skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much, just read a few things here and there, but viruses can get less lethal as they mutate because a virus doesn't want to kill its host, it wants to spread. Killing the host usually prevents spread.
I'd like to add that we are watching a 24fps video of a monitor so the actual performance is probably even better.

Meanwhile my kindle oasis has like 1fps.
extension for firefox that puts "block thisdomain" under thre results: https://github.com/wildskyf/personal-blocklist
I've been a part of a team that operated a large website and I've been paged before because of the issues that somebody was causing because it was being crawled too much. Many people in the web operations field have had the same experience. Generally speaking, the larger the website, the more sensitive they are about who is crawling and why.
Agree. I'm a big fan of "The New Paper" [0] for "slow news".

[0] https://thenewpaper.co/
why? was there a epaper kind of display whenever you were younger? or are you comparing this to monochrome light emitting displays?
Puck all of HN crew you guys are hippoceite as bell end.
the incubation and transmission of the corona virus is not tightly coupled to morbidity, this virus moves to another individual before debilitating symptoms occur.

the virus will not become weaker as time goes on, it will have less variation to call upon for evasion of host defenses.

the major selective pressure on this virus appears to be exhaustion of variant production bringing the cat and mouse game of new viral antigen sequence vs antibody respecification to a stalemate, and the virus must move on [spillover] to a new host species. The ability to occur in many novel variations, and eventually spillover from a host species to a conspecific host is how this virus persists.
Changing the prototype of objects after they've been initialized causes deopts for JIT compiled code. Its convenient, but you probably can't use this pattern in performance-sensitive code.
Not many people know: the original Max Headroom 'pilot' was a 1985 British cyberpunk movie, somewhat underground despite being shown on TV — "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future" — not only does it explain the origin of the Max Headroom character, it's actually a great watch IMO :)

Whole movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZY-yQYVf38

Wikipedia info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom:_20_Minutes_into_...
Have you ever tried eliminating Chinese made goods from your life? You'd have to start by ditching your phone and computer, because they're pretty much all assembled in China.

We frankly don't even have access to the information we need to make an informed choice. Even things that don't say "made in China" most likely have some Chinese made parts inside.
Some actual lab work? I’m not a biologist so I can’t give you specific assays. The TWiV team might, I’ll submit a question. If you look at the data behind the NERVTAG report it’s extremely noisy, and is circumstantial. Nothing in there directly measures the viruses ability to spread.
Last line

> but those that aren’t unhappy most of the time should get help.

I think you meant

"but those that aren’t happy most of the time should get help".
Thanks for all the insights. There's definitely a lot of issues to overcome. Nice to get some perspectives.

I think there's a decent space here for a sub internet that's totally open to the public. Like a bootstrap internet. Right now in order to use The Internet you have to pay someone for access and use privately owned infrastructure.

There's room for a layer below, on the community level. I imagine being able to buy or build a $5-$10 commodity item, press the ON switch, and be connected to a level of internet that's lesser but still extremely useful, and can exist off the main internet if needed but doesn't have to.

Not to mention uses in the event of emergencies.
New Linux port for the Nintendo 64
I think something like this is so cool: the relative ease in which Linux can be ported to something combined with a new application for a retro console. His post sums it up.

"But why... Most importantly, because I can."
I have not played with NixOS - my project above was to build a workstation in docker that would hold all my daily stuff at a fixed defined level - like a lockfile I guess but a docker file.

I suspect that even the same docker file has much more wriggle room than a nixos definition - it again not too clear on that
Oh yes these dummys just do not get it.
Adventcado
Not if you don't have Pininterest account. then you can't scroll more than half a page.
Is this company publicly traded? I've never heard of this company before.
The most insightfull part of the article, to me, relates to Lenovo's website and customer communication:

"Everything seems to be on sale all the time, there are laptops of different generations of the same product line being advertised to you."

I feel this is on point, and i felt the same buying monitor from LG, it took hours of research to tell the difference between their models,
etc - its arcane and impossible for the uninitiated. While building a good OS is hard, getting half decent website and legible model names surely isn't?
How many devices are running iOS8 or older vs 7.1.1 or older?

iOS8 released 2014. Newest iPhone that is stuck on iOS8 or older is iPhone 4 from 2010.

Android 7.1.1 released 2016, many devices without any upgrade provided. There are Android phones from 2016 + 2017 that are stuck at 7.1.

Apple devices does not have the same problem.

(Android upgrade paths are super sad, you almost have to buy new phone every year to stay updated)
Skip to 4:04 for the display of video on the monitor.
Not far sir: https://forum.ei2030.org/t/flexible-electronic-paper-is-bein...
Full motion video shown here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qrURPAtnY
Just How Dark Were the Dark Ages?
How much does it cost to build a Intel/AMD computer with performance comparable to a m1 Mac mini?
is this a fake account? what kind of a comment is this? completely unrelated to OP and generally just looks like a generated string
If you watch the video the display seems to be around 10fps which is the best I've ever seen for eInk.
Oh! Mr. Organizer, near Ocho Rios beach in Jamaica, in the 1980s. Best jerk pork/chicken EVER, grilled on a big sheet of perforated corrugated steel over pimento wood.
https://pimentowood.com/
my first programming job out of school involved working on a simulator with replay scenarios. a subtle bug arose due to what I assume was an optimization in which whenever a getter was called the value was incremented. during replay it would skip steps.

it was not well documented. ever since I've avoided mutating getters.
It scores 29/100 on Google Page Speed Insights. It cites a huge DOM, and large amount of third part content.
One could say they are gaming it
AIUI, ground source heat pumps get really expensive when the ground is really hard. A reasonable proxy is “do your neighbors have basements?” If the answer is “no”, then it’s probably because digging is more trouble than it’s worth.
...and there is a crack available for that, not surprisingly.
IANAV: So, when someone gets visibly sick, they tend to get isolated from other people. That makes it more difficult for the virus to spread. So over time there's a slight advantage to variations of a virus that don't make as many people sick.

I'm sure there are other factors, but that's a big one. So most viruses tend to harm the host less over time.

We saw the opposite effect during the Spanish Flu. As I recall at least one theory: because there was a war on, only severely sick soldiers would get sent away from the front lines, where they could come into contact with the general population. Less severe cases were kept on the front lines. This behavior created an inverse effect, applying selective pressure on more _severe_ strains of the virus. Hence, the second more deadly wave.

Once the Spanish Flu pandemic was "over" and the war was over, that pressure wore off and the Spanish Flu slowly evolved into various common cold strains that we still see today (AFAIK).

My guess is that it's hard to speculate what will happen with COVID-19. Several common cold viruses are coronaviruses, so from that one might conclude that COVID-19 will follow the same path of becoming less severe over time. But COVID-19 also has a _very_ large incidence of asymptomatic transmission. So isolating people who are very sick is unlikely to provide much selective pressure to this virus.

If COVID-19 _does_ become less severe over time, it will occur only because of different selective pressures or for different reasons. For example, maybe the mutations that result in higher transmission also, by some genetic necessity, lower severity.

The asymptomatic nature of COVID-19 gives it a big question mark, and we should _not_ assume anything about it becoming less severe over time. We should keep up aggressive measures to control its spread and lean on our vaccines to squash it before it has a chance to get worse. The quicker we get the vaccine out, and the more aggressive we are about controlling the virus's spread, the higher our chance of getting out of this mess.
MediaTek Becomes Biggest Smartphone Chipset Vendor for First Time in Q3 2020
2020 Best Photos (Bloomberg)
Why does Google let Pinterest dominate their results?
For $2.8K you could get a 31" e-ink color display and driver board. https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2%cb%9d-color-epaper-di...
Agreed. I've been a Linux desktop user since the mid 90s. It was difficult at first but that was also when Linux was in its infancy. I've had nearly the same working environment now for over a decade. I've matured it a bit but it's still just xfce, Firefox and vim on a thinkpad. The world of mainstream UIs has taken some wild shifts and each one seems to be intent on breaking muscle memory and changing core concepts that you're promised will make your life better, once _you_ adapt. I've never had those problems. My systems just work.
> there is no bigger place in all of Germany

There are bigger exhibition grounds in Germany (obviously Hannover, probably Köln and Frankfurt, possibly more), but not for this budget.

By multiplying attendance numbers and average ticket prices, I estimated the total budget for the last Congress at 2.5 million €. Most of that is going to be spent on the venue and the transit pass included in the admission fee. So without any insight into how the budget is divided, it's fair to estimate 1.5 to 2 million going into the rent for the venue. Given that we're talking about an entire exhibition grounds for over two weeks (buildup starts around the 17th of December and teardown usually ends around the 2nd of January), that's an absolute steal. I find it highly unlikely they would be able to get as good a deal for a larger exhibition grounds.

And even if they did, you cannot scale up a conference just by moving to a larger venue. You also need to have the team to back it up. After seeing Congress move from Hamburg to Leipzig and grow into its current size (with over 3000 volunteers doing the bulk of the work), I'm somewhat skeptical they could do it again so soon. The inner circle of seasoned volunteers needs to be grown accordingly.

Besides that, it's an open question if Congress actually wants to grow further. Accomodating more and more attendees from more diverse backgrounds runs the risk of losing your own identity. Simply put, I wouldn't want Congress to be "yet another Burning Man". It's really good that we have had more representation from artists, activists and even public officials in recent years, but it should still be recognizable as a CCC event.
I don't think update policy is hostile, it is an over-correction of the problem they had before, where average laptop had 3 trojans fighting for control. For the unwashed masses, its certainly an improvement
> So what would be the proper way to describe an ethnic group that, when examined purely statistically, really has performed well above average in mathamatics?

Exactly the way you said it. "Statistically speaking, controlling (or not controlling) for relevant factors foo, bar, and baz, group X outperforms other groups such Y, and Z in tests of skill A". Which isn't the same thing as "X is good at A". "X is good at A" is a meaningless statement. It's devoid of context and prone to overgeneralization. It's not useful for anything.
learngitbranching.js.org is quite good
So, when the news broke a week ago, I was wearing my skeptic hat just like for the handful of previous announcements about "new strains". And some initial reading suggested that there was nothing to worry about. But the one data point that was so eye-popping that I thought it had to be a misprint was that 60% of the cases in London were for the new variant. It wasn't a misprint, and it wasn't isolated to London.

That is the single strongest set of data here. In the areas where both the new variant and the older ones can be distinguished (via sequencing or via the fortuitous FN from the commonly used PCR test), the new one is spreading substantially faster. This measurement is not sensitive to confounding factors such as environmental or behavioral changes, because those would affect all variants equally.

The thing that the TWIV guys seem to love repeating is that this is just a founder effect. I just don't understand where they're getting that idea from. Yes, that's almost certainly been the explanation in the earlier cases we had where one variant become predominant. But that happened in low prevalence environments. It's basically inevitable that if there are few cases, one variant or the other will become predominant just by random chance. That was not the case in the UK. In mid-October, when this variant was still basically non-existent, they were at 15k confirmed cases / day. This variant is not a founder, it was a very successful invader.

The other evidence is weaker, because it's less direct and the data is noisier. (Increased viral loads, many of the changes happening in parts of the genome that were already expected to be of biological interest, correlation studies showing that areas where the new variant is predominant have higher growth rates when controlling for other factors). That data would not be conclusive by itself. But all of it is directionally consistent with the main data point of concern, and strengthens the case.
I used to think that, but recently I switched my Mac to greyscale, and have actually found it much easier to read and understand code. The shades of Grey are enough to indicate structures and the lack of color makes it much more legible as text.
As I've pointed out in another comment, this implementation loses track of the index. It looks clean enough to my un-rusty eye, but it sacrifices functionality in favor of hiding the arithmetic behind a slice.

And __s's comment does it best: use the standard library. And that's a nice implementation (despite the unsafe stuff), which tracks the basepoint and size to keep the arithmetic clean.
They use screens from eink holdings which is publicly traded. Dasung is private. More on eink stock investing:https://forum.ei2030.org/t/investing-to-eink-epaper-stocks/6...
Where is that 30% coming from?
Sounds like you may have interviewed with engineers working on an upcoming product that hadn't been announced.

I worked there and my friends and family knew what product team I was on. I couldn't tell anyone anything specific about the work, but it wasn't a total mystery.
I think others here have alluded this but the thing is that once, doing everything you need to do to get listed but actually being crap was enough to get you de-listed. The criteria wasn't "do what Google wants", the criteria was "be good and also help the algorithm determine that you're good".

Only running the right SEO wasn't sufficient then and I certain wish that criteria remained.
> they have a job that they would die than quit. It's that important to them.

Or maybe simply quitting would be even worse than taking their own lives, somehow. And Foxconn might be part of making that situation a reality.
I'm not sure if I understand your comment, or how it relates to the article.
Great article:

Air & Space Magazine: Mach 1: Assaulting the Barrier (1990)

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/mach-1-assault...
To me a calm company would foremost:

Balance growth with ethics, preferring to be ethical as possible.

Be kind to staff. Always help them find success rather than bully them or tell them off for doing the wrong thing. But needs to be balanced with what the company needs so there would need to be two ways.

Is flexible with staff where reasonable.

Most of all avoid getting angry at people. Not by suppressing anger but by having a worldview that you can trust your staff and they are doing their best your job is to coach them.
What happens if the world gets into a situation where the virus mutates rapidly and we find the vaccines becoming less effective?

We assume the drug companies will be able to adapt the vaccine quickly to the new variants. If this happens then it creates a few problems..

One problem is having to continuously distribute a new vaccine to people indefinitely.

Another problem is only certain countries are capable of manufacturing the vaccine. So you have a kind of supply chain scarcity develop where only certain people in certain countries will be able to get one.

I've seen mixed reports about whether the current vaccine will hold up as variants appear.
> And they're all cheaper than their Apple counterparts of the same class.

I'm not really sure this is true. Last time I shopped for a laptop, the premium series ThinkPads (T or X series or so) cost pretty much the same as a similarly specced MBP. A Dell XPS didn't differ that much. The Apple hardware might even had a bit more oomph than a similarly priced ThinkPad or XPS, e.g. by having a CPU with a higher TDP.

An X1 Carbon from Lenovo would have cost more than almost any other laptop with similar specs.

Of course things might have changed in recent years, or pricing could be somewhat different in different markets (I'm in Europe). Cheaper series (such as ThinkPad E or L or whatever they've got nowadays) would of course also be cheaper. But based on what I saw, the old trope about Apple laptops being especially expensive didn't seem to hold if you compared it with premium models from other manufacturers, and not with value models.

FWIW, I ended up with Lenovo in any case and haven't been disappointed. But price wasn't really the reason.
How well does it handle PDFs?
Am I the only one thinking that life is pointless after reading this? Seriously, this guy is shoving snow so that some idiot can flatten it the day after, why am I recycling plastic?
I’ve been thinking about this as well, they also kept their borders open to US citizens despite most countries closing them.

Perhaps Brexit closing trade doors with the EU could be resulting in a stronger relationship between the US & UK?
The Git Internals section of the Pro Git book covers commits [1] and branches [2] well though it doesn’t go into details about merges and rebases.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

[2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-References
> Benefits: Zero distraction Zero eyestrain No Bluelight

Why should there be difference? 'Distraction' is a question of applications, not monitor type.

Eyestrain is a result of long-term near focus and insufficient blinking leading to dryness, no reason why eink monitor help with this.

Bluelight - regular LCD has LED backlight that passes through LCD, with eink there is an external LED light, reflected by eink back. The source of light is the same (well, depends on specific type of dides in LED backlight vs LED light).
It also has impressive response times. I guess you can play videos at 5FPS or so.
It's funnny, I wrote an article about a relatively cheap 12.48 inch (1304x984) 3-color (red/white/black) display a few days ago. It has a refresh time of 16 seconds....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25522966
Identical Bass Line in “Ice Ice Baby” and Queen/David Bowie’s “Under Pressure”
I'm sure the search team can, erm,google for the ad revenue figures in the earnings release.

After reading the anti trust filing it’s hard to argue Google is anything else but evil and a lot of what it does is to hide its monopoly.
I’m enjoying it anyway. Honestly it feels like a totally new experience playing it and despite occasional issues, it’s been pretty fun and engaging.
I was under the impression that FFmpeg can be used commercially, just so long as the source for FFmpeg itself (if modified) is available and the lgpl license is distributed with it. I could be wrong but FFmpeg is used with MediaCoder as an option, and a number of programs will externally fetch FFmpeg and just interop with the libraries or FFmpeg app.
Efficiency is still good for air source heat pumps IIRC. They only go down to 100% at well below freezing which is probably not a problem in Hawaii. Ground source only requires a small hole though, of the kind that is done for water. I'm in a granite rich area where basements are very rare but water wells are very common and reasonable cost to drill.
Oh well. Sounds like the bugs have ruined the game. At least the developers are able to fix them in updates. Could have been a lot worse if consoles were still in the age of physical copies with no way to update them.

Imagine if such games were on read-only cartridges, CDs with no update mechanisms like the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, etc then we're looking at a complete and irreversible disaster.

Better wait until the developers fix these bugs before playing this game.
Is it possible to become a Millionaire before 35?
I thought you can only hype things before they're released. "Praise" is what things get once released.
Do you have references for this? I'm genuinely curious if this kind of thing is actually being done. Google's altered it's algorithm to remove low quality sites in the past and if anti-trust worries are stopping that now, well, I can't even.
It seems to me that you could achieve all of this much more simply by just coalescing (`??`) the mutable value to the default calculation inside the getter.
So like Kerberos?
You didn't suggest a generic "more diverse leadership team," though, you stated something explicitly about the specific black leaders in NO.

Regardless of that, it actually isn't clear that a more diverse leadership team brings better understanding. They may bring a diversity of understanding that is important to consider--it's not "better", in the sense that without their participation others would not see the potential downside.

Police state activities don't adversely impact just those in minority populations.