skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of COVID-19, for persons circulating in public, exposure was pretty much guaranteed during peak periods of the pandemic, most particularly (Northern Hemisphere) Summer 2020 and Winter 2020 (June -- August and November -- February, mostly). Challenge exposure would have been largely redundant, though it might well have been a utilised protocol.

The time constraints were the sequencing of multiple innoculations (most vaccinations require at least two doses spaced at 2+ weeks for preferred effect, with additional subsequent boosters increasing effectiveness), time from final innoculation to infection, observing course of illness, if any, and monitoring for any fall-off in immunity over time. Even on an accelerated basis that's a 90-day period, roughly, and longer-term assessments of 1--2 years are of clinical interest. Though once it became clear that vaccination showed greatly-increased immunity within weeks of treatment, authorisation of the vaccine was virtually assured.

At which point ramping up production and distribution were the challenges.

The initial mRNA vaccines were prototyped within days of the SARS-COV-2 virus being sequenced. It took nearly 18 months to go through the testing, production, and distribution of the vaccine to the point that anyone who wanted a vaccine could obtain one. Little of that lag had much to do with trial phases, though identifying better treatments (several of the vaccine lines proved less effective, notably the Chinese-created vaccine AFAIU) also had value. Parallel development and testing was effectively pursued in this case.
Not really, my friends are still using proprietary apps besides their XMPP client.
It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. JC is about 15 minutes into the West Village and only a little more into Greenwich Village and Soho, which arguably constitute the best parts of the city. And on top of paying top dollar to live in Brooklyn, people furthermore get soaked for nearly 4% in NYC city tax. It's amazing how foolish people will be just to play status games.
Once upon a time there were millions of people working the fields to make enough food. Nothing has been decimated in the last year or two, and I don't think anything will be in the next two either. But yeah, the world is changing, and some current careers won't be viable in a decade or two. I'm not sure we could find a point in the last century where that wasn't true.
Have you ever used Elixir? It is still a niche language with niche features and a niche ecosystem. "Immutability" might be a nice buzzword but in the real world computers don't work like that and trying to shove a square peg in a round hole results in complexity and performance heartbreak.
It's incredible how unsympathetic these threads are to artists.

I remember the HN threads covering the FAANG (or whatever they're called now) laysoffs, where people would get flagged just for pointing out that tech workers earning $150-350k-a-year aren't sympathetic, exploited proletarians and that these companies have obligations to shareholders, which includes ordinary Americans with 401(k)s, IRAs, or pension plans (which, even if public sector, are still usually funded with public equities)--not just to people who got lucky and won the FAANG job lottery.
It was trained on billions on hours of media that they paid for and costing them hundreds of billions of dollars. /s
I'm an accelerationist when it comes to advertising, so this can't happen fast enough. The ad "targeting" will be even shittier than it is now! This van only has ten when consumers revolt.
LLaMA Index is way more than a PDF parser. It's the most widely used RAG tool chain and their cloud looks to be a managed version of that.

Specific to the parser, they do show where tools like those you mentioned fail and their LLM based parser captures the full data the aforementioned miss.
Not to mention that whole pandemic thing and its effect on the economy. People who weren't allowed to work for a couple of years aren't going to be able to afford newer cars.
Seems like this person made a paywall removal website 30 days ago and then 4 days ago claims they "found" it. Probably spam, particularly since they have other flagged/dead postings that look like spam and claim they "found" the site.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39079414

[dead] Read Articles without the annoying paywall (producthunt.com)
1 point by stevenmouk 30 days ago

stevenmouk 30 days ago [–]

I hate paywalls so I made a website to remove them and allow everyone to read articles for free. Here is the product hunt, what do you guys think.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404837

[flagged] [dead] Cool website that removes the paywall on any article (archivebuttons.com)
3 points by stevenmouk 4 days ago

stevenmouk 4 days ago [–]

Found this pretty cool website that gets rid of any paywall on a news article. So far its worked on any news article I tried with a paywall.
At the time, aspirationally, maybe.

The next morning, after they sobered up, more like this guy: https://youtu.be/fqgrOl1q9p8?t=5
I'll simplify this for everyone;

(misquoted you originally, sorry!)

If you take a box and fill it with dog shit. You're more than welcome to chop, blend, dilute, fling or even eat this shit. But in the end, it's still Pepper's Poop.

Sell it like it isn't. Add sprinkles. It's Pepper's Poop.

When Pepper dies. Do you think the model is going to invent Gold all of a sudden?
This sounds like a perfect example of a "cocktail party idea", with programmers thinking they know how other fields operate. I am sure an architect could write a similar post about programmers, with just as many false assumptions and misunderstandings about what the job actually takes.

https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/
Is piracy uploading or downloading?
I love them, because they give me an excuse to work on silly joke projects. Usually if you make something amusing enough you can win some award for "people's choice" or whatever.

At my old company, people would often go and work on projects that were somehow meaningful to the business. It's no wonder people like that didn't enjoy it. Go work on a VR first person shooter game based on your company's mascot; that's what's gonna get the votes!
The number of GitHub issues does not correlate to the actual number or severity of issues. After all, rust-lang/rust has more than 120K issues and 9K open issues, but it doesn't mean that Rust has too many issues to solve---those GH issues are mostly means to manage tasks or user tickets to track.
They're saying that creativity isn't in a vacuum. Both Bach and Shakespeare were both inspired, and drew upon many things in their life. Just like how anyone who makes anything or does anything leans at least a little on past experiences. And I really think that line of arugment is a dead end, and only hurts, or we'd have to round up and arrest every highschooler making shitty anime fan art.
I would still expect the xeon server to go pretty low once you make sure power saving is enabled. High double digit watts on average. Maybe they need to cut down to two CPUs but I can't imagine that hurting the performance.

It's significantly more than a NUC but even a single mining GPU would use more and a real mining rig is an order of magnitude higher.

And in terms of grow lights, it gets you a couple square feet.
More reports from twitter

https://twitter.com/seanw_m/status/1760115118690509168
https://twitter.com/alyssamvance/status/1760094457393983829
https://twitter.com/kindgracekind/status/1760098456595476608
not really underestimating Kagi users, just the inexorable push to colonize every last useful network.

This could also be an attack vector for adversaries looking to pollute Kagi's search results and/or force you to divert resources to policing it.
How is being a bank terrible? It's one of the most profitable businesses ever and continues to be.
nope it let me view it without logging it.
To sum up, it looks like this is a server that provides smaller views of a large monorepo. A simple case is checking out a subdirectory of the repo and just getting the files and history for that subdirectory.

They also advocate using these views to do builds. That way, your build can't depend on any files that are outside its view. It's a kind of sandboxing for builds. [1]

> In particular when using C family languages, hidden dependencies on header files are easy to miss. For this reason limiting the visibility of files to the compiler by sandboxing is pretty much a requirement for reproducible builds.

> With Josh, each deliverable gets its own virtual git repository with dependencies declared in the workspace.josh file. This means answering the above question becomes as simple as comparing commit ids. Furthermore due to the tree filtering each build is guaranteed to be perfectly sandboxed and only sees those parts of the monorepo that have actually been mapped.

> This also means the deliverables to be re-built can be determined without cloning any repos like typically necessary with normal build tools.

Bazel users might find this familiar. It does a similar thing by running build tools in a temporary directory that contains symlinks to your actual source code.

But it's not something you actually need if you're not using a monorepo, since your package manager won't pull in other packages that you don't depend on.

[1] https://josh-project.github.io/josh/usecases.html
Really? It might just be my social circles, but we always thought of Vizio as basically the Walmart special that was somewhere, somehow, going to find a backdoor way to make up the profit margin.
You're by no means incorrect but the strategy you're speaking of here to determine where warez is going is .. about 25+ years behind and even then network engineers used it as kind of a "look, they're not netengs, they're not going to understand how we encap/decap packets and uniquely identify their chain of custody, so just say something simple so they get the idea."

It also fell flat on its head when it hit the "is an IP a person?" argument.

Every file crossing the line is fingerprinted and various ISPs give various copyright-track software vendors or licensors direct access to track those pre-determined fingerprints and report problem to ISP for customer to mitigate or help prepare for subpoena. There's a lot of other ways this stuff is tracked I won't get into and the environments even more direct now with all of the ML tools. Webhosts and social media apps do the same thing so they can have smaller abuse departments digging for CSAM content. Data exfiltration is a huge space.

As soon as a new lady gaga video is uploaded to Vevo, the fingerprint was already determined, and the copyright bots have alread been scanning the internet for that file for days/weeks. Watch a new music video release on youtube, you'll see attempts to copy it get hammered immediately.

DPI and MITM-TLS which a lot of people blindlyaccept by accepting various free ISP features basically takes most of the end users privacy away in the end anyway. They're all reselling your data, ISPs and most VPNs are scum.

These are scenarious that someone with experience at a major CDN would be very familiar with. We do the same thing tracking every unique object on the entire platform.

'2004 - https://www.technologyreview.com/2004/08/04/232539/fingerpri...
Yes.

Conversely if programmers had to work like Architects they'd be paid a fraction, not get promoted to run serious projects until they are 50+, work copious unpaid overtime, not be allowed to work from home, be held legally liable for their work, spend most of their days focussing on compliance rather than outcomes, be more client focussed than they have ever considered regardless of above, etc.
If you like a pedantry, yeah. But it helps to know that almost everyone else don't like that pedantry.
But it does affect their carbon footprint. Green elephants are more sustainable
I have never seen this many people flee a country that isn’t engaged in some kind of war. They’re largely educated.

They’re sending goods home.

The stories you hear are awful.
I just stopped using their NextJS project because you can no longer self host the middleware, they now only support edge runtime and several libraries don't work with it.

I'm calling this situation Fauxpen Source. The recent moves definitely feel anticompetitive or at least trying to force you into using their products

I'm migrating to vite+vike (next/nuxt like experience for any framework)
The monarchy still has a plurality of support in the UK, possibly because the only suggested alternative is an elected head of state.

The monarchy is an silly institution, but there’s something nice about having a (mostly) apolitical symbolic head of state. People look at it and think instead of Liz and Charles, we could have had someone like Trump, Macron, or President Boris, and that scares them off republicanism.

Germany is perhaps a bit better with their elected but mostly irrelevant president, but nobody even knows who they are, and in the end the prime minister acts like the head of state.

The most absurd thing about the monarchy is that it does its job quite well.
I'd summarize Chesterton's Fence as "do not destroy that which you do not understand." Human things that have been around a while almost always have some sort of purpose. That purpose could be something noble and important, or it could be some sort of kickback scheme. Figure out which one it is before you lead a protest against it.
Economics is a social science, the study of how people interact with things of value. It cannot be hard, since it has a feedback loop.
Maybe? If so, they definitely missed me with the humor.

https://checkr.com/

[Edit]

You're probably right - I thought it was a poor attempt to engage. It's not far enough from the truth to be a parody for me.
Vizio was known for good value on price. However tcl and other Chinese brands took over that spot lately and Vizio never managed to recover.
youtube needs a competitor. i hate their products, i hate youtube music more. but i can't use something else.
Remix Vite is now stable
I built an iOS app alone, from the ground up, in Objective-C. This was after I left Apple, where I mostly used C++. I hated Objective-C less than I expected, and the app was functional and reliable.

Then I built an iOS app for a consumer-electronics company alone, from the ground up. I learned Swift and wrote the whole app in it. I liked it a lot. Once I had the language down, I was very productive and able to implement almost any change that management requested in a few days at most.

SwiftUI, however, is a very different story. It's a half-assed, often brain-dead environment that has made building my own application from the ground up PAINFUL. Not only has it taken months to do what should have taken weeks, but SwiftUI and the attempted "reactive" paradigm it's supposedly optimized for are so full of holes that Apple's recommended practices simply don't work. "One source of truth" my ass; SwiftUI and the absurdly incomplete observation framework it relies on make that impossible.

I usually blame myself for just not having read enough, but with SwiftUI my research has far too often concluded with a finding that, "Oh yeah, that doesn't work."
This is one thing where a Roam / Logseq / Amplenote style scrollable list of daily note files works wonders. It's one of the biggest things Obsidian lacks. Dumping things into daily notes is a really powerful workflow.
Yes, the short answer is, it was an asteroid and the effects after that killed the (large, non-avian) dinosaurs. Other hypotheses do not have the same explanatory power and may only account for a minuscule and much slower influence leading up to the asteroid extinction. Survival after the impact was greatly influenced by the simple ability to acquire food, but also other adaptations such as the immune system and ability to fight off fungal infections. Flying birds in particular had an advantage because they could forage for seeds over a vast distance while other terrestrial species run out of food (the article's cited study may broadly agree with this as an advantage, but suggests not as much post-chixculub diversification as believed before, and shows pre-chixculub modern bird form examples)

There is a good YouTube documentary on the matter, but it is long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHgkMYgp7w
> there is a reason why vcpu performance is still locked to the typical core from 10 years ago

That is transparently nonsense.

You can disprove that claim in 5 minutes, and it makes literally zero sense for offerings that aren't oversubscribed
Do people still let their TVs connect to the internet? I had to factory reset my LG tv to get it to stop trying to connect to the WiFi.

I’ve also got a block using my router, since my wife connected it to watch PLEX at one point, and it updated the OS, then it “helpfully” started showing ads in the bar AND auto connected to my network share that I had forgotten was sharing some adult content (luckily I caught it before anyone else did!)

I use a PS5 for a media center now, I figured it’s the most powerful commodity media machine you could get. Overkill but hey, it doesn’t lag, and it has PLEX on it. It’s a bit annoying that the remote has non programmable buttons for media services we don’t use, but you just can’t win them all these days.
To clarify, 'yeah, the world is changing' mentioned here refers to millions of humans genuinely worried about how they'll continue to survive and support their families in the society in which they live, as their profession is decimated (yes, decimated) over the course of a year or two (yes, a year or two), a fraction of the time it takes to learn a new one.

I'm reiterating this because I think it's important not to simply toss out a platitude and dismiss this staggering, unprecedented situation befalling millions of our fellow humans. If one's goal is to insulate themselves from their fellow humans, they might find it less important to do so.

Indeed, someone with such a goal could invent enough preconditions to caring for their fellow humans that they need never care! Preconditions like 'I don't care about you because I don't think your situation is changing fast enough' or 'I don't care about you because you value money while living in a capitalist society'. Dust hands off, problem solved, goal achieved, am I right?
Yes. Example: oil&gas, and telcos. Some of them believe that the public cloud doesnt do what they need it to do. Super-high performance networking for example, IPv6, SCTP protocol, whatever. IIRC Schlumberger built a private cloud on OpenShift and Verizon are a decade into rolling their own cloud built around OpenStack and OpenShift (they have blogged/presented about it quite a bit). AT&T built a private cloud and then tied up with Microsoft to make Azure Operator Nexus (see https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/operator-nexus/overview).

I honestly don't know who is on the right side of technology and economics here. One glance at Oxide or Nexus says these systems aren't cheap. But if those industries are right, and regular cloud genuinely won't cut it, then maybe these systems can find a niche.

One thing that would determine the fate of these platforms is if the major vendors, that everyone in a given industry uses, commit to it. For example, in telco that might be Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei. I don't know if they have sufficient incentives to do so yet. They would, I guess, prefer to wait for a clear leader to emerge and then commit to only that rather than bet on three or four speculative horses?
> Arguably, system modularity has little to do with the architecture, and much to do with access controls on the repositories and pipelines.

Monoliths tend to be in large monolithic repos. Microservices tend to get their own repo. Microservices force an API layer (defined module interface) due to imposing a network boundary. Library boundaries do not, and can generally be subverted.

I agree that modularity has nothing to do with the architecture, intrinsically, simply that people are pushed towards modularity when using microservices.
I watched some of this video and the guy admits that that's exactly the type of content he tries to create.
Humans have been known for successfully using tools to complete their tasks in a more comfortable and efficient manner for quite some time now, even at the cost of introducing additional complexity. So if the results seem promising and the increased cognitive load isn't too much to bear, then the answer is perhaps yes? If not, then fortunately no one is forcing you to use AI tooling! Just make it :)
Friendly reminder that if you need to convert from {document format} to {other document format}, Pandoc[1] is the the place to go.

Pandoc can convert LaTeX to HTML or HTML to LaTeX!

[1] https://pandoc.org/
article about the paper: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/02/men-women-bra...

"When the researchers tested the model on around 1,500 brain scans, it could almost always tell if the scan came from a woman or a man."

It's pretty cool to see blackbox models derive reliable signals from basically raw data. However, the results don't really imply sex differences are biological in nature if I'm reading correctly. Being raised male/female probably has some profound impacts on the brain (these were adult brains). I bet a similar methodology would be able to tell who played American football growing up...
Also known as “bug reporting event horizon”
This comment reminds me of unsafe pedestrian crosswalks in car-centric cities.

Sure, a crosswalk may have an extensive system to warn drivers of pedestrians, but that doesn't change the fact a driver hits a pedestrian there at least once a month. It only has to happen once to ruin someone's life.

For cloud providers, the obvious solution is hard budget limits. Ask people to set a hard budget limit before they get the opportunity to drown themselves in debt. Free up some workload off of the support team in the process.

Hard budget limits change the process to avoid these charges almost entirely. Warnings only inform a few people that they're aware the process lands people in debt, and to please use the broken process correctly to avoid the severe financial consequences.
Yeah, I’m amazed that such a ubiquitous brand is worth a scant 2 billion dollars, or 1/20th of a Twitter.
The core of the Rust safety model has been proven sound: https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ If you peruse the list, all the issues are either a) places where the actual implementation falls short of the theoretical model, bit there's a plan to fix it, or b) edge-case interactions with peripheral language features (statics and dynamic dispatch).
Yes, and, if they wanted to just build to a spec like a construction worker, they’d get to look forward to getting paid even worse still, physically demanding labor, working in the hot, working in the cold, shitting in boiling portapotties, and shitting in frozen portapotties.
Hi,

you need to register a new account - then you can see the new plans (and you also get a 10% discount when choosing them).

But this is only for new customers.
I'm very against burning gas in my home to heat things when we have options like heat pumps.
The charitable take is that this is a way to tell architects what life as a programmer is like.

(I 100% believe that if an architect read this article, their takeaway would be that programmers have it too easy)
See

https://blogs.sunstarsys.com/joe/apache-considered-harmful

for the permalink.
So you're shocked every time you see a browser with default UI setup? I mean, I understand if it's not your preference, or even have good argumentation for why the default is not the best for everyone. But if you're shocked every time you see people use a default setting that isn't your preference, your life must be pretty shocking.
I know AWS has a reputation for being expensive overall. But it is crazy that it has the cheapest VMs. See here: https://cloudoptimizer.io/

But of course other things like egress, serverless services more than make up for it.
I wonder how much the "staggered blind vias" PCB would have been.