skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a suggestion that one of the variants seen in Denmark's mink infection, might make at least some of the vaccines slightly less effective. But even in that case the effect was not large, and in any event the variant in question hasn't been seen since September.
I'm not a native English speaker, but most of what I read on a day-to-day basis is in English. And yet, whenever I see or hear the term "string", I associate it with "sequence of characters", not with "cord". Same goes for "thread", but even more strongly [1]

So I agree, you don't have to speak fluent English to be able to read and write programs. Knowledge of English grammar won't help (except for reading comments – if they exist...), and the vocabulary is small, specialized, and has little to do with colloquial language.

[1] Or should it be "...even stronger"? I don't think so, because it refers to the verb "goes", so it should be an adverb, right?
Ah yes, I call it mouse-driven-programming.
I agree there is a moving goalpost for what counts as good enough to call "AI". But with the recent revolution in machine learning the goalpost kind of went backwards. The successes in machine learning problems have tended to come from "adjacent" fields like pattern recognition, information retrieval, plain old statistics, etc. Meanwhile the AI researchers were pursuing more ambitious directions that didn't pan out. Then AI researchers basically "annexed" these lower level methods that worked.
Hello HN, I've been working on these badges and other simple ways to spread kindness in my spare time. My main motivation is counterbalancing the large amount of covert unkind speech we are subjected to through advertising and various media. I hope you enjoy these and have a nice day. :)
I’ll go and enjoy my truth in a country with no outbreak.

The problems you speak of are US problems. Good luck on the way down, there is a long way to fall for you guys.

Some fun points for you to not change your mind on:

- China mandated masks in January (as did Taiwan). No conspiracy or confusion, that was a US thing...

- Radio waves causing a virus... there is zero evidence of that ever happening. So why would anyone believe it now... or ever

- actually none of the conspiracy theories were ever correct. Not one of them. Nor were they plausible to anyone outside of the lower educated half of the US.

It’s funny you turned out to be an example of why these things need to be fixed. Read some world news. Go look at New Zealand and Australia, or Taiwan or Korea if you want to see what countries that follow facts and truth rather than ... whatever fluid-truth mess you are trying to articulate.
You unlock players by buying "card packs" that give you random players, some better than others. The hope is that people will see that you are more likely to win if you spend money, then spend more money themselves. Activision has a similar patent. Here's the summary of it[1].

> The system matches an experienced player with a novice player to encourage the novice player to make purchases of items used by the experienced player. A novice player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321...
I finally wound up with multi pass, but on the Mac it’s limited to ubuntu images, and I occasionally need to spin up arbitrary distros for testing things.
which makes me wonder why amazon or facebook haven't started leading an open-source alternative to google play services.

It's such an easy way to run the mobile race compared to start ing from scratch.
TIL vim has encryption.

If you're annoyed by typoing stuff, like I'm annoyed by typing :Wq or :WQ, you can just alias it of course. Since you (and, presumably, nobody) ever use(s) vim encryption it doesn't matter to override it.

vimrc:

command Wq wq
command WQ wq
command W w
command Q q
> "a lovely old little green rectangular French silver whittling knife"

As a native speaker, but without any editorial training, this feels slightly off to me. My first edit would be something like "a lovely little old", because "lovely little" feels like it should go together. Whether that's due to alliteration or "little old lady" being a not uncommon phrase, I couldn't say for sure.
On mobile as well - pricing and plan tiers don’t seem to exist yet. Small SaaS companies need to cast a wide net when it comes to onboarding users - every new account should be free and easy. When people sign up, there should be five simple boilerplate examples of your AI tool so they can immediately test as a proof of concept. (Hook them at the moment when their interest has peaked and before they hop to competition.) New user can then develop their own task and run it 99 times at no charge. The path to profitability comes once they have tasks, find them useful/ depend on them, see the value of paying and then subscribing (aka your residual income machine).
By this argument, 3D perspective is non-realist, because a cube looks like a square from some perspectives and a hexagon from others – it depends on your point of view!

MWI is the most realist theory, because it says that everything is there when not being observed – in fact, it eliminates the concept of observation entirely. I think the tricky thing here is that MWI says that you are part of the system, which means that the intuition you've built up around collapse theories (where the “observer” has a privileged position outside and above the bits of physics they're “observing”) kind of falls over.

Wikipedia thinks it's realist.
My Japanese teacher said learning when to use “wa” or “ga” in Japanese for us is like him learning when to use “the” or “a” in English.
I’m also an IDE fan, but I love vim plugins for text navigation. For editing a bunch of files like text, I’m likely using vim.

But for doing proper application work, refactoring, debugging — I’m with you. I might be good at vim but gdb is a whole different beast.
I also expect there's a lot of "oh no evil finance people profiteering out of water!", which is of course a gross misunderstanding of what futures are.

Futures are useful if you're a farmer: it helps you precommit to a certain price of water to be paid in the future. You might pay more than you would if the price goes down, but also less than would if the prices goes up. It's basically insurance.
There are so called projective tests[1], with the basic premise to create a highly ambiguous situation, where there is a lot of freedom for a human. Also I could think about Kohlberg's dilemmas[2], and the most known one is "Heinz dilemma"[3].

To make a projective test from this story one needs to ask a few hundred of participants for answers, to look for patterns in answers, to form hypotheses how personal traits correlate with patterns in answers, then to run correlational study with an other group of participants. Maybe something would be found. Maybe not.

To make something like Kohlberg's dilemmas one would need a theory to predict in advance patterns in answers without gathering the "live data".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_test
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma
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>How's this different than ARM?

What!? ARM doesn't do any standards essential stuff, they just developed their own ISA. And they have a massive array of options, from their own ready to go cores all the way up to perpetual architecture licenses that someone can do whatever they want with (so long as it's conformant) indefinitely. How is that remotely similar to something like codec or wireless standards? ARM is about as polar opposite from "refuse to license to for chips, try to extract based on patents for the whole device" as it gets. Their entire business is based around licensing to chip makers with nothing to do with the rest of the device. And if they ever tried such a thing, well first of all it wouldn't affect their perpetual licensees at all, and second everyone would just move to RISC-V or whatever.

Software patents are all wrong and should be eliminated anyway, IP value there and development incensitves are covered more than sufficiently by copyright. But it's much worse in what are literally monopoly collusion cases in the good sense, aka "standards". Normally even having a patent doesn't give an entity any special privileges against anti-trust there, they have a monopoly on their own patent but they can't seek to force everyone to use it illegally. Standards though are of great value, and while being horizontal monopolies can be very important in preventing vertical monopolies. Plus they're key when dealing with hard and soft natural monopolies, such as utilization of EM spectrum or content formats.

But the counter to that is supposed to be that while everyone in the pool gets a fair cut, they also give up their rights of discrimination or exclusivity. Anyone who doesn't do that for a SEP should have the book brought down on them hard.
What on earth? A Mac only application, that searches websites anyway? Why is it not a web based search engine?
Dupe (just a restatement of the original blog posts): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372336
It costs a fortune because Apple will also replace the top case, keyboard and trackpad while they’re at it
Ask HN: What was it like to be a developer before internet?
Relevant quote from Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20362498):

> The first time I was in Las Vegas I sat down and figured out the odds for everything, and I discovered that the odds for the crap table were something like .493. If I bet a dollar, it would only cost me 1.4 cents. So I thought to myself, "Why am I so reluctant to bet? It hardly costs anything!"

> So I started betting, and right away I lost five dollars in succession--one, two, three, four, five. I was supposed to be out only seven cents; instead, I was five dollars behind! I've never gambled since then (with my own money, that is). I'm very lucky that I started off losing.
I fully agree with this as well. This is why I think it’s important for research to be carried out by academia: they have no incentive to hide their secret sauce.
Zojirushi (which seems to be high quality as well) was mentioned but I went more mainstream and bought Panasonic SD-2511KXC. Looks like they don't make it anymore but there are similar ones available.
We could use quantum resistant cryptography if this is an actual concern.
There is extensive research going back many decades that strongly implicates the role of perception in the difficulty that second language learners have with pronunciation.

Basically, learners have a tendency to hear the second language through the phonological 'filter' of the first language. They assign incoming speech sounds to categories based on the cues that are used in their first language rather than the second language, so they actually perceive the sounds in a different way from native speakers. This is a concept known as categorical perception. For example, Japanese learners of English tend to perceive English /l/ and /r/ as the same sound and cannot discriminate them reliably in perception experiments. Therefore, we can speculate that they have trouble producing the sounds differentially because they don't actually hear a difference between them.

So, the first step in overcoming pronunciation issues is not necessarily to teach tongue positions, but to train perception.
Maybe people expect it to be one some kind of logarithmic scale.
Both matter.

It's easy enough to tell someone to never contact you again. But if you see them daily as you prepare to commute because you live next door, a lifetime of social pressure to not be so rude as to ignore people is likely to get them to slip up and at least say "good morning!", even if they want to respect your boundaries (and definitely if they don't, and are looking for an excuse to trample all over them while perhaps pretending otherwise!) If you share a common living space or other "shared business" it's even worse, as there's also the completely understandable pressure, if not outright need, to resolve problems involving that shared business.

Moving is an action that can help disentangle you from shared business - be it common living spaces, shared fences, shared neighborhood issues, etc. - and help dismantle habits that would undermine your boundaries.
Not exactly. At 70% (like today in much of the world) that's certainly a practical option for most people. At 10% not so much.

So what happens is that beyond a certain point it stops making commercial sense to route IPv4 globally. That's probably before your 10% mark. So by then there's no point bothering with IPv4 for your systems unless you specifically serve that deprived market and will spend money to connect to them specially.

For IPv4 users the Internet still mostly works, when their system asks "A? some.website.example" and there is no A record because the IPv4 Internet isn't really a thing any more, it gets an answer like "10.20.30.40" where that address was arbitrarily picked as a temporary local assignment for some.website.example. When they connect to 10.20.30.40 a Network Address Translation module behind the scenes does an IPv6 connection to some.website.example and hooks them up.

So their copy of Internet Explorer still "works" although some more advanced features are flaky or missing but hey, they know they have crappy 20th century Internet and ought to upgrade.

Inside some larger companies there already is no IPv4, and that will spread, inconsistently but it will spread, because IPv4 is a pain in the backside, it's easier without it. Translation gateways keep things mostly working enough for people who have IPv4 only, today that's the majority, a decade from now it's a minority, and eventually it's too few people to care about.

Eventually (probably much below 10%) the translation gateways are thinly used enough that "nobody" proactively notices if they're broken, that'll happen in some places faster than others, but the effect is to push those final people to upgrade because it's just annoying to always be the person calling your ISP to complain when it breaks.
I am making a game. I use Vim (infinitely faster and more product than other text editors) and write a single command in my terminal to compile. Vim makes a lot of sense when you want to work fast and don't want bloated development toolchains to slow you down. There's nothing in modern IDEs that would increase my productivity that I can't add to Vim in about 5-20 minutes.
There's a difference between selling flowers in a shop and randomly going around and pointing your gun at people holding flowers and asking them to pay up. The alternative to buying flowers is just spending your money on other things, which is different to the alternatives you have in an armed robbery.

Patent law gives patent owners a monopoly (i.e. the gun) over how an invention is used, but just like there's a difference between self-defense with a gun and using it for armed robbery, there should be - and increasingly is - regulation that forces patent owners to act as market participants offering something valuable rather than street thugs going for protection money.

It's fine to dislike patents, just as it's fine to dislike anti-competitive or outright dishonest practices around patents. Either alone or both in combination are reasonable standpoints.
While I agree that making games in general is a bit of crapshoot, I think that there is a way that you can increase your chance of success. Based on what I understand from creating businesses in general.

If you target a specific group people initially, and make something 'for them'. As one of them. You place yourself in a much greater position to succeed than if you had simply made a game in the abstract in the terms of who it is for.

A great example of this is the FIFA franchise. And most of the football related franchises for that matter. It seems like if you meet the criteria of making a great game, as the OP has stated, failing within these categories is in some ways, harder than succeeding.
The Problem Today Is Not Tribalism but Its Absence
Discord too, its not as ubiquitous as steam but its popular here too.
> That is a scientifically weak argument, and medically dangerous one.

And so is the argument that Pfizer would have any incentive to fudge the data.
Thanks for mentioning pika parsers. I've just had an enjoyable read of the pika parser paper.
We are making it work and we will succeed. But it doesn't need to be like this. It could be better, for everyone.

I think at a social level, we'd generally get happier, healthier, more well adjusted young adults in exchange.
Statistical proof of cheating in Minecraft speedruns [pdf]
I randomly found a video and the subsequent PDF that tries to proof that a speedrunner was consistently cheating in Minecraft speedruns. I am neither playing Minecraft nor do I have any skin in the game, but I found this PDF very interesting and wanted to share it with you.

While I know many of the elements used in the paper (bias correction, bonferroni correction,...) from some classes, I still find this paper a very good example how all of the methods are used to make a compelling argument. This is something that I am missing from many classes, where we either look at the theory, or use one method in isolation on given data. The document on the other hand constructs a narrative and combines all of the "separate" elements and shows how statistics can be used "in the real world".
Lastly, it's also interesting to see how difficult (read: how much knowledge you need) it is to prove that some numbers are off in a system where we know the odds (because we have the code). This only shows how difficult it is to do proper statistics about systems in nature, where many more unknowns exist and even unknown unknowns.

Here is also a video introducing the paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYw9LcLCb4

Short background: The accused is a streamer (or youtuber?) who does random seed Minecraft speedruns. This means that a random world is generated and he tries to finish the game on this random map as fast as possible. Some people thought that he was a tad too lucky and started digging deeper.
I don't understand this statement. Are you suggesting that public employees in these jurisdictions can use their influence to grant them favourable circumstances?

My understanding was always that public employees everywhere in the United States, especially the traditionally blue places, are impervious to corruption.

When has there ever been a record in history where a public employee in CA was found to be corrupt?

If the media are to be believed, these people are humble, simple people, without any nefarious bones in their bodies.
> Until the day when ipv6-only connectivity becomes practical/commonplace.

IIRC, this has already occurred for mobile phones.

* https://blogs.akamai.com/2016/06/preparing-for-ipv6-only-mob...

It's (one off?) the reasons why Apple mandates that apps work with IPv6-only networks:

* https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/
The vast majority of apps are UI, CRUD, business logic and other things where native code (as in compiled C/C++) is just overkill and makes things more complicated. The few exceptions seem to be the fields you listed.
Please go ahead, it is in the public domain after all. Try to rephrase it in 5 sentences and see if people still share your version after more than a century.
I'm sure you already know this, but this story is like a Zen koan: it's purpose is not to provide a conclusion, but for you to ponder something. In this case, human nature.

Had the story provided a conclusion, in 2020 or any other year, it would be entirely unremarkable.
flowmapp does something like you describe but you get to name the page and choose from a bunch of also named templates.

pretty solid app for pre-wireframe stage sitemap design
There’s refusal because it’s not sincere. If we did all that and Biden still won then it would just lead to the next conspiracy that the judges didn’t listen to the facts really. And the signature matching wasn’t stringent enough. And then they would argue that they didn’t let everyone required speak at the proceedings. Next they need to actually interview everyone who did a Mail in ballot and if they don’t show up then the vote doesn’t count. Etc...

And having standing is pretty important in something like this.

Lastly the crackpots already look like crackpots.
I have to imagine this is exactly the product the student used. It’s cool someone made a business out of this idea. It actually sounds fun, I might like to get one!
And bunch of them just alter constants and/or apply filters or convolutions at different steps. One reads this stuff and will continually ask them selves, "this is patentable?'

It is if you are at the right place and the right time, which is shame and a sham because then the patent system rewards the corps with the deep pockets that s()it on standards bodies.
I'm with you on that one. I'd say, for example, "We went to a lovely little park", rather than "a little lovely park." The second sounds wrong for some reason.
Random fluctuations, butterfly effects and hairy heat transfer effects with resulting gradients of dynamically changing material properties aside, probably yes.

But that's one whopping reservation, and even if, you could only predict exactly to the extent fluid dynamics exactly models interacting particle physics involving mind-boggling numbers (for the scales of interest).

Also, I have no background solving complex fluid dynamics problems, but my understanding is that the differential equations involved generally have to be solved with iterated numerical approximations (if anyone here knows more certainly, please do chime in). In the short term that's probably one of the smaller problems, but it is at least somewhat connected to why we don't get get highly reliable 3-week weather forecasts, and possibly never will.
> Google let go of our bill as a one-time gesture

How many times do they have to do that? Because if it is a high number, they would be operating at a loss.
I learned about this story from a They Might Be Giants song, told from the other side of the doors. The characters are bored waiting for the resolution of the story (Spoilers? forever).
[] http://tmbw.net/wiki/Lyrics:The_Lady_And_The_Tiger
> I think there’s a pretty clear distinction between having a spell-checker bundled into word, and reproducing the product of a competitor after the fact and bundling it into your office suite as an accessory.

I'm not seeing a clear distinction. Imagine a scenario where Word and Excel aren't bundled. Word has always had table functionality. The Word team decides that it'd be useful if, when creating a table, end user is able to enter @cell1 + 1 to cell two to make it show the incremental value of cell one. Soon enough they'll add sort, sum, average. Then they'll create a template that creates a document with a table created by default, which looks like a spreadsheet.

Should those new functionality be allowed and who get to decide? Any attempt to regulate such product features are futile and inevitably stifle innovation.

Apple M1 is universally praised exactly because it's a SOC with integrated functions that used to require dedicated chips from multiple vendors. Imagine the inferior product if Apple is legally obliged to use Intel/AMD graphic card, in the name of maintaining the competitive landscape?
Darwin was right about why insects lose the ability to fly