skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic onset and implementation of containment measures, records present 1 033 122 excess deaths (P-score 11.4%). In 2021, the year in which both containment measures and COVID-19 vaccines were used to address virus spread and infection, the highest number of excess deaths was reported: 1 256 942 excess deaths (P-score 13.8%). In 2022, when most containment measures were lifted and COVID-19 vaccines were continued, preliminary data present 808 392 excess deaths (P-score 8.8%)."

I can only read the Abstract, but from the quote above, it may seem that the containment measures had only a limited effect in reducing excess deaths... but wouldn't the number of excess deaths in a hypothetical world where no measures had been taken at all (no masks, no vaccines, no social distancing) be exponentially growing?? Say, it started at 1 million, went to 1.2 million the next year (with some containment measures already in place) and it would probably have gone way higher the next year (but it didn't) if the pattern continued, wouldn't it? I guess eventually it would go back down, but that would probably only have happened when most people who are prone to dying from the virus would've have died already, which probably would take many millions more (ignoring the fact that viruses naturally become less lethal over time, as killing too many hosts is bad for spreading further). So I don't know, given all of these variables I would say 800,000 excess deaths in 2022 is perhaps showing that containment actually did work, just not as well as one would've hoped.
That’s an interesting opinion but there is a law and order benefit to a transparent financial system. Prosecuting launderers increases confidence in our economy.
Hailo seems to be accelerating (ha! pun!) with funding, hw and sw

Suprised by the price tag. The board is probably <$10. 15tops should not cost $50.

I wonder whats the price for 1000 of these units. (hailo also has bigger units)
I don't think it's technology vs society issue (and I do honestly maintain that social problems are supposed to be solved by technology, because that's literally what technology is for by definition). It's an issue of framing security.

Cybersecurity mostly assumes the vendor is the trusted party - the users are the sheep the vendor is shepherding[0]. Security is designed to pretend first and foremost the vendor, and secondly its flock of users, against attacks from outside parties and other users. The users are untrusted parties here.

Democracy, in contrast, is an unusual relationship in which it's the organization - the government - that's the untrusted party. Transparency is crucial to security of this system, because the very party that organizes it is the one most incentivized to subvert it. It's a special case where opaqueness is not accepted. This is why it's hard to port ideas from cybersecurity to democracy - the assumptions underpinning the two are opposite to each other. Most of what infosec considers good practice would immediately violate the electorate's faith you refer to.

Exercise for the reader: how would our computer systems look if the security field emphasized end users as trusted, and vendors as malicious parties?

--

[0] - I love how the ubiquitous analogies to good shepherds, including biblical ones, conveniently omit the fact that the very reason shepherd cares for their sheep is so they can be fleeced for wool and/or slaughtered for meat.
I'm doing exactly this. To me, most native apps look out-of-place and I avoid if possible. I just wish running apps in wine wasn't so slow compared to windows.
Myocarditis is a pretty serious thing [1], so even a slight increase in risk in young people makes it pretty much a no-no to vaccinate them.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9888677/#:~:tex....
And still it is commonly incompletely answered.
Money is money, and companies want more. Of course if they notice they can both sell you the product and have you be the product, they'll ask themselves "Why not both?"

The login thing is also probably partly because it does genuinely make the user experience better - log into a computer, To Do has your tasks, OneDrive and OneNote start fetching your notes and files, Edge seamlessly syncs your browser history, and so on. Things Just Work™. MS has a cloud-based clipboard and Edge has a OneDrive-backed AirDrop clone. All of that needs accounts to function properly.
the logic is: "everything I don't like (gay people etc) is communism"
Define "significantly increased"
The GPU market forces are:

- gaming: Windows with a sprinkle of Steam Deck (yay!)

- compute: Linux

- video decode: Windows (DRM on Linux... yeah)

- video encode: mixed (Windows for consumers and smbs, Linux for cloud transcode)

Of these, the Steam Deck is the closest to a laptop that we got to. This is actually great, but it didn't result in a noticeable shift in anything, because LLMs took it all.
Some exec at microsoft probably has their promotion depend on user growth and is able to push the Windows team to implement this crap. Things megacorporations do don't really have to make long-term sense for the organization as a whole - they only need to provide a short-term advantage to someone in the hierarchy.
Wow, what a flash from the past! Was playing around a LOT with GP around that time, and the name Koza is certainly familiar. I even think I did some semi-similar things, instead of my normal approach which was simplistic but inefficient in that lots of invalid code was generated.
for (…) {
heavy_op();
if (i % 100 == 0) {
printf("not dead");
}

Classic
Wrt licences, these days laptops have their Windows licence burnt in their BIOS (and this has been the case for some time now).
Backups and sync are great, except if someone doesn't want to upload all their data to the cloud. There could be many reasons for this, I'm sure you can list some of them too.
MRNA - myocarditis, non-MRNA - thrombosis. Plus risk of shoulder injury from a botched injection.

Small fucking potatoes against millions dead plus millions more injured. I'm on 5 shots and I guess I'm due for a booster.
Very good move, seems like Microsoft really embraces Linux nowadays :)
I see arguments in favour of tr069, but it's the mechanism that BT used to reboot my modem every night at 3am. I hate ISPs.
I don’t really have a solution to this problem, I just know it’s a problem.

Neither does anyone else. Everything else we’ve come up with either has worse issues or is extremely expensive to operate.
Surely you want to target the ones who made the wrong decisions, then?
Absolutely; the issue has to do with the "Cognitive Load" imposed on the programmer. Standardizing on a small set of languages/frameworks(ideally one) also has the advantage that developers can better communicate/interact with each other using a common language thus enabling better overall productivity.

The Cognitive Load Theory in Software Development - https://thevaluable.dev/cognitive-load-theory-software-devel...

Cognitive Loads in Programming - https://rpeszek.github.io/posts/2022-08-30-code-cognitiveloa...

Cognitive load - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load
I've been using Linux for a similar time. To be fair to those people, there were massive roadblocks for ages. 802.11b (then G, A, N, etc) support, Flash while it ruled the roost, DRM-video playback, GPU-acceleration, Bluetooth device support, proper sleep, functional multihead, application support, etc, etc, etc.

It's not fair to say "there's always something" in a sarcastic tone, when there legitimately has always been something holding people back. Especially on laptops.

Is it easier than ever to use? Definitely. Does it support a significant chunk of hardware these days? Yup. Are there actual proprietary/commercial pieces of software on it? Yeah. Does it game now? Sure does. Are there still reasons people might not be able to use it? Definitely.
> MSI Afterburner, which are a must for gaming on my laptop

If you want some unsolicited software recommendation: CoreCtrl offers similar controls to MSI Afterburner, at least on my AMD GPU
Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia
The reason they pay $200-300k extra is to attract the best they can. Say you got the same salary working in an ethical company than in a FAANG, would you go for the FAANG?

The absurd filter is just some kind of lottery. They could have a different one: at the end of the day, it's only when the person starts working that you can actually see what they are worth.

The thing with a filter like this one is that it filters out a whole category of people who may actually be good. And it reinforces itself: you hire people who are good at leetcode, who will themselves possibly be good at hiring people who are good at leetcode. Does a company of leetcoders perform better than a company made of a diversity of good engineers? Not clear.
> Many pet ID microchips also have a temperature sensor for some reason

These chips probably have BOD, and for a BOD you need a bandgap reference, and this already gives you PTAT voltage. Slap an ADC and voila.
Adventure was had within ones own class strata in older stories. Or at least the main characters don't change substantially in class even if they encounter others and grow and change.

It's only recent stories that the adventure was about transgressing the strata. It's the American way, the frontier is the edge of one's station in life to be crossed over. Australia has a similar but different classless idea. I think it's more working class as the common level but there's less acceptable social movement.

Tall poppy syndrome.
Out of curiosity, can you share some examples from eastern Europe? Where does one find such websites?

Also, IMHO, blanket generalizations like "Asia" and "Eastern Europe" in such contexts can actually be more offensive than just mentioning the one country where the thing happens since you're basically painting with tar a whole sub-continent with dozens of different countries, just for the things happening in one country.

What I mean is, if by Eastern Europe, you actually mean some dodgy Russian forums, I think a lot of Eastern Europeans from Bulgaria all the way to Poland and the Baltics might feel offended of being included since we are not the same.
https://godbolt.org/

Not only will it show you how C/C++/Rust, etc... language statements map to CPU instructions, but it can also show you how CPUs execute those instructions! There are advanced views that show the various pipeline stages, execution ports, etc...

E.g.: https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...

The right-most tab should show you the CPU execution pipeline
I’m curious, how did you settle on PC vs Mac? I’m a PC user (Cubase), but there are certain unique advantages to Mac as a platform of course when it comes to music. I’m not wedded to brand personally but use PC as I find it more versatile in non-music tasks (and in music I am more a hobbyist these days).
I was a user of several microsoft services that worked relatively well. On computer I used to have onenote and onedrive. On phone I also had the outlook app to manage all emails.

For exactly the very same reason you stated, I have stopped using them. Whilst I can still use them on my android phone, there is no point if they dont sync to my computer, and they don't sync to my computer because I am afraid of putting my microsoft password in anything that is not firefox.

Hence, I already moved out from onenote to Joplin (still synced via onedrive), (I am not happy with the move) and I stopped syncing with Onedrive, and will have to move soon to something else.
On my phone I stopped having outlook, and I am back to use each app for each email.

As you, I am also trap on windows (tried fedora, it simply didn't work).

Sad times for people who want just a computer that works.
> Since the harsh crackdown in the 90s, mostly the cult side is left, and they are dangerous loonies.

Be careful what you believe about the Falun Gong; the CCP has spent vast amounts of money and resources smearing them, you can't take everything you read at face value.
Any good resources on flipping these switches?
You went to the one OS that’s practically universally shunned because of how unstable it makes arch systems n.n
Pirate it next time!
Read through Understanding Software Dynamics by Richard Sites and work through the example problems in the book.

He discusses exactly what you're describing (L1/2/3 cache hit rates, their performance implications, how compiler optimizations can fool us into thinking we have a good hit rate, etc).

Also take a look into Intel VTune and Processor Tracing to understand how performance counters like Instructions per Cycle are calculated.
Yes, this causal relationship with myocarditis is well known by now.

However:

"In a detailed analysis of nearly 43 million people, the risk of myocarditis in unvaccinated individuals after COVID-19 infection was at least 11 times higher compared to people who developed myocarditis after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine or booster dose, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation."

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant...
While there are a ton of replies here with great ideas, you make the most important point: most of the best work (across disciplines) is done when you have an objective. Find an issue in need of a solution (or better solution) and use the tools available (or make better ones) to accomplish the task at hand.

My suggestion would be to find something that can be improved on in daily life and then learn the skills necessary to make that improvement, to include the trades more physical in nature, such as woodworking, 3D printing, etc. Then, combine those skills with, say, programming embedded devices, etc. or whatever else is needed to accomplish the task.

This ultimately provides a diverse skill-set, feeds the desire to learn, and provides legitimate improvements to quality of life - both tangible and intangible.
People do typically consider German and Swiss German to be separate languages, I think.
> it took them a good 10-15 minutes to get the projector working.

I installed my old projector ages ago, on a 1st version PPC Mac Mini running Debian and the Freevo media player (if memory serves, Kodi didn't even exist as XBMC back then).
No problems whatsoever setting up the whole thing, aside the atrociously loud BONNNG! the Mac Mini played when turned on, but that's another story.
I think setting up hardware is a hit and miss, and sometimes crap happens also under Windows where drivers are packaged according to brand, not chipset, and often bring all sort of junk with them.
Paper puts concerns into vaccine dangers, which I am positive about to look at. But it's emphasis on vaccines seems cherry picked to me - their own excessive-death-by-country table shows countries with late / low vaccination (mostly eastern europe) coming out top on excessive deaths. This is not mentioned or explained in the analysis at all.
Yes that sounds pretty sensible.

Do you ever have a conversation with these people as to why they think they couldn't do it?
Up to 10% performance hit isn't small. Controversial opinion, but linux isn't good for gaming even in 2024.

People who are making such things possible are doing great piece of work, but I would say it's more about gaming industry isn't ready for this.
Developers still don't case about linux, performance hit is too big, anti-cheat systems have issues and Linux desktop is too fragmented.

OOBE\BYPASSNRO still works at least
They can charge a recurring and increasing subscription fee for on-line accounts and services. And of course data.

Before they can do that, they first have to get everyone dependant on the on-line account and services, because most would not voluntarily knowingly agree to be charged a subscription just to use their own computer, not intentionally using any external services.

So step 1 is do not charge for the basic account combined with force everyone to use it.

Most will go along with this because it's free this exact minute and most people follow strictly the path of least immediate resistance. You can make most people do anything you want by just making anything else 0.0001% more difficult. This is not cynical, this is studied.

In the olde dayes, if you wanted to sell a subscription service, you created a service and then convinced people to become paying customers.

MS is tricking everyone into becoming customers first, and then when the deed is done, inform them they are now paying customers.

And of course also data.
Given that study you'd expect over an extra 10 years somewhere around 10k excess deaths from the vaccine in the US. That's probably very generous. That's tiny versus mortality rates from COVID.
I think there has been an understandable pushback against the trope that Tolkien's world building was too loose and idealised, but we shouldn't take things too far in the other direction and imagine him as fastidiously realist.

Yes, Tolkien was a medieval historian, but he wasn't only that, and LoTR is not a work of historical fiction. Tolkien was also a storyteller, and in his famous denunciation of allegory he makes it clear that he prioritises the story above all other concerns. He was also a lover of myth and legend, which are inherently unrealistic forms. And, perhaps most importantly, he was a Christian, and his entire legendarium is an elaborate reworking of Christian theology.

Indeed, there is something Edenic about the Shire. The Hobbits are portrayed as innocents, literally child-like in stature, and protected from evil by the efforts of the Rangers and Gandalf. And this guarding of their innocence is presented as a fundamentally good thing.

To believe that the Shire was in fact a society built on economic exploitation, and that Tolkien meticulously figured all this out (but failed to mention it), undermines the morality of the tale. And the fact is, nothing truly like the Shire ever existed, so attempting to contrive a real-world explanation for its qualities is impossible. Yes, it was obviously influenced by Tolkien's understanding of and attitudes towards the English class system and rural life, but I would insist that it is basically a speculative creation, intended to portray what an idyllic version of what that society could look like, with exactly how it actually works left deliberately vague and dependent on some contrivances such as the Ranger guard.
c) report to (their real) customers and shareholders the number of people that are using their OS and measure the reach of start menu ads.
Possible future candidates:

https://capnproto.org/

https://arrow.apache.org/
Go bold or go home. That's a good scientific attitude.

Yeah, that myocarditis, it's basically like a flu.
Fully agree, so one more reason to get vaccinated, as getting myocarditis from Covid is far more common.

https://newsroom.heart.org/news/myocarditis-risk-significant...
> Senior Java developers who could not import HashMap without looking it up

> No IDE, specifically to test basic ability. We use a web-based shared editor, that has syntax highlighting, and auto-tabbing, but specifically no auto-complete nor auto-import.

I can sympathize with the candidate and think the test is poor and not surprised people had to look it up.

I've been doing Java since early 2000's and off the top of my head can't tell you what package HashMap is in without looking it up except it starts with `java.` something, probably. I type `HashMap` in my IDE, hit auto complete. I haven't needed to remember the exact package name since early 2000's when I started coding so don't know it, no need to, why waste space in my head for it. If there's a second HashMap class available on the class path I can tell you the one I want from the suggestion list.

You're trying to test someones memory on something they haven't needed to remember for decades now, knowing a specific fully qualified path to a class/what package it is in isn't a useful test. Knowing what a HashMap is and how to use it is useful.

Enable auto complete/import. You don't have it disabled for your currently employed devs and they'd not function well without it and probably fail the same test.
This is true when considering similarity. However, most people considering such a device are likely more familiar with the performance of a 4090. Consequently, this comparison offers a more intuitive understanding of the potential decrease in performance.
last time I read, simdjson still beat protocol buffer a bit.
That's very uncharitable. The Epoch Times is explicitly anti-CCP; anti Chinese communist party.
>This sounds like you want to penalize students who studied for the exams. Or at least not reward them.

Interviews are like exams but you don't have any clue what topics are on the test. If Leetcode was some licensed, standardized approach to getting some license to verify my ability to code myself out of a paper bag: I'd hate it, but I'd grit my teeth and study it. exams can be studied for.

But it isn't, so I can be studying leetcode questions and be hit by a dozen other topics. I don't have time to study everything, and the market right now isn't worth pinpointing specific companies unless you have a stellar reference.

>I’d say it’s a pretty good proxy for work ethic at crunch time as well.

I couldn't disagree more. Someone so prepared for interviews have the least skin in the game. Layoffs come and they didn't work > 40 hours but were otherwise excellent? oh well, get another job in a month because interviews are a breeze for them because they breathe DS&A.

>why would a company want to hire someone who has external obligations?

I'd love to know the answer here as well. Why do companies internally penalize workers who were laid off, but then try to "steal" currently happy employees but make them jump through these hoops? The logic seems backwards; interviews should be hard and depress wages for the laid off, desperate workers so you can get a desperate unicorn. But you want someone who lacks the time to study because of current job obligations to get to an offer faster. Their proof of work ethic is being employed to begin with.
Nowadays it's easy by using undetectable interviewing AI tools. See:

- https://ultracode.ai

- https://interviewsolver.com

Well worth it. Highly recommend these tools to play the dumb interviewing game.
For some time I had a Linux NUC, so no monitor. When I had to give a presentation I’d set it up to boot straight into the slides. I thought that was pretty slick. I’d bring a keyboard for emergencies but didn’t need to plug it in, just a slide advancer. But it required preparing beforehand. Linux is the Batman of OSes. You can do anything, but it requires prep time.