skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's thoroughly documented that increasing vaccination rates decreases mortality rates
The game is more like the Stalker movie than the book.

In the book there were research missions and active urban life as well as smuggling, whereas the movie is spearheaded on going through the Zone while uninvited. The movie also has the post-apoc vibe whereas the book does not. The whole point of book is co-existence of the unknown with normal(ish) human society.
I don’t get what you’re talking about.
We’ll hit 1.5C within a decade.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-will-li...
I mean how many more years should we have been locked down?
There are many other browser APIs named "WebSomething". WebAudio, WebUSB, WebBluetooth. This is a really silly complaint to have.
> wasn't that a parody?

I can't see how. Post was a wall of copypasta from James Clapper's book.
lattner left google and was the primary reason they chose swift, so they lost interest.

if you're asking from an ML perspective, i believe the original motivation was to incorporate automatic differentiation in the swift compiler. enzyme would be the spiritual successor to that.

https://github.com/EnzymeAD/Enzyme
I tried pulling together a full timeline from the various documents, it's a fascinating story: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/
We have a crisis of morality in tech and society at large. When the ends justify the means, and the ends are in fact unending pursuits of power, then no amount of deception, deceit, collusion is off the table. And yes, people who work at FAANG et al are complicit.
I'm sorry but how is that flamebait? In the early 00s not everyone knew of every minute detail in the emulation scene, and honestly, they still don't. It's still to this day a very underground scene.

To be completely honest, most people just want a way to play free games... but even going back to nesticle in the late 90s it was about preservation and gaining personal knowledge of the hardware we enjoyed so much growing up.

Having been in touch with several emulator developers over the years, there is also quite a lot of infighting over who's code is the best, or whether they even want outside contributions at all.

I don't feel my comment was incorrect at all.
The men with the whip say:

> By far the most desirable outcome is to accelerate productivity so that economic growth catches up with the balance sheet. Only this scenario combines strong growth in income, wealth, and balance sheet health.
Private health insurance is taxable in the UK but every non-intern tech job I've had has had it as a benefit.
ELVM might be a related project, which takes C code and compiles to various languages, including VIM.

https://github.com/shinh/elvm
I think you’d have to have a fairly awkward API design in order for this to be an issue. For example, if “POST /posts” does something else, like flags a post for a moderator to review.

That being said, I don’t see this feature being particularly beneficial either. Only the caches which observed the request could know to purge the cache. So you can’t actually rely on it for cache invalidation.
IBM CEO expects AI to replace back office workers (such as human resources)
Yeah, we're definitely learning this. It's actually promising how well a very simple cosine similarity pass on data before sending it to an LLM can do [0]. But as we're learning, each further step towards accuracy is bigger and bigger, and there doesn't appear to be any turnkey solutions you can pay for right now.

[0]: https://twitter.com/_cartermp/status/1657037648400117760
Home prices surged due to FED actions so now they raise rates the fastest ever on a percentage basis.

Nobody is selling because who the hell wants to double or triple their interest payment. So the entire housing market is grinding to a halt from refinance, to construction, etc.

What was the big lesson in the great recession? Oh ya the entire us economy is held up by everything associated with the housing industry.

T - 1 year until the biggest fed policy error since great depression starts to become clear.
Coincidentally, the German translation of Roadside Picnic has an afterword by Lem.
“So actually…”

Just say we were wrong. “My bad”

We completely missed our 1.5 goal and the batteries are still coming.
Fixed prices =|= fixed costs. And yes, spot prices actually do exclude those. Sure, companies do include those in their internal calculations. The energy markets don't care. And yes, the results of this are funny. E.g. closing down gas plants without a single opertional hour because they are just not able to operate economically.
They have exclusive games.
Well, anecdata, but I'm generally very healthy, vaccinated, what not... I managed to not get covid until early this year.

I was so tired for two weeks, I literally spent a good hour watching a shadow moving across the wall, hyping myself up thinking "when that bit of shadow hits that spot, I will have the energy to get up from this chair"

It was no joke, and with young kids, I caught my fair share of other bugs over the last 6 years. I'm not surprised at all that this pushes some people over the edge, like influenza.
it's not a full fledged browser for now, never was intended to become one, maybe now will

it's doesn't even call itself a browser but a "web rendering engine"

a lot of things today need a lot of not-quite standard, messy or standardized by very very complicated stuff to even render correctly

it wasn't really maintained for a long while until very recently (because it originally was never meant to become a full browser)

so I'm not sure what you are expecting
How would that differ from what you can already do with Electron?
The US major media reported on this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Maybe in Western Europe and in North America, here in Romania we've had the month of March with the lowest number of deaths for the last 10 years (maybe more, I didn't look further back), and the same went for February. We also had a much higher number of deaths during the height of the pandemic (October 2021 had about 100% more deaths compared to a "normal" month of October), and one of the lowest vaccinations rates in the European Union.

Which goes to say that many of the people who would have died now, so to speak, have in fact died one or two years prior, during the pandemic. Can't find the link, but a similar effect was noticed in Netherlands after their great famine of 1944-1945, which was followed by about a decade of bellow average death numbers.

For those interested the Excel with the official data is in here [1], it's in Romanian but relatively easy enough to understand the data in there.

[1] https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/anexa_dat...
Given our geriatric government, I could believe many of them do not regularly use phones. As of 2015, Senator Lindsey Graham claimed to have never sent an email [0].

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/lindsey-graham-ive-ne...

Edit: median Senator age is 65 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/aging-congress-boomers/
and before it was restarted it wasn't even meant to ever become a full fledged stand alone browser at all...
There is no conclusion that all of those deaths were due to COVID, and the article is irresponsible for implying as much even after repeatedly saying that attributing all the excess deaths to COVID is jumping to conclusions.

Some other things that have happened since before COVID which would cause an increase in pre-COVID forecasts include a war between the world's two global superpowers, a global recession and disruption of the supply chain, a massive shortage of healthcare workers in many countries, and an enormous spike in usage of fentanyl in the developed world.

COVID plus any or all of those factors are contributing to excess deaths.
That would be a negative correlation. The map seems to indicate a positive correlation overall, negative correlation only if you ignore Africa and half of South America.

(Eyeballing it side-by-side with the vaccination map here: https://fortune.com/2021/06/30/covid-vaccines-global-vaccina... )
I was referring to healthcare which constitutes the bulk of benefits in the US.

Also PTO is more regulated in the EU than it is in the US.
What does negative electricity price even mean? Is it really worth while for power companies to pay people to receive electricity over their electrical infrastructure? Would it not be cheaper to drive a metal rod into the ground and send it there?

> In practice, it doesn't appear any ordinary Finns are being paid to consume electricity. People pay a markup on the electricity, and often pay agreed rates for power instead of the raw market price.

Or am I completely misunderstanding negative priced electricity? Is it just a clickbait term?
My eyes, the goggles, they do nothing!

While those are not hideous, they're hardly anything to write home about, much less call beautiful either. Compare them with a traditional budhist shrine, national monument, or church, and they're seen as the regression to ideology and "architect as god" arbitrariness that they are.
Kind of surprised that society was able to make the decision. It seems reasonable, right?

Is it worth a 50% gdp hit to reduce cases by 10%?

How many deaths are caused by reduced economic output?
Even the USA grid is fragmented.

There seem to be limits on efficient transmission and synchronization of power on the grid.

Connections to import or export excess power are limited in practice. Finding local storage options (pumped hydro, compressed air, etc. Etc.) seems key.

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Local grids can use the free market (ex: negative prices electricity) to encourage use or savings from the public. Ex, electric car owners can wait for negative electricity before charging. At least, in theory they could.

It's all a bit handwavey and futuristic. But these things are possible if we solve a few key issues over the next decade.

Energy storage could be partially solved by load shifting: we kindly ask and encourage chargers at certain time, washer/driers or even AC with $$$ incentives to reward those who load shift.

It can also be attacked with utility scale storage. And finally additional export/import power lines to other grids.
Big red splotch over Russia, and data includes 2022-2023... maybe there's also some other factor inducing excess death in Russians?
And yet, me with my tiny gasoline generator has absolutely no incentive to use it at times of peak demand.

When any market gives no incentive for most participants to resolve any supply/demand imbalance, then shortages are sure to happen from time to time.

Electricity isn't even a market where people can 'panic buy' like toilet paper.
> Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago

no not at all

and the browser internally diverge far far more then that in their handling of things
this is also how the Element X rewrite of the Element Matrix client works - although with Rust rather than Zig. We had to add async support to uniffi for a good experience from Swift (and Kotlin) tho! https://youtu.be/eUPJ9zFV5IE?t=1280 has some deets.
If you want Apple involved they don’t like working under Khronos. IP disputes in the past. See also WebGPU

API started as WebVR, was renamed to WebXR since now accommodates more than VR (AR, MR…)

I worked with Vlad at Mozilla in the early WebVR days (I co-design while at Mozilla and now maintain A-Frame)
One of the things that isn’t talked about enough in a reasonable and calm way is the impact COVID can have on the immune system long term.

It’s talked about in terms of Long COVID and whether or not it’s psychosomatic, the policies made during the lockdowns, and so forth, but always with so much emotion, and sometimes for good reason. I don’t want to dismiss that or trivialize it. Those are important topics to discuss for how we’ll handle future pandemics.

But the evidence is accumulating that COVID does seem to impact CD8+ T cells, causing T cell exhaustion and reduced effector response. One running hypothesis is that the impaired immune response is caused by a persistent viral reservoir infection, particularly in the gut (although not all people show signs of a spike protein months after the initial infection) causing your CD8+ T cells to express more inhibitory receptors (similar to what happens in HIV or cancer with excessive and prolonged exposure to cancer cells).

Another hypothesis that is lesser known but I find particularly compelling is gut dysbiosis following a COVID infection causing a persistent immune activation that leads to T cell exhaustion or impaired T cell functionality especially through persistent activation of the dendritic cells (which are important for presenting antigens to the adaptive immune systems (i.e. T cells, B cells, etc)).

I think a researcher put it best when they said COVID is roughly halfway between HIV and the common cold in terms of the impact it has on the immune system. It may also not be accurate. We have to find out.

For context, think about how long it took to realize the Epstein Barr virus was a causal factor in multiple sclerosis. It took years of evidence collecting and data analysis to eliminate other confounding variables.

We shouldn’t rush to judgement or a narrative, but remain calm and dispassionate here and examine what’s going on, both for the virus, the vaccine, and the actions taken during the pandemic. It’s important we get it right.
FTA:

“Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle”

and

“The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra Catz) contested the contract”.

So pretty much every single large cloud provider went after this, though Google did eventually bow out early. Other than winning the second round of the bidding (and not actually going live), is there something Microsoft did specifically that warrants being singled out?
Nobody is forcing you to use social media. If you don't want to see something you don't have to.

On the flip side you should consider that some people like the affirmation and validity they get out of hearing stories similar to their own. People have their own needs that are met by social media. If yours aren't, maybe consider that you aren't the target audience?
Pretty much yeah. The price for groceries or bills don't differ too much between EU countries at this point, but the price of real estate and having your own place either paid off or secured at a good price and a good rate makes the biggest difference.

Earning 50% more before tax somewhere else is not a good deal if there's 200 people fighting for every moldy 20sqm apartment that hasn't seen a renovation in 50 years, and you also no real chance of affording to buy something decent in that area.

Real estate is messed up in EU at the moment. Far too expensive considering the wages and rates.
what does wiv stand for? my first impression was that it is short for wive(s), which may not be the intention of a social network for business travelers.
Agreed. They're not sorry for their actions, they're sorry they got caught. If they're sorry at all.
I once met Waldemar Celes, one of the co creators of Lua. It was meant for use within a tool called Geresim for visualizing large 3D models of oil/gas reservoirs - primarily for Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company.
You start dating someone, you become another person with different customs and passions. The more you invest in relation, the more is the difference, unless you had exactly the same prior background.
Your points of a global recession, disruption of the supply chain and shortage of healthcare workers could quite easily be attributed to covid because excess deaths during the initial outbreak contributed to massive burnout and a loss of workforce.
Geez, that deep red for Russia in the diagram, I wonder what the official figures of deaths due to war is.

Radio Yerevan was asked: "Why does Russia have high excess deaths, is it because of the what the government has deemed as special military operation?"

Radio Yerevan answered: "No, it's because of Covid."

Radio Yerevan was further asked: "Is the government mishandling the Covid-crisis?"

Radio Yerevan answered: "The government has successfully managed the pandemic and ended Covid."
lenses maintain their value for a very long time. camera bodies, not as much.

this is still a huge amount of money, to me.
I've never heard of an engineer getting a company car in Finland. People mostly just get a phone plan and some sports and culture vouchers.
Agree on both points, thanks.
I see the need, and good write up, but just use this for the definition of GET body.

Nothing in the existing spec prevents GET from having a body, though there isn't currently a semantic meaning to it.

This would fit perfectly, be more compatible and result in a simpler spec and protocol.
QUERY is the one missing method to cover all reasonable combinations of safe/idempotent/neither and whether (if safety or idempotency applies) a body needs taken into account to identify a semantically identical request.

Not idempotent: POST

idempotent/not safe: PUT (body matters), DELETE (no body)

safe: QUERY (body matters)/GET (no body)

That’s why QUERY is needed. POST is not a good substitute.
The normal cache controls apply, so you can make it as safe as you need.
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At some point you still need a seed for that 10TB of data with some level of reliability. WebTorrent only solves the monthly bandwidth iff you've got some high capacity seeds (your servers or long-term peers).
> when they read or listen to the intelligence community's criticisms of Snowden.

Or anyone who has reason to toe the same line, which is all of corporate news and most any politician.

One can also include Assange as a target of this biased criticism.
They don't really have anything to do with each other other than both dealing with "power." Your report is talking about total capacity/generation due to having average stock of hydro and the linked report is talking about usage during "extreme demand" periods.

It doesn't matter how much generating capacity you have if you can't transmit all of it to where it's needed when all AC's are on full blast and everyone is charging their cars and everyone is cooking on electric stoves, or need to totally cut it off to large areas to prevent forest/wild fires during these extreme demand periods, which is when it's hottest. Blackouts/brownouts will still continue, and even be planned for, even with excess hydro. Infrastructure/delivery goes way beyond just raw generation.
Thanks for the example. Though, Youtube was definitely one of the sites I visited.

I just ran a test with HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 3 - and in both cases, it took about 10 seconds until the whole page was loaded. It was already usable earlier than that, but even that was similar between 1.1 and 3.

The test was done on a "regular" Wifi connection.
Just living a modern urbanised life seems to be enough to drive humanity towards apocalypse within a few decades. Is that the case? If so, then I expect humanity to behave as it always does - with both good and bad elements of behaviour on display, perhaps accentuated as pressures to survive mount. Cohesive action will be fragmented and many will suffer and some will prosper. Sounds pretty much like the way things work today. I would be interested to know of any models which avert disaster that do not rely on billions of people all acting to live quite differently to how they do today.
I don't know, but it seems likely to me that it should be able to sustain a few companies. All the really high end stuff will probably be first party developed (e.g. by NVidia) and not sold to 3rd parties, but there are a lot of places where flexibility is more important than raw performance. It's possible that market will be fulfilled by open source cores, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are some medium sized companies that make a business out of 3rd party custom chip design.
I have a dynamic pricing contract, prices are generally around or slightly below fixed market rates, but when it's sunny or windy I get power for free, or better. Got paid to charge my car today. I like it, because it makes me more mindful of the e-grid (also free power)

So, it is possible to have some force changing consumer behavior. It all depends on sane legislation, allowing a system like this to exist.
Economic output is also what keeps people fed and the lights on, it's not really something people are going to tolerate turning down indefinitely.
My understanding was that it sometimes happens in the commercial market - there's some inertia in large power systems and so sometimes it can help balance things out to pay someone to sink electricity. I read something about this in a paper discussing the economics of grid-scale batteries - basically they can potentially make lots of money by playing both ends of the market and can switch on/off with incredible speed compared to other generation.
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The fact that James Clapper is not currently behind bars is appalling.

He lied to Congress and lied to the American people.
Airbnb crackdown to tackle rental crisis (Victoria, Australia)
FYI This is GB news, think fox but more right wing.
they are easy subjects
Kings Grew Pale
> The US major media reported on this.

There were some one-off stories but

by the time we got to the point where PotUS candidates were pausing their campaigns so they could return to DC to vote in favor of amnesty for AT&T,

99% of the coverage was about the ancillary warrantless wiretapping issue; NSA's bulk collection of US citizen's data was soundly ignored. Every bit of this process was stunning to witness.
But Mr. Anderson, what good is an X server... if no toolkits support it?
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Well, for us it's actually really cheap because we really just want the compute. The bandwidth is just a bonus.

Actually, since the Akami acquisition it would be even cheaper.

$800/mo to serve 100TB with fairly high bandwidth and low latency from cold storage is a good deal IMO. I know companies paying millions a year to serve less than a third of that through AWS when you include compute, DB, and storage.
> scale your service

Scaling is done entirely at the expense of the service provider, so, not a sustainable option (and AIUI already done so as to continue serving for other users, but at terrible cost). Scaling issues are good to have when you have customers, not when you personally foot the bill.

> adjust your terms

At the very least changing terms won't change the already deployed app instances. In each of the three delineated scenarios it won't even register a blip on the abuser radar. So, not an option.

> start rate limiting

Pretty sure that was attempted. This is DDoS, rate limiting means doing it across the board, impacting every user, including those in good standing.

> or shut it down.

The only effective option. a.k.a the nuclear option a.k.a We Can't Have Nice Things.

> get someone's attention

That's the end game of these gray tactics. Not wreaking havoc but triggering awareness in a last resort way so that dialog can be opened/corrective measures can be taken. Note that "shut it down" would presumably have a similar effect, so there's no real harm done in practice.
TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (2016)
Sounds like you would also like the novel. The Kindle version is a new translation by Bill Johnston. The previous one was a flawed retranslation (from Polish to French to English).
Perhaps I wasn't clear: I immigrated to one of {AT, CA, CH, DE, DK, FI, IS, NL, NO, SE}, none of which are third world cheap countries. (and average salaries are also high in my home country, it's just that those [mean] high salaries, for whatever reasons, do not translate to [modal] high quality of life)