skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article seems to suggest that the resemblance is related to the Austronesian migration out of what is today China. But that happened thousands of years ago, so it's unlikely that any word remained exactly the same over such a long time.

Partially, the similarity is just orthographic: the pronunciation of Mandarin huì is written [xweɪ̯⁵¹] in the international phonetic alphabet, while the IPA transcription of Māori hui is apparently just [hui].

Additionally, both words derive from forms that were even less similar: the Mandarin word is reconstructed to come from Old Chinese /* m-kˤop-s/ or /* ɡoːbs/ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%83#Pronunciation_1 while the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary relates the Māori term to Proto-Oceanic * pui, referring to a cluster e.g. of fruit: https://www.trussel2.com/acd/acd-s_p.htm#4023
VUI – 202012/01 on Wikipedia [1]:

> The first Variant Under Investigation in December 2020 (VUI – 202012/01), also known as lineage B.1.1.7, is a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The variant was first detected in the United Kingdom in October 2020 from a sample taken the previous month, and it quickly began to spread by mid-December. It is correlated with a significant increase in the rate of COVID-19 infection in England; this increase is thought to be at least partly because of mutation N501Y inside the spike glycoprotein's receptor-binding domain, which is needed for binding to ACE2 in human cells.

Correlation does not equal causation. Most of the northern hemisphere is experiencing a significant increase in cases, i.e., a second wave. It has not yet been established whether this variant exhibits a unique pathogenesis.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VUI_–_202012/01
Until the true Robot Revolution arrives there will be slavery, guised in wage labour or otherwise.
Lets say I am injured and urgently need medical attention and you are the only doctor that I have access to. You quote your price which is signing away all my wealth to you, immediately. I have no choice but to agree. Is that fair?

That is an extreme example, to get the point across. These workers didn't agree to your offer of $1 out of choice, they agreed because they have no other option. This is where governments need to step in and create laws and regulations so a small group of people do not screw the majority of the population.

We do not live in a jungle where the strong survive the weak starve. Not everything should be tied to supply and demand. A huge portion of jobs done by humans today will be done by robots soon (for example, truck driving). What happens then? You don't pay even that $1, because you don't even need humans at that point to drive your trucks. You just let millions of truck drivers starve? These are not pure economics problems, these are societal problems. If not handled correctly and early, we'd have bloody revolutions on our hands.
It might behave differently to dilution too...
Zoom Says It’s Being Probed by SEC, Two U.S. Attorneys Offices
Wow, this is horrible. It sounded like the court sided with you even though it was beyond their remit/reach to be able to fine them, which I think is pretty damming of the situation.

I hope that you can take some time out to recover and then go on to find something worthy of your time and effort within a positive environment.

(edit: grammar)
H-1B Denials Still High for Consulting Firms but for How Long?
Is it? Often times I feel Scrum was more invented as a way to centralize communication under the lofty goal of increasing its quality, and decreasing the quantity of communication (make all activities central to reduce decentralized meetings with loads of people). Which to me says the opposite of making communication cheap.

In practice, I feel the opposite tends to happen too. Not only does the quantity increase, but the quality of these centralized activities is questionable at best, and high quality decentralized activities slowly disappear due to the increased overhead. In tight knit teams, I find many of the centralized activities are unnecessary, since we deal with them as we go anyway. If we don't, someone will end up blocked for a day if not multiple days. The only exceptions being large design choices and assuring everyone works towards the same goal. If you need to sync on that every day in your average CRUD webapp dev team, I highly question how tightly knit the team is.
The (pretty and quite good!) Game Boy Tetris clone has successfully sucked me in and distracted me from the actual language design. https://gamelisp.rs/playground/#quadris

(There's also a faithful Minesweeper clone!)
The article is from 2018, and reads:

> In the last year, we have seen, on more than one occasion, a behavior among later-stage VCs that we’ve rarely observed in the years before

Which seems to imply it's not a common practice. As I mentioned, it's 100% theoretically possible to do it, but the percent of companies that actually do it is very low.

It would be not only bad for early employees, but also bad for early investors - it would hurt the founders reputation among their early investors (and employees) which most founders wouldn't be willing to do.
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> Which all doesn't matter at all because it'll recover afterwards. Framing it as an ecological disaster is just a way...

That is a _very_ odd definition of a disaster. The Earth recovered from several mass extinction events. Does that mean that they were not in point of fact, disasters? That nothing is a disaster?

It is a localised disaster. Not all disasters have to be on the global scale to have relevance.
Manufacturing margins are razor thin. The brand names pocket all the profits, the people producing commodity parts and assembling them get nothing, which is my entire point.

And no, Apple is not an outlier in that regard, even though they pocket more than HP, Dell, etc.
Why we have so much crap is not necessarily because of developers. In my experience (10 years), it's almost never the case.

1. Bloated and useless functionalities. More functionalities will make any software more complex. If these functionalities are not well thought or lack logic, it's more difficult to implement.

2. Believes versus empiric proof. The big difference we have with other engineering field: we deal with believes. The building of a plane rely heavily on the laws of physics, we rely on the law of SOLID. The first is a scientific discipline, the second is a guy talking on a stage.

3. Ego-centered field. We all think we know better. We all think we have the truth ("Microservices are better!", "OOP is the best!") even if we have no idea about it.

This article is full of believes without any study to back it up, with a cool looking curve which doesn't measure anything. The hero expert programmer who will save us all is a myth. We all struggle, we all make mistake, and we build things together. The group synergy is more important (see rework from Google).
Even better: Based on apples history High Sierra probably EOLs January 2021 and supports hardware all the way back to 2010. So that's a decade of hardware support which is pretty good.
"Our efforts coincided with the resignation of Richard Stallman from the US-based sister organisation of FSFE due to careless revictimisation of female victims of sexual abuse- another gender discrimination issue in our community that would cause the situation in our office to deteriorate quickly."

Careless revictimization? I've heard it all. I will never talk to another human being again at work because talking gets you fired or sued.
Then you have an extremely rare experience.

It’s like a professor who did happen to get tenure listening to all the post docs talking about how awful academia is. I’m happy for that one lottery winner but their experience doesn’t count for anything.
I switched from an old Nikon DSLR to Fuji X-T3 this year as well, and it's great.

From the form factor to ergonomics, plus I use it as a webcam with incredible bokeh. Mirrorless is the future, and I don't even miss full frame.
It's hard to take photos when you're not allowed to leave your home... I just put my tripod inside my backpack and pretend I'm an essential worker.
I had never heard of The Association for Dressings & Sauces until reading that article, but I am pleased now to have discovered its recipe collection:

https://dressings-sauces.org/recipes/
Meego was "already working" (with scare quotes.) Maemo was great, and shipping. People used it and enjoyed it. It had an extremely lively developer community, and the cheat that since it was based in Debian, new apps could be written as UIs added to common, standard commandline applications. The scare quotes are because the relaunch as Meego was pointless, but was also working well enough.

Windows phone was not going to work because the brand is herpes, and Microsoft makes technical decisions based on business strategy rather than merit (and everybody know it.) It had nothing to do with the amount of resources put into it, which I'm sure were vast; Microsoft is happy to lose money in markets for a decade or two in order to block new entrants, waiting for the market leader to make a mistake. If people wanted a phone that would trap them into a rent-seeking ecosystem, they already had a choice in iPhones that was at least attractive and common.

Meego phones could have slotted into the nerd/serious phone category that various Android distributions have awkwardly tried to fit in. It would have also been a non-US alternative for markets like Europe and China. They also could run Android apps within a VM.
Why a terrorist?
The nikor lenses I have, are items I own that have gone down in price the least over the years. One actually seems to have increased a little.
IT automation for better user experience and increased product adoption
The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine wins US emergency approval
There are several forms of ADD, some of which don't respond to stimulants. Check Daniel Amen's work, there is a video on youtube "healing add - see and heal the 7 types".
It’s not a lot of work if you use a library. You will still need to do verification but saves you destroying your email domain reputation
Privacy Pass: Anonymous Tokens on the Web
Very suspicious that this story breaks just as Boris needs to lock down the country over christmas.

"everyone is going to hate me, quick think of something to blame.".... Eureka .... "There's a new virus strain, totally unforeseeable, don't blame me for the lock downs"

Just sayin'
That's how you make 40% profit margin boys on 250 billion dollars a year, boys. Overpriced products, underpraid foreign workrs, and most important of all, brainwashing users on a global scale by selling technically inferior products as luxury. That's why Apple is the holy grail of investors and entrepreneurs. Let's get back to talk more about the fake benchmarks of M1.
> In the same breath he wants people who LOVE their jobs and super-productivity, but yet also understand its only a job.

Yeah, it's a sentiment that I'm not sure was meant to be taken literally rather than rhetorically. Consider who the essay is written towards -- ISVs in 2004. What about an ISV requires super-productivity? In fact, the author states this literally:

> It's okay to be in awe of these great hackers. But as a practical matter, small ISVs would be much better off hiring professionals.

For what it's worth, it's fascinating to look at this essay with 2020 lenses on. I have two observations:

1) The traditional ISV, while not dead, has at a lot of its traditional role usurped & cannibalized by players higher up the value chain. This somewhat relates to my next point.

2) The rise of growth and data science roles as a fusion of marketing and technology along with the enormous growth of tech as a whole (hard tech and soft tech) means that archetypical average social media literate hacker founder archetype of today is quite interested and capable of interacting with users today.

And of the three "sins" the essay points out, that's probably the most cardinal one -- for the vast majority of businesses, if you have high enough margins and an employee who's good enough at growth to add double digits to your bottom-line, are you going to whinge about their predilection to fuss about interesting projects and tools? No, you're going to raise a ton of cheap VC and let them go to town.
> I live in Sweden and basically no one here wears a mask
> there is really no need for him to wear a mask.

Can't believe we're 10+ months in and people still think like that. Didn't the Swedish gov and even the king declared they fucked up big time like last week ?

Sweden's covid handling is a total failure:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/norway/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/finland/
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> Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water. Only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps [1].

Fresh water has a different density than salt water, and ice melting in the artic and antarctica is resulting in a huge influx of fresh water that can disrupt ocean currents [2]. These currents currently distribute a lot of heat around the world, and them stopping would result in places like europe getting much colder, while other regions would become much hotter (and with the warmer oceans, probably also have extremer hurricanes).

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/earths-fresh-water/

[2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulat...
I looked it up, it’s a european terriff which adds several percent tax to video cameras, with a time limit for what is classified as a video camera. So it’s just about money for one market. One source claimed it was going to be eliminated a year ago.

As for shot length, sure what makes it into films rarely gets 20 minutes but that is quite different than what you want to do while shooting. Much more, we’re not all shooting videos for a feature film.
Na issue is that with expansion distances increase. Thus you lose the benefit of being in the city (close to work, close to friends, close to cultural offerings, close to shops, close to ...) While Japan did a few things to help, like reliably working high speed railway, which allows commute over wide distance, while central places are crowded during rush hour and can't take much more.
I believe your description is quite typical in Sweden, which explains why the fight against covid-19 there is a total failure. Wearing masks is not only about protecting yourself, but also about protecting people you meet. I think wearing masks are nearly all about protecting other people, unless you have N95 and replace them regularly. It seems that I had made a wrong guess from this common sense, which obvious doesn't hold true in Sweden.

If it were a joke, it's not funny.
DeepMind’s annual Why it’s hard to run a commercial AI lab
What ithkuil said.

The time to translate the bytecodes is taken ahead of time, when the eBPF is installed, rather than the first time some other system call needs to actually execute the code.

It is not hard to imagine a system removing and installing eBPF bits dynamically according to realtime events, but it is a fair bet that in most uses they are set up at program start time and left in place.
Easy, use a global counter and only run the function when i % x == 0; i++;
Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1
I'm curious about the untapped potential of other parts of California. Now that the pandemic has made remote work a necessity, I'm wondering if regions of California outside Silicon Valley will benefit from remote tech workers having more options in terms of residences. For example, Sacramento is a very popular destination for ex-Bay Area residents, and it appears to be a good location for people working remotely for Silicon Valley companies who (post-pandemic) may need to make occasional trips to the office. Sacramento is still affordable, though it's becoming more expensive each year.

Other areas that are intriguing to me include San Luis Obispo County and some of Southern California's exurbs like the Antelope Valley area and Lake Elsinore, where it's possible to buy a nice single-family house in a safe neighborhood for less than $500,000.

California gets a bad rap in some circles due to its high cost of living and its taxes, but not everywhere in California has the Bay Area's high housing costs. There are many other areas of the state where people can still reasonably make a day trip to the Bay Area to enjoy its amenities while living in a place that is affordable on an average engineer's salary.
It has a hard coded timeout. The user can try again if some unrelated timeout error
>Of course you have to take responsibility for the things you've done to the world.

The living didn't do it and the dead can't do anything about it anymore.
it's more visible today

https://zoom.earth/#view=-55.849,-35.645,7z/date=2020-12-21,...

https://www.windy.com/-Satellite-satellite?satellite,-55.933...
Big Tech's stealth push to influence the Biden administration
Why did he need to lockdown the country other than because of this? Given that he said 3 days earlier that this would be tantamount to "cancelling Christmas", and he now looks like a fool and a hypocrite for ridiculing the leader of the opposition over it, what possible benefit does he have to gain?
It seems to me to be possible. I'm undecided either way. Also, isn't it suspicious that anyone who has suggested this is downvoted into oblivion/flagged?
Greater Manchester Police chief Ian Hopkins stands down amid force failures
> Nikon hasn’t really made an amazing camera since the days of the F5

The F5 appeared in 1996. Are you really saying that Nikon haven't produced a great camera in 25 years? I personally think the D3s (2009) was a pretty amazing camera for sport / low-light work, although obviously it has been superseded since then.
Most sales jobs offer some kind of revenue share. Sometimes revenue share is the only compensation.

When cosco buys apples from a farmer for $1 and resells them for $2, they are effectively taking a 50% revenue share.

A referral bonus for bringing in a new customer is also a kind of revenue share for the existing customer, and plenty of startups do those.

I think the key is to compensate based on a revenue share of what you bring in, rather than of the total revenue.
... can you actually buy this yet?
My understanding is as long as the variant has the same spike protein, vaccines "should" remain effective. So while trials haven't been done yet to verfiy the vaccines are still effective, I'm assuming the spike protein has been observed to be the same so there's no reason to suggest vaccines wouldn't be effective.

EDIT: Actually, sounds like a couple of the mutations are in the spike protein and there is some evidence of reduced antibody effectiveness against the mutated version.
Cooking by weight is much more pleasant. You can just put a bowl on the scale and keep adding stuff to it. It saves you a lot of cleaning.
See also how they slow down the whole network to level the field: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/26/putting-the-brakes-on-high-f...
What's a "spike" in this context? This one's hard to google. I'm assuming something like "area of competence", but a more precise definition would be nice to know.
Finnish also has lots of compound words. German might be different, but in Finnish words might sometimes have a slightly different meaning if the words are written separately (with a space) or as a compound. (Often that other meaning is rarely used, and there would almost never be any actual potential for confusion, but technically there may still be a difference.)

Some of the compounds may be written as compounds because that's just how you're supposed to write them, but sometimes there might be some kind of actual semantics behind it.

Could there be something similar going on in German, or is it really that German-speakers just concatenate things that English-speakers would write separately?
Competitor in what?
The "poor Elop" narrative is bizarre. He trashed a company in exchange for a vast amount of money. Now we're supposed to be sorry for him because he can't be Canada's PM. I do not understand the (neo)liberal love for failures. I'm sure he's a nice guy over brunch. I'd rather have a PM who has been successful at something other than accumulating money.
That's reductionist to the point of meaningless. There's a spectrum of communications from 'professional and respectful' to 'shaming, sexual abuse and discrimination'. It's a lame argument to throw up your hands and pretend there's no way out. Often used by folks seeking to explain away their terrible behavior.
> Nokia and Blackberry dropped the ball and Google filled the gap with Android that Verizon marketed splendidly.

Agreed wholeheartedly. If you want to know more about Verizon's kingmaking process to go all in with Droid over their previous partner RIM, see the book 'Losing the Signal', an excellent read on the rise and fall of RIM.
I know this wage sounds alien to many. I wholeheartedly disagree with Apple's wages but for context, Rs 50 - 80 is the price of a full, though street food, meal in many Indian cities.

India simply has cheap food and low costs. I know this personally as I live a fairly low-expense life. But I can not imagine a big co paying these ridiculously low wages. This is exactly why rich get and stay richer. Apple has the means to push partners to keep paying low.

Apple knows what it is doing.
Maybe its not necessary to browse stores, but it seems like it could increase the amount of time that someone would stay on your domain (instead of just being able to look at one vendors items).
Ii may be helpful to show an example page of a item or items for sale.
How are transactions handled?
Your example paypal page is Spanish only?
> Let's be honest: 2020 sucks

- not if you were a VC
- not if you were long BTC
- not if you are a HF/PE manager
- not if you were a senior manager at a bank

In short, it was a great year for anyone with membership or strong correlation to the investor class.
Indeed. It's a top down problem. Richard Stallman is a heroic philosopher but a disgusting human being and much of FSF's management is cast in the same mold.
Yes, I'd also say 90-100%
> I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

This quote always rubs me wrong, because the problem is that we’ve changed definition of what a computer is.

If you come to think about it, what he was referring to is what we would now call cloud infrastructure, and there’s not really that much more than 5 of those...
A strange interpretation. Here in America we're experiencing the opposite - nearly half are worshipping a sociopathic failure. And its not 'neo-liberals'.
Didn't we hear stories about people in three letter agencies spying on their neighbours, girlfriends etc? If they let that pass then who's to say they wouldn't just look the other way on the BTC.
We just outsourced slavery and it makes us a bunch of hypocrites yes each time we use "human rights" to chastise countries in the south. Our politicians are fully aware of this exploitation dynamics and legal arbitrages they engineered.

The stupidest thing is that despite getting our stuff from slaves by the very definition of that word, our stuff ain't cheap at all, especially Apple which are luxury goods, it's just Apple making crazy margins. Apple could produce all their stuff in the West they would still be filthy rich. But it's not as profitable. But hey, 'carbon neutral','diverse and inclusive' or something, it makes yuppies in California feel good about themselves...