skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter what they "believe".

Advertisers have the right to free speech, consumers have the right to not listen.
What are you going on about? I know plenty of people who are just a little too proud to identify themselves as "right wing". And as a colonialism it isn't inherently a negative thing.
As a native "anglophone", I believe you are the one who needs to adjust definitions and expectations.
The display scaling is pretty much solved by using Wayland as a display server protocol. I've been using it using it under Fedora as it is the default there and the results have been good. There are some issues to be aware of as screen sharing and remote desktop not working entirely as they should, but it's been solid otherwise.

If you have Ubuntu installed I believe you can change the session to Wayland when signing in. Or give Fedora a spin, it's my favourite mostly vanilla GNOME experience.
Fair enough. A lot of the criticism I’ve seen are people who claim themselves to be Linux users, so I guess that influenced my impression.
> That said, for my use case, I have never found a software that I need on Windows that is only available on Linux.

For the sake of fairness, it should be noted that most Linux software is open source and can be run on other platforms even if mainly meant for Linux. Git is a prime example, developed as a Linux program - in fact developed by Linus Torvalds specifically for the kernel - but it runs on Windows with a few quirks. LaTeX is a Linux-first project but you can also use it on Windows, etc.

This mostly doesn't happen in the opposite direction because of closed, proprietary software. Could Photoshop be ported to run on Linux, and with how much effort? We do not know.
Replace "new species" with "human fetus" and it's basically the same argument that surrounds abortion.

I am not saying one side or the other is correct, I honestly don't hold a strong opinion on this issue.

Just that we can imagine a certain hypocrisy in a society that is against creating/terminating one life prematurely (smart monkeys)... but yet withholds the same rule against it's own species offspring (humans).
This is a hard pass for me. I deleted my Facebook 5 years ago and will never come back. They're a trash company with a trash product.
> If the first amendment said, "A well read electorate, being necessary to a free state, the right the people to free speech, shall not be infringed," would you say it only covered political speech?

I would say the intent is much narrower than the actual text so while "a well read electorate" would call for more than just political speech, such a First Amendment would be allow more laws to restrict speech without being unconstitutional.

People in the armed forces don't own the weapons they use now. Today, the National Guard is basically the "Militia." Even if you think militia needs to include organizations not directed by governors, weapons can be owned by smaller political entities (towns, counties, etc.) or NGOs. In any case, weapons for a militia can be stored in an armory, not in every member's home or on their person all the time.

Yet again, even if some of the weapons were stored in the home, there's nothing unconstitutional about laws requiring trigger locks or other safety measures for their storage.
Important differentiating factor from Pfizer’s vaccine:

“... Moderna said researchers had found that its vaccine had a longer shelf life in the refrigerator than previously thought: 30 days, not seven. And it will last 12 hours at room temperature, the company said.”
Are these companies going to release more interim data , and how safe are the margins used (~90 infections in both companies)

I wonder what will be the consensus after other types of vaccines release their results.
Right. I like my MacBook Air just fine but I could be easily convinced to try other hardware. OS X, you can pry from my cold dead hands.
They don't have any plan. Its like asking ants what their plan is.

They have stumbled upon scale, so like the unimaginative mindless dolts they are, everything is done at scale.

What the plan is, is just some post facto day to day reactive narrative to whatever that scale produces.

One day it produces a colony next to a sugar factory that keeps everyone happy and another day it opens a giant sink hole in middle of town.

They wheel out Zuck to apologize or take credit as the case maybe.
Intro to DDlog
Is it the end of the line for mass transit systems?
Paywall: https://archive.fo/hymze
It's better if you listen to Marisa Peer because she says this with examples, in a way you won't forget.

If you don't have 18:33, this is the essence of what she says:

They say: You are so fat. or You are terrible at public speaking. or That was crap.

You say, in a kind, untroubled, mildly nurturing voice:

[1] Thank you for sharing that.

It dissipates the tension.

In your own mind, you understand their insults, sarcasms or hurts are not anything to do with you, and will not affect you if you don't let it in. So you let your thoughts move on.

If they come back with another hurtfully worded criticism, you look directly into their eyes, raise your eyebrows a little, and say:

[2] I'm sorry, I didn't actually hear all of that. Could you please repeat that slowly for me?

They have to think about what they have said. 90% of the time, they will retract it and apologise, saying they misspoke.

If they persist with criticism, you say, quizically:

[3] Oh... are you trying to hurt my feelings?

Often they will modify what they say to clear up the misunderstanding, by explaining that they are only trying to help you. Or whatever.

Rarely, someone will go on the attack, by saying Yes, and repeating the insult. If that happens, you say

[4] Well that's not going to work because I'm not going to let that in.

And you don't let it in. You recognise that you are in an exchange with someone who has these exchanges with other people often because that is who they are, but it has nothing to do with who you are.

If they persist, you say, in a measured, almost academic voice:

[5] Did you know that critical people have the most criticism reserved for themselves? They don't like themselves. They are expressing outwards their own dissatisfaction. When you do this you are showing me, and everyone else in the office, that you are your own worst critic.
Maybe thinking about lightspeed as the upper speed limit helps? You could also think about the clock experiment by Hafele and Keating where two synchronised clocks where flown all over the globe and after a while they disagreed with each other.
Or the popsci answer: Things that move fast get more massiv and time gets slower for them, at the speed of light time stops. Without time no speed.
I agree they are low value, but they do help others to do the something similar.

This is not much different than posts that are like "I migrated my service to docker", "how I went from chef to ansible"

What I find most low value is that these posts usually happen directly after they completed the first step, so there is no retrospective of what did and did not work. It is impossible to know if the author will stick with it or not.

There is still a some value in expressing their discontent with the trends, and people up voting it means that many others feel the same. And that should give some warning to Apple, and give confidence to others to go else where.
I don't understand it. If you want to run a Linux distro, cool! And maybe if you have an old MacBook laying around, give it a try on that hardware. But especially on the new Apple Silicon models, trying to run an OS that the hardware was absolutely not designed for seems like an exercise in masochism given that there is hardware out there that runs various flavors of Linux perfectly well.
Personally I'm not a fan of gnome, but If you have a MacOs background Its understandable to prefer it on top of other Desktop-Environments. Do not forget to give a try to other D.E's thou, its always good to check new stuff, I always find delightful stuff effortlessly (:
For a long time I tried to make my Linux desktop look similar to my old windows machine, until recently I understood that I was compromising my productivity, so I started to look for new looks for my desktop, its like shopping at a free mall haha, I love it.
I think it nicely shows the independence of the newsrooms, in that they report on matters of online privacy like any other topic, even though it is close to the financial interests of their publisher, who stands to lose from any increase of privacy requirements.
I see a bright future for Linux.
> You mean that it's exhausting to be reminded of the negatives of a choice you make?

No, that’s not it all what I meant, and I’m sorry if it came across that way. I meant it is exhausting to see the same fairly shallow criticisms shouted on a regular basis. It’s a different product with a different philosophy and people don’t have to buy their products, and it’s exhausting just to see the same things regurgitated over and over.
Here's a theory on why nerds get bullied:

Bullies instinctively realize that there's an unusually smart person in their tribe who is wasting their gift on fruitless endeavors, thus reducing the survival chances of the tribe.

Of course, our modern society can afford to have smart people play chess. However, there is no evidence that chess skill transfers to other areas. Therefore, until proven otherwise, developing chess skill should be perceived as frivolous, just like developing skill in any other less prestigious game.
I've found Blitz to be an effective way to unwind. It's sort of like playing GTA Vice City or Counter Strike and unleashing some mayhem on the board. There's not much time to think too long and get exhausted but enough time to feel deserving of the victory or defeat
What are the normal precautions there for dealing with ammo? Here you have to be 18 to buy it but it is just on the shelves at many stores that sell hunting and fishing supplies.
Excellent news it's so high. For comparison, MMR is 88% effective on Mumps

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html#:~:te...

"One dose of MMR vaccine is 93% effective against measles, 78% effective against mumps, and 97% effective against rubella.

Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective against measles and 88% effective against mumps."
Moderna says preliminary trial data shows its vaccine is more than 94% effective
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25110665
The problem I see with that, is that if my private insurance is with my employer, I am making no public contribution while I am healthy but earning money.

Then while I am on pension I am back on the public system, I am making no contribution but using it most.

That would basically be a system designed to bancrupt the public but lucrative for private insurers.
As a Star Trek fan and appreciator of well-written TV, I can't agree with this at all. The first season was hot garbage with maybe 3 watchable episodes, S2 was a little better but most of that was Pike. S3, despite finally being free of continuity baggage, is so far about as poorly written as S2.
> I don't think is reasonable is to perceive any criticism of a big corporation whose products you happen to be using as a personal attack.

I’m curious, what part of my wording suggested I was taking this as a personal attack? Things can be exhausting (annoying) without being personal.
Classical physics is based on observations that humans can make with very low technology: polished metals and glasses, relative velocities up to a few thousand meters per second, timekeeping accurate to milliseconds in one location. Those observations lead to approximations which "feel" correct because humans spend most of their lives in those circumstances.

But at the edges of those circumstances, we see discrepancies not predicted by classical physics. That lets us know that classical physics is an approximation. The truth is that even in your car + thrown object example, the velocities do not actually add linearly -- it's just that the difference between the linear approximation and the reality is tiny.

One analogy that might be helpful: consider every object in the universe to be moving at c, but for most objects that you encounter, the vast majority of that motion is forward in time rather than space. As you add energy to the object, it transfers that velocity from time-motion to space-motion. Because c is so large compared to our usual experience, we have to look really hard to discover the change in time-motion... but it's real. GPS uses satellites that are in a sufficiently different frame from the surface of the Earth, and requires sufficient time precision, that relativistic time difference calculations are required.
It is in the context of dieting advice “instead of a chocolate bar, eat an apple” (still about 20 grams of sugar/100 kcal, but about half that of the chocolate bar)
Were fruits the thing most commonly cut out of your diet though? Most people (Americans at least) don't eat that much fruit, but eat a lot of fructose from other sources.
I always liked Sivers' version of this, which might help a little here

https://sive.rs/multiply
I don't know of anyone who has had their account suspended for online cheating. VAC bans just get you banned from those games and is public record on your profile.

I only know of accounts being suspended for dicking with the steam store itself, e.g. by repeatedly abusing the refund system. So at least on that basis, they're not really being suspended for their game conduct.

Whether what they did warrants a suspension from steam is sort of beside the point too, since it's just as relevant for singleplayer games.
FTX Launches UpBots (UBXT) Staking Program
Are you arguing that users should not blame Apple for pushing out an OS update that bricks customers computers?
The thing is... You use tor because you think you can prevent ALL of the traffic from being visible (similar to a VPN). Now you cannot trust the kernel not to reveal anything to Apple.
There's a tool to show the EDID [1] information.

$ sudo apt install read-edid
$ sudo get-edid | parse-edid
...
Modeline "Mode 0" 594.00 3840 4016 4104 4400 2160 2168 2178 2250 +hsync +vsync
...

Perhaps the mental model comes from using Windows? I don't know what combination of hardware, dongles, docks and monitors causes it, but some of my non-technical colleagues end up with their monitors in non-native resolutions with Windows 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identificatio...
I don't think that is accurate. The rollout took time but ultimately disabled certificates that weren't updated. It also didn't lead to major attacks as weak keys still needed to each be exploited.

Sending 3rd parties perfect copies of private data of your citizens to run a credit scheme is a different place.
Rife: Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation
I don't think this a real issue in online chess, cheaters get banned pretty fast, very easy to detect. There are cheaters as in any other game, but from my experience there are percentual a lot fewer cheaters in chess than in Counter Strike for example.
Creation of the Humanoids
This seemed obvious to me at first, but less the more I think of it. Samsung, for instance. Apple is already using 100% of 5nm capacity, so they are basically leasing an entire fab. The technology curve for fabs will bend in the direction of lower capital investment, smaller batches, and shorter turnaround, not smaller dimensions.
Adoption starts somewhere
This is another example of apples platform treating apple apps "preferentially" - one of the points raised in the ongoing appstore complaint.

I can understand why they think they can do this - they create the OS, so you implicitly "trust" them - but that position doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to grant others that same trust, IMHO.
Frankly, a fixed "Internet" Service Provider that doesn't provide you with a router (and leaves you the possibility to use your own) and a /48 IPv6 prefix should have no legal right to call that service "Internet" (in a similar way that Internet neutrality has to be legally respected) :

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690

(Mobile cellular Internet seems to be harder, but is there any reason why user's cell-'modem' can't handle the routing of successive /64 connections ?)
Numerous stories. From other dupe submissions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/health/Covid-moderna-vacc...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54902908

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...
Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL Queries across multiple sources
Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate Meets Its Primary Efficacy Endpoint
Why have it be a certain day for everyone? I can see an eventuality where employees are given the freedom to choose which 4 days, which may even differ week-to-week.
Supposedly, there is a way. You can just remove all the apps from the whitelist. After that apps like Little Snitch pickup on the activity. Hosts file I believe still works as well but I haven't seen anyone who's tried it out yet and posted about it. One caveat is that you probably have to monitor the whitelist to make sure nothing gets added to/back without you knowing about it.

Not sure how well any of that works though. I'm not touching Big Sur or the new macs with a 10' pole until all the software that I rely on is updated to not require kexts 100% (including Little Snitch full support) and Apple silicon has virtualization support so I can run Docker.

I'm really glad I just upgraded to the latest intel mbp a few months ago.
The article is from 2016. It appears the drug has since been approved for treatment of urticaria - https://www.xolair.com/ciu/why-consider-xolair/about-ciu-tre...
What exactly is the big nefarious power in the background whipping the liberal mob into a frenzy?

I get that you want to come off as an enlightened centrist here but you’re gonna have to be specific. What’s the liberal Koch brothers and what’s the liberal Tea Party?
WhatsApp has good onboarding and brand recognition. (YMMV, this is highly dependent on which country you are in). You don't need to create accounts or register. You just need to know your phone number.

Having to give up your phone number and contacts is a feature for most people. They can instantly see that Marge from the office also uses WhatsApp so they can call/message them using that instead of paying for calls and SMS.

The limitations of WhatsApp web are mostly due to it being end to end encrypted. The "web client" is basically just using the phone as a proxy. It _is_ possible to have E2E encryption and allow multiple separate clients, but it's not a trivial problem to solve, thus most won't do it. (Telegram's E2E chats are device to device and not available on other clients than the one that initiated the connection.)

It's still crap, don't get me wrong. I'd rather use anything else, but at least where I live, it has critical mass and is the de facto standard.
I hope you are not holding your breath as it looks like you are in for a long wait.
Outstanding article!

Are you hoping to achieve no-downtime leader kills by going with the latest Paxos improvements, as you mention at the end?
> Where India has failed vis-a-vis China is its unwillingness to use its market size and pooling ability and play its strengths.

I think most assessment of the Indian economy put the blame on incredible amounts of bureaucracy as one of the main constraints on growth. The same ("we have to protect their jobs") argument is used to protect that.
How Radiation Looks Like
Rockchip, Mediatek, and Qualcomm are not in the same ballpark as Apple Silicon. They're barely in the same sport.
Second RNA vaccine for covid-19. This can open new era of programmable vaccines for infections and cancer treatments.

Residual DNA risk is probably not significant, but there is small potential for them not getting into the market because RNA vaccination at this scale has never been done.
I don't think that comment was intended as a joke. I think it was a perfectly serious and literal comparison to the Apple 1, which was a hackable extendable single board computer.
CNN has more numbers:

> In Moderna's trial, 15,000 study participants were given a placebo, which is a shot of saline that has no effect. Over several months, 90 of them developed Covid-19, with 11 developing severe forms of the disease.

> Another 15,000 participants were given the vaccine, and only five of them developed Covid-19. None of the five became severely ill.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/16/health/moderna-vaccine-re...
How does it do that? Mozilla spends a great deal of effort to make sure this type of fingerprinting isn’t possible.
Weird. The few lines on preview page look like Danish, except "runet" which looks like English "run" with a Danish past participle ending. I don't see anything that looks French.

I would read the next to last line as: "you have run ashore?"
Plus, if you are doing microcontrollers (cortex M) and not microprocessors (cortex A), the lower leakage current of >40 nm nodes is interesting. Batteries for infraed remotes last years, not days.
This is great, now get some long term safety testing done or else it can't really be responsibly deployed.
No, not at all, when compared to Linux.
I never understood this until I was self-employed. I now feel this in my soul.
Please don't feel like "a savage among civilized men". Video games are made to have fun with.

I experienced both sides. First trying to become a professional CS:GO player, and after just having fun playing the Starcraft 2 story.

Some of my friends still deeply enjoy the competitive aspect. Sometimes I just want to see big stonking robots blow up aliens :)
>It almost seems the authors write them to convince themselves of something, unsure what exactly.

That they can drop OS X because of a few minor bugs and instead use a half-assed desktop and be as productive. It's like breaking the chains, right? Right?
https://xkcd.com/895/
Show HN: I created a URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub Pages
I disagree.

You’re 1 in 7 billion and not every one wants to be a car mechanic. To customers this is natural. This is a tiring attitude to encounter in society, from car guys to computer guys.

An individual or a minority does not dictate market behaviors. To everyone except control freaks that’s natural.

Social memes of yesterday are fading. Should we revive pagan ritual and return the land to Native Americans? How to avoid harm in a reality that erodes on auto-pilot?

Your words are outdated software, programmed in decades ago. You’re over the hill and new ideas are following up as usual. Move along.

If you have real ideas act on them. The market for low effort bleating online is saturated. Such ideas aren’t even worth a dime a dozen anymore.
And by "reveal to Apple" he means "reveal to every bent cop who's listening in on the wire that you wanted to avoid by using a VPN"
> no one is going to run Chrome or Firefox in Rosetta2 probably

Browsers themselves no, but there's many apps out there based on browser tech (e.g. electron apps). Also many apps shipping with their own JVM or other JIT engine.

Anecdote incoming, my pet project is based on electron, I am currently building a mac x86 version but don't plan to ship an ARM version (since testing it without an actual physical mac is going to be even more difficult / impossible).
Remember that we have no idea whether Windows and Intel processors with IME (and AMD processors since Ryzen ?) don't have built-in backdoors (And Macs have been using Intel exclusively for years now, haven't-they ?). So nothing very new here, really...

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf
How Not to Start a Startup
Facebook – Introducing Project Aria
If you liked the article, note that the author has the whole book:

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Galaxy-Humanity-Discovered-Uni...

“Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe”