skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has nothing to do with being open or sharing.

Wrong. In exchange for being granted a patent, the "invention" needs to be described in great detail, with all the necessary information, so that others can replicate it (once the patent protection expires).

At least, that's how it is supposed to work.
I guess this is manually set by some employee, but I wonder if such links might have been also created automatically for some topics.
FDA meeting on Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Livestream 12/10)
To be able to fund it, is the minimum synergy.
Thanks very much. I really appreciate that.
Thanks for the reply. I fully agree that the Trump framing is horrible, BTW, though it's hard to properly deep link to the data tables on that site. There was no intention to add spin to this discussion :)

Here is the raw data: https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online?operation=abr...

And: I dont' have an axe to grind here, I just objected to the notion that there is mass emigration from the EU to the USA, because I remembered the numbers for Germany.

What makes meaningful comparison of the numbers nontrivial are differing definitions.

Basis of the graphs are permanent movements away from or to Germany, so students and temp work are not included - https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoel... (sorry, everything German only).

Citizenship is probably a problematic category because it is quite hard to achieve citizenship in Germany. There a millions of persons being born in Germany that don't have citizenship. Compared to the USA, Germany has an essentially racist basis here, though it has been made easier in recent years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis).
The U.S. definition of "left" is different than the international estimation of "left". I don't know why international folks feel the need to correct this. It doesn't seem to bother the folks affected (U.S. citizens and residents).

Note that the reasons for this are complicated, but the U.S. doesn't historically have to deal with monarchy, titles of nobility, vestigial aspects of governance left over from feudalism, a relatively recent postwar recovery period, or government implicated into churches. For instance, there's no American conservative impulse to support the monarchy because there's no American monarchy. The lack of that issue means other things are discussed instead.
I got a recipe. My country is, as most countries are, metric.

The recipe is in cups and pinches.

It is software, so it is not difficult to add a question to the start of the questionnaire and fix that horrible bug.
I don't get why more games aren't being directly released on Ubuntu considering that Vulcan now seems to be even better than DirectX??
The Data You Give
These ideas are exactly what I have been looking for. A year or so ago I started working on a prototype tool[0] using `curses` and I never found a good way to test things beyond behavior of internal methods.

In an effort to make it more portable I have started a re-write[1] in Rust (using `crossterm` this time). This mocking strategy seems like exactly what I need to fix this gap in the app's tests.

[0] https://github.com/ReagentX/Logria-py

[1] https://github.com/ReagentX/Logria
Anything I say to this is speculation, but making an engine like Snowdrop is a very-many year effort and usually quite tailored.

PS4 (OpenGL) is possible because there are shims provided by Sony which make OpenGL have similar behaviours to DX11.

Smaller studios don't have a legacy, usually they're highly targeted or they're using an engine provided by someone who can produce builds on multiple platforms.

Engines are simultaneously the most liberating and the most restricting thing in game development.

Obviously the Engine was ported to Linux to support Stadia, which is where the major investment would have been if we ever saw a Linux release of that particular game. Since that's done the only conclusion I can come to is financial back-pressure (PC sales are honestly not worth the headache, cheating, piracy, support issues; but are still provided, Linux support would likely be many times that effort again), and there's also Ubisofts platform distribution systems (which is intermixed with entitlement and authentication systems) and does not provide linux support.

In all, it makes me sad, because I'm a linux enthusiast and adamantly refuse to use Windows. But I've seen how the sausage is made and I have high sympathy for people making games.
So because he can't fix the climate by himself, fuck him. And his workers are treated pretty well, his companies often rank on top of places people want to work.
During the run up to the Iraq war, my history teacher in high school showed us front page articles and headlines about it, basically reading between the lines and extracting information that the casual reader didn't pick up on.
Post-Brexit trade talks paused amid 'significant divergences'
If you push the first death to Feb 6, then they were probably infected mid-January, and without any known links to China, it seems much more likely than not that there were a cases that percolated around California in December-January before it caused that death:

> “What it means is we had coronavirus circulating in the community much earlier than we had documented and much earlier than we had thought,” said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County’s public health officer. “Those deaths probably represent many, many more infections. And so there had to be chains of transmission that go back much earlier.”
happened to me something very similar, I was using cloud run to fetch some subreddit posts and ended with a "recursive" way, because of that, billions of invocations was made... luckly, I was at the front of the computer and stopped before, but the bill was around $4000! I contacted the google support and explained all, they "forgot" my debit because of the bug
I'm fond of "Alex Trebek" including "Did you mean: Who is Alex Trebek." Nice homage.

https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek
Also of note, FastMail uses JMAP. Their CEO was one of the drafters of the protocol.
Like the sibling poster said, try setting 1440x900 as the game resolution. It seems counter-intuitive, but it looks better.
And I loved it!
Reporting an expense in your earnings report is not the same as having it as a line item in your budget.
I'd recommend anybody truly curious about this check out ep383 of the Linux Unplugged podcast. Its the only serious analysis of the shift, with people in the know, that I have seen. No, its not all roses and sunshine but the 'community' response has been so universally full of FUD and dumb assumptions.
RedHat bought the CentOS project and they did it in the service of RHEL. Its kind of amazing that something like this <<hasn't>> happened already over the last 6 years
Stopped them getting one of many horrible diseases?
Great catch, thank you!
Meanwhile Nestlé is pumping 1.1 million gallons of groundwater per day in Michigan for the cost of $200 a year.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/consumer/2018/07/18/residents...
I see what you mean here, it makes sense that those at risk didn’t go to illegal raves or BLM protests. Therefore the infection rate could be higher than 5%. My guesstimate from the small sample of people I knew is 10-15% of people lost their smell in late February to early April and some had horrendous symptoms and a few had those symptoms last for months! I wouldn’t say many people I know have been affected by the second wave so who knows.
Thanks for replying.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get your first users and when did you decide it was worth asking money for?
Because everyone is working from home?
Ask HN: Losing all interest in programming, what now?
I lost interest in my career several years ago, but now I think I’m just losing interest in programming in general. I sat down the other night to get started in a grand project I’ve been getting so excited about and I just couldn’t and this seems to be pretty common lately. The projects I dream up are super cool feats of hacker ability, but then much of what’s involved in doing it just feels tedious and I know I’m going to be stuck screwing around with the most trivial boilerplate crap. Most of the time these days, my projects always get delayed for one reason or another. Normally it gets expensive or it requires me to be good at something I’m just not, or I just get stuck on something where I have no idea where to look for answer because it’s so indescribably niche. Of course, as in the example I stated earlier, I look at the boilerplate involved look at the code required to do what I want I my brain just shuts off and my eyes glaze over. I’ve never been particularly good at anything, but at least I was somewhat driven in the past. Now, I can’t even get to work on the projects that do interest me. I lose motivation too easily (i.e. if I see someone working on something cooler). Most of the times my projects end up “delayed indefinitely”

This isn’t a case of getting out of my comfort zone and trying other subfields either. That’s what I’ve been trying to do for 2 or 3 years, but nothing really interests me and the things that do... well, refer to the previous paragraph. The most recent project is very wide and covers many things, but I constantly lose and gain interest on it before even starting any work.

Sure I have things outside programming that interest me, but nothing conductive to hands on, hobbyist work, do at best, I’m stuck passively consuming content related to those.

So I’m not sure what to do now. How can I get the spark I used to have back,
Why would he place a naive bet on Tesla's performance across all factors and not hedge non-idiosyncratic cyclical macro factors?

Wikipedia says the guy's made $300M investing, as a notable contrarian - not making his buck from beta.

Can you point to an overview of his trading history that suggests he's "not usually right"?
This is interesting. I don't know much about html canvas, but it looks like this is handled in the author's custom js [0] in the line that starts with: "} else if (mode === "blades") {"

[0] https://ciechanow.ski/js/lenses.js
Let me tell you a story.

There once was a company that made a social media platform for sharing video content. The platform was monetized by ads. The company noticed that its users watched more ads so long as they were being shown content which appealed to their personal preferences and opinions. The company dubbed this phenomena "engagement" and quickly introduced an algorithm to maximize engagement by constantly suggesting content which appealed to each individual user.

People loved the company's social media platform and it quickly grew larger than any of its alternatives. Luckily, the company already controlled the world's most popular search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system, so it was easy to make their platform and its addicting algorithm as accessible as possible. A few competitors still existed, but none came anywhere close to the scale and accessibility of the company's platform.

But something happened.

The algorithm which helped the platform grow and made so much money was having an adverse affect on the platform's users. The users were only being exposed to content they liked, which helped establish echo chambers. People were coddled by content which helped reinforce their existing opinions - never challenge them. As people became more and more established in their echo chambers, misinformation began to spread like wild fire. Users were desperate and the algorithm rewarded creators who provided content to help them avoid challenging their own opinions - regardless of whether it was true or not.

What was the company to do? The algorithm was too profitable for them to simply turn it off - especially when it came to political content. They tried demonetizing content about particular subjects and adding "fact check" bubbles to combat the spread of misinformation but it wasn't enough. They eventually started trying to identify and remove the content with misinformation altogether, but even that wasn't enough.

But then something amazing happens and th- oh my look at the time! I need to go now. Maybe we can finish this story some other day.
I think Netflix's anime push is really strong if their goal is to get non-anime-dorks to watch anime. Most anime is pretty terrible, not unlike most tv, but unlike mainstream tv in that it has tons of uncomfortable sexism or weird pedo-inclinations. I find Netflix tends to only grab the better chunk of whats out there, and is funding some really strong original content, which I think is above the quality threshold of some of their live action shows (Great Pretender, BNA, Aggretsuko come to mind).

I don't typically expect to like a random anime, but I'm trending towards changing that opinion if I encounter it on Netflix and I don't see a tasteless panty shot of a young girl in the first 30 minutes.
A list of small teams behind billion dollar start-ups
If you have a bunch of cogs working, sure. But if you have a dynamic team that has the courage to point things out to senior leaders it can be a good way to pull back the veil on what’s really going on.
How to Configure OpenShift 4 Cluster Nodes: MachineConfig Operator and CoreOS
Isaac Newton notes almost destroyed by dog sell for £380k
Quite a few horror stories on the forums/reddit of people having their facebook account banned for "no reason" which then locks them out of their Quest and all of their purchases. It can still be used with the link cable to a computer, but is otherwise basically bricked.

Buying one if you don't have a facebook account is even worse, you have to create one which they inevitably decide is a bot and then ban it.
Latency is a dependent on how far away you are from the datacenters and Google does have many datacenters. You can play Destiny 2 for free on Stadia to see what the latency feels like on the service. Also there are differences between games it seems with different games experiencing different amounts of latency. The Division 2 and the Doom games are some of the best games in that regard on Stadia.
I listened carefully with my eyes closed and didn't feel there was a problem telling the speakers apart with Zoom.

The Spatial Audio put them all through distinct filters which I thought had great localization in the left/right axis and they have mastery of far field vs near field effects so some are definitely closer than others. Some of the voices seem to be slightly behind my ear but because it doesn't try anything extreme it doesn't fail like the average video game HRTF demo.

On top of that they put distinct reverb on the voices because a huge part of the 'surround' experience of sound is how the sound interacts with the space it is in.

But with my eyes closed and listening hard I hear a lot of richness in the zoom recording too; the Spatial Audio is louder at times then the zoom recording and that is hard to control but unfair because you have to get terribly loud before most people don't prefer the louder sound (i either made the excuse I was afraid to blow the speakers or i planned ahead and palmed OSHA ear plugs -20db before you say Uncle)
From Wikipedia:

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention.

So, yes, an _enabling_ public disclosure is exactly the purpose of a patent.
The JFK Conspiracy Convention Is Still Going Strong
It's easiest to share instagram posts via instagram DM to friends.
This is most developers' worst nightmare when it comes to a completely new environment generally, and Cloud solutions specifically.

It's easy and pointless to say they should have done things differently. Worse than pointless. Obviously they should have, and kudos to them about being open about the compounded mistakes.

Still, this strikes at the fears that lie in the heart of any reasonable, honest developer doing something completely new.

New developers should be cautious about cloud platforms, but they were! Not cautious enough, obviously, but they did set limits they thought would be honored.

Platforms should have hard monetary limits at the account level, clearly, as well as an option to turn them off. Shame on all of them which don't.
That doesn't surprise me at all, given that most insurers make all their money off investing the premiums before claims happen.

When part of your service is to hold money, it's kinda the natural business model. Of course, this is not working out well for insurers in a world of very low interest rates (which is one of the reasons lots of insure-tech startups are getting funded now).
The haters create conversation. Smarter people come along and correct them. And most people who read it and the response will take the side of this being a great test.
Why would you assume that they wouldn't be able to play with Windows players??
> Europe is resource hungry when it comes so social spending.

The alternative to that is becoming like the US: homeless people everywhere, people spreading illnesses (not just corona) at work because they can't take any sick days, people getting chronically ill or vastly worse side effects from untreated issues because they can't afford health insurance, people fearing eviction because losing their job.

All while the billionaires made an additional 800 billion in wealth.

> I do question myself sometimes how much longer this can be maintained.

We can maintain the status quo, but we need to tax the rich and international mega-corporations for that. It is unsustainable that the massive profits generated in Europe are siphoned off untaxed to "tax heavens" and foreign countries.
Speak for yourself there. I know that CO has been in a drought more often than not this century:

https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/colorado
The funny thing is Oculus reps (now deleted) telling people to create a separate Facebook account for Oculus, and those accounts getting permanently banned with no recourse because it's against Facebook's ToS to have multiple accounts.
There's not that much left to integrate, anyway. There's Montenegro, maybe Albania and North Macedonia next, a big maybe for Serbia (do they still want in?) and Bosnia and a definitely "no chance in hell" for Turkey (even though in the early 2000s it looked like a real possibility). Ukraine is too much of a hot potato to be touched by the EU. I forgot about Moldova, but for better or worse half of its population is already working abroad.
"engine-rich combustion" has become my favorite expression
I see only one reference to XOAUTH2 in the code - in an example script. Does this connect IMAP with XOAUTH2?
These aren't startups. They are multi-billion pharma corporations.
I would be careful A/B testing at such a small scale. You are going to hit so much noise, it's not usually a great use of time. Just make it feel good and go from there.

A/B testing works great at google scale.
It takes weeks before people stop being contagious. That's plenty of time to pass it around to everybody in a "do nothing" scenario.

(Of course, that is in a naive model with homogeneous population. If we've learned anything from this pandemic is that the population is heterogeneous enough for breaking those.)
This guy I work with, his mother had it quite badly. He had to care for her in a temporary hospital for almost 3 weeks while she recovered. This was in a pretty poor area in India.

He said he saw about 25 people die during his time there.

This story either negates or supports your case, but either way , I’d imagine they were exposed to a pretty severe viral load in that time. I didn’t ask about PPE, I doubt he has much.

He is fine now AFAIK never really got sick, maybe be was already immune ?
> Should such stories also be banned, to ease the psychological burden (fear) on billions of people?

No, they are clearly different. One encourages dangerous behaviour for yourself and more importantly others around you, the other does not. This is also there is not much talk about banning flat earth or moon landing conspiracies out of social media.
> What has vaccine medicine ever done for the average person.

um... I actually know someone with polio, and of course I know many people with COVID.
At a border inspection a wagon full of wodka is opened. It turns out to be empty. The customs officers inspect wagon after wagon. All of them are empty. When they come to the last there is a very drunk railroad official lying on some straw sleeping off a fairly obvious round of heavy drinking. They sober him up and interrogate him. "Where is all the wodka?" "I sold it!". "Then where is all the money?" "I drank it!".
Have you considered the possibility that changing crime rates can be attributed to wider socioeconomic phenomena and not whoever happens to be in charge of the city/state/country? Or are you just using this opportunity to display your prejudices?
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"Darkness. The new standard from Microsoft!"

Thanks, you owe me a new keyboard... and incidentally, a new cup of tea :D
Is that true? I've never heard of any such system; I don't think states in general communicate with each other and do automatic unregistrations like this.

Googling, I found this:

> Since the U.S. has a very mobile population and voters rarely inform election officials when they move, voters can often be on the voter rolls in two (or more) different states at one time. Unless states have an efficient way of communicating with one another, it’s possible that they may not be able to identify an individual who is on the rolls in two different states.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/double...

> You describe it as "ridiculously easy," but you seem to be unaware of the protections that are in place.

It is true I have never actually tried it, so I should say it seems like it would be ridicuously easy. I've still not seen any convincing arguments that protections beyond signature matches would prevent this.
Thank you @timwis, that room looks great.

And yes, I experienced the same issue you discussed! That has helped in the past a few times. I wonder what the advantage is to precompiling as opposed to doing it at build time during the deploy step.
He just made a video pointing out how they don't use it. But as a SpaceX fan for 10+ years, green flame is just totally associated with TEA-TEB.
Anybody who believes anything that comes out of a PRC lapdog of a news agency is either naive or just stupid. Why would state media tell the truth? You're seriously going to sit there and tell me a country of 1 billion + has effectively eradicated this virus but the rest of the world has not?
2019-2020 State of Mozilla
What is your point? That Germany is biased against FB, but not Google? Or the EU? Or regulators in general?

The EU has hit Google with considerable fines already.
I dunno, I would trade london for just one more meal at konamon or muku ;)
> It can still be used with the link cable to a computer

Can it? Doesn’t Oculus Link only work via the Oculus desktop application, which also requires sign-in?
Great questions to ask a guy for any occasion
It's still cells, get down from your pedestal
it takes a lot of time for regulators to catch up with all the shenanigans the bigger offenders are pulling.

But, it does give internal employees the tools to fix it in smaller companies, or smaller companies that use the services of these global companies(ex, google analytics).

Pre-gdpr, if I raised some of these points in any of my workplaces, nothing ever came out of it. Now, it's a different story.

Same with direct-marketing spam e-mails, where a customer complains.

It'll take some time for regulators to sort out the big offenders, but the regulation is already having a positive effect within smaller companies.
The Trust Project
That's only true when people have money to allocate beyond necessities, and when they all have around the same amount of initial capital.