skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not seem interesting at first, but I am intrigued by how they managed to draw the overlapping blades of the IRIS.

> In real camera lenses an adjustable aperture is often constructed from a set of overlapping blades that constitute an iris.

If you naively create 6 blades and rotate them around the pivot (the tiny screw), they will never overlap EACH OTHER. One will end up at the very top, and one at the very bottom.

If you know how this was created, please let me know.
Well the industry would have to make a one-time investment to determine the formula.
What about people who would on purpose devalue land- buying a plot and putting say garbage recycling. In order to buy up local area that would plummet in value.
> Why don't we have the same lockdowns when influenza threatens to overwhelm hospitals each year?

People keep making comparisons to flu, so it's useful to talk a bit about how covid-19 is much more lethal than flu.

I know the numbers for the UK. Official numbers for flu are about 10,000 to 20,000 deaths each year. Official numbers for covid-19 are currently about 60,000.

Already we can see covid-19 is much more lethal. But this ignores differences in counting.

If we count flu using the same methods we're currently using for covid we see only a couple of hundred, fewer than 1000, deaths to flu each year.

If we count covid using the same methods we use to count flu deaths we'd see at least 140,000 covid deaths.

> Where is the focus on public health interventions

We have internationally coordinated programmes of work to monitor which flu strains are active, then develop vaccines to target these, then to vaccinate as many vulnerable people as possible.
> Usually the part of out-of-scope of software is dealt by product managers.

Life happens outside of work too, it's nice to be able to talk about other things than coding. Out of scope questions can be also useful when asked the feared "do you have questions?" question during recruitment.
You can check the status and user reports on this site: https://www.protondb.com/

This is the report for Cyberpunk 2077: https://www.protondb.com/app/1091500

When there are bugs, you usually find also corresponding GitHub issues. E.g. here for NVIDIA issues with Cyberpunk 2077: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4450
Not all countries react poorly, some even reacts pretty well, so that's not an attribute of our species. If anything, that's more an attribute of the maturity of a society.
The German funding is funding.

The Pfizer funding is just a pre-purchase agreement.
>There is "plenty" of water for an individual in nature.

What do you mean by "nature"? Do you own the land where the water is, or do you simply plan on collecting rainwater? Otherwise, you don't own the water. This is a real-life problem that countries and communities the world over are dealing with.
Oh HN, please never change.
South Korea study shows coronavirus’ spread indoors
I know, right?! As they were cutting the first two engines off in sequence during ascent they were giving little pre-twitches to adjust the centre of gravity, like an acrobat holding another acrobat aloft hand-to-hand, switching from two hands to one. Amazing.
I remember when Instagram was acquired and it seemed like everybody was using them, they were getting mocked on the night TV and SNL, it certainly seems to me they had the primary mindshare and threat to the social media experience at the time.
Opensuse, Debian and Ubuntu live on, of course.
Smallpox blankets are a myth. They were an idea proposed in military correspondence but there is no evidence to support their actual use.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the...
Self reply: It was early in the morning and I didn't read correctly. My comment makes no sense (although I certainly meant to ask about the purchase power relative to cost).
The idea of the future markets was because of the fluctuating rice supply in Japan during the 17th century.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dojima-rice-exchange.as...
Its the reason people created futures markets. Producers want price stability to hedge in the event of a crash so they can pay their workers in 6 months. Purchasers want price stability in the event of a shortage so they can still purchase inputs and keep their business running in 6 months. People who have information related to future price swings can make a profit by purchasing futures contracts. Producers and purchasers then learn about this when the price of the contract changes.
While I agree it's unlikely it came from the lab, as the dreadful, disgusting wet markets have been known to be a risk for those pandemics for a long time and are more likely source, you can't just dismiss it out of hand. We certainly can't trust the communist dictatorship to clear up the issue with their aversion for openness and fondness for censorship.
The post you are responding to was pointing that this client actually existed - if I had to guess probably to allow people working on the server to test it directly on their machine - but was never released.
Both MBP and PS4 aren't capable enough to run it without serious problems (PS4) or at all (MBP).

Best solution is cloud streaming, geforce now seems more capable.
Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage
I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority of people would consider the statement "The average African American is less intelligent that the average "white" American, this is partially due to genes and cannot be entirely fixed without genetic engineering." to be textbook racism.
OK. So you think there was attempted manipulation but it had little effect?

> Of any real collaboration between Trump and the Russians? (emphasis mine)

There seems to be a caveat here. Could you clarify what you think the evidence did show of contact between the two parties?

(EDIT - unusual as it is on this topic I am trying to ask genuine questions and test my own assumptions here. I'm hoping I can learn something)
So far Mr. Burry has been a one-trick pony. His latest target is Tesla, which is a graveyard for shortsellers. I guess we will see.
I imagine GeForce Now can't match Google when it comes to the servers. None of the servers seem particularly close to me (Finland).
Seawater is the solution; desalination is isolating the solvent.
I noticed the same thing on one of their now flagged comments. It's like there's some list of words and metaphors that conspiracy theorists love to employ

If they're trying to make a legitimate point, then it's been completely lost in all the waffle in the rest of the sentence.
This already has been live for the Netherlands for some time. See: https://jouw.postnl.nl/?pst=k-pnl_p-pnl_u-pnl_r-pzcwebshop#!...
no, everthing is scarce on this material world and pricing items like water (accounting even ecological costs) could be a way to make people people/corps accountable of their choices.
It is easy enough, and a 12% increase in anything YoY is significant enough to wrry about. That number is, my I remind you, with all the measures and lockdowns put in place.

And picking some random link of a random google search confirming your opinion without having read it s propably the best example of confirmation bias I have seen in quite a while.
Not sure if I agree with the conclusion. maybe this is an issue, maybe times have changed. From my personal experience the 'stable' releases are just to slow to keep up with the demands on frequency of updates.

To illustrate what I mean, and this is ofcourse very subjective and dependent on my use case etc:
I work on and manage hosting for RoR applications.
I have a linux laptop I cannot develop on because I cannot install a recent version of ruby. Yes I can compile it manually or whatever, but that defeats the point of having distros etc.

On our hosting platform we use AWS linux, which is based of Centos. The latest version of Ruby on AWS linux is 7 years old. Our app probably wouldn't even run on it.

So we use containers. Special custom ruby images with recent versions build in a stable debian base.
Now I have the problem that a.o nginx and nodejs have no recent versions available; versions that we either need for features or just because random dependecies.

So maybe the market for stable == 5+ years behind is simply not that viable anymore. Other distro's fill that demand and now centos can offer a distro for situations where you need a bit more recent versions.
I guess with retail you can visit, shop, pay and leave while wearing a mask, yet at a restaurant, you'd likely be maskless for the duration of your visit? Might be part of their consideration.
Yes, it’s network effects. One company with a large accepted network acquires another company with a large accepted network to avoid competing with it, and creating an even larger behemoth with services that will dominate both arms of that industry.
Now do Google.
absolutely, any rational person who cares about reason and objectivity would have voted for Trump.

It wouldn't help with the stolen elections though, sometimes the dishonest win.

And even the most reasonable people can be misled by lies and propaganda.
What? No that's horrible, the problem is obvious.
Wouldn't traders create their own rules for trading? (As presumably they have also done in the past)?

I think most financial constructs were created by traders, not governments. Financial constructs are basically standard contracts.
> Europe leaders really need to wake up. Stop concentrating on immaterial issues, push for more competitive economy, lower taxes, less regulations

I agree that our dear leaders have to wake up - but that is not the direction they should go at all. Our taxes are already so low that many countries have problems financing taking care of basic needs like healthcare. Less regulation? This will directly, and negatively, impact the people of Europe because corporations always exploit every legal (and illegal) avenue to cut corners at the expense of the people.
It is not a "cloud" that damages open core projects, it is Wal-Martesque cloud providers. If you are buying lots of infrastructure from AWS, there's just no reason to buy MongoDB or Redis from their creators: you would just put more load on your accounting, monitoring and cost controlling and will have nothing extra in return, except pride for supporting open source.

There is an interesting model at Google cloud, where I can deploy and use a Grafana stack for moderate $50/month. Looks like Grafana gets a solid chunk of these money - they are advertising it on their own website.
Because those other commodities are not water and Americans have a very bad habit of using cherry-picked anecdotes to justify poor management and decision-making.

Just stop pretending like you give a shit about anything other than money. I'm sick of being gaslit by people like you. Talk about prices. Play your money games. But please stop pretending like you actually know anything about the real world, just because you play with money all day.
> markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet

Neither of which are anything close to free markets.
I do agree with you (at least I used to), but lately I've been very reluctant to anything "made in USA" (e.g. the American dream). The sheer amount of injustice that happens there is just way to much. I am not sure I would be able to sleep comfortably living in a country where I would be making 7x or 8x what other families are making at the expense of leaving them with no safety net whatsoever.

Freedom at times kinda looks a lot more like selfishness.

The EU has a lot of other problems, but at least people here does not have to think twice before doing "normal things" like going to the doctor. I mean it is primarily important to think about one self, I get that, but what happens to others is really important and will affect us eventually!

PS: I left Buenos Aires in 2009, now I live in Spain, even though here it is not perfect at least I can sleep without regrets.
PSA: If you have an https web site that needs to talk to your server in localhost, that localhost server does not have to run https since localhost is considered potentially trustworthy.

It will not trigger the mixed content errors (for Chrome and Firefox – Safari does not do this for now, but it is in the works: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934 )

I have seen some companies do the following too: They embed a snake oil certificate and instruct people to disable web security, don't do this. Some other companies do something like purchase a foolocal.com https certificate (spotify and dropbox do this I believe), but that certificate might be revoked afaik.

As to CORS, you need to check that the incoming request comes from your own remote machine, otherwise if you enable cors for all, other sites can scan and get your user's data (ebay was recently doing this, scanning ports: see https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/ )
And who is going to come in and fix this water infrastructure, the British?

The fact is that environmental conditions worsen each decade in India and quality of life is lower than in the 70s when the population was 555million (currently 1.3b).

Meanwhile the upper castes flee the country en-masse to the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe.

The Indian population will rise to 1.6b by 2050. It will be substantially easier to fix water infrastructure if this number was hundreds of millions lower. Population management is a bigger part of the solution than pipes and dams.
Messenger is currently unusable on both web and mobile.

edit - reports of Instagram and Whatsapp being affected too:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/10/outages-reported-across...
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I was mostly talking about fox news, they started the whole trend of being blatantly biased in their reporting. what made you think otherwise?
Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt
Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite applied to Crystal, Ruby, LuaJIT and Node.js
There are already a couple of cross-language comparisons between Crystal and other languages based on (arbitrary) micro benchmarks. The Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite (see https://github.com/smarr/are-we-fast-yet) includes representative benchmark implementations of different languages, whereby the authors consciously paid attention to an idiomatic use of the respective language. See here for more information about the implementation: https://stefan-marr.de/papers/dls-marr-et-al-cross-language-compiler-benchmarking-are-we-fast-yet/.

I run the benchmarks for some of the supported languages on my i386 Linux machine. Here are the results: http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_ruby_lua_node_i386_results_2020-12-10.pdf.

The results are normalized to Crystal. The geometric mean of the normalized values shows that Crystal is about twice as fast as Node.js, about four times as fast as LuaJIT and about 25 times as fast as Ruby MRI.
Java – Type Casting
Interesting, from what I can tell the mainstream seems crazy far left and in favour of all kinds of interventions to 'smooth rough edges' and worse. Rhetoric against rich people is rather popular.

But yes, from an even further left point of view, full on abolishing of markets ain't that popular. (A few countries tried going in that direction throughout history, it never ended well.)

In the US the Republicans are against free trade, and the Democrats have their usually anti market stance.

About stuff since 2007: the economic difficulties in the years after mostly showed that when central banks refuse to print enough money, nominal spending drops, and the economy tanks. (The Israeli and Australian central banks kept their countries' nominal GDP stable, and mostly avoided recession.) But you are right that the perception in the mainstream does not agree with that perspective (as I mentioned, the mainstream is by-and-large anti-market.)
Bill Clinton-State of the Union Address (January 27, 2000)
I've seen a few of these kinds of interactive articles on hackernews but this is on a whole new level. Wow. One of the best explanations of just about anything I have ever seen.
Interesting, I know quite a number of people who have motion sickness issues. I find in general they just don't tend to play games, or at least 3D games, so much, so I guess it doesn't come up all that often.
If you cheat good enough you can amass power which will make your cheating more effective.
Not sure why say that repeated interactions lead towards cooperation.
It can lead towards submission as easily as cooperation.
Ask HN: How can the US split up Facebook, a global company?
In 2019, 66% of Facebook revenues came from outside of the US. 90% of its users are outside of the US. Is there such a precedent?
Free markets would be so much worse than what we have right now. Without government intervention to guarantee worker protections and curtail corporate power, capital would concentrate in the hands of a few and the rest of us would be serfs in the neo-feudalist hellhole that arises. Enjoy your company scrip.
Wine has a non zero overhead compared to Linux or Windows. Maybe one could come up with a mix of the Win32 API and Linux calling conventions? IDK. Or design something from scratch entirely, but then you have to write and maintain a translation layer like Wine for the rest of time :). Ideally one would take Wine and remove the overhead causing parts but keep most of it intact.
> If a community says 'we'd rather be homes and don't want to turn everything in to high-rises' then that's entirely their discretion.

Nobody is arguing it’s not their discretion. I’m just saying it makes you a bad actor in the larger community of people who would like to benefit from the opportunity of living in a city that they otherwise might not get if they weren’t living in the city.

> especially for the benefit of people who do not even live there.

They don’t live there because they’re being systematically and economically excluded from living there by people of means who are unaffected by the damage they’re doing to their own local economy.

> There's plenty of physical space in Cali, if anything, the opportunity might be in Sacramento and in-between.

So... not in your back yard?
The fact that there are a great number of people not on Facebook whose online identity is just fine is ample refutation of this absurd claim.

And Facebook login being "necessary"?... Never used it. Never will.
Q: How many Northern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Hella!!!

Q: How many Southern Californians does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Totally!!!

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6492j904

Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal?: The Perceptual Dialectology of California

Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Bermudez, Victor Fung, Lisa Edwards and Rosalva Vargas.
Journal of English Linguistics 2007; 35; 325. DOI: 10.1177/0075424207307780

Abstract

This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one of the first accounts of perceptual dialectology within any single state). Quantitative analysis of a map-labeling task carried out in Southern California reveals that California’s most salient linguistic boundary is between the northern and southern regions of the state. Whereas studies of the perceptual dialectology of the United States as a whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular regions of California less with distinctive dialects than with differences in language (English versus Spanish), slang use, and social groups. The diverse socio linguistic situation of California is reflected in the emphasis both on highly salient social groups thought to be stereotypical of California by residents and nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) and on groups that, though prominent in the cultural landscape of the state, remain largely unrecognized by outsiders (e.g., hicks).
Yes but is the lightbulb the streaming/rolling version?

If so totally unusable. Basically Satan.

—hn yesterday
Vulnerabilities Found in Valve’s “Steam Sockets”
RTEC: An Engine for Complex Event Recognition and Stream Reasoning
Imagine how much space they could save if they just deleted all videos.
See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934

I hope they'll fix it soon.
Its rather simple, fill out a form for every patient admitted to ICU. Were you wearing a mask? how diligently? were you going outside? how often? where? Add random check by scanning peoples social media profile photos to see if they lied.

Instead we dont even know what percentage of hospitalized actually used masks, something super basic and easy to check.
Pointer Pointer (2012)
"Cognitive biases inflate the subjective odds of disaster: If a scenario is imaginable, it seems probable."

Let's take a minute to remember that our brains are shaped, by millions of years of evolution, to model existential threats and act accordingly. I would say that what we deem "imaginable" is a pretty good proxy to what is "probable", especially in the long run.

There's also a dishonest sleight of hand here - when determining a course of action, it's not the probability alone you look at, but the probability multiplied by the expected harm. The probability of getting in a car accident is low, but the expected harm is high enough that the hassle of wearing a seatbelt each time you go for a drive is still worth it. If he were being consistent, Pinker would say: "why are you putting on a seatbelt? Just because you can imagine a car accident, doesn't mean it will happen today".

The purpose of the 'long bet' exercise isn't really about the money - it's about our ability to reason about the future. So talking about these things as abstract probabilities as if they are the outcomes of sporting events, not the lives of a million people, is dishonest bordering on morally repugnant.
Not sure I get your question, you want to know how it works in real life ? Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR7cibDvYyo
I think with SpaceX there are people who leave and tell people they were expected to work long, hard hours, as though not having a 7.5 hour days is a crime against employment. There are jobs out there for folks who want 7.5 hour days, but these will not be jobs where you're putting feet on Mars.

There will be people who want to work long, hard hours on complex problems, and for them, somewhere like SpaceX will be perfect. Just because it doesn't fit the ideals of others doesn't mean that it's bad.

The key is choice. I doubt anyone is forced to work at SpaceX. I'm sure they could leave if they had enough, or not join if they didn't like the deal.

If anything, having it available for people who /do/ want to dedicate themselves to something is a good thing. I think some folks could do to remember that. There are enough easy jobs.
I see a blog post, what paper are you referring to?
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That's just mangling the definition of bioerror until one side loses or wins. At that point the bet is about what the judge thinks instead of what the bet is actually about. Since the bet is now up to the judge the smartest decision would be to decide against the ambiguous argument to encourage future betters to avoid making more ambiguous bets.
>to allow for diversification.

I'm not sure that is or was ever in the plans for SoftBank. "Pump and dump" gets thrown around a lot, but hasn't that been their model? Get in as early your massive dollars allow, promote the hell outta the company, feed the tech/SV/VC ecosystem, cash out, repeat.
Yes, the website hasn't been updated but these guys are constructing a well in Kenya this year.

https://www.globeleadership.com
"Fail fast, fail often"

Seems to be working for SpaceX. Makes for impressive videos too.

Congratulations to all involved.