skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder if that’s representative of the US as a whole and explains why COVID has been particularly bad there?

This is just misinformation. USA isn't even in the top 10 for deaths per capita (it's eleventh): https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... . And the countries ahead of it all hard harsher lockdown measures than most of the US.
the ova market was pretty much entirely based on the willingness of japanese to buy rental copies. arcades have survived for similar reasons.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_video_animation#Histo...
I don't want to diminish rms and gnu's work in progressing software freedom and these programs are of course big contributions to a lot of Linux systems. However, I use i3 instead of gnome, systemd isn't a part of gnu, I also use Firefox instead of Epiphany.

Should I refer to my system as gnu/i3/systemd/Mozilla/Linux?

It's easier to refer to modular systems using the one guaranteed common element, in this case, the kernel. It's not necessary to specify every major user-space program.
Funny I have friends "on both sides of this issue" so I went out and did the common sense thing of adding up the CDC deaths, subtracting the baseline average deaths and noticing that the difference between 2020 and previous years is pretty much exactly the number of deaths the CDC attributes to Covid. You don't need to be an expert to do that.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2
If the codebase is the problem then the obvious best solution is to write a bot that automatically posts dang's comment, with links to the various pages. :)
Lately an area of interest of mine in digital photography in particular is scene-referred vs. output-referred image formats and subjective perception. The author (justifiably) walks around this topic in his camera sensor overview, but the data captured by a sensor from photons hitting it doesn’t really contain a readily viewable image.

Data values captured by a modern camera far exceed the ranges that can be reproduced by output media such as paper or screens—meaning that the only way[0] to obtain an image we can communicate to someone else (or future ourselves) as a static artifact[0] is by throwing out data and conforming values to ranges that fit in the output color space, converting scene-referred (“raw”) data to output-referred.

This is where subjective perception comes in: how we perceive colors and shapes in a given scene depends a lot on what we had seen prior to this scene, our general mood, and various other aspects of our mind state. It’s only by taking control of processing scene-referred data that we can use the full range of captured values to try to convey most convincingly, within the constraints of the output space, our subjective perception of the scene around the time we pressed the shutter trigger.

(Naturally, further down this rabbit hole come the questions about e.g. what our conscious perception—but not the camera—was blind to in the scene, and eventually about the nature of reality itself, at which point one may feel compelled to give up and go into painting instead.)

[0] This would be quite niche, but I wonder if we could develop tools for exploring raw data at viewing stage, allowing the audience to effortlessly adjust their perception of the scene (even if within ranges specified by the photographer). Such exploration would require significant computing powers, but we’ll probably be there in a couple of years.
My girlfriend suggested that it's the panda's kind of sham-poo.
The whole video is fascinating, not only in topic, but also the attitude and tone and manner of the discussion between the 'kids' and the presenter. Honest and intelligent. Strikingly different to 2020. If Benjamin is watching, what are you up to these days?
And in many cases will be bought as a developed product with public funds.
It’s not a solved problem. The Colorado river is oversubscribed and people are more or less fucked because we didn’t think paying for water in a bidding system was a good idea so now farmer Ted gets priority to grow his Almonds in the California desert for free while people in Nevada can’t get enough just to drink from the Colorado.
But will likely accelerate them
You can now make native binaries, so you don't need java to run them. https://www.graalvm.org/reference-manual/native-image/
> Presidio parade grounds in SF this past Sunday. Plenty of people were picnicking on the grass there.

If they are from the same household and keeping their distance from people in other households this is entirely fine. It’s relatively low risk if outdoors, especially someplace relatively windy.

If they are from different households and crowding together eating then they are technically violating SF’s local health orders. Enforcement is difficult of course.

> Burlingame [...] many people walking or standing around with masks down while sipping drinks [...] That is still not restricted

I would guess that these people are violating their local health orders (they certainly would be in SF), but again it’s a lot harder to enforce this one than shutting down restaurants.
I've dined outdoors at about 10 different restaurants in the past couple months, but only one has asked for contact details (they just immediately entered me into their reservations app). So agree that this does not seem to be a widespread practice.
There's a company that'll print you up a custom Jacquard-Loom print of an image as a woven blanket (tapestry) for roughly $75
Alpine does, it's heavily used in many container images.
The Linux way of things: instead of changing code in upstream projects making things work out of the box, make a distribution that glues stuff together with patches, scripts, ...
No, these companies are not funded with public money.
Didn't they just launch water futures?

I doubt they traded 1.9 million S&P 500 futures the first week those were launched :-)
Indeed. Or destabilize a whole region killing almost a million: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
That's a bit of an exaggeration; Xorg isn't GNU, neither is Firefox, or a lot of other desktop and server applications and programming environments beyond gcc.

It also depends heavily on the machine; if you use GNOME then you've got another big chunk of GNU in there, but in my case the only major part that I actually use frequently is GNU libc, a subset of the GNU coreutils (which I'd very much like to replace with something better by the way), and maybe a few others libraries left or right used by some applications.

But beyond that it's just occasional stuff (GIMP for example).

On my Alpine Linux servers I'm not sure if there's any GNU.
Easily switch from JavaScript to C++ with the NectarCPP lib/runtime
Yes, game projects absolutely use Hollywood accounting. Dev studios pop up for one project, and often close at launch, and some other legal entity gets all the subs after that. And so on. Game dev financing is infamously horrid.

Unreal, though, is in a different negotiating position with the game publishers than, say, an open-source software with a new pay-us-if-you-make-money clause. Its the distinction between source-available (like Unreal Engine) and open-source which the article tries to make?

Timescale's new license is an interesting move in this direction.
"We farm and manipulate people's interests for cash" might be a better title.

I honestly wonder if a16z and the rest of the SV elite don't understand that this is a symptom of moral and emotional dysfunction, and not proof of their competitive superiority.

I've considered a couple of music-related social projects, but I'd be more interested in making a fan site for - you know - fans and artists, and not so much of a monetisation juggernaut that will deliberately trap its users in endless twisty little passages of sticky interaction so their time can be harvested and passed to ad tech.
from what i have seen most places have bubbles over each dining table. its still a gathering though.
Alpine Linux is pretty heavily used in container space.

I've been considering using Alpine Linux or Void Linux as my main driver, though I haven't had a chance to investigate if it's a viable option.
Well, as pointed out by others, we do poorly when a threat is:

-- Diffuse vs. concentrated in who is affected

-- Slow and steady vs. acute and sudden

-- Apparently familiar / understood vs. unknown / frightening

Maybe this is just our vulnerability as a species, and takes inordinate amount of effort to fight against.

Confronting climate change falls into the same category of course.
That compact will be wiped out by the federal government the minute things become dire.
This is another similarly interesting read https://www.spakhm.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
If you go to the real time price page for ERCOT, you'll see prices often go negative there. Not just a few times a year, either.

http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html

Right as I post this there's a spot in NE Texas where the wholesale price of electricity is negative 6.275 cents per kWh.

There's a good reason everyone gave up building nuclear power plants in Texas.
agreed. Simple, but useful. Not bloated
Good news, but for best experience it would be wise to wait a few months until most of bugs in the game are fixed. Then probably buy the game on sale.
Well, at least its mutually beneficial because they sound like a pain to work with.
So tell me. Which browser(s) should I use? Don't be so mysterious.
With HiFi it is like with Internet. Nothing beats a good, solid cable.

And 189 USD? Really? You would need two, except if you put the boxes very close together. I also doubt that the HiFi quality would be very good.

I use a very old but very good German made Tube amplifier from my grandfather together with some soviet Speakers (30kg each) that I was lucky to get.
https://www.rehifi.se/arkivet/2016/radiotehnika-bs-90
I actually had a lot of fun playing Stadia games.

I think FPS and reaction type games are not it's strengths, but some third person action / adventure games have been super fun. Sometimes I forgot it was not running games locally. Impressive tech.
Linux sounds cooler.
This article[1] and the others in the series give an idea of the direction by analysing how hey.com works. The page-updater library looks to bring a more declarative replacement for server-generated JavaScript responses, for example.

[1] https://dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-into-hey-com-technol...
Does Bartosz have a Patreon or something? I feel like I'm deeply indebted to him for the privilege of having read this work. Really, one of the most comprehensive and fantastic explanatory pieces I've ever read.

I cannot imagine the effort that goes into writing and coding a post like this.
> 1/3 protestant (north) and 1/3 atheist (east)

I'd put the entire east into the protestant bucket too. Berlin might be a special case because it was traditionally "draft dodgers" in the western part and "exemplary GDR citizens" in the eastern part, but especially in the more remote parts religions has survived the GDR (and was even somewhat tolerated later on by the regime - even thought the supression and surveillance of the church never stopped until the end).
Refusing to deny access to water will guarantee shortages, since water is a scarce resource.
They do have such investigations in South Korea, Taiwan, and similar places with low spread and competent leadership.

In the US community spread is far too out of control and contact tracing is far too underfunded to get anywhere close to comprehensive data about this.

There have been some useful small case investigations published by the US CDC.
I'm currently building a Spotify Connect box based on Raspberry Pi 0W.

Do you have any information on what you could strip down from the basic Raspbian to get the best performance / power consumption?
I have never ate at or ordered from any restaurant where you can tip the restaurant, it is always the delivery driver / server.
I don't think anyone should have a realistic expectation of making money directly from an open source project. You have to be strategic and tactical in how you approach the problem of monetizing.

If you don't do it, someone like Amazon will. If you want to make that difficult or impossible, use a copyleft license. The choice of a permissive license implies things that you have to think about upfront.
This Week in Rust 368
By “these activists” you are referring to the Google brain researchers? Or somebody else?
Last time I checked, nothing was actually confined by AppArmor out of the box (IIRC I was looking at the output of ps -eZ and found that AppArmor wasn't actaully protecting anything...)

Specifically in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora I like that everything in the base system is reasonably well confined out of the box - including random container images that users insist on downloading/running. I don't know if AppArmor is even capable of doing this:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

i.e., if I 'docker run --rm -it debian:unstable sleep 300' twice, then:

$ pgrep sleep | xargs ps -Z
LABEL PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c563,c603 1595289 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sleep 123
system_u:system_r:svirt_lxc_net_t:s0:c25,c163 1595325 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sleep 345

Both containers are confined by the svirt_lxc_net_t domain, but since they have different labels, they aren't able to interfere with each other, or the host system, even if the process inside the container is running as uid 0.
Scrolled pretty far and haven’t seen mention of this:

Water shortages will be entirely solved in the next decade by cheap renewables and desalination.

Clean water can be manufactured, and effectively free electricity will make it dirt cheap
That's a huge difference for sure, but wouldn't we need the volumes of the contracts for a fair comparison?
Has this been found empirically or is this just a theory, just like how the free market without government intervention always is supposed to give the most favorable outcome?
I find it interesting that you argued for hiding this kind of information, while not knowing what was stolen.

Yes, your argument is trivially true, how does it help us move forward?
I just wish people would actually put effort into achieving these side effects instead of just alleging that they will emerge naturally out of the behavior of a bunch of random people betting on water scarcity. I am extremely skeptical the market will do all these extra things you claim it will do.
I'm afraid this just isn't true. Ask other people around at the time:

> I joined Caldera in November of 1995, and we certainly used "open source" broadly at that time. We were building software. I can't imagine a world where we did not use the specific phrase "open source software". And we were not alone. The term "Open Source" was used broadly by Linus Torvalds (who at the time was a student...I had dinner with Linus and his then-girlfriend Ute in Germany while he was still a student), John "Mad Dog" Hall who was a major voice in the community (he worked at COMPAQ at the time), and many, many others.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-i7au3...
I don't like alt accounts. And while I have a couple of alt emails for 'emergency purposes' I don't like logging into them because that defeats the purpose. That's all.
So, sarcastic idea here, though I could see it happen in this crazy world: people changing their mind about the pandemic after watching a new, daily blockbuster reality show that follows a family who attracted the virus, and seeing them go through the agony of some of their family members not surviving. Why watch actors somewhere else instead. I don't expect to see this on ABC or NBC, but some of the B-list cable channels would certainly jump on the chance to buy the rights on this one.
Right now the cost of water is tiny in many regions because we deplete fossil water reservoirs without properly accounting for the externality.
Void and Alpine Linux.
What is the size of these contracts?

I traded three stocks yesterday, but the sum total of these 3 trades is below $3k. A thousand of trades like mine would be worth one trade for $1MM.
I used Void/musl as the daily driver for a while; but I switched to the GNU libc version as I had to run VirtualBox for my (at the time new) job, and that doesn't work with musl libc (or perhaps it does with some workarounds/chroot/whatnot, but I couldn't be bothered).

There are some other things that won't work out-of-the-box either; such as the whole Widevine thing, or most Linux games from GOG.com.

None of this is musl's fault of course; but in general I found that for me, personally, running Void/musl on the desktop was too much effort with not enough benefit. I'm not a huge fan of GNU's libc, but it does work quite well overall.

I do use Alpine on my servers, and haven't had any issues there.
FWIW I'm running my personal VPS with Arch, with services that only I use. As many people know the good thing with Arch is that what you gey is the bare minimum to have a shell running, so anything that is not necessary for the system to be up is something I installed; I know what is on the system.

I do upgrade my packages from time to time. It's almost always happened smoothly. The few times problems happened were due to 2 reasons:

- the software itself has a buggy upgrade procedure. I probably would have had the same issue with any other distribution, assuming they would contain the latest version

- it's an Arch-specific upgrade issue, but I have so few packets that this happens at most twice a year and it's always documented on the front page of the arch wiki

I have to admit that since it's only my own server, there is no pressure for services to stay up. In practice in the years I've used this setup I've never had an issue because a package was too recent and buggy; it was always a misconfiguration from my part.

I very much like the process of steadily keeping up to date bit by bit, instead of stagnating on a stable base and doing a big bang update every few years. I also like the fact that I don't need to know which version of which release am I going to get, it's always the latest one and it's the one that upstream released.
>effectively free electricity will make it dirt cheap

Effectively free? For a first world country, maybe. But the countries where water shortages are an actual life or death situation already have trouble getting a good enough power grid. Noone is going to show up to a village in the middle of Ghana and install solar panels for free so they can have water. This is a horribly first-world centric point of view.
I find the hypothesis that the virus originated from contact between wild animals and humans in the area unsatisfactory, given that:

* The most genetically similar zoonotic virus to SARS-CoV-2 was found in Horseshoe Bats, in a cave in Yunnan China, 1200km away from Wuhan.

* This species of bat isn't even found within 150km of Wuhan China

* Bats are not commonly sold at wet markets. Furthermore, bats are not commonly eaten in China.

* There’s no evidence that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first cluster of cases was discovered, ever sold bats.

* The Pangolin as an intermediate host theory, which you suggested, has been invalidated https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7405773/

* The first known case of SARS-CoV-2, found in a 55-year old man in November 2019, had no ties to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coro...

* 13 of the 41 first known cases also had no link to the marketplace https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Chinese authorities have tried very hard to cover up the origin of the outbreak. They have refused to publish the travel history or close contacts of the 55-year old first known patient. Furthermore, they have issued a gag order to all doctors about discussing the early stages of the outbreak https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/11/9833532bb925-chin...

Given the above, and how I have little faith the WHO will independently investigate the origins of the virus, it's very likely there will never be a concrete answer to how SARS-CoV-2 first spread to humans.
Please don't use ArchLinux for your production environments. Unless you want to risk being murdered by future employees of your company of course.
I can only echo my impressed-ness. With or without an interest in the obvious topic, it is well written, well illustrated, accurate. A superb example of the internet at its best.
Hi, Mattlondon, it's really nice to have your reply.
You are asking a good question, the 'Mali GPU' supporting is not for RPi, it's on the board which has 'Mali GPU' as RK3288/3399 or others (MTK/....).
For now, the reference code is running on RPi cpu, a light MXNET model do the extracting of face feature, the detection code is also running on RPi, the classifier is on RPi too.
The API server is the APP logic server, AWS/MINIO is storage layer.
The light model is https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/wiki/Model-Zoo#34...

which running MobileNet as backbone. IF running on Mali GPU, ResNet50 can be used. Inference duration depends on the GPU power. if running on Mali 720 MP2, should be something close to 0.3s.
You acknowledge javascript has all the serious downsides of flash, then denigrate us who disable it for the very reasons you've given?
In Korea the dog eats you...

Slightly racist but lighten up its funny
Maybe stick a ;) on the end to show a tongue in cheek comment :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4

"I hope that this home brewed gene therapy doesn't kill me." are not words I expected to see in the first 30 seconds of a video.
It also depends heavily on the machine; if you use GNOME then you've got another big chunk of GNU in there, but in my case the only major part that I actually use frequently is GNU libc, a subset of the GNU coreutils (which I'd very much like to replace with something better by the way), and maybe a few others libraries left or right used by some applications.

Isn't GNOME independent from GNU nowadays, it has its own foundation?
WoW ran fine under Wine many years back, building a native Linux client would not make much sense.
I get it. The author is in a hurry. But it shows. The article contains perhaps two meaningful units of useful knowledge which the author somehow stretches into multiple pages. No disrespect intended, but to save your own time, you managed to waste mine. Not a good look IMHO.

tldr:
- Outsource what you can
- Move fast, don't get hung up on details

Relevant quote: "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one."
2 to claim the bulb is working as intended and blast the user for doing it wrong
I know that. I watched the entire thing live: climb, stall, belly flop, tail stand, landing, rapid disassembly. I understand the significance.

Still a cool explosion though. :)
I'm confused. So CF currently has 2 analytics products:

1) JS-based analytics (the free one, advertised in the blog post)

2) Edge server logs based one (available on Pro+ plans only)

Am I right?
Multitasking is dead [Better quality and happiness]
As usual the S in IoT stands for security, and those guys love C, so.
What language the EU documents are written in is entirely irrelevant for the EU citizens though (they'll get translations anyway). What matters is what people choose as their second language, and I'm pretty sure English is and will remain the most popular choice.

(and the US cultural influence is the main reason for this, the UK doesn't really matter much in that regard since around the 19th century).
Did a quick tryout and this seems to check all my boxes:

- all items related to a project are represented

- support for timelines and pinning important stuff

- uncluttered easy to navigate interface

- fast, like Windows when it is new

- everything is a link (so I can refer someone to anything directly)

The area I didn't look into is graphs. So far I've seen nothing not to like
It is also factually incorrect. It was epsteined in cold blood.
Myth vs. reality: a practical perspective on quantum computing
Steps to Long Term Cybersecurity Hygiene