skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I understand, that is what happened with previous concerns about mutated strains. In the end they turned out to be no different than the wildtype, and greate distribution was simply because those strains were present in populations that caused more spreading.

There is not enough data right now to be sure whether this new strain is more infectious or not, but from what I read there are a few more reasons to be concerned this time compared to the previous times when mutated strains were reported.
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eBPF isn't Turing complete after being verified so I would assume no.
Pretty much. You're only doing a free and willing exchange when you have an alternative. Otherwise by definition, there is no choice. Not that this means employers are slavers, it's the system that enslaves people, but employers gladly take advantage of it.

Edit: downvoting without discussion in this context means to me that you're hurt by my statements but have no rebuttal. It feels like you're acknowledging what I'm saying as true but you're not happy about it.
California in the early 80s wasn’t fun. We left SF in ‘83. Interest rates around 15%. Minimum wage around $2.50/hr. Gas rationing. you could only buy gas on certain days based on your license plate. There was an apartment above a garage in SF that sold for $200,000 that was fixup and the garage wasn’t part of the deal.

My parents moved us to they east coast where they did finally purchase their own home.
Stock options may motivate some people to inflate the stock price.
There is several endings to the game that require you to complete side missions in certain ways. The "secret ending" is only achievable if a certain NPC is a lot in the positive area, even more than is necessary to unlock that NPCs normal ending. If you don't follow up on two NPC's side missions, those endings are respectively locked out too, or if you don't side with them at the end. If you simply go through the main mission, there is only two endings available to you, if you go through everything in a decent manner you have 8 endings available to you.

Side missions also affect eachother and some have hidden timers, if you don't complete an objective in time or don't check in with the NPC, things will happen out of your control.

Hell, if you manage to play the nomad side missions well and a particular NPC likes how you do things, you can get their gun. But if they don't like you, that doesn't lock you from the rest of the nomad options, you just don't get that gun.

For all the bugs that the game has, side missions and choices do affect things and the game makes a good effort on making you feel like it has more impact than it has (after all, a lot of it is simply a like/dislike score, but a lot of games operate on that scale), like some meaningless inquiry option (ie, blue dialog option) can lead you to a completely new dialog tree that can open up a small side mission in a different way.
It's been my understanding that many Indians took a 30% paycut due to the covid related hit on the economy. It seems like paycuts without cutting jobs seems to work better in Indian corporate culture as opposed to USA where companies will just cut the jobs entirely. The first pay cut seems to reflect that and isn't surprising.

The next pay cut is surprising - the economy in India has been on recovery and global demand for Apple devices is not an issue. I'd keep eyes on the local company executives, many of whom probably walked away with large Diwali bonuses thinking they are kings for bringing Apple manufacturing to the area. They're the ones to blame for not bringing on more HR resources.

Why yes, Apple does have responsibility for vetting suppliers, this specific factory seems to have gone sour very recently and the workers didn't let them get away with it. Apple seems to have acted appropriately with a probation and the local/national governments of India are also responding in a positive manner I believe will create stronger policies supporting tech manufacturing that properly care for staff and corporate oversight needs. I believe there will be closer eyes on the BMW driving corporate staff who hopefully will not continue behaving like kings.
>Edit: it is 50 rupees per hour, not 5 (I need coffee). Leaving the error as is in the comment above. The larger point still stands though

If better opportunity existed for them they'd be doing that.

Since better doesn't exist, don't take away whatever exists for them for now.
Jitsi is a great piece of software, as are the other alternatives listed on the web page. The opposition is not with other self-hosted videoconferencing solutions, but with cloud-based systems that impose restrictive usage conditions.

How do we convince people to switch to self-hosted solutions? I think that part of the solution lies in making them easier to deploy: ideally every high school, every community college should be able to have their own videoconferencing server, which can be used for lectures, for practicals, for student-teacher meetings ("office hours"), and hopefully for student socialisation (although in my experience students tend to prefer Discord, notwithstanding their outrageous usage conditions).

Galène is designed to be as easy and cheap to deploy as reasonable. It also has a number of features that make it useful for practicals (sharing multiple windows simultaneously, automatic creation of subgroups), which we found very difficult to organise online during the first French lockdown.
Of course there is evidence, that is why we are having this discussion. In addition to the evidence that there exists a very small minority of people who are sensitive to MSG, there exists a large industry that is dependent upon the availability of an inexpensive, effective flavour enhancer. That industry has an interest in discrediting the ill effects of MSG, just as the petrochemical industry had an interest in discrediting the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere and the tobacco industry had an interest in discrediting the effects of smoking.
Cellebrite claims it can break Signal
I am nitpicking here, I know... They still think about their own interest, but the value of the company is now part of their own interest.
Take it for what it is. Many "long time" crypto traders are feeling this way currently. We could be completely wrong.

There are many indicators to support and disprove this hypothesis. Markets are just social constructs, so evidence based approach doesn't work that well. So yeah, scapulimancy but with a touch of self fulfilled profecy, which makes it much more interesting.
How Satisfied Are You with Your Job, on a Scale of 1-10?
You may be interested in the game Screeps. From their website (name +.com):
"It's an open-source game for programmers, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units' AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript. "
Does anybody have any read as to why FDM is only receiving this kind of attention now? It seems that the technology has been there for quite a while (and I mean decades at least). Is it just riding the hype from home 3D printers?
That's okay — teaching is over until January, and at any rate students are a forgiving user base :-)
Stallman was already right, we will never have freedom as long as we use closed sourced software. How can you believe in promises that cannot be validated ?
> ...we've made a genuine effort to publish our code

> (Coming soon!)

A privacy-focused product should surely not launch until its code is publicly available, especially if phrases like "Built to be audited" are used to promote it. There are no links on the site itself, or the Chrome or Firefox extension pages over a year after they were published.

And one of the three reviews on the Firefox extension is from a user with the same username as the publisher of the Chrome extension.

A black box with some bold marketing claims and a dodgy review doesn't inspire confidence.
Long-lived forks are few and far between. RH might be betting on the fact that the ecosystem is effectively not as lively or motivated as it was in the ‘00s. In the worst case, they gain a few months while a solid alternative emerges, and a few years before it can match CentOS’s reputation. The strength of CentOS was its longevity, that made it a credible option for reliable long-term production deployment; it takes time to rebuild that level of trust from scratch, and people who have been burnt once will now be twice shy to go with a community project rather than paying RH.
> He argues that it doesn't exist based on the fact
> that people who claim to be allergic don't suffer
> ill effects from other MSG-containing products.

Some people who claim to be allergic don't suffer ill effects, and some do. This effect is very well known for other fad allergies, such as gluten intolerance. The existence of "gluten intolerant" people who eat cookies does not preclude the existence of celiacs.
Separating feature updates from security updates was one of the best things Microsoft ever did.
I did not know this. This is incredibly concerning and warrants another HN post on its own.

Thanks for sharing
Sony quality is crap, and that is due to production in China. The name is now synonymous with junk.
AFAIK, this strand is different because of the number of mutations. See figure 2 here https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...
Wait, that's absolutely not true. IPhone 8[0] was the first one that supported fast charging, and it didn't come with a compatible charger in the box. You had to use an 18W USB-C charger and a USB-C to lighting cable, neither of which were in the box. But the phone supported it. So the same argument was true for years and yet people behave as if it's new.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208137#:~:text=You%20can%2...
Costco, to be fair, is a reseller. Totally different business model. They are, after all, selling Apple devices.
There's a couple of lens advancements I've seen recently that I found particularly interesting:

Canon putting Fresnel elements in their lenses to reduce size/weight: https://kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/400mm-f4-do-is-ii.htm

Canon making an f/11 800mm super telephoto lens that can still autofocus thanks to the new mirrorless camera bodies: https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/eos-r/lenses/800mm.htm

I think we'll see a big pivot in the market (we're already seeing it, really) with the switch to mirrorless. What I'm hoping we'll see is a total rethink of what's possible in a lens; adapting this new technology to make new designs that exceed what was possible before, rather than just matching it. If they can bring costs down by making use of this new tech then I think it will re-open the market for "I want something that does more than a phone camera". At the moment lens prices are pretty bonkers but I think that Canon f/11 lens is a great indicator; it's basically less than 1/10th of the cost of a traditional 800mm lens and does more than enough for most people.
Very few startups are FAANG level funded. Why work for a startup and commit your soul to the effort for half what the big boys are paying? And far, far less risk of the company going bust in the next two years.
> it could be the case that all the studies are simply right

Let's take that argument at face value. The fine article mentions that the first studies all showed a link between MSG intake and ill effects. Only after the food industry started taking an interest did other studies show otherwise.
I'd argue it may be the opposite. They are seen as pros because they don't spend the time finishing things, often despite the fact they are perfectly capable of finishing the job. They are getting 80% of the merit doing 20% of the job, while leaving others do the remaining 80% for 20% of the merit. They have more time to gather more merit, chase knowledge and ideas, experiment, which ends up opening doors.

It isn't too far from how consultants tend to function, why job hopping is lucrative, etc.. There just isn't enough incentive to stay for the dirty work as long as others, be it the managers, the employers or the coworkers, don't hold the ones leaving the mess accountable.
Personally for me it has always been faster personal growth from wider responsibilities. This makes a lot of sense in some stages of your career and your career goals but hardly for everyone.
It seems the answer is that we don't know if it's spread yet. To quote the ECDC's briefing, "However, most EU/EEA countries sequence much smaller proportions of virus isolates than the UK, so ongoing circulation of this variant outside of the UK cannot be excluded". https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/SAR...

Basically, the UK is just better set up to detect variants like this than a lot of other countries. The other possibility is that even if this variant hasn't spread yet, there are other variants out there with similar properties that just haven't been detected due to the lack of widespread RNA sequencing. South Africa apparently has one that's similar but unrelated.
There was a huge honking "IF" at the start of that comment...

> If these workers don't have other choice but to take that miserable paycheck or starve...

Plenty of people everywhere have other choices between one employer or starving. So, no, by that logic, any employee anywhere is not a slave.
Raw material for 3d printing is ultra cheap specially when you try making your own filament from plastic pellets which sell for dirt cheap:

https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...
Government processes in Kenya have inefficiencies that aid corruption
1. Macbooks Airs and Macbook Pro 13's with 16GB's of Ram(You can order them here but not buy on retail)

2. Souvlak's (Greek street food)

3. Firecrackers that have small explosive power(They used to sell them here like 20 years ago)

4. Amazon Prime

5. Electric bikes that go faster then 25km/h

6. More second hand old cheap Japanese pickup trucks
Maybe there's another perspective on RedHat's backtracking on CentOS I've not thought about before: that they feel like they do/pay all the hard work when AMZN and others just rebrand RH/CentOS, add their proprietary bits, and merely supply a VM (AMI) image. So they basically want to go after AWS, Azure, Google as customers; just like Google wanted those other cloud providers to contribute to k8s a year or two ago.
Let's all pretend a round of surprise.

How could this happend? A company with a track record of pure labour friendliness. [1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINZhtB2aHU
How many connected devices do you have at home?
Ewan Birney (deputy directory of EMBL European Molecular Biology Laboratory)'s Twitter is a really good source of first class scientific information on this.

You need to scroll back about 2 days to get the latest info (and he refers to the Twitter accounts of others in the field who can give more information).

His Twitter profile is @ https://twitter.com/ewanbirney/

(Ewan is awesome - he is also (co)director of EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, and I had the honour (as a Computer Scientist) of working there for nine years)
> They have some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world, as well as a gigantic portfolio of patents. They aren't going away.

Kodak would like to have a word.
What makes options a rough deal is the part of the contract: "We can change anything at anytime for any reason". What kills your options is dilution. You have no control over this AND as time progresses you get more and more diluted with new hires and rounds. You could be the second employee - however, if the founders & VC decide to make 20 million more shares [which they will] - you effectively have toilet paper -- AND you wont be in that meeting.
Can you show some concrete examples? Non-idiotimatic Common Lisp compiled with SBCL can certainly come within a single digit integer factor of C, but your claim is much stronger. As for Chez, I have yet to see some code that compares favorably to even a fast scripting language, let alone a medium or high performance compiled language, and that's even if the code is littered with fixnum version of operators etc. Not what I'd call "very good performance characteristics" unless compared to bash or python.
Boris needed a news piece to lock the City down.
> Technical people can rarely prove "ownership" of revenue

Maybe we geeks should let the sales teams run Powerpoint presentations instead of the actual product to address that misunderstanding.
My journey is the opposite to you, I started with zsh and those two plugins. It's good to have bash like syntax (easy for copy paste from the web), but the slooooooooow startup speed really annoys me, so I give fish a try and now I'm impressed by its speed and feature.
If in the cloud: Something like AWS CloudWatch

If node.js: setInterval for short intervals, Bree for more complicated tasks [1]

If C: time_t

If Java: java.util.Timer, probably something 3rd party that better is wrapped around this

Anyways, the bigger point is that you should be expressing these interval settings in code, not system configurations. Everyone checks in source code but nobody checks in the crontab. It's better if you rely on the application to do these things rather than the system, because the system could always change beneath your feet (i.e. management says we're using Google Cloud now! Good luck porting a 200 line crontab to GCP) but you are in total control of your application's source code.

[1] https://jobscheduler.net/#/
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This is not what I mean.

The tech industry internationally should participate in some form of BDS (as much as they are comfortable with I guess) with these countries.

Also, I believe there should be something akin to the Hippocratic Oath but for developers and engineers.
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is betting $28B on Bret Taylor. So who is he?
Liz: Lisp-flavored language based on the Zig
If you don't want to be a hypocrite, you should also keep this in mind when buying from any company that partners with Wistron. Though it seems difficult to find a full list of partners.

>Within 16 months Wistron was making Dell handhelds and Microsoft's Xbox videogame consoles, according to industry reports. (Wistron doesn't identify its customers.)

https://archive.is/qxS5s
The third, most important option is missing.

Get the community editions of either Allegro or LispWorks and taste what the actual experience of Common Lisp development environments used to be like.
True, but it was nearly a "have to" for a rolling release used in big enterprise.
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I had to play, after reading this. So I've just searched my emails for the receipt from when I bought my current laptop:

> Delivery: 23 Jul, 2013 - 25 Jul, 2013 by Standard Shipping
> 11-inch MacBook Air
> £1,159.00
> With the following configuration:
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB Flash Storage

Which according to this site [0] means I've had it => 2708 days. Which averages out to => 42p/day or => £156/year.

The only deteriorations I've noticed over those 7 1/2 years is that; the battery doesn't hold charge for much more than an hour [not a problem, as I tend to work with it plugged in all the time], the screen has a couple of pock-marks [made of soft plastic, rather than glass], the fraying adaptor cable is held together with glue, screen hinges are a bit floppy and I had to replace the keyboard [although that was down to 'wine error']

Other than that, My MBA still works fine and feels quick enough for anything I need to do on it. And that includes a lot of graphics work in Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as all the other less demanding 'stuff' I do on it. So, all things considered, I reckon that's a pretty good return on my investment!

[0] https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=24&m...

Further thoughts:

Given that the guy's 'raison d'être' seems to be about sustainability and green energy, it seems quite ironic that:

1: He abandoned his first fully functional laptop to land-fill and bought a new one just because the adaptor died. Rather than just buy a new adaptor [non-Apple ones are available at a fraction of the cost of OEM, if the price was too much to stomach].

2: He abandoned his second fully functional laptop to landfill and bought a new one just because the version of WindowsXP he had running on it was no longer supported. Rather than just install Linux on it, instead.
Your idea is right but the timescale is much shorter. Essentially it's a race. And in 2014 you could make good money doing exactly what you described, the timescale was millis. In 2016-2017 even more money, but different venues.

What you are describing is the most basic, canonical form of latency arbitrage.

That idea is implemented widely in the HFT industry across all sorts of products, not just crypto, with billions spent on trading the information faster

(Source: this is my job).
Hey, I re-read your initial message and I agree. My reply makes no sense. These short term movements are definitely influenced by bots, fragmented liquidity and issues trading venues.
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> paycuts without cutting jobs seems to work better in Indian corporate culture as opposed to USA

Most of the folks I know who've had jobs affected by this had a mix. Some people were laid off, some had hours cut, some had pay cut - sometimes at the same company (different workers affected differently). I don't think there's an across the board "one approach fits all" that companies have taken in the US.
FWIW. The author is a supporter of caste system.

From https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/11/10/king-ruinous-and-the-c... on caste

"I am enough of a free-speecher to acknowledge that it has a right to"
I work with startups because of the array of possibilities - none of them monetary. I've never cared about shares, and mentor folks to do the same. If you do what you love you never work a day in your life. But if you chase the pot of gold, you have to hope there's always sunshine after the rain.
There's been a certain amount of public arguments between the government in the UK (yay Christmas) and scientists (boo Christmas). I really hope that this is not a tactical exaggeration used by the latter to get their way that's got way out of hand ...
Weird. With people stuck at home, and less time spent commuting and socialising, I'd have imagined hobbies like photography to take off.
> Dont forget the 12 is first iPhone supporting fast charging

This is beyond false and way into absolute nonsense.

Been there since iPhone 8.

https://www.ipitaka.com/blogs/news/everything-you-need-to-kn...
I switched from Nikon to Panasonic as well aflet my grip liquified and Nikon service said it's a consumable and not covered by warranty. Panasonic make smaller and lighter cameras, smaller and ligher glass, sometimes better glass due to the fact that aspherical elements are smaller and easier to manufacture, has interoperability with Olympus lenses and also ability to use Leica M43 lenses.
The US is a stable and functioning democracy. This is not to say it is perfect.
> it's not like Apple don't know about it

?!

Worker wages were their main reason to move from China to India.

It's not something they "might notice", it's pure purpose from start to finish.

And it will continue as long as people are willing to pay for it.
"av skade blir man klok, men sjelden rik" is one variant; there's also the predicative form "klok av skade".

(though I'd translate "klok" with "wise")
It might say revenue share on the title of the contract, but the body of the contract will be about a share of net or gross profit.
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> He abandoned his first fully functional laptop to land-fill and bought a new one just because the adaptor died.

Perhaps the laptop-side of the adaptor died?
I'd start from here: https://clojure.org/guides/getting_started