skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your information seems to come from a pre-print on MedrXiv [1], but not all your claims are supported. Especially the spreading rate and "deadliness" of the new mutation are not mentioned in the paper. The paper (which has not been peer reviewed) only notes the discovery of this new mutation. If you have other sources, I'm open for more information.

If you are wondering why D614A is not mentioned in the Nature article: the preprint has been out for 2 days (Nature published yesterday) and this information is only based on a single pre-print, not a peer-reviewed scientific article. I don't think saying "who cares about obscure -stans" is fair towards the author of this article.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04.20184721v...
>Unless the rate of expansion starts to slow down or we have indication that it will ever reverse, there's no big crunch. The rate of expansion is increasing

Unless space wraps around like a globe and we'll all meet at the "south pole" (with the big bang being the "north pole") or something to that effect. Which is itself wild, unfalsifiable conjecture, but there are other ways for a Big Crunch to happen other than the expansion of space slowing down or reversing
All the fussing over Marconi was a bit painful to read through - it's not "Marconi's radio waves" - Tesla was there first too. Unfortunately it happened after both their deaths but Marconi's patents were invalidated and Teslas were held up. It's annoying to see this myth about Marconi still perpetuated.

More: https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/articles/tesla-invent...
Is America a Myth?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401246
I disagree, I cite important work all the time and you definitely need the original paper. Paraphrasing isn't really done enough to negate the need for the original paper, otherwise what kind of lame plagiarized paper are you writing? Citations only tell you where to look, and if that article is gone then you're screwed.

What do you mean by "duplicated elsewhere"? Sitting on some scientist's hard drive doesn't count, it has to be discoverable. That's what the issue is: when journals die, how do we ensure that the papers are saved somewhere easily searchable?
> Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s PlayStation or Nintendo’s Switch.

I don't believe any of those vendors take anything close to 30% of in-game revenue. And the reason is they compete with each other, quite vigorously, for the same set of users looking for the same set of products (consoles and games).

> or classify iOS as somehow different...

Right, because Apple is leveraging their dominance of an external market (high end mobile phones) to control pricing in the game market that "should" be more akin to consoles. But it demonstrably isn't. And that is a problem.

If you want to argue here, the proper argument is that iOS isn't a monopoly (and that Google charges similar fees). But don't argue that it's the same as a console, that just doesn't make sense.
It's political content, it is almost certainly being flagged by a lot of people.
"A famous image of inventor Nikola Tesla shows him casually sitting on a chair, legs crossed, taking notes—oblivious to the profusion of artificial lightning rending the air meters away."

Oblivious, because the image was a double negative.

"The photo was a promotional stunt by photographer Dickenson V. Alley; a double exposure. First the machine's huge sparks were photographed in the darkened room, then the photographic plate was exposed again with the machine off and Tesla sitting in the chair. In his Colorado Springs Notes Tesla admitted that the photo is false:

"Of course, the discharge was not playing when the experimenter was photographed, as might be imagined!"

Tesla's biographers Carl Willis and Mark Seifer confirm this."

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nikola_Tesla,_with_h...
Why Do Certificate Revocation Checking Mechanisms Never Work?
I wonder who will make somethingn like this a downloadable, locally executable program.
Eric, you are a smart guy. I think you should pay attention to the signal.

Multiple people have mentioned a similar thing. I have had a similar experience.

While it may be technically accurate that the “LTSE is open for business”

My expectation and others also seem to have had a similar expectation after reading the announcement was:

We can now purchase shares in companies that are listed on the LTSE. Having tried to get more info on companies listed on the LTSE, we are finding none.

“Open for business” is never defined.

It says

“Today, after months of booting up, I am thrilled to report that the Long-Term Stock Exchange has opened for business with a mission to support companies and investors who share a long-term vision.”

There are a few potential options:

1. oversight , without the realisation that people will assume the LTSE has shares listed on it which can be traded

2. Deliberately designed to lead people to think the LTSE has shares listed on it in order to test. Lean startup and all that.

On a other note long range planning and thinking is difficult, due to discounting and uncertainty. A massive impact can be had if more people could think Though multiple causal generations down.
somehow the idea reminds me of continuations based responses (HN used to be wired that way, also Queinnec wrote lisp papers on the topic)
Stories like this are a Rorschach test for how one views Tesla. This can be a lazy and dangerous design process that shows the company's unprofessionalism or it can be a smart hack to get the job done while minimizing costs and supply chain restraints.
Hi Jake! Congrats on the launch. I went to sign up for your newsletter, but it required more PII than I was willing to share. Is there a reason you need my birthday and last name?
Yeah the post conflates asynchronous and concurrent like people always do. Asynchronous code can be executed sequentially, people. (Synchronous code can be executed concurrently, too.)

Asynchronous code is absolutely not just for running tasks after returning an HTTP response. A good example of the true power of asynchronous execution would be to do a Web Socket handler _inside a Django view._
I find Teams far more effective than Slack.

School districts will almost certainly hate everything they were forced to start using over the last few months because their entire workflow has changed dramatically. From top to bottom and they’re having to invent new things on the fly. They will almost certainly get stuff wrong.

Normally, such a radical change would have involved months if not years of planning, followed by months of trials, before even being deployed in 1 class for 1 subject.
'Robot Dogs' May Soon Guard Air Force Bases, Aided by Starlink Satellites
Very interesting.

So the I wonder if everything expands along with the universe, does it mean that from outside, things moving at the speed of light in our universe, are potentially moving at speeds greater than the speed of light within our universe? If i was watching from outside, a rectangle moving at the speed of light in our universe, would one of its edges be moving away from me at the speed of light + the speed of expansion? If it makes sense.
Please don't break the site guidelines by replying to comments like that one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think this is a specific targeted thing. It just comes with the general deactivation of the Epic account. It's the same as the whole "Apple is banning all apps made with Unreal Engine!" which was a poor take on the issue. (What actually happened was Apple un-approved Epic's license, which had a cascading effect because Unreal Engine was signed under the same license, and so software dependent on Unreal Engine became no longer signed and thus was not going to be allowed on the App Store.)

I'm not saying Apple's in the right here, but people keep construing it as Apple "looking for way[s] to hurt Epic" and I don't think that's quite what's going on. Epic performed a significant breach of the App Store terms in a way never tried before, and the repercussions (which are detailed in those terms!) are being enforced on a scale never seen before. But it's not like Apple's execs are scouring, looking for minute and petty ways to hurt Epic. They're just going to let the lawsuit run its course, and in the meantime enforce the terms of the agreement (willingly broken by Epic) to the fullest capacity.
You shouldn't analyse programming constructs based on their implementation in my opinion. Go down deep enough in the rabbit whole, and you'll see everything is just a Turing machine.

A more useful analysis in my opinion is to focus on the developer ergonomics of the language. That includes how the construct is used or can be used, any properties it exhibits or guarantees, what it prevents you from doing, etc.

From that lens, the ergonomics of a Class and a Function Closure are not at all the same.
You call it "harsh punishment" as if the US intended these consequences, because it knows "no mercy". That sounds like blame to me.
Hi Jake, congrats on the launch.

I went to sign up for your newsletter, but the firm required too much PII- for example, last name, birthday.
Can't the use be limited to companies or individuals with income / revenue less than a certain amount, say USD one million, directly and / or indirectly.
The introduction is a bit off. Tesla even invented the concept of radio before Marconi but only utilized it for remote control. Marconi invented the concept of radio for long range communication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio#Tesla's_boa...
What Branches of Math Would Aliens Most Likely Share?
When I was a young person with executive function issues (late 90s/early 2000s) voice to text was a lifesaver for my ability to write coherently. I found it much more natural (even then) to "write" by speaking my mind to a computer than to struggle to focus while typing slowly. It wasn't until I was older and using IM heavily as a social outlet (which was much more in the "bursty" configuration that works well for my brain) that my typing ability caught up with my pace of dictation.
Not sure if this has been mentioned in other threads yet -

The Fortnite iOS app is critical even if you don’t play Fortnite on iOS. The app has the team voice feature so you can talk to teammates while playing Fortnite.

Everyone in your party can be playing on different devices (Xbox, PS4, etc.). If you open the iOS app then you can transfer the party voice to an iPhone. The sound is really clear and you can use your headphones or AirPods to talk and listen.

I’m sure some will be pissed if they lost access to that.

If you deleted the app or bought a new iOS device, can you still install Fortnite from previous purchases?
Well, yes, why would you let them? I don't want to live a life which could be ruined by a mob simply pointing out something I have said.

I can't help but wonder if people afraid of "doxxing" are paranoid or really posting stuff they'd never say in person (in which case you probably don't want to be posting them).

I understand that people get unfairly fired for social media posts. But that's what it is, an unfair firing. Why work at this kind of a place? And if you're very open about your beliefs you probably won't get yourself into this kind of a situation in the first place.
> They should have sued and never have done their "pay direct" thing

If they did that, any court hearing the lawsuit would throw it out because Epic would not have standing. Epic had to do it this way to have any hope of a court hearing their case.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly. Maybe you don't owe California better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
this looks amazing! pretty excited to try it. signed up for the newsletter and downloaded it. however...

> Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail

anything you can say to make me feel better for allowing this level of power for a beta app from a random person on the web? i'd really like to try it out.
On mine it just whines that there's no mass storage device. The stack overflow responses to this problem indicate that the trick it to pull out the usb install media at just the right moment, and then return it to a different port at just the right moment. I think this advice perfectly clarifies the claim the Windows "just works" on any randomly selected PC of the last fifteen years.
If you have a long term view on business, you can actually just use the existing stock exchanges. The stock exchanges aren't the reason for short term thinking ... the incentives of executives and investors are the reason for that.

There's plenty of companies that take the long view and whose investors have been rewarded for it ... Amazon, Netflix, Tesla, etc. ... its not like the existing stock exchanges and investors have stopped them from running a loss and investing in the long term.

I feel this is a solution that isn't aimed at the right part of the "stack". Reform is needed in the way the professional management of large public funds and pension funds are evaluated and compensated ... but you won't solve that with a new stock exchange.
Hey, we tried Tappity on my 7 year old and it became his preferred app for a while. He burned through all of the content in a matter of weeks.

The little achievements and interactive bits were very effective at keeping him engaged. I'm not sure how much he's retaining, and for the multiple choice questions he seemed to just choose things randomly until he could proceed forward, but he definitely picked up at least a handful of random factoids that he'd tell us about later.

I couldn't have been happier about his interest in that instead of Youtube Kids videos. So much content for kids is just dumb stuff that is focused on keeping kids' eyeballs but not on anything else. The educational apps seem to be mostly focused on random simple math problems or spelling. Science-focused content for young kids has been practically non-existent, so we tried Tappity because it was pretty much the only option. We were very pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for making engaging content that I don't feel bad about exposing my kids to. Please make more content.
>Amazon didn't cut a deal

Most developers who use Apple IAPs gave to give Apple a 30% cut. Amazon only gives apple a 15% cut. How is that not a deal?
The idea that Teams is not very good is BS. Is it not as good as Slsck. I disagree. I find it better than slack for my usage. However, there are enough people I know who use both that have said it’s not as good as Slack.

But that does not mean Teams itself is not excellent software. It just means Slack is slightly more excellent.

And once you throw in how rapidly Teams has been improving, I think it’s a matter of months before Teams surpasses slack in almost every way.
*because it was trivial for Epic to return the situation to the status quo. The court was very much not making statements about harm in general (that's just not what happens at this phase of litigation).

Apple is moving the situation farther from the status quo... which strikes me as a very bad legal strategy when the ruling for them was based on the idea that maintaining the status quo did not cause irreparable harm.

I expect the judge is going to have some serious questions about whether this action is in response to them violating the terms of service (status quo as I believe the judge is interpreting the phrase), or if it's about retaliating against the lawsuit [1]. Novel punitive actions using services that aren't directly related don't strike me as business as usual.

[1] Unless the court rules in some way that makes the whole question moot. We shouldn't read too much into how the court ruled on the TRO.
>They should have sued and never have done their "pay direct" thing if they wanted to stay operational on Apple platforms during the lawsuit.

That would have made the chances of the lawsuit being thrown out over BS standing issues much higher
> capitalism that enabled Free Software to exist in the first place.

No, it did not. If you knew the history of FOSS, then you would know that for several decades, every major tech company strongly opposed it and was terrified of it. GNU and Linux were started by programmers and academics who wanted to work on software with other people and share the benefits in the open. They were not started by individuals interested in making a profit or getting an IPO. FOSS was not started by entrepreneurs or any company; it was a cooperative, not a competitive, effort by people who wanted something better and who realized that cooperation/sharing work would be helpful in that goal. You could say their goal was to communally create software ;)

> Copyleft wouldn't be possible without the existing copyright law.

True, but you are not digging into the core issue here. If there was no capitalism (i.e. no companies seeking to maximize profits/valuation), why would there need to be copyright law in its present form? Copyright law exists because companies want to minimize costs, thus leading to incentives to steal other people’s IP for their own ends. Copyleft is a solution within this system; if no profit motive existed, then there would be no need for all of this defensive licensing.

> Also the biggest contributors to FOSS projects have been companies

As stated before, not for the first couple decades of FOSS. Do you know anything about Microsoft’s historical relationship/commentary about Linux? In the immediate present, your statement is true. That’s why it is described in the article. This is the problem. Corporations have co-opted the FOSS movement and used it to build closed source projects/SaaS products that they alone control and benefit from. The goal of free software was co-opted into free software on unfree platforms (e.g. AWS).

> But I was born in communism, I know how not living in capitalism is actually like

This is a classic false dichotomy. There are more options than simply capitalism and the 20th century implementations of communism. Even if you reject all forms of communism, communism != !capitalism. That is why ‘anti-capitalism’ is a separate word. Capitalism can be critiqued or replaced; it is not inevitable or unchangeable.
"I Fought The Law and the Law Won"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL8chWFuM-s
> I've heard otherwise from native Chinese speakers. Pronunciation varies widely from north to south.

This may be true. I have no idea. But perhaps this was the wrong quote for me to fixate on.

The point the students made (and I agree with) is that there are tens of thousands of Chinese words that don't sound like racial slurs. After being informed that he sounded like he was using a racial slur, he could have chosen any other. He did not.

The lesson itself is also of dubious value. If you removed that part of his lecture, I don't think anyone would be worse off. It's not like lectures are what MBAs are really paying for, anyway.

> MBA programs need to meet certain standards for the accreditation. It's not simply what the customers want.

That's true for curriculum content, but the contentious part of his lecture had nothing to do with anything academic. It could not have any effect on accreditation.

> I think its disingenuous to think there's no ideological component to this.

I was saying that the professor was not being ideological. He was just being an idiot. I believe professors should not be punished for ideology, but they should be punished for stubbornly sticking to a pointless "lesson" that sounded like a racial slur.

I agree that the students clearly were being ideological.
That makes sense to me now. Even though Extracts was right there, I didn't make the connection. I assumed that it would copy the same way that the XPath is copied when that button is clicked.
OK, we put the finishing touches on the Linux client and it's now available for download.

We still have some fit & finish things to improve upon, but it should be quite functional.

We are new to this, so don't hesitate to reach out with suggestions, we're still learning.
Thanks for this - will read more in the two terms.
With your first point, you are talking about versioning (switching to a new IRI while keeping the old one for compatibility)?

I agree that there probably is no value in using JSON-LD for an application that was built without LD in mind.

Regarding your last statement about APIs. JSON API (https://jsonapi.org/) looks interesting. Have you worked with that?
>And if so, why do all particles pack at exactly the same new density? Shouldn't it differ from molecule to molecule?

The dominant factor on this scale is the strong nuclear force, which governs interactions at the scale of quarks - much smaller than molecules.
We started those miles at sunset, after a full day of hiking, and in thick smoke
Do you know if Yandex mail has a friendly API? One of the things that keeps me on Gmail is that they have an API with many language bindings that I have used on occasion.

Also, I see that they have their own browser?? https://browser.yandex.com/ I assume it's just a rebrand.
Don't "premium video companies" like Netflix and Amazon get a special deal? https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203294/amazon-prime-vide...
Keep in mind this is a research publication. In general research systems aren't meant to be maintained long term. You do the study, or make the proof of concept, and if it has long term value then you find a long term solution.

I know they mention maintenance, but having been in both fields what a web person means by maintenance and what a research person means by maintenance are an order of magnitude different.
When it comes to web scraping, it feels like what is considered a crime is highly dependent on how eager prosecutors can be to charge you with unauthorized access. It is common to read tech articles about security vulnerabilities where web pages were left unprotected, the flaw being verified by a journalist or the person reporting the issue.

This is what was used against weev[1] when he crawled an AT&T website and dumped subscriber e-mail addresses, to sentence him to 41 months in prison. Don't get me wrong, weev is a terrible person that society should be protected from, but the severity of this sentence felt completely out of place for both the supposed "crime" and the banality of what he did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
In the US, I believe the Library of Congress fills a similar role.
I've got one. It's in an ancient Leeds and Northrup potentiometer that was made for reading a thermocouple.

You use the cell in two stages. First, you adjust a conventional variable voltage source until it equals the Weston cell. Then you leave the Weston cell alone and use the variable source for subsequent input voltage measurements. That way, you maximize the lifetime of the Weston cell.

As for the potentiometer, it's a precise resistive voltage divider. You dial a voltage until it equals the input voltage, then read the position of the dial on a scale. That's your measurement. This application is also where "potentiometer" gets its name.

The indicator for when two voltages are equal, is a super sensitive galvanometer. You push a button to make a measurement, seeing if the needle moves to the left or right. So the Weston cell is actually only doing anything for a split second. The whole thing contains no active electronics.

All I've done with it is to make one thermocouple measurement, and to very briefly test the cell with my digital voltmeter.
Creativity starts before anything is made
>> so it's possible that the part is simply cheap and is working for the job

Well, yah. Is it that big of an ego-blemish to have "something so cheap" in your space-chariot?
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Neat stuff!

What would it take to get Morgan Freeman's voice onto it?