skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might require dedicated hardware. That only really becomes possible when you've proven the idea, but ASICs for cryptomining, TensorFlow, etc are quite real. There's no reason why dedicated hardware for training Stable Diffusion couldn't happen.
Reddit is a sampling of roughly 20% of 18-29 year old men who use the Internet. That’s not exactly “mainstream thought”, it’s a self selected demographic and what is popular on Reddit reflects that.
Ah! Now I understand why that old tweet was being interacted with :)

I happen to agree with a significant portion of that list and some are, as you point out, being worked on.
Was there an expectation of the opposite being true? You don't own a social media account. See all the people banned, shadowbanned, or who have had their @ handle or blue checkmarks taken from them. I thought it was accepted that the service provider can do whatever they want with a given account.
I downvoted you for being hilariously incorrect; in particular:

> Coding C++, you need only choose known-correct primitives to get the same level of assurance.
> it is literally effortless to accidentally cultivate the impression of being some kind of wizard
German by chance? Hopefully you're okay with language corrections :)

I live in Germany now and I often hear "funny" (lustig) used where "fun" (Spaß, used in English as an adjective too - something like spaßig but that's still considered "funny") should instead be used. Just a tip!

This project is awesome, by the way. Thanks for posting it.
>Do you know where you are writing this?

Yes, in a community of people with a bent towards making things to scratch an itch. Some of them are highly in favor of monetizing those things, but yet not all, and we have been known to favor open source projects from time to time.
I'm actually reading a book about these shareware businesses. It was quite profitable selling them for 4$-7$ and they were popular. They would start as one person and occasionaly grow into huge operations involving hundreds of employees.
I came here to write something similar. The article lists a few repos as examples of bad naming when the reality is, it’s examples of miss-naming. For a long long time I’ve convinced people to use literal names for things and not get creative. A BillingStatusService, as the author has cited, isn’t an example of a bad name. It’s an example of bad engineering that it does more than BillingStatus.

Often times when people get creative with names, the meaning dies with them. When they leave the company so too does the reasoning behind the name.

The author conflates service bloat with bad names. Fix the bloat and the name will make sense. If you have an app called “Authorizer” and it does email, you failed. If you have a service called “InfraValidator” all it should be doing is validation. If it’s not (such as tensor flow’s infra validator) then the service/app/codebase is misleading and needs to be renamed after what it does.

I also hate to see overly descriptive names. Package/crate/bundle/module should help classify the name of the class/object/func_collection.

Names like “EnvironmentPostProcessor” (Spring Boot) is succinct enough to know exactly what it does. It processes environment vars after a stage.
Software is just taking over the world. I realize that this may make it harder for a farmer with a wrench to fix the machinery as farmers have done for so many years, but it's just reality. If there were a market for stripped-down, software-free, easy-to-fix farm machinery, I would guess someone would fulfill that demand.
Woman sues after DNA from rape kit used to arrest her
I don't disagree, but as a side note, "the narrative" always strikes me as a loaded word. It seems that generally when people use it, whatever they're referring to just so happens to be the "narrative" of the other side.
Does knowing that it is called "Widget Lookup Service" actually convey enough information to you to be able to make meaningful changes to its implementation? If not, then its time to look up it up in your internal company wiki. Which name will yield search results specific to the service you are interested in, and which one will be heavily polluted by mentions of "Widget", presumably something common in your domain.
> perhaps a valid reason?

That's why I specifically said "from a naive standpoint." I'm not arguing against valid reasons, I'm pointing out how absurd the situation is.

From my comment:

> I understand that there are consequences of Mudge's information
Unum Rocks: 10 TBs, 64 Cores and CUDA
OK. Deaths in the RCTs:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4072489

[edit: fixed typo in link]

"To examine the possible non-specific effects (NSEs) of the novel COVID-19 vaccines, we reviewed the randomised control trials (RCTs) of mRNA and adenovirus-vector COVID-19 vaccines ... For overall mortality, with 74,193 participants and 61 deaths (mRNA:31; placebo:30), the relative risk (RR) for the two mRNA vaccines compared with placebo was 1.03 (95% CI=0.63-1.71)"

Excess deaths in the UK. Useful because (a) it's all in English and (b) the UK authorities do split out deaths by vaccine status unlike most places:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/18/silent-crisis-so...

"For 14 of the past 15 weeks, England and Wales have averaged around 1,000 extra deaths each week, none of which are due to Covid. If the current trajectory continues, the number of non-Covid excess deaths will soon outstrip deaths from the virus this year – and be even more deadly than the omicron wave. The Government has admitted that the majority of the excess deaths appear to be from circulatory issues and diabetes – long-term, chronic conditions that can be fatal without adequate care."

Increases by cause of death:

https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-5....

Dashboard that lets you explore the data directly from the source:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00N...

UK data at first appears to show that the unvaccinated die at a higher rate. However, this is only because they're using incorrect population figures. Although it may seem absurd the government population figures in the UK are officially labelled "experimental" because they are universally acknowledged to be far too low. In some age groups the official population is lower than the number of people who came forward for immunization, so these figures cannot be used and indeed the UK HSA didn't use the official population stats when computing their own effectiveness rates, but rather estimates from NIMS (National Immunization Service). If the same methodology is used then you can calculate chart 4 on this page from officially released data:

https://bartram.substack.com/p/deaths-by-vaccination-status-...

"The ONS data is interesting because it also includes data on non-Covid deaths by vaccination status ... Using this alternative estimate of the population of England [from NIMS] now suggests that the vaccines substantially increase the risk of death for reasons other than Covid."

Unfortunately and worryingly, even the NIMS estimates are likely to be seriously off. According to NIMS about 9% of the British population refused vaccination but a few months ago the BBC commissioned a professional survey from a polling firm, to ask people questions about their vaccine status and if they didn't take it, why not. They were surprised to discover that 25% of people said they were unvaccinated.

> To examine the possible non-specific effects (NSEs) of the novel COVID-19 vaccines, we reviewed the randomised control trials (RCTs) of mRNA and adenovirus-vector COVID-19 vaccines
It's Finland, so not that much to do with Iraq either. Instead, Finland has a lot of experience about being in the USSR sphere of influence (see Finlandization), and thus I wholeheartedly support Ukraine's right to choose their own alignment.

> When you join a criminal gang for protection

I think we agree that in this context you choose to join a gang, and the opposing gang doesn't get to prevent you from leaving them. Nobody has promised NATO membership to Ukraine. However, they are free to align with Western values and apply for any membership they wish, be it EU or NATO. And when they join, yes that membership comes with certain obligations too.
I feel like I didn't give enough context (I've written that essay) to the kind of projects that was used to test what is written.

1. Pre Series A companies, which didn't have strong engineering team from start
and now struggle to ship.
2. Idea/Pre Seed companies, which just want to ship fast and raise funds. That kind of founder usually have 'friends & fools' budget.

1. First kind of projects usually don't have enough tests coverage to deploy safely more often. Typically I would set a goal to deploy twice a week in 6-12 months and build a plan of how to achieve that.
2. Usually I advice to not write lots of tests for the first ~6 months to focus on shipping faster. In my experience products often change dramatically during this period. But a) there are exceptions. Some domains (e.x. finance) are critical to write more tests. b) tests infrastructure are always set as part of CI/CD process, so engineers can decide and write them for area of high importance.
I remember when a well-respected doctor (in his field) started questioning the COVID narrative and Wikipedia let people literally erase him from wiki pages he had been on for years. None of the information on him was false, they just didn't want people using his experience and accomplishments to bolster his credibility.

Saying that Wikipedia is "accurate and reliable" is like saying the corporate media is "trustworthy".
Most people who had covid and died probably wouldn’t have died so quickly if they didn’t have covid.

Why you do the mental gymnastics to pretend this isn’t true is so baffling.
This is what I believe, but people who think free will exists seem generally happier so I don't try to convince anyone.
OMG reality is a harsh mistress
We have several hydrofoil ferries here in Massachusetts and I think they must be these new types.

They are very smooth, and very fast. Very very desirable to take them versus the regular ferry because they make certain tourist visits day trips versus very expensive overnight trips.
Behavior Change = Revenue versus Structure Change = Option
I heard Tesla insurance is nearly always more expensive than average though?
Why would you? License requisition is a real pain, they have to be factored into the budget, depreciated, etc. If you can instead simply pull in OSS and hide it behind a SaaS implementation (thereby complying with licenses) you can leverage it to make money. I don't think Stallman saw this coming.

Some companies do better than others. For example, FAANG level companies typically have teams that do give back. In some cases several orders of magnitude more than they take from popular projects. It's the in-betweens, the other companies that don't do anything other than leech.
BUY is the best verb in an ecommerce producer/consumer product context, but not all payments thru the web fall under this category. Here are some examples that argue for the verb PAY:

- paying a bill to your healthcare provider
- sending a donation to an organization
- putting a deposit to reserve a product
- renting a car
It feels like if it's about managing remote workers then time management is the big piece.
Yeah being alive is technically voluntary too if you want to be an edge-lord cynic about it.
I suspect the majority of people should aim for a full-time job. Working for yourself (excepting certain industries where it’s very much the norm, say plumbing) is an additional skill set that can take quite the time to acquire.

However, if you find yourself with the opportunity you may want to avail yourself; laid off and you can consult for six months while looking for new work? Could be an opportunity. But many who try it eventually go back to salary work because of any number of externalities.

It’s also not a binary decision; when getting hired you can ask for carve outs for side work that doesn’t involve your day job - or you can become a notary public or a real estate agent and just offer your services to friends and family.
Don't remove the mattress tag.
Far more reasonable than I expected from Fox.

In the second half, the choice between better work-life balance and mental health benefits is laughable. The former means either "work your 11-hour day at convnenient hours" or going along with the spending less time at work. The mental health benefit is awful. I know someone who was told to just take medicine to counteract the health problems cauzed by their job. This is the same. Hey, your job burns you out, so have a teleheath providers talk to you about it. Ouch.

Like Marx, good at descriibing problems and poor at the solutions.
Unlike publications and most other websites, Twitter is near real time.
That's actually a good example, because if the standard specified that POST must be idempotent, and that a POST without a uuid is invalid, we might have something here.

Instead there's a workaround for a serious problem, and any client (browser being by no means the only client) which doesn't respect the convention can emit identical POSTs, with no way of knowing if that was intended.
Same as me then. That's probably part of the issue. Thanks for confirming, I'll let the right team know.
At that moment, I took the knife next to the computer to insert gently the blade into the drive above the diskette. It worked most of the time :p.
This is a fair point. They had their chance when they filed their statements with the SEC and others.

And they also control a big megaphone. If they want to release a statement, they can tweet it and boost it directly into everyone's feed.
So wait, you not only think a BuzzFeed reporter known for being on the politics beat for years is somehow interested in who is editor-in-chief at a Canadian fashion magazine, but you also think anything about retelling a factual story in a critical light is slander?

How do you think this went down? How did the person co-opting McLeod approach? I’ve got the scoop of the century, they said? Do you think he fumbled his iPad excitedly on the way to break this, in your words, obvious oppo? (Do you think he’d miss that?)

In general, and I’m not just talking to you here, if you don’t know how journalism works, maybe don’t comment on it nor speculate on its big moves. You say things like “bog standard” to communicate certainty, but your imagined narrative literally falls apart with ten seconds of critical thinking.
My primary was surprised I actually got it.

Many years ago I suffered from a severe reaction from Cipro. No one believed me. It caused tendonitis and nerve issues. I went to Mayo clinic and they did not believe me. Today, the medication has a black box label and mentions nervous system damage and tendonitis. I still encounter physicians who DO NOT believe it and refuse to accept it. The issue is still widely under the radar and individuals suffering from side effects receive nearly 0 help from western medicine.

I know now that physicians mindset hasn't changed very much over the decades.
In 1800s a doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis, discovered that "childbed fever" was being caused by the lack of washing hands and instruments. It took the medical community 20 years to accept it as a truth and he was fired from his job at the hospital.

Wiki link for more infohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Response_by_t...
Does a high-margin spur on a third party service? I've thought about what that would take, I imagine you'd have to weather some pretty serious lawsuits but maybe if you had some backing it would be doable?
burning dvd/cds was fun. Figuring out how to burn a dvd that could run on a dvd player was fun. Now it's all just done via chromecast. Convenient and less wasteful, I have to admit.
A press release that they immediately deleted for some reason. Thus, presumption of accidental release, also known as a "leak".
> In modern computing
Do you not mind Russia transferring Ukrainian children to brainwash them? Admit it, Ukrainians face genocide.
If you don't have a relationship with the executive you should ask for an agenda and clarity on the goal of the meeting. You should say "you need the context so that you can prepare and ensure a productive meeting". Even if there is a one or two sentence description you should ask for more info. This does two things, first it helps you prepare and 2nd if they don't provide an agenda you get some forewarning that something is going on. Worse case they say no, best case they see you habitually doing good prep work.
> Well Duh! Of course a twitter employee could take over any account.

Most companies the size of Twitter would have a lot more controls than that on random employees' write access to production.

If I want to assume a user's identity in my employer's production system I have to fill out a form justifying it, get my manager's approval for each account accessed, and my activity is subject to logging.
How Typedream got their first 1k users
I don't. I said what I meant.
> I actually think it's unfortunate that she didn't focus more on fashion.

There's plenty to say about the impact on fashion in the wake of 9/11, but there's nothing really to say regarding the day of the attack itself. I don't think that the fashion of the victims in the hospital would have been an insightful thing to write about.
True, but that's the way it's being used.

I can't think of a better word. Suggestions?
Ah, well the monarchy and corresponding empire to have a history of inflicting massive suffering on various ethnic groups, so I guess there's probably some correlation between republican sentiment and identity (I mean look Irish Twitter). But I think it is not a very compelling reason to write off these sentiments, as the original comment seems to have...
Apparently our T-cells learn from unlicensed data just like our AIs.
And yet, the USA did not invade Cuba or press a regime change after the CMC. There was a negotiated settlement where the USA withdrew their missiles from Turkey, left Castro alone and that settled the issue.

NATO never deployed nukes in any of the ex-USSR countries, did not build extensive permanent bases, signed the Russia/NATO founding act and in general tried to accommodate Moscow.

There's a world of difference between deploying offensive nukes in a neighboring country and allowing countries to join a defensive alliance. That's not to say I am a huge fan of US politics of the 1960's, but the comparison is simply lopsided.
Great writeup! Unfortunate ap-northeast-3's so prevalent since it's usually the smallest and least supported public AWS region due to being a "local region" with only 1 public AZ for years:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-asia-pacific-osaka-regi...

https://github.com/patmyron/cloud/

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ap-northeast-1, eu-west-1 seems like the best suggested pair sticking to AWS regions that have most resource types available
In my experience, companies who chose Scala did enjoy a competitive advantage. Almost no bugs in production and predictable velocity. No more "not sure what this will break". In Scala projects I worked I almost never encountered any surprises except on boundaries (Scala<>Message broker) and etc.

I saw projects (non-Scala) come to almost a complete stop from velocity perspective, because engineers were afraid to change old code. This resulted in many iterations and a lot of slow testing until changes were delivered. In my opinion, it can easily impact business side of things.
Getting Started with Minidiscs
We live in a competitive/comparison world (sports, wealth, titles, etc.) and the tech industry is no different. Which CPU is fastest? Which programming language is most popular? Which OS has the most users? Nearly every category has a score-keeper somewhere.

Where would we be if that competitive behavior didn't drive people to do better? I have a data management project that I regularly benchmark against conventional file systems and databases. I get a thrill when a set of DB queries run 3x or 4x faster than on Postgres or MySQL. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE) But am I satisfied? No! I sit down and try to figure out how to make it even faster, easier, or use less resources.
> and the fact that it is not as effective.

Well, none delivered as promised. We went from "this will do it..." to "...get your booster boosted...and boosted..."

I get it. It's difficult to say. That's the true nature of science. The problem is, that level of honesty and transparency was completely abandoned. Instead we got "it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated" which was yet another hyperbolic lie. Instead we got Fauci suggesting "wear two masks" instead of coming clean (i.e., those disposable masks didn't have any science to support their effectiveness. That is, they're useless*).

These are not opinions. These are facts. Yet we're in collective mass denial??

*Why didn't we already know this? And why isn't anyone asking why that was?
Then we cannot attribute them to the vaccine, which was the original point.
Bullshit. Show me where vaccines were promoted as having 0% breakthrough.
I think you're missing the point entirely. The fact that the world has gone bonkers over this whole farce proves that Twitter is just as influential as the most jaded critic has suspected.

And then you stop and realize that the user numbers on Twitter are DWARFED by Facebook (and Instagram and TikTok), and you realize just how screwed we really are.

And all for the sake of making some people insanely rich, by flooding every aspect of our lives with advertising.
Once my family drove to visit my cousins. I brought a newly bought box of floppies just in case they had some interesting things to copy from... and forgot it in the car with summer heatwave outside. It was a very painful lesson, so many badblocks.
So, uhm, which country in central/eastern Europe hosts NATO nuclear missiles again?

That's just whataboutism.
If anything, it’s people below 20 that don’t understand tech. Smart devices have made interaction with tech literally too easy, to the extent that uni curricula have to teach people how to use files because they didn’t learn how on their own.

This is of course a generalisation. There are plenty of 20yo and younger who are curious about tech and do understand the basics. But earlier iterations of tech depended on you knowing these concepts. You had to know what a file was to make use of a computer.
>Thunderbolt with a dongle can really replace anything that an ExpressCard could do, and more.

What can tb do that express card could not?
That study you linked has nothing to do with the vaccine, in fact the vaccine helped reopen the society and ending pandemic related restrictions.

This conversation is derailed, the original topic was vaccine.
I work at Grafana, so AMA about the tool :)
A major problem is that Maven (and friends) doesn’t distinguish between API dependencies (the API of a library using types from the API of another library) and implementation dependencies (a library depending on another library as an implementation detail). If that distinction were made consistently, implementation dependencies could indeed be separated into a dedicated classloader for each library, and you’d only have to worry about API dependencies, which would go a long way.

The Java 9 Modules architecture would have been an opportunity to introduce something like that, but alas they didn’t.
I agree with you. Also, a problem with the vaccinations is inflammation. A well planned and implemented diet can reduce inflammation. Indeed, my wife and I always tune up our diets to decrease inflammatory foods while eating as many anti-inflammatory foods as possible, and we have been doing this since long before Covid-19.
> reverted--that's a link the left would prefer people not make.

Notably, you haven't shared the link here. So all we're getting is vague accusations about "the left".

What was the link? And why do you think it was removed?
If you read all the YouTube comments on massive trips I suggest that people aren’t actually getting the ‘message’ and are just the same old, same old.