skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine creates broad protection against the virus’s spike protein structure. If the virus mutated enough to evade this protection, it would have to develop a structure so radically different that it would likely no longer be able to attach to the ACE2 receptor.

What is going on right now is mass anxiety. The vaccine is out, so humanity is imagining how things could still go wrong. The easiest thing to imagine is a version of the virus that doesn’t respond to antibodies. Luckily, they imagine this because they don’t understand how the vaccine works. It’s fantasy, and it is highly unlikely that any of this would play out.
Is it possible to use the texture memory/cache (including the Expansion Pak) as additional (albeit limited) system RAM? If so, is that the case here?
In most decent frameworks (NIST, COBIT, PCI-DSS) the changing of default passwords, removal of (unecessary) default accounts, and similar controls is a MUST. The network admin who doesn't do that the minute they add a new device on their network should lose their job. The companies who have IT Sec, and IT Auditors who don't check for this should also lose their jobs (or they should all get educated and keep their jobs).

These are basic stuff, a newbie IT should know these things.

I will also assume that (large) organizations test the updates, and have an action plan in place (i.e. apply fix/patch/update XYZ, study what it does, read the documentation, make the future-state-config, deploy that config, validate the config). I know, simple words, we 'all' (in the profession) know this but when you need to patch x1000, and the boss is barking.......
Yes, I love seeing this stuff over the standard JavaScript lib of the month.
Conway's Game of Life (1970)
The UK is a giant lab right now and the results of the experiment are in: https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1341094871822680067?s=2...

What could explain that data other than increased transmissibility?
VGA monochrome was popular in like the early 90s as an affordable way to get high res VGA without shelling out for the then expensive VGA color monitors.
> "For $2.8K you could get a 31" e-ink color display and driver board."

Which isn't a monitor. It's a barebones devkit that doesn't accept video input and takes a couple dozen seconds to refresh.
Mutations that spread quicker are also less deadly.
OK I really wish you didn’t post that. It looks absolutely amazing and my desk is already too full of monitors.
Yes but the Dasung monitor is much faster
Thanks. So the CA/Browser Forum has given space for this in their definitions, but lack establishing one of those TLD for the use case I mention.

Which surprises me. We even have IP address ranges defined for usage in examples in documentation... How come no TLD has been assigned for development purposes with relaxed requirements. Everybody needs to develop, as a first step before using an actual TLD. Just use .lan or similar!
Nope, can you please summarize it for me?

(I am still going to review it sometime.)
We Must Go Even Faster – Ace Combat 5
Although it would be great if HN notified you of replies and had a dedicated place to see them besides "threads", which also show comments no one replied to.
A few times I've landed on Pinterest and they lock user copied (contrary to copyright law in my country AFAICT) content behind a registration-wall. They never show enough utility for new to register, they just tease on Google and then don't show what they teased.

Google results would be better for me with all Pinterest results removed.
That covers a lot of the basic concepts, albeit in a somewhat different format than I imagined. For one, it sticks to a grid rather than being freeform. There are certainly benefits to that. Thanks :-)
Both in Google, and in DDG, sometimes when I am looking for an image (i.e. image of a "full body workout plan") the images I find tend to be 'hosted' in Pinterest, but in reality following them links take me to Pinterest, and then back to the original source (which is some random fitness site).

I find Pinterest useful as an image search engine.
Terraform modules are within our roadmap, for now we have the market-place where you can design template architectures that contain your own rules and policies that you can distribute within your organization or team(s), you can make them public if you want as well.
If it’s just one person or even a group of people arbitrarily saying what we should do, I’d agree with you. On the other hand, we have a genuine health crisis and medical professionals are telling us what we should do. Further, there is an end in sight, and no way to extend those curtailments due to other reasons not related to health. Also, the powers that the states are exercising are ones they have held since before the US was even a country, and have been upheld since, with restrictions. Hand waving about dictatorship doesn’t really apply here, despite the extreme measures being taken.
Very well. PDF is the easiest task.
I'm playing on an older PC: i5-2500k (from 2011!); 12gb RAM, Geforce 1070; 1920x1080. It works well on Ultra settings, but I have occasional tree glitches. Story and gameplay are excellent.
I'm not talking (nor care) about whether some particular person (Roko Basilisk'd creator or whoever) is right-wing or not. I'm commenting on the argument in your comment, about

"Traditional" being a traditional (heh) dogwhistle for the alt-right".

He could be to the right of Hitler, and the argument could still be wrong.

(I guess now you can write "I figured as much", and dismiss my comment, as if the particular and not the principle is what's important).
This could all be summed up with that line in the Matrix: "I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. You understand?"

The more we know about our world the more likely we're going to be depressed.
You're completely off the mark.

First of all your fears are completely unfounded. Statistics are still predicting growth in IT and software development. And looking at how tooling has evolved, yes in some ways it is now a little easier to create a 1995 style website, BUT websites have become super complicated and now it is the full time job of somebody to work on just the front-end. A 2020 website still takes a lot of effort to produce, in fact definitely much more effort than a 1995 website.

Secondly you mention a bunch of fields, some of which I have experience with. These more fundamental fields have little demand, and because of that the pay is relatively bad. If you go work at Intel writing NLA libraries using Fourier Transforms, you would be lucky to get paid market average salaries and certainly much worse salaries than doing generic SWE stuff at FAANG.

And thirdly, honestly you won't be able to transition into these more technical fields because it is just too much of a steep learning curve. And nobody would hire you anyway. There's no shortage of graduates fresh out of uni with multiple semesters of theory, practical projects and internships.

The actual way to prepare would be as always: maximize your salary and save as much as possible.
Yes it definitely can't be a monitor - it doesn't accept any kind of video input, syncs over wifi etc.
I’m a big fan of TWiV podcast (This Week in Virology) and I understand Racaniello’s point of view. However, this thread and other info I’ve read lead me to believe that this is an important new development.

https://twitter.com/billhanage/status/1341857733633581063?s=...
You're off by ten orders of magnitude ;)

char SAVEGAME[8388608];
Is there a ddg bang for search without returning Pinterest? (I mean I think -pinterest should work but maybe fewer characters, and I’m not even sure “-“ works anymore.
Except the number of parameters is maybe much lower, and the the universe had ~14 billion years in a ~93+ billion lightyear radius to have them coincide.
Ask HN: Herd Mentality vs. Mutations
The premise of herd mentality is that enough people get sick eventually we will become immune. But what about virus mutations that happens when enough people get sick like we are seeing now? Can a virologist on HN please educate us?
We live in a time where old age is a big killer but in history the killers would have been war or disease so maybe optimising for longer life wasn’t worth it.
How economists rode maths to become our era's astrologers
Could you elaborate by which moral principle you come to the
conclusion that a vague slippery slope and even more vague outrage
is more important than stopping a pandemic with hundreds of thousands
of preventable deaths?

Most moral systems of my acquantance are based on a hierachy of values
that puts saving human lives over just about anything.
Torch and most calculator apps.
Given that if you are starting a new project now, you'd almost never even consider using Cobol, that would be a very weird definition of 'dominant'..
What, phones are dangerous to rely on after 7 years?
Thanks for the reading. I'm checking it out now.
This, plus the recently announced PlayStation 5 gamepad driver support for Linux. Dreaming is free.
I think your premise is wrong. The service isn't broken. I'd assume Google has enough people and data to know that it's doing what most people want. They were even kind enough to put in a workaround for the minority for whom it doesn't work well (which appears to be OP).
Simply working at Apple for 6 years carries it’s own weight.
"Bob worked at GCHQ between month/year and month/year".

Lots of places understand that there are strict confidentiality agreements (whether those are by convention, contract like NDA, or law like Official Secrets) and they often welcome this.
It’s kinda hilarious (to people living in areas with actual seasons) to hear about summer and winter in Hawaii. Based on the temp averages I see on weather.com, there is some variation. But how does it actually feel? Does “Hawaii winter” feel like actual different season or is it just “slightly less hot summer”/every other day?
“Hypothesis with a small prior” is a fancy way of saying “speculation”.

There are literally dozens of strains on nextstrain that have rapidly grown to be the predominant strain in a region. That alone is not a strong indication of anything other than founder effect.
Url belatedly changed from https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD/100-tips-f..., which points to this.
In all my time spent in studios and live music in the past 20 years, I've never encountered an A/V professional using Linux. I don't work in video production but I know several people who do, and I've watched some documentaries on this -- in that case, the proportion of Apple machines seems to be even higher than the already quite high proportion found in audio. Never seen a professional or semi-pro using a Linux box. I'm sure they exist, but this doesn't track at all with what I know about this industry.

Sometimes a DJ or bedroom producer is using Windows. So it's quite surprising to hear you say that Linux is the standard.

Can you point me to any producers, artists, sound engineers, studios, or production houses that use Linux? I would love to know...

I have never seen anyone using CALF tools in this profession. Looking at what that does - the functionality is available in a number of rock-solid applications native to Apple (MainStage, Ableton, Logic, etc). So there's no reason why it would need to be ported to MacOS.

How are you measuring audio stack superiority? And in terms of "stack", are you talking about something separate from the suite of professional audio / MIDI tools that come standard on every Apple computer that don't seem to have any comparison on Linux or Windows?

Are you taking into account the availability of hardware drivers on these different platforms? What is your experience in setting up a Linux-based audio production system with a lot of outboard gear? This is one area that seems to be a major source of headaches and motivation to not use Linux for producers and engineers.

Even looking through the comments on this page - there's people talking about the difficulty of setting up a functional audio production environment in Linux compared to Apple. I've noticed this sentiment is repeated over and over again on HN (going back to previous articles on audio production, Ableton, etc).

This topic stands out to me as I've sincerely wanted Linux to be much less of a headache with audio so I can get off the Apple ecosystem entirely.
Real answer?

Because helpful technologists are the interface between less knowledgeable users and services like Google. We’re the power users and “mavens” who are both highly exposed to the product and have some understanding of what’s going wrong and how it might be made better. We also spend a lot more time talking to that product’s engineering staff than the typical user (see e.g. the fact that we’re here on HN.)

When helpful technologists opt out of the problematic aspects of a product by uttering some magic incantation, we essentially remove ourselves from having to be annoyed by the product’s rough edges. This means we’re less likely to help improve the service for everyone, and we’re probably more likely to incorporate similar carelessness into the things we make ourselves.
ELI5: what's the big deal? It's B&W!
18XX Train Games
This is my takeaway as well.
Ungit[0] shows what will happen to the tree before you execute a merge or rebase. It really helped me get a hang of Git.

[0] https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit
Expansion Pak is regular RAM both to this and the normal games.

The texture memory would be difficult to use as RAM though since it's not directly addressable.
> What makes you think that the lockdowns will be lifted after we are all vaccinated for this particular strain of COVID

Because I think most reps are acting in good faith, and nobody wants these lockdowns - they are just necessary. Why would someone want to continue them after Covid?
So essentially big brother the country for a disease where the average case fatality is a person who is 80 years old with 2 co-morbidities.

Where under 55 years old age group (80% of the population) had more deaths by car accident than Covid deaths.

Doesn't sound rational to me.
The expansion pak would double the effective memory from 4MB to 8. But, there is no separate memory for textures to take advantage of. Just a 4k cache that textures were loaded into from main RAM one at a time while rendering.

There were some games that manually implemented their own virtual memory paging system to map the cartridge ROM to RAM address space.

But, in general a feature that distinguished the N64 from the PS1 was that it had a single, unified block of RAM for all of the hardware to share however you like.
but they have the option to download (with the iCloud share link, not shared album).
CIA or CISA?
I don’t see what people are going on about with psychedelics, when we have an equally mind-warping vehicle in writings about marketing strategies. The article is fine. The Zeitgeist may not be.

I was unaware of “thought leadership” as anything but two disjoint English words, but apparently it is a phrase so overused that it has become “fuzzy”. Not in a good, teddy bear way, but in a bad, my-business-will-fail way.

And you can also “do thought leadership content”. For someone my age, this sounds like the sort of phrase you hear from someone experiencing a transient ischemic attack, but this is something people in marketing care about deeply.

In common-sense land, there have been many cases of people “doing thought leadership content” — any major philosopher, mathematician, scientist, serious academicians, leaders in new musical and artistic forms...

But no.

“Thought leadership isn’t a type of content—it’s an approach to content.”

Quite an epiphany, or delusion, take your pick.

But it follows from the examples the Author cites

“I want my brand to be seen as a leading authority in my industry/discipline.”

Not to actually be the authority...that is secondary...but to be seen as a leading authority.

For senior management in information content and technologies such as universities, this is embarrassingly close to the truth sometimes. E.g., the view of Harvard as a private endowment fund management firm, with a modest R&D division and a more modest educational appendage.

This is predicated on a “fake it till you make it” taken to the extreme of “just fake it”.

But not really.

“The other important thing to understand is that in order for content to rise to the level of thought leadership, it has to be authentic. It has to be deeply rooted in your unique perspective or experience or expertise. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be completely original, but it has to belong to you and your brand in a way that is recognizably you.”

Well-written...nice use of the word “you”. Problematic when it comes to defining what “belongs to” means, if it isn’t “completely original”. A total fake or copy isn’t “completely original”, but nothing is stopping you from you “belonging it”, I suppose.

“Authenticity, once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” is the much-used quote that comes to mind.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/05/fake-honesty/

That may be an unkind take, but a reasonable one.

The rest of the article talks about specific techniques (tropes) to do that on the Web. Each of which makes me cringe whenever I see it in a blog or post title. They all sound like snake oil when I read that sort of formatted content. Not the content itself (never open the article to find out) but the way it is pitched and packaged in the blurb or title. It probably works the first time, but doesn’t work the tenth. The media is the message, and the message is “this is just marketing, can someone else read this and tell me if there is any actual content”.
More entitled whining about being slightly inconvenienced for the benefit of the sick and elderly. Let them die! This woman wants to eat out at a restaurant.
Did it take 50-60 hours in ancient times to gather enough firewood to burn a fire for an hour, or does this limit the definition of artificial light to some kind of higher quality oil lamp?
Britain has closed one trade door but opened a new one with the EU. Specifically they have reached a “zero tariff-zero quota deal”. Not ratified by the British Parliament but no one supposes this won't be done in the next few days before the final break with the EU on the 31st December.
https://archive.is/xZlbR
No. They're exactly right. The root problem here is incentive misalignment. Both Google and Pinterest sacrifice value they provide to extract more revenue from their users.
> "An LCD with _perfect_ calibration to the local lighting conditions would look indistinguishable from an eInk display"

Too bad nobody actually makes one. There's no way to buy a hypothetical, so e-ink it is.
Yes it does. The disease would have been eradicated a long time ago if it didn't have asymptomatic transmission. (see: SARS and MERS)
Strong types are very important for concurrency.

However, by themselves, strong types do not provide proofs.

See the following for proofs of strongly-typed concurrent systems:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3418003

Strongly-typed programming languages need to provide

additional capabilities for error processing and recovery.
How does their performance compare to a m1 Mac mini?
All facial recognition implementations in US policing have a human in the loop to verify the match. It introduces no more error than already exists when we use human judgment to spot and catch suspects by random luck using beat cops. This is better because it narrows down the search for suspects and uses limited staff efficiently, leading to an overall safer society. All this fear mongering about false positives is irrelevant because there is a human in the loop.

> And you are assuming that all people have ID on them. Or are even here legally.

Sorry but almost everyone does have ID on them at all times. It is unreasonable to design our society for those who don’t. As for those here illegally - well perhaps they shouldn’t be here illegally. Again, we shouldn’t design our society that is based on laws around them.

> If a single person is incorrectly identified by a system design to catch warrants, the system has failed beyond redemption.

I disagree. Any large scale and complex system will be imperfect. Your argument is basically “letting perfect be the enemy of good”.
I am curious how your site accounts for different screens representing colors differently. It seems like it would be a hard problem to solve for this use case.
If curious see also

2018 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16875577
There is research saying that background lighting causes something called Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) https://www.goodeyes.com/dry-eye/office-lighting-tips-reduce...
This completely blows my mind, but also seems a natural fit considering the SGI lineage of the N64. It's like a super budget IRIX workstation ;P
So you're saying the studies are all wrong based on your a priori reasoning that interventions so far have failed?

Make a convincing study to disprove them.
> central control is impossible.

It's possible and we use it at work. Most major source control servers that support git also support user and role-based control over PR merges, force commits, etc.

There's little difference between a user that has a copy of the source as SVN and that of git, other than the git client itself allows the user to manage their commits on their local computer.
Ask HN: Why are complex numbers needed to understand Quantum Mechanics?
I kind of understand that complex numbers were invented to solve the equations of type x^2 + 1 = 0.
However, I do not understand the need of complex numbers in understanding / modeling quantum systems.
Quantum systems are natural and nature does not function in complex numbers OR at least I can't see it that way. Then why do the quantum systems need complex numbers?

How can I "reverse engineer" a system of quantum state expressed in complex numbers to its actual natural manifestation (assuming some kind of mechanical tools are developed in the future to do that)?
It's indeed a useful tip - and no offense to the GP - but this kind of reply always feels like the tech support equivalent of a mandatory arbitration clause: like an attempt to solve an issue individually with each person reporting it instead of giving a systemic solution that would benefit anyone. The blame is shifted from devs providing a good service to individual users not knowing the latest workaround.
Sorry... Typo :(
Can you please show me some examples of what good Python code looks like, and point out the overhead? Next month I will be working on a major redesign of a fairly complicated simulations code (Pytorch) with the goal of making it more flexible, and incorporating some new features. This code will be used by many others, so I want to follow good software engineering practices.
Manuals for the system and it’s processor exist. The Linux kernel is pretty agnostic towards what it’s running on, as long as it supports the C Language. The difficult part is filling in the system specific blanks in the kernels’ source code, which is big work.

See here: https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Linux/MIPS_Porting_Guide
>Besides, how exactly would you signal it and to whom? Since transition to WFH, I haven't met a single colleague of mine offline.

That would be a good counter-argument if I said people are doing this food signalling thing just or particularly or generally these last months.

But humanity and restaurants existed before covid/wfh, and would (I bet) exist after it. I was referring to something people do in general (and have done for centuries), not to what temporary situation they are forced because of WFH to do.

That said, even with WFH one can (and many do) flaunt their food buying habbits online, with pictures of the high class foods they stocked their fridge, their expensive deliveries, their subtle knowledge and enjoyment of expensive coffee beans for their espresso habbit, and so on...
TMEM isn't a cache unfortunately and has to be manually loaded and unloaded.

But because of that you might be able to use it for extra sort of like how the Factor 5 GC games would spill out to ARAM.

A lot of work for 4k of RAM though.