skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's barley transmitted in shops, restaurants and bars.

if schools are open, it's pointless doing anything else. if schools are closed kids will still go out and play.

basically you're screwed if you do and screwed if you don't. and less and less people will listen as time goes on while the virus mutates and selects for contagious variants.
Where there are 3 forthers, there will be 4 FORTHs.
I have a 13.3-inch Dasung e-ink monitor, and use it daily for three to six hours (basically, whenever I use my PC). Some days ago the HDMI cable it came with broke, so before I had the opportunity to replace it, I had to switch back to an LED monitor for the time being. Well, surely anyone can already guess what happened... After just a couple of days, I came upon a long forgotten enemy: eye fatigue. Blurry vision, trouble focusing it, and a light headache.

Like many others here, I wish the technology could have advanced faster and been made more accessible for everyone. Without the obstacles it still faces, I'm sure we would already have color screens with a good refresh rate. C'est la vie.
I think there is an important distinction between onerous measures pursued by most democratic countries due to COVID-19 and those pursued by illiberal regimes.

In the first case, the measures don't benefit the politicians much. People hate wearing masks and not being about to congregate in churches to discuss non-political topics.

In the second case, the measures are usually targeted at suppressing negative sentiment against the political appointees.

But in the cases of the democratic nations and their measures throughout, negative sentiment against politicians and the government who implement these measures are all allowed to run rampant by the government (in some cases by other politicians themselves). Protests are still held, and the government is still scrutinized and criticized by civil society.

So going by your definition, there are important domains of society that the government does not attempt to dominate, that continue to serve as a check. Only those that are essential to the COVID-19 response are temporarily weakened.
I want to nitpick. Monopolies aren't bad. Monopolies tend to be dangerous because they aren't self regulating and they can easily extort consumers. But monopolies can also be very useful to consumers if they are acting in their interests, particularly in goods that have network effects (where the number of participants directly increases the product's utility or makes it cheaper. As opposed to a S curve). Bell labs existed because the government gave Bell a monopoly over telephone networks so there wouldn't be hundreds of wires everywhere (literal network), but the lab was part of the deal.
They've always (?) had a script IDE you can use to create your own functions for use in cells so I guess it has always been Turing complete.

I've used the script IDE a lot where it just made sense to do something in about 10 lines/a for-loop of normal procedural code rather than an unreadable chain of about 50 spreadsheet formulas in one cells.
I'm not having any major issues in NYC or CT,

I believe there has been a national delivery truck shortage for a while, and I assume veteran drivers/delivery people are hard to come by as well for the delivery companies. It would make sense that the big delivery companies would be hiring temp (less professional) delivery people to help complete the surge in orders.

I did find a few packages dropped on the ground below mailboxes due to snow being around the mailbox, but i think thats pretty reasonable considering my neighbors and I didn't properly clear the snow around the mailbox, but the mail person did deliver the mail in the boxes.
Could you please knock it off? Your comments on this post are designed only to start flamewars. That sort of thing is frowned upon here. Since one of your comments is about what’s acceptable on HN, then either you know better and are doing it anyway, which is in poor taste, or you don’t know better and therefore shouldn’t be lecturing people about what’s acceptable here. Either by way of refresher or introduction, here are the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pearl Harbor is not seen as terrorism. It's seen as a military attack on the United States, and an act of war.

United States hasn't declared war since 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...

"The last time the United States formally declared war, using specific terminology, on any nation was in 1942, when war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania, because President Franklin Roosevelt thought it was improper to engage in hostilities against a country without a formal declaration of war. Since then, every American president has used military force without a declaration of war."
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Well if it isn’t a different strain then the vaccine should still work on it.
> This is clearly a tough time for a lot of people, and many families will be spending Christmas apart and will find this very hard for all sorts of reasons.

Honestly, I think people are being incredibly relaxed about the fact that lockdown restrictions are incredibly expensive to the mental health of swathes of the population. I am not claiming that letting covid kill more people would be better - but I wish there was more acknowledgement of the fact that it is a trade off, and that the goal is getting society in the best shape out the other side of this. Not just the largest one.
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon, with nail polish.
Can this link be updated to the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle

It has much clearer explanations, both written and visual. Really it's a stretch to say the Wolfram page explains anything at all, it just states it can't be how it appears.
Contact tracing apps didn't get installed enough to be effective. Turns out they weren't needed. Tracking without warrants is already possible when there is a will.

Unless people stopped dragging their phones around, the information is already there.

Dumb question here, but why isn't this being used for the thing, contact tracing, that everyone claims is what we need to stop the spread?
- Rust + WASM

- WASM accessing DOM directly (and the subsequent explosion of front end frameworks completely bypassing JS)

I'm a simple person with mundane wants :)
I already have the antibodies (from June), so it seems I won't need that vaccine. Right?
Or in other words, my antibodies would almost certainly cover the new variant.
You could handwave that when we were at way less cases. But at one point people would start noticing (for example) everyone in retirement homes dropping like flies.

Not to mention that after the first couple of months, Covid cases are now nicely distributed amongst younger populations as well. Fatalities are still concentrated in older people, but cases are still widespread across demographics.

The facts are staring everyone in the face: when countries started weakening their lockdown procedures, cases started going back up. And nobody's been willing to go back in full lockdown, for various reasons. And so cases are going up a bunch.

Meanwhile Vietnam had some cases in fall/winter, and _immediately_ locked stuff down, shut down universities, and quarantined people who had even a bit of contact with people in positive cases. The stuff was taken seriously, and numbers stayed low because of it.

Maybe the US and Europe "can't do it" because of a lack of political will etc. But it's not physically impossible.
> Millions more are here illegally, and yes, we should design our society to accommodate them. "Maybe they shouldn't be here" is both callous and unrealistic. No one should have to live in fear that they'll be spotted on some camera and have their life ruined.

Those that break the law SHOULD have to live in fear that they'll face consequences. In some cases that may amount to having "their life ruined" and in other cases the consequences may not be that dramatic. But we have a society built on laws, and enforcing the law is required in a fair and just society.

> Last week we were all discussing how hospital administrators blamed "the algorithm" when vaccines were issued to admins rather than front line workers. People constantly say, "well, the computer says..." when the computer is obviously making a mistake.

In my opinion, you are comparing very different situations. The hospital admins have an incentive to get admins vaccinated first, and are not in a position where they're tasked with validating an algorithm's match. Additionally, the algorithm in question did not involve machine learning as a facial recognition algorithm would. It was simply software implementing a very straightforward formula (https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/21/1015303/stanford...).

> The TSA regularly screws up people's travel because they make mistakes about the no fly list.

This isn't because of facial recognition or black box machine learning algorithms. It is because the TSA uses very rudimentary heuristics like name matching, to err on the side of safety. I disagree with the unsophisticated approach they use, for what its worth. A complex AI based matching algorithm would do a better job of balancing safety against such mistakes.
This is a relic of the cold war. Most of AT&T's telecom buildings were designed to be able to withstand just about everything except a direct nuclear strike.

While services were impacted, none of the actual infrastructure was really damaged and they likely just need to repair the lines running up to the building.

TLDR: AT&T's telecom infra is a relic of the cold war and is designed to withstand almost any type of attack.
Racism is not acceptable on HN.

You have some kind of beef with the DOJ indictment I posted here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542215

I don't think the DOJ was trying to start a flamewar when they filed that brief.
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I use that a lot. Wouldn't Google notice if a lot of people were telling it they don't want to see results from Pinterest and make some adjustments to their SERPs?
There are reasonable arguments that it was an illegal war (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War )

Even so, i dont think any invasion by a recognized state by uniformed armed forces can really reasonably be called terrorism. Usually terrorism is a term reserved for non state actors or state actors which use non uniformed people .
It might not seem that bizarre if you frequently experienced chronic pain.
"At this point in time with the AMP project, Google can’t retroactively release the control it had in AMP’s adoption. And we can’t go back to a pre-AMP web to start over [...]"

Why not? Someone with AMP knowledge knows why? Wouldn't it be as easy as removing a few tags?
Faecebook? What's that?
I can't speak for the telco side of the business, but I do know that AT&T leadership has been telling their enterprise IT side of the business to throw out many prior requirements to built HA into things, and to reduce the portion of systems set aside to handle unplanned events. One of the justifications has been that such planning and built-in headroom is virtually never used.

They are rapidly shutting down most of their enterprise IT data centers and the planning was done without consulting with their system architects about things like site paring for EBR and data replication, network coverage, etc.
Xiaomi

Not a start up, but I think to watch. They seem to be getting high end technological products to consumers at a reasonable price.

For instance I'm hoping their 34" Mi Curved Gaming Monitor will break this high priced monitor market and get large monitors mainstream.
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> es. Last week we were all discussing how hospital administrators blamed "the algorithm" when vaccines were issued to admins rather than front line workers. People constantly say, "well, the computer says..." when the computer is obviously making a mistake.

More often, they say it to defect blame to the computer when it is precisely implementing the intended policy.

> The TSA regularly screws up people's travel because they make mistakes about the no fly list.

No, because the no fly list implementation is designed to do exactly what it does, with (among other features) extremely loose matching criteria applied. “Mistakes” are a cover for policy.
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I would like to know this as well. I mostly work with Renesas RH850 cores and was interested to be able to compile rust for them, but there is no v850 backend, sadly. Was considering fiddling with it, but couldn't figure out how.

I also hate the proprietary compilers for this arch, since they are sooo slooow (maybe for good reason, but I have no comparison point) and their licensing method just annoys me.
What is an ethical vegetarian and how is it different from veganism? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
He clearly has a nice narrative, stop trying to spoil it for him by popping his balloons
What's wrong with using JWTs? What you have done should be industry standard and is enabled by the JWK spec. In fact several features of OpenID Connect are built upon signed JWTs from a well-known JWK store.
30 year pescetarian here. I mean, mainly vegetarian but some fish every so often.

I gave up meat at 17 on the basis of no reason whatsoever, I was just a contrary teen who liked giving things up.

Down the line a few years I find so many compelling reasons to not eat meat. Each individually may be argued out of the room but collectively it's pretty compelling.

Ethically: there's no arguing meat eating is better. None. However well you treat animals you're still ultimately going to kill them.

Environmentally: a hundred reasons to choose a plant based diet, all of which have been cycled here a million times so won't go back through it but we all know it's true.

Health: again, see pretty much all the research ever. Eating a plant based diet is so much better for weight, health, BMI, etc etc etc

Taste: this is the kicker imo. If you'd asked me 15 years ago when the vegetarian alternative was a crappy pasta with tomato sauce, I'd have been more tempted to chomp my way into a steak. Nowadays? There is SO much good vegetarian food. Loads of choice, huge range of flavours and in many places it's the vegetarian food that gets the chef's attention, rather than falling back on the Default Meat.

I totally support anyone making whatever decision they like about eating meat, but I'm completely unable to agree that it's a good idea.

Cultured meat in this context is a difficult one to parse. For people like me there's literally no point. I'm just not interested in eating steak, whether it's killed or grown. For your hardcore fleshy, a bloody slab of meat is all that's going to satiate them, so it misses that market too. I guess there's maybe a middle ground of people who could be convinced to stop eating killed meat if they see an alternative?

It'll be interesting to see where this one goes and how it is marketed...
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I did. Usually I am not clicking the pinterest/quora links and I am left with nothing.
This might relate to the “look at cash flows not profit” type thinking. Paying people with your post tax money is often expensive. Also paying someone to do my dishes so I can code more is in theory effective, but my brain might be tired and doing dishes myself might be the optimal thing from a humanistic point of view
Most of the time such reviews are not practical; they cost too much money and don't deliver results. Such review industries are almost always all about the rubber stamp and don't end up employing competent reviewers.

See e.g. the Infineon ROCA flaw that FIPS certification didn't catch (even though that code reeked of them being too clever, and should've gone through proper cryptanalysis).

See: flaws in the FIPS YubiKey (specific to that version! The certification requirements introduced vulns!)

See: every audit of every terrible CA ever.
I’m not too familiar with ruby but I’m curious why they didn’t just add optional types after the variable names. Such as in Kotlin, Scala, Swift like “var x:Int”? I thought this is how Python was adding types to its language. I could see this though fundamentally changing the philosophy/design of the language but I think dynamic languages are heading toward type safety anyway.
Can’t trade joy for a house or clothes for the kids.

... or 5 star holidays along the Mediterranean.
> Why are we such an insane and violent species.

Quite often our bad qualities are the ones that ensure our survival and progress. Nowadays, most of us are neither insane nor violent. But I am sure those things contributed immensely in making us the dominant species of the planet.
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So your theory is that a quarter of the US population experiences chronic pain?
Ya, and it's way cheaper that way. Especially if you buy the basics in bulk at a big box store.

Acetomeniphin
Ibuprofen
Benadryl
Pseudoephedrine

Covers almost all of the many combinations for sale at the drug store.
Hard to wrap my head around the idea that civilians run around with these on their heads recording everything in their path including others who haven't consented.

I hope it stays an assistive niche technology for people with disabilities and gamers.
People wearing this in a pub or on the streets hopefully continue to get ridiculed (e.g. they were called "glassholes" for good reason).

When they say that if a person loses one of their senses then the other senses become heightened, it's interesting to note that this does the opposite by attempting to heighten (augment) several senses. The net benefit is not just poor but negative since it just is one more way to overload our cognitive abilities. In other words who cares about the additional things (data points) we see when it makes us miss others (since it's still a distortion)
The only instance somewhat like this that I am aware of is that two malware samples sort of 'recombined' accidentally.

One was a worm that packaged itself up and sent itself around, the other did some sort of injection or binary patching and happened to piggyback onto the worm.
Hmm, makes sense. Does same principles also hold while rendering the movie? The 80/20 rule will be harder to maintain because assets can change frequently and unexpectedly during production. But I guess the need for the data to geographically replicated, with fast and easy access, remains (especially during these remote times). During those times, is s3 a still good enough choice or do you want something more robust so your rendering process is not bottlenecked by io.
1. Be extremely skilled at a fairly narrow domain that hasn't been explored very well.

2. Work hard on the project for a continuous period of time.

3. Be fortunate enough to have picked something that the rest of the world wants.

And then your chances are still a "maybe". So you can't necessarily plan for it.
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Wow, such index would tremendously help free p2p search YaCy, https://yacy.net.
I read the linked tweets, and found them pretty vague.

Ivory powder is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), so it's more likely than not that China won't stop killing elephants (or rhinos.) Additionally, exotic TCM ingredients are considered to be a status symbol, so price is no object.

In addition, there's a new development. The CCP is intruding into Asian and African countries using Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a pretext, and even positioning armies there. This could well accelerate poaching.

I think you mean well, but consider the source of your information before being argumentative.
Some say I am, but I like to think there's a little bot in all of us.
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Sadly, Matvey Natanzon (aka Falafel) passed away this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvey_Natanzon
Imagine having to drink coffee. Its pretty terrifying, especially for a Brit.

More seriously - the people who own that property were civilians and probably scared. In usa terrorism is defined currently as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents". (Title 22 Chapter 38 U.S. Code § 2656f)

The boston tea party was premeditated, politically motivated, the tea was not military (so non combatant) and it was done by a subnational group. Seems to fit to me.
Wow, thanks for the feedback!

It's a personal initiative to fund fellow makers. I'll definitely be working closely with them before offering financial help. Yeah, the start here part makes sense. After a successful payment, Stripe redirects there, maybe I can name it "welcome" to be clear.

Do you think the focus on relationships and 1-on-1 help is worth paying for? I mean, when you visited for example, what actually stops you from paying.

And again, I really appreciate you for taking a minute to visit us.
For Java, we could try:

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Pretty boring read but would definitely provide her a great base for getting to Java. Best wishes to your friend's daughter!