’re forcibly restricted.

This is untrue, in much of Canada and the UK people were forbidden by law to go outside without good reason.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html