skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The public health authorities in the United States spent 6 weeks pretending the coronavirus didn't exist, then another 6 weeks publicly saying masks didn't work, before saying that you must wear them and if you don't you're stupid and dumb (without really bothering to explain why or ever admitting they had changed their opinion), and then 4 weeks later said that it was OK to shout and march in the streets by the tens of thousands but only for particular reasons. It's a trust issue. Usually when a place is out of order, it isn't an employee problem but a management problem. Isn't it the job of the authorities to understand their population and know how to communicate important things to them? Or maybe millions of people are just stupid and deserve to die.
Now I want to see the unorthodox git manager.
A third-option that I would like to see is extending the latter to an Electron alternative (aka using Servo as a cross-platform GUI). There's definitely positives to Electron, but it would be nice to see a more performant, less memory hungry, and more battery friendly alternative.
Frustrating is far too mild of a word for it. Local network discovery is a solved problem.
There's been XCode benches on some of the reviews (see: https://youtu.be/XQ6vX6nmboU?t=186), seems like the M1 beats even the iMac Pro, and is as fast as a Ryzen R9 3950X hackintosh (although I suspect that they're both reaching the point where compilation is entirely I/O bottlenecked)
Well let's temporarily set aside the fact that the study of literature serves a purpose beyond a didactic lesson in morality, or that just because you read a message into a book doesn't mean that everyone else would come to the same conclusion.

If the problem really was simply that To Kill A Mockingbird isn't a good way to teach racial history, then the obvious thing to do would be to propose a better book for that purpose. No one would complain if a school said they would swap out To Kill A Mockingbird for some other book so long as that other book was better. While I'm not sure exactly what book that would be, I'm sure one has been produced in the past 60 years. However, people aren't complaining about To Kill A Mockingbird being replaced, they are complaining about To Kill A Mockingbird being explicitly barred from even potentially being used in a curriculum with no argument as to the merits of any alternative. There are countless books that could be but aren't in the curriculum because some better option took their spot, and they don't need to be specifically banned. To Kill A Mockingbird is at worst sub-optimal, but it is by no means inappropriate. Only someone completely incapable of critical thinking would lump To Kill A Mockingbird into the same category as Mein Kampf.
1. Do you, personally, visualize? Meaning, do you form internal imagery in your mind of which you are consciously aware of "seeing"?

2. Is that limited to historic memories, such of people, or does it extend to the irrational, where you can see things that aren't real or don't exist yet? I suppose this could also include audio manifestations.

3. Are you aware of any means available which would completely halt all corporate and service functions of the entity you helped create and unleash on the world?

I suppose the last one is a bit of a leading question, but given the seriousness of their actions, meh.
at the end: maybe not even wrong
Here's a quote from Robert Redfield, the director of CDC.

> We are not defenseless against COVID-19. Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus -- particularly when used universally within a community setting. All Americans have a responsibility to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.

I trust his expertise and judgment. What's the basis for ignoring his advice and not wearing a mask?
There are many men that do not want to sacrifice their pursuit of happiness for children.

This is why almost half of US children are not raised under the same roof with their biological father.
When I was a child learning to write, so many of these rules bothered me so much. I'd get notes like that on my papers, and I'd think, "Yeah, but my way sounds better..." But so often that point is met with a blank stare, as if how the writing comes out doesn't matter at all compared to whether the "rules" were followed.

I'm sure a lot of it was me just being a headstrong young person, but I also know that according to grades, I was much better at writing than most of my peers, and I also continually felt like I was writing worse than I could have been, in order to satisfy teachers.
Nowhere in that article does it say that he went to urgent care insisting that covid isn't real. The link that the OP posted says that dying patients are insisting that covid isn't real. Your own link says that the kid thought that it just hit older adults, not that he thought it was fake or a new world order conspiracy or any garbage like that.
In deaths, somewhat true. But in cases, the US in the upper-eschelon!
And now I understand why i18n is named the way it is!!!!! This has been very illuminating
Yeah I heavily recommend magit to anyone who can tolerate Emacs (which is unfortunately a barrier). It's allowed me to discover so many powerful Git features I would otherwise never have used, and provides a very intuitive interface that does exactly what you expect it to do. This is especially true of its wrappers for rebasing and history editing.
TechCrunch give figures for compiling WebKit on the 13" Pro in their review: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro... - the gains are not as drastic, but it is still faster than the 16" and as fast as a Mac Pro, while using hardly any battery.

Very impressive stuff. I only got a new 16" last year but a lot of my time is spent compiling, I might find it hard to resist upgrading next yera when they announce more Pro models.
Most Software Dev Jobs Are Bullshit Jobs (2017)
Is it fair to compare performance for different compile targets?
The real competition is no longer Intel. Its AMD. Or if you're just buying Apple because you like them then there is no competition, you buy what they offer.

I like fanless systems so I'll be watching Apple closely.
I answered to a similar question in the same thread (in response to the comment you replied to). Please take a look if that clarifies.
Someone compiled Webkit (written in C++) on the M1 devices

https://twitter.com/TedMielczarek/status/1328740104630886405
Not so. In the top link, points 2, 3, and 5, apply to all public websites.
Well, to be honest though, a lot of the criticism of Electron stems from the fact that it's more than just a rendering engine.

There are a lot of applications where you'd want to take advantage of a browser view or a renderer or a JS engine, but not the rest of the stack. There are native apps where you might want a well-sandboxed JS engine for extension support, or where you're writing all of your core logic in C/Rust but you want to use HTML/CSS for your interface.

Splitting up those components would be useful in a lot of situations.
That's not necessarily true. There is a permanent vuln embedded in the T2 chip. If you have a locked laptop, getting past the lock is possible.
> I hate to be so blunt, but 50% of the population has IQ below 100. Nothing to me has demonstrated this more than the reaction to the pandemic. When you are so uneducated that you think a mask won’t help prevent a disease that is spread via respiratory droplets, that is a big problem and unfortunately those people are all sitting ducks. Of course many won’t believe the doctors when they don’t have the capacity to understand even the basic concept?

Maybe the problem is they spent too much time listening to the apparently sub-100 IQ public health establishment in March?
It looks good, but the pictures are a bit hard to see :)
There's significant risks to wearing masks: https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1296837214429683714?...
There is a saying that once you reach the orbit (here, on Earth), you are halfway to anywhere.

Lifting objects from Earth's gravity well is expensive. There would be a better case for building extensive industrial base on the Moon, with its 0.16g gravity, and supplying all the distant bases from there.

You can, for example, plausibly build a space elevator on the Moon [1] with contemporary materials (even Kevlar would suffice), thus lowering the price tag enormously.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator
I have a laptop with touchscreen, hardly ever use it. In most cases it's a mistake that i touch the screen and then it does something i didn't want it to do.

Touchscreens on laptops only make sense to me if you can wrap the screen around completely, and use it like a tablet, like many of the lenovo yoga models allow you to do.
>Unfortunately most people moved to Git so I also moved to it.

The Lemming Effect.
We are seeing the birth of a new browser ( age )
> It's going to come down to games, I think. Although I haven't had much time for them lately.

I've moved to consoles for games. Rarely I play a game on my Mac anymore. When you sit behind your desk all day for work. Playing games in that same environment and posture gets tiring. The console brings the games to the living room TV in a much more confortable setting.
Same experience. I wrote it off as a big change and sleep deprivation, but there were some days that the cries of my son seemed very difficult to deal with. I hadn't had much experience with newborns/babies prior.

It could also be generalized anxiety. Mine would take uniquely weird forms, including awakening from a dead sleep convinced my son was buried/lost somewhere in the house. I'm convinced that the biological impulse to care/provide for babies is at the firmware-level of our impulses, and, as such, must be something that is acclimated to, rather than controlled by executive function.
What people often forget is that often it's not Big Brother you need to be wary of but Little Brother.

That is, low level bureaucrats that work for you local council, your local police force or at your local hospital or telecoms company. People who might actually know you or that you might meet socially. A friend of a friend maybe.

These are the people being given access to all your private secrets...
That technology doesn't exist...
There is more than one way to scale. Over the last decade, Intel had been pushing wider SIMD.

Instead of making your cpu able to execute more instructions per cycle, why don't you make each instruction do more work. SSE packs four floats/ints or two doubles/longs into a single 128bit register and then you can do the same ALU operation to each lane.

It works great on certain workloads.

With AVX, Intel increased the size of these registers to 256bit (eight floats) in 2011 and are currently pushing AVX512 doubles the width again (16 floats).

Apple, and ARM in general are limited to 128bit vector registers (though they are plans to increase that in the future)

Cinebench is well known as a benchmark which takes advantage of the 256bit AVX registers, and some people have speculated that Apple's M1 might be at a significant disadvantage because of this, with just half the ALU thoughput.

But these numbers show that while cinebench gets a notable boost from AVX, it's not as large as you might think (at least on this workload), allowing the M1's IPC advantage to shine though.
Machine learning algorithm could provide Soldiers feedback
The same one as your basis for not downing a bottle of Clorox.
It seems like creating an API for your agent to train with can be as difficult an engineering problem as the machine learning itself.
It kind of sounds like you're just describing the vulnerability that other state actors can exploit... Which doesn't argue against point in the parent post.
Race Into Space game multimedia data license
> While AirBnB has received a lot negative press for facilitating the letting of would-be residential property by large-scale professional landlords, the marketing from AirBnB's side has always favoured the "local guide, personal human experience" angle, an angle CouchSurfing has always tried to cover non-commercially.

Call me cynical, but "Advertise your product for a use that your core moneymaking market doesn't do" would be a good dark pattern to avoid scrutiny/regulation.
Really more of a PR spectacle than a worthwhile experiment.

Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biological systems in a useful way then I'd recommend doing a bunch of trials with a less cantankerous species of large omnivorous mammal, like the goat.
The only practical way to do 1) is to publish all source code related to this, right?

Live, after each merge/release.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. The point of version control systems is to make developing software easier. It's a tool that exists for the convenience of its users. It's reasonable for people developing software to ask for the ability undo a change or restore a repository to the way it was a second ago. Telling a team of people using Git "it doesn't work like that" is unhelpful because it's not impossible for a version control system to work like that and the point of any software is to help them do what they're trying to do.

This doesn't mean that Git has to accept any feature under the sun and it might be that Git isn't most appropriate tool for teams that want such a feature. But there's nothing holy or fundamental about an implementation detail of how Git does things that makes their use-case hard.
> I am also not worried for things like covid and climate change

Would you care to explain why?
I write the way I write. Some folks like it, some don't.

Writing styles need to conform to the task at hand. I tend to write fairly "wordy" articles about tech subjects; trying to make them engaging. Probably not so good, for tech documentation.

I really feel that there's no substitute for practice.
Of course we have reason to do so (to test whether we can do it) and projects like Biosphere 2 suggest that while it's not impossible, it is for the time being unsolved.
I wonder how the passive voice detection is done... could be useful for a colleague research of writting patterns.
Thanks for clarifying. This is exciting indeed! Are you aware of usage outside of browsers?
Throughout these comments I don’t think I’ve seen you make one good faith argument. You engage in lies (HIPAA violations), shifting the goalposts (well she said it, now she needs to prove it and violate HIPAA so I can be right), and then just shift towards personal attacks once the above fails (you’re attacking me by pointing out I’m not being honest).

It’s amazing watching how powerful cognitive dissonance is, and the extent to which people will try to deny simple realities. Fitting, given that it’s under an article about people who’d rather die after they failed to realize their felling didn’t alter reality.
I don’t know what your work setup is, but if you like having dual screens you should either pick one of the Intel models up now or be ready to wait a year or two for support
This was a big challenge for me raising two little ones. Part of it is not even empathy, but being hypersensitive to loud distressing noise in general
This behaviour doesn't become ethical just because you agree with what they are pushing for. What they're doing is wrong, even if their end goal isn't a state which is in and of itself wrong.
You can replace "have been" with are in these sorts of cases. So "Phrases in green are marked to show passive voice." Or even shorter "Phrases in green use passive voice".
> Having a problem to solve in front of us can make us tinker on it's available solution and that's where those tutorial come handy.

This is huge. Start with the problem and read/watch enough to gather a solution, rather than learn for the sake of learning. Reminds of me just-in-time advice vs. just-in-case advice.
When GiorgioG speaks of a closed, iOS-style ecosystem, I don't think they mean literally running iOS on laptops.

Rather, they foresee OS X becoming a system where you can't run programs that haven't received Apple's blessing and been brought through Apple's store. Blessings that will be denied to software like youtube-dl.

As to why they would do this? A combination of the good of most users, who will enjoy protection from malware and viruses; and the irresistible temptation of a 30% cut of all sales.
My wife and I had two queen sized beds, I slept on one, and our infant and my wife on the other. We coslept and my wife breast fed ad libitum. People kept asking me if I was tired, and I was confused about what they meant. I remember her once commenting "it's so amazing, she (our daughter) sleeps through the night without feeding!" to which I replied, "no, she makes a small fuss and you roll over and pop a boob in her mouth"! Wife wasn't even aware it was happening, and we were well rested and happy.

On the downside, breast feeding ad libitum basically meant my wife's full time job was to breast feed, we went on a date after our kid was a few months old and we had to cut it short because she was sore and it was feeding time. She estimates she spent 40+ hours a week breastfeeding. She played a lot of video games with our daughter latched on, since it could be pretty boring.

Like any parents, we had a few "hell nights" when she was sick or teething, but in general human infants are significantly happier (and much quieter!) sleeping next to their mother, and unless a mother is either drunk or under the influence of some other substance, you're not going to crush your baby. I slept significantly more soundly and slept in a different bed. Putting your kid in a crib in a different room is a very weird, Victorian thing to do.
What I don't like in this text is the sentence without verb "Sometimes more succinct than it needs to be."
I'm going to go with a combination of the 5nm feature size, simplified instruction set, an architecture that's low-power by default so it doesn't need to be throttled for heat/power, and the use of many types of specialized cores to better match workloads with cpu power. It's a modern architecture in the way that x86 just isn't as a 40-year-old architecture that has to maintain backwards compatibility.
I’m not in a position to donate right now, so thanks a lot for donating to this project.

Though I do wonder how much influence Servo will have on preventing browser monoculture given that as a stand-alone thing it can’t be or isn’t involved in developing standards. Mozilla will still have to play that role. I hope they step up to the plate and stay focused on this most important thing.
Yep, I threw them $10 -- it was pretty easy (there was some strange scrolling problem on the first page, but I just hit the donate button and it went away) https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo
I admit I am confused by your comment and what point you are making. I"m talking about the second graph I linked to, AFAIK FT shows deaths per week from all causes and compares to historical average. Then it basically does an integral of the deaths per week in 2020 compared to the historical average to see the excess deaths (it does appear to only consider the outbreak / times when deaths per week is above historical average though). That at least is what is labeled as the shaded red areas, I admit i didn't read every footnote.

What assumption are they making here that is weird? Unless there are fake deaths I'm not sure why this analysis is faulty, this analysis doesn't care if something was labeled a COVID death or not.
So from "much worse" it's now "not materially worse". In reality the numbers say Germany is actually much better, and it's 84 million people that you are now excluding from the analysis.

Picking other individual countries is a poor analysis. Take the whole EU or another group that's comparable to the US. Otherwise the same can be done for US states. But you were also given numbers for those that showed the opposite and doubled down. You already have a conclusion are are making the data fit.

> It's also irrelevant that Czechia did well in the first wave. This is about who is doing worse right now as measured by actual humans dying. The reasons don't matter.

It's not irrelevant in the context I used it. Which was to explain how you were cherry-picking a very specific case.
I really liked Processing [1] It's possible to create practically every thinkable visualization from scratch with surprisingly little design knowledge/programming effort. Not only is it far more intuitive and flexible than d3.js but also it can be directly called as Java program. Apparently the Arduino UI is a fork of its editor. FWIW it's hard to tell that the Arduino IDE is not a native app.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_(programming_langua...
Bluetooth aptX still not merged to PulseAudio after 2 years, contributor angry
I don't know about hardware stores, but non-grocery retail that I am familiar with targets 50% gross margin (revenue from goods sold minus cost of goods sold).
More than 200 systems infected by new Chinese APT 'FunnyDream'
Chessboards
Not difficult no.

But certainly not anywhere close to the 0 extra effort required by an app developer to support other platforms with Electron as it currently is.
Before conceived is even better.
Funny. We just built it new platform in gwt. It's an unashamedly retro approach but there's a lot to be said from using Java on the front end as well as the back. Productivity was really high.
If you require Docker, the Apple Silicon machines are not an option, and won't be for at least a little while.

https://www.docker.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-chips-and-docke...
I see no numbers or even just the command that was run exactly. So maybe wait until someone runs the benchmark in a reproducible way?
A VPN service, apparently.

https://vpn.mozilla.org
In the context of the article, the contrast between easy and hard mode seems to be Google and Facebook vs Airbnb and Booking, not Airbnb vs Booking.

What you're talking about supports this: yes, Airbnb and Uber flouted the law. But the very fact that there was regulation they had to bypass implies they were playing in a harder game, from Ben's perspective. Airbnb had to choose whether to ask for permission or beg forgiveness and chose the latter. Google never had to think about this problem.
If I remember correctly, deaths today are linked with the hospitalizations 12 days prior.

From what I've seen, South Dakota is nearly out of ICU beds, as are many other states.

These Covid19 death rates are going to get really, really bad this time around.
I still think there's a big difference between giving a platform to the people who don't have a voice (Twitter revolutions), vs giving a platform to world leaders and people in power trying to use the platform to disseminate their propaganda.

Also, realistically no one's gonna care too much if you ban one of those millions of people without a voice, but good luck trying to censor the president.
The IDFA opt in requirement was not added to stable release of iOS14
At some point, I don't even think some of that nuance matters anymore.

Spin is out the window. Straight up lying with easily disprovable claims is in.

Anyway, I dont think the speculation is off the mark, since every previous session was pretty much just like what user said. Also, judging from this feed I'm reading, its not even far off.
It's fair in the real world, since that's what people will mainly be doing. But probably unfair from a benchmark perspective.
If mass reduction is no longer super critical, you can use heavier but cheaper materials that provide the needed strength.

There could be other knock off effect of cheaper and more frequent space launch - you can send multiple versions and see which works the best, ship prototypes back for extensive evaluation, send robots or people to fix broken things.

A lot of things are done differently if you have just a couple super expensive shots per decade & everything needs to work without external help at the first time.