skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reinfections aren't a serious concern

They are, because reinfected people can infect people that have not had corona before and it makes vaccine success rates lower (similar to the seasonal flu).

In the essence it will lead to yet another attempt of "herd immunity" and a shitload of deaths.
Yes https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_mouse

See also https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
This is true, but the paper-like screen protector market is a mess. I spent $40 on the official Paperlike 2, waited a month (preordered), applied it, and it was pretty bad. Not really like paper at all. Then I bought the knockoff-sounding "XIRON Paperfeel" for $15 and it was a vast improvement. Unfortunately they don't make one for the 12.9" iPad Pros with home button.
This talks a little about how the meaning has changed over time:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node
Yeah, this is a tradeoff, and the balance seems to favor adding more satellites. We're not going to the stars for centuries at least. It's unlikely that further knowledge we're able to glean from ground-based installations will ever have practical value for anyone on any appreciable timescale. As cool as the stars are, they're really far away and damn hard to see, especially through the atmosphere.
USA, probably the only country where after shooting down a civilian airliner you get decorated for doing good job.
Used the original Nitrokey HSM model on a code-signing server project with a Customer a couple of years ago. I haven't worked with "big name" HSMs before (we looked at Gemalto when we were spec'ing the project but were scared off by the ridiculous pricing) so I can't compare them to "serious" HSMs, but for our project they were a good fit.

The applet running inside the original HSM model is in no way free / open source. The dev tools for the applet are really good, the documentation is top notch, and the integration with OpenSC is very good, but it's definitely proprietary. For our purposes that was not problematic. I don't know if this has changed for the "2" model. Edit: The "2" model also uses the proprietary Smartcard HSM applet.

It was nice, as compared with big name HSMs, to be able to configure the Nitrokey HSM to support escrow of the key material offline (printed on paper in an AES-encrypted state). The project we were working has a 25 year service life for the key material, and Gemalto's solution was "We can't let you escrow key material but we can let you keep buying new Gemalto HSMs every few years."

(I know putting the key material into escrow adds risk, but the risk if keys were lost was considered greater. We ran a commissioning ceremony on the Customer's site, with Customer-provided air-gapped hardware, video recorded and with witnesses present, with the printed keys immediately going into serialized tamper-evident envelopes, all to try to mitigate some of that risk.)
Does the manufacturing of these processors require EUV?
Oh god. My phone has one of those - there's some sort of swipe gesture which puts it into a split-screen mode, which I have only ever invoked accidentally, and I have no idea how to get rid of it - none of my various guesses at possible anti-swipe actions have worked. When I pull my phone out of my pocket to discover that it has gotten into this state, I just reboot.
Yes, but would prefer PostmarketOS or other pure Linux smartphone OS and there are couple of e-Ink phones out there running android apart from the YotaPhone.

[1]https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/10/24/hisense-a5-with-an-e-i...

[2]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kingrow-k1-the-healthy-ph...
Modal chords sound interesting. Would you mind linking to your keymap / QMK fork?
> the general populace will demand the same decision

That's debatable.
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But is it open by design, or by coincidence?
Care to explain what's bullshit about it?
The true energy solution to climate change is free markets. Fossil fuels are subsidized[1] and their externalities are untaxed.[2] Our society is structured to generate the suboptimal. This goes for pollution and price.

[1] https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...

[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/16/carbon-fees-mystery-unt...
> For anyone (cough, elderly parents)
For a long time, I have belived that these were problems that the elderly somehow could not figure out. I blamed it on them for a long time.

Then I opened Adobe After Effects for the first time and it suddenly made sense to me, the UI I found intuitive was just years of practice. How is an x in a corner a close button? What's so intuitive about swiping up to see a menu?
Do you use the text OCR feature?

Is that component opensource?
Looks like there is an Engadget review from earlier today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhTtl2iPkg
> I also find the idea of arbitrary code execution on a remote host to build a derivative service to be a quite naive point-of-view. Even if you can validate that the code isn't going to pwn you - a mighty stretch

Be aware that's exactly what you are doing when you go to any modern site. You let a remote server execute arbitrary code on your computer, trusting it's not going to pwn you. Sure, there were tons of loopholes in the first few years of JS, but now browsers and operating systems are so secure that it's mostly a non-issue. Web assembly is a sandboxing-first technology, so I don't think it's an impossible or even a particularly hard issue to solve.

>how can one justify being a recipient of free compute cycles on someone else's infra? It's not quite realistic to me

Well, there are API call limits, or something equivalent to them. Maybe computing credits in this instance. Calculating how much computing resources you're using is something that i.e. AWS Lambda does already, no reason why an open-source runtime couldn't do so either. The fact it wouldn't be native code, executed directly by the CPU, but Wasm executed by a VM, makes things even simpler.
To be fair, learning.oreilly.com is pretty good on iPad (not so much on mobile).

It's pretty expensive, but potentially worth it if you read a lot of technical books.
Just finished watching a review:

- no USB disk mode to download your notes

- 8 GB storage (of which about 6 are available)

- any Linux support seems to be nebulous/unofficial, especially because of point 1

- no search feature

- no backlight

- no landscape mode

Personally I've cancelled my pre-order, not worth the 450 GBP in my opinion.
Regarding the claim that it feels more like paper than the first version, the Engadget reviewer felt otherwise:

>The company says it used a new textured resin layer on top of the glass to make writing on the reMarkable 2 feel more like writing on paper, which I don't buy. If anything, the original reMarkable's screen had a more pronounced, paper-like grittiness that doesn't come through here. That's hardly a dealbreaker, though, because writing on the r2 still feels absolutely fantastic, I think this one strikes a better balance of tactility and flow. [0]

[0] https://www.engadget.com/remarkable-2-tablet-e-ink-hands-on-...
Perhaps, but some apparently think they can with global warming.
KOReader[1] runs on ReMarkable and supports DJVU and other formats.

[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
My feedback...
1. Trial is way too short for a $99 purchase.
2. Adding a photo, deleting, and re-adding uses up "trial cards" - so the trial is really just tutorial-level playing with the software.
3. Not clear why I can add elements to the top layer... why would I have an Empty Board and a photo next to each other? Why can't I drag the photo into the Empty Board? Instead, the photo covers the board. Confusing.
4. I know you aren't alone, but why do you need my email address before I know anything about this app? Just let me tap open and experiment before you ask.
5. If you must have an email, why aren't you supporting Sign in with Apple so I can use a relay email?
6. I'm not clear when I would open this app. I would've prefer a full page of example boards to see how power users would/will use this tool. I can always delete example boards, but instead I have a blank page and 4 second videos. That screams time investment and learning curve ahead.
Some people consider such piles of data a liability.
Part of the issue is really economics. As things trend to widespread, the televisions don't compete on anything other than price. Ultimately, a panel is manufactured and they'll trend to more-or-less the same, within certain levels. What's left - ecosystem and software.
The problem is that those things just don't have value for people who get it. Now, we select devices to push content, our AppleTV/Roku/Chromecast/whatever. Those have value. They have so much value that whilst moving countries during the pandemic, I literally experience zero differences content-wise, in spite of buying a new TV. My device uses my proxy, my VPNs, and thus I have my content, worldwide. It's a much better, and more flexible system, but unfortunately it involves more work that zero.
I think it’s what the “failure” would mean for a person that makes it hard, part of the fixed mindset Carol Dweck is talking about, i.e. only seeking validation of what one thinks of oneself.
Parallels can interface with the Hypervisor Framework instead of it's own, so there is at least one decent GUI. However performance compared to the Parallels hypervisor is very poor.

I would be interested in an Apple VM app overlay for the integrated Hypervisor though! And hopefully we see some speed improvements. :)
You think he’s spreading propaganda. Ok, fine. But I have issue with you saying “that which is reported widely”, as if the other side is entirely honest and truthful. In reality, both sides are distributing propaganda. I fear that, although you are skeptical of Chinese propaganda, you fail to recognize or be skeptical of Western propaganda at the same time.
There's a company called Yota that made YotaPhone, an Android phone with a normal screen on the front and an e-ink screen on the back. Very cool concept, but it was poorly executed. The last version was released in 2017, and the company went bankrupt in 2019.
Aside from the form factor, they are very different devices.

One isn't really a substitute for the other unless all you do is write notes and read.
The comment is not in the gray as I write this, but one tends to get better results generally by providing more information in a positive light, rather than simply saying that something is wrong without providing anything better.

For example, if the parent comment had said, "Yes, the control over small numbers of atoms is interesting. Although transistors are going to be much larger than that, it is cool that the shrinking feature size allows [making up a "fact" here for demonstration purposes] edges of transistors to be sharper and a little closer together, so yields are higher for a given transistor density," then it would be more useful and better received.

Also, remember "today's 10000": https://xkcd.com/1053/
The GDPR is one of those "useful" laws created to open the possibilities to strong arm any company at will.

Most of the time it's not really enforced (apart of a couple unlucky few to show they mean business) but if they need to put pressure on any company they know they'll find something to hang them with.
It's a shame it is biased toward right handed users. And no, flipping it over leaves you with a narrow bezel on the bottom. Will not buy.
This is the role of the government. Unfortunately, sensible intervention will only become more and more unlikely as we allow mega-corps like google to proceed unimpeded.

(see: revolving door, funding of political parties, control of search results including news, etc)
I have to wear a mask to protect others from Coronavirus so I don't kill others and for the general safety of the larger population.

We need to ban alcohol for the same reason.
You could try this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
Formal verification of the Algorand consensus protocol
I actually would write more, if people would read it.

Unfortunately, if I write a blog on my personal website, nobody is going to find it. And I don't like Medium for their policy of forcing people to paywall their content in return for visibility.

If I post a link to a blog post on my website to Facebook, Facebook downranks it and doesn't show it to most of my friends (seriously, WTF).

The only thing I can do is post the actual text on Facebook, if I want people to read it, but there's a limit on post length, and in-line media isn't supported.
They have been asked for these figures to be published for years, and failed to do so. I suppose "admit" implies their reluctance.
Battery life and look-feel of paper. I love my kindle for reading because it doesn’t do anything else. Mostly I agree with you.

If combined with kindle I would definitely want one.
> In the article, talking about smoothstep approximation of sinc: "I'd argue the smoothstep version looks better" Why would this be? I would have thought the theoretically correct sinc version would look nicer.

In this case we are sort of mimicking the eye. The eye doesn't do sinc-bandlimiting (it does a sort of angular integration -- it sums the photons received in a region).

I say "sort of", because we're really doing two steps: first we are projecting a scene into a screen, and then the eye is viewing the screen. We want (in most cases) that what the eye sees in the screen corresponds to what it would see directly (if seeing the scene in reality).

The naive rendering approach simply samples an exact point for each pixel. When there's high pixel variation (higher spatial frequency than the pixel frequency), as you move the camera the samples will alternate rapidly which wouldn't correspond to the desired eye reconstruction. The eye would see approximately an averaged (integrated) color over a small smooth angular window.

Note we really never get the perfect eye reconstruction unless the resolution of your display is much larger than the resolution your eye can perceive[1]. But through anti-aliasing at least this sampling artifact disappears.

This window-integration is not an ideal sinc filtering! Actually it's not bandlimiting at all! since it is a finite-support convolution -- bandlimiting is just a convenient theoretical (approximate/incorrect) description.

In the frequency domain this convolution is not a box (ideal sinc filtering), it's smooth with ripples. In the spatial domain (that's really used here), it probably does look something like a smoothstep (a smooth window)[2]. The details don't matter if the resolution is large[3].

[1] Plus we would actually need to model other optical effects of the eye (like focus and aberration) that I won't go into detail :) But you can ask if interested.

[2] It looks something like this: https://foundationsofvision.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/... found here: https://foundationsofvision.stanford.edu/chapter-2-image-for... This describes only the optical behavior of the eye, there's also the sampling behavior of the retina.

[3] Because our own eye integrates the pixels anyway. Again this does ignore other optical effects of the eye (such as "focus" and aberration) that vary with distance to the focal plane, and more.

TL;DR: The correct function looks something like this https://foundationsofvision.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/... , which seems close to a smoothstep.
wiby.me appears to be a search engine for web pages, not websites. On their submission form, if you are submitting a blog they ask that you submit link to a specific post, and not the index. That was enough to dissuade me from submitting my personal site. I guess I just don't get it.
It's not so much 2 economies as it's that we injected 2-4 Trillion dollars into the stock market to prop it up.
I have the 2 right here and it's better than the first. There's still a perceptible lag (that is, it isn't imperceptible) but it's better than anything else out there including other eink devices (I also have a Boox here that I compared it to, and the Sony DPT before it).
I frequently hear that screen protectors which mimic paper surface lead to a much faster abrasion of the tip of the Apple pencil. Is this the same in your case?
Yes, the recording will be posted to the Observable to YouTube channel after the event. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCD2tAKN32ya7V639gkbWhg
I just watched the video and maybe I missed it but doesn't that mean that in order to have 1ms latency you'd have to have a screen refresh rate of 1000 frames per second? That seems like it would cause serious cost increases for displays, controllers, and graphics cards.
I remembered having trouble with this previously, so I just tried it again.

It "supports" epub in that I can load a DRM-free epub file onto it and then view it on the device, but it's not formatted well. The default font is unnecessarily large, some italicized text isn't being italicized, icons and other images are missing, and other layout elements aren't being rendered (sidebars for instance). This could be a problem with this specific file, but the PDF version renders fine and I think this might be the same trouble I was having with another epub file.
Mind you, most of this should be handled by some kind of runtime. Any complex enough web service runs HTTP Servers, databases, sometimes messaging queues, caches or even things like Kubernetes. There's no reason why it couldn't be running yet another program to manage all this.

Such a thing could become the de-facto API, if Rest or GraphQL were needed, they could even be implemented on top of it.
If the part of shopping where I transfer my goods from my cart into my bag is “work”, then ought the part where I transfer goods from the shelf into my cart also be considered work?

IOW haven’t grocers been making the customer work for them ever since the creation of the supermarket —— long before self-checkout —— based on your definition of work?
Preparedness for tsunami and earthquake risk is adequate for hurricane risk. The only phenomena not accounted for is high winds and the only form of preparation I can think of there is housing code that requires roofs to be tied down to supporting walls. Having been through many hurricanes including two category 5 hurricanes that downgraded to 4 by the time they reached me, I can't imagine that after a hurricane crosses the olympic peninsula it would still be much of a concern for roofing. For those on the coast the calculus may be different.
I have been wondering why hydro-electric generation is often left out of discussions about renewable energy? Is it because we're currently maxing out the hydro-electric potential of the earth so there's no more gains to be had? If not, it seems like the perfect energy generation method -- it avoids the battery problem, has 0 pollution outside of initial dam construction, is perfectly safe. Three provinces in Canada are ~100% on hydro electric power.
The 'more' part is currently the most significant chunk and has the highest potential. I'm thinking of hydro primarily, which was 16% of global energy production in 2018:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-gross-e...
Yes, it's called 'biomining' and there have been several startups working to engineer organisms to do this. eg Universal Biomining working on copper (with bacteria) and a team at University of Washington who took an enzyme from rat's livers and put it in a plant to remove VOC's from the air (successfully!)!
Sure thing, I've just been thinking about object identity recently and they come up quite often. Tthe article in SEP can help you avoid the arcane English of his writings btw.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/
Good question - I really enjoy using NFC with my Android phone and YubiKey Neo.
What about web browsers?
Yawn. Clickbaity drama.

So Kindle Direct Publishing supports formats that are supported by all kindle readers except some old hardware e-reader devices that don't support some capabilities.

And those formats are supported as one of many alternatives.

Is this supposed to be a problem?
I would gladly trade a single-digit screen refresh for a week of battery life... and then I would trade back a couple of days of battery for an extra on-demand screen for videos :/
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.

The headline does make a joke of it, but consider the mission: “If we want to live in a society that consumes less energy, wastes fewer resources, [the constant success spiral] is not the right system of values,” Professor von Borries told Germany’s Deutsche Welle broadcaster.

Some successes certainly are worth wasting resources on, and I'm sure no oncologists will get approved for this scholarship. There is a great deal of busy and redundant work out there though. No one should be stuck doing that...
I would much more expect that a terrorist attack would result on a lot more pressure on DHS and other agencies tasked with anti-terrorism responsibilities, rather than FEMA.
Supply and demand - demand for wind and solar generation increased so production costs got cheaper. Now you just can't factor that kind of market shift into the numbers as easily as you can factor in costs increasing. So whilst we often see government projects overrun and cost more than initially calculated, it's good to see the opposite.

I have read (sorry don't have link at hand) that some energy producers will end up paying the government due to reduced costs in production - so that'll balance things out and win win all around perhaps.

OK dug out link - https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/offshore-wind-power-che...
You work for an organization that has put this person in charge. That's what you are dealing with. A stack of managers and VP's above you that signed off an the person's selection and who would have to admit being wrong to change things. If your team lead's manager admits it was an error in judgement, then your team lead's manager's manager has to admit that they selected a manager who made an error. And so on, all the way up.

Good luck
Experts and health officials were already expecting vaccines to be only 50-75% effective, so this isn't new information.

That's what's so frustrating to me about the "herd immunity" discourse. Health officials have consistently said there's no way the disease is going to be eradicated, but because of the way it gets discussed, a lot of smart people have become convinced that the goal of a vaccine is to make sure nobody catches it.
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I agree. If you check the consensus a fear years before the 2008 financial collapse, most economists were bullish.
Sure, something has recorded the state. It's just that we like to think of there being fixed, discrete entities that have knowledge, whereas really it's more like that knowledge is an integral part of their identity.
I know the American press has been pushing hard on the idea that the US is uniquely failing to deal with this and it's all Trump's fault because it's an election year and that's the most effective tool they have, but that doesn't make it true. In particular, things are heading in a really worrying direction throughout Europe right now, with countries that already saw overflowing hospitals and much bigger drops in GDP than the US the first time around experiencing rapid increases in cases again.

Spain is particularly alarming - they're now above the US in terms of new cases per capita over the last week, they suffered a much bigger decline in GDP and quite a lot of deaths the first time around, and it's doubtful if they can afford a second lockdown or there's the political will to carry one out - but countries throughout Europe seem to be heading in the same direction, just a little bit behind them. Not that you'd probably realise this from the US reporting. Countries are also much more limited in how respond to this economically due to the Eurozone, and the negotiations over loosening this have made US politics look frankly farsighted and empathathetic by comparison.