skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The majority of the people in China do not eat wildlife animals. Those people who consume these wildlife animals are the rich and the powerful –a small minority.”

Thanks for that, I viewed that some time ago and found it very informative. I am not sure I'd agree it plays a big economical role, rather it became an alternative outlet for some producers but mostly it appears to be a luxury item for the rich and thus entirely viable for China to ban.

I'd have a lot more sympathy if poor people ate such animals to survive (as with a lot of 'bush meat' in Africa) however that isn't the case.

China have no excuse for not closing these, at all. Traditional Chinese 'medicine' where they grind down very many animal parts in extremely unclean environments is another big flashpoint.

The risk is at the species-extinction level yet the actions by the world and the coverage by journalists is so low. Astonishes me.
As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25531532 said look up arithmetic coding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding)

It’s not 100% the same, but understanding it should enable you to use the same idea for this problem.
I want to use my own car, not someone else’s that is horrible to drive and could have hidden safety issues.
Sounds like the author is justifying attacks on American systems because America hacks other countries.
>You can barely send a kB a day

That must be very long range? AFAIK 0.3kbps to 27 kbps shouldn't be a problem for text messages as showcased by OP source for shorter distances.
As such, I assume they will say you were not in fact an iCloud lead but were actually an ICT2 engineer. Plus, there’s always the risk that your former coworker is on your interviewer team.
Somebody fork it and make the cube rotate only when flipping between buffers
One problem is, it’s very hard to get a government to give up so-called “emergency powers” even after the emergency is long over. How many times has the Patriot Act been renewed now?
> History tells us govts that gain powers during emergencies are extremely reticent to give them up once the ostensible emergency is over.

New Zealand had a 8-week lockdown from late March to early May, and then they had perfectly normal general elections in October. The government that ordered the lockdown 7 months earlier, did nothing draconian to prevent the free elections taking place.
yeah, it does. I don't tell other people much about my work.
Really, or is it that certain demographics got gentrified out?
> Point #2 has synergies with the way Apple is structured: not P&Ls, rather each person is an expert on some aspect of the product and the editing function and discussion on what to build happens very transparently at the top (evidently through heated discussions mediated by Steve who was not afraid of conflicts [contrast with Google execs.])

This is so laden with internal contradictions that I can only presume it was part of an internal Reality Distortion Field training. Are you suggesting that Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi don't have budgets? And that every detail the 50k engineers work on are mediated by 5 people?
IMO this pandemic has proven one thing beyond a doubt: The world cannot trust China. I mean at all, and it’s government and people should be viewed and treated as a hostile power.
You can produce two signed binaries, one for <10.11 that is signed with a SHA-1 and one for newer systems that is signed with SHA-256. Your update framework would have to know which one to pull, but that seems surmountable.
Again you are trivialising things that are far wider-reaching as do many on the 'forever lockdown' side. They are not just shutting down public health risks and asking people to wear masks, they are instituting, at least in the UK, law by decree (as per provisions by the Public Health Act 1984) clearly exceeding the intentions of it, for example. I recommend the lord Sumption video I linked in another comment if you want more details, but authoritarian measures are being used and govts historically do NOT like to let go of powers granted during emergencies.

E.g. the Patriot act...

The thing with stuff like that is people like me who point this out will get sneered at at the time, but later when these powers are abused you'll forget that we warned you. This is NOT trivial. This is NOT small.
All generalizations will be overly broad, but for the most part most people should not be rolling their own. Some will be fine, but they usually know they know enough to ignore the “rule”.
Please no. The recipient does not actually “have” the photo when it is sent.
What Will Your Job Be Once the Revolution Happens?
> I also find it astonishing that you seem to think a country that could have prevented 95% of cases having not covered it up should be lauded for giving advice about self-isolation and lockdowns after it caused them. The families of 0.95 * 1.5M people thank you so much for the clarification.

In no way do I think China should be lauded. They should obviously be condemned for failing to contain this while it was a localized epidemic and not a pandemic, and for actively hurting and silencing the doctors that tried to do so. The CCP is a despicable regime that has caused much harm to its own citizens and to the world in general, in this crisis and in others.

However, I can do little to change the regime in China. However, I have much more power to influence and change the regime in my own country, and so I am much more interested in how they handled the crisis at least once information got out, and it is hear where I think the press should also focus, as they rightly have.

China's reputation for covering up should have been ample reason to start pandemic preparation in December or at least January, as Taiwan, Vietnam and other countries with successful responses did.

European countries and the US instead chose to believe China's early lies. They then added their own lies on top once China started telling (some of) the truth, claiming that masks are not useful, claiming that the disease is not that bad, claiming that it will go away in the summer and myriad other lies.

They then avoided as long as possible to take any serious measures that could have curtailed the spread of the disease early on extremely effectively, with some more serious but very short term economic impact, leaving the rest of the year for growth.

Instead, they chose lukewarm 'lockdowns' where many stores remained opened, they chose to only do contact tracing for direct contacts (serious countries were contact tracing and isolating up to 3 levels of contact), they chose to not even recommend masks until the second half of the year (particularly stupid regimes like the one in Sweden have only recommended them last week!) etc.

These are all things for which we can hold our politicians accountable. We can't hold the CCCP accountable.

By the way, I'm neither a citizen nor a resident of the USA, Trump is not 'my president' in any sense of the word.
It's not tech per se, but the "Golden Webinars in Astrophysics" series has a number of talks on a wide range of topics. The lectures are given by senior and well-respected people in their sub-fields. They are available in English and Spanish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsYCyopp4jY&list=PLnuCZ3n0pW...
The ratio of "Wear a mask" messages to "maintain six feet apart" messages must be at least 100 to 1, if not more. Masks have been held out as magical items that give absolute immunity to covid. Is it any wonder that social distancing isn't very effective when it is downplayed in importance compared to mask wearing?
Farming allowed populations to grow but individuals were much more susceptible to abuse, violence, exploitation, disease and a life of chronic back pain
This is not a 'Process' this is 'Some highlights for how we communicate as a team'.

...

"We each go around the room and share a quick highlight or two of what we did over the weekend"

"We take time to reflect on our weeks, and ask each other “how are you feeling?”"

These kinds of 'forced empathetic connections' are a a 'hostile workplace' to many, I think it is objectively unprofessional to, in formal settings (and weekly meetings are formal) to require people do a personal 'song and dance'. Even though some people might share 'their mother died' and surely everyone would be nice about it ... it is absolutely not the place for that.

There is no doubt everyone loves to be asked these question on some level, and it's certain fine to do between colleagues when frankly it's more sincere.

But in a 'group/managerial setting' this exercise become cultish, expectant and oddly insincere.

In particular, the more intimate, the more likely people have to 'gel' deeply on cultural issues, and if they don't, there will be problems.

These are the people to talk most of 'diversity' but they end up being the 'least diverse' groups in terms of interest and ethos.

On some level - they are designers who generally tend to be a kind of 'specific type' of person, and I'm sure many/most of them would be fine with it, but I'm also doubtful of the level of self awareness.

The alternative - abrupt but highly productive meetings might leave people feeling cold; 'dispassion' all the time can feel that way. So I don't know what the answer is, but maybe something less formal like 'shared meals' where people just naturally engage in a more classically informal setting, on their own terms, would work.

I worked at a place that had 'free lunch' with a presentation every Wednesday, it turned out to be a great way to meet and chat with random people.

'People like to be Productive'

What I've found, is that almost all professionals actually love to do their jobs, to the extent they can do them. What 'we hate' is bureaucracy and 'things in our way' - but people love to talk about (and do!) their work and are eager to 'complete' if they feel their work will be used.

What would be a great 'follow up' to this, is more on the mechanics of actual process, and how new projects and details are shepherded through the system.

Is everyone working from spreadsheets? Atlassian tools?

How do people feel about working out of a 'ticket system' all of the time.

How much time is given to learning, exploring?

What's the breakdown between panic fixes, ongoing work, new projects?

What's the team balance there?

How do they work directly with Eng., where are the hurdles?

How do they document and record stuff (because that seems to be a byzantine thing everywhere I've worked).
Just don't sell then. What they gonna do, they are bound contractually.

If they try something fishy like getting toxic, abusive, etc and still doesn't want to buy out, I'd just blow the server on them, which, along with the entire code base, had no working backups uNfOrTuNaTeLy, then spin up a company two months down the line under a shell company that is registered via lawyers and doesn't have your name on the public papers.
That was the initial version of AirDrop that had the same network requirement; future releases negotiated an adhoc wifi connection over bluetooth then used that.
Yea I really don't know I guess. I think the subtractive / additive distinction is kind of leading people off on a tangent away from what the author was trying to say, or at least what I was took from what the author said.

Really I think what the author was getting at is there are some things that if you don't do them, it's easy for someone else to do them. And there are other things that if you don't do them, no one else is realistically going to come back and take care of them for you. And the whole "shape" analogy is just pointing out that some shapes are easier to fill around than others.

Regarding the whole subtractive vs additive thing, you could build a statue either way. You could carve away at a block of stone, or you could build it up with clay. Both get you a statue at the end. I think some of it just depends on how your mind works.

The thing the article talks about is more of a strategic vs procedural type of distinction I think. Part of being more effective is knowing where to put your effort, and it's a difficult thing to point out to people that their view of what is productive doesn't align with the actual needs of the project.
It seems pretty amazing to me that apparently some X000ish people have apparently been getting spammed by a company for multiple years and not a single one of them decided to contact the company and ask them to stop it. It's like a real world example of the bystander effect, writ large.
If you have a bit of interest in programming, math and art, this is 1 hour of pure joy. Thanks for this
There are a number of global elevation datasets. Check out JAXA, EUDEM or NASADEM for example. Processing them into a usable form is another issue.

For the Procedural GL JS library we use NASADEM, via the www.nasadem.xyz service, which has almost global coverage (up to 60 degrees N)
As long as it works, does it matter?
I just don't understand why Hawaii government has been so slow to mandate the most economically-net-positive renewables, given their astronomical electricity costs (old, shipped-in fuel, diesel-fired generators).

Solar hot water, solar PV, wind. Stop being held over a barrel with these electricity costs. They live in the most conducive place for it in the world, yet don't take advantage of it, really.
I'm not implying by any means that gender or sexual expression is a mental-health condition - but i've always thought my 'gaydar' pings with certain eyes, specifically male eyes with longer more 'feminine' lashes. probably confirmation bias but I've wondered if others have noticed this
I guess they're building on Catalina as we expect to do so until Apple or us/some other devs would find a way to use prdocutsign/codesign with backward compatibility on Big Sur
And if I'm not mistaken, until clang is installed commands like "clang" and "gcc" redirect to xcode-select, so if the user tries to compile something the system will offer to install the toolchain for you.
Does Ray Nagin really support your point? From what I know he was born in New Orleans with working class parents. Also the demographics section of the wiki page for New Orleans doesn't seem ti support your claim that Katrina washed all the black people out of the city. It was 61.9% black in 1990 and 60.2% black in 2010.
I don't think it's so much whataboutery as disappointment about the west.

What you say about China is true, there's a one-party state that has done some brutal things.

The disappointment is that we in the west thought we had a better way to govern, but the state where the disease originated is doing quite well despite all those criticisms, and the states where people are supposedly free are the ones where people are locked up in their homes unable to celebrate Christmas with their families.

We had a head start, we had sources that knew the truth about the disease, we'd seen smaller outbreaks before, and we have more money.

It's also simplistic to blame China for the whole thing. "They could have saved 95% of lives" is not the whole ethical story. If you know you're living next to someone unreliable, you need to take your own precautions.
I think this is basically the norm now, not the exception. Very much share your alarm.

> The only thing you can do is be mindful of how much data you give out.

This is important, but I don't think it's all we can do.
Generally just a choice for the demo - in part because restricting the view distance means less data to download (thus lower cost to serve!). If you switch the phone to portrait you will be able to see the horizon.

The library itself (https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js) lets you configure the angle freely.
I'm not a programmer per se myself, I run my own Linux server and dabble with vue and other stuff, it's definitely been beneficial to me as a designer. Having tech knowledge, especially on the stack used, you get a good idea of what's possible to even do and where design starts to be a hindrance to the building of a product. It has helped me communicate with the developers and while it doesn't help me design, it still is beneficial to the product as a whole.

I don't think that designers should have to know development well enough to be able to build the whole product, but the more you know, the better it is.
Note that you're copying one half of the list into a new list at each recursive call, making the algorithm O(n). Better to pass the original list and use indices to indicate which portion you're working on
I got some vibes from Ubuntu Compiz.
> doctors arrested and sanctioned

This is not exactly the same, but police searched the home of a Florida data scientist and confiscated her computers, because she kept reporting Florida coronavirus statistics, when the state government would have preferred to keep true numbers secret.

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944200394/florida-agents-raid...
I was pointing out unecessary negativity and disinformation. You guys are looking at excuses to be angry, I don’t get the extrapolation to progressives’excess in institutions (I don’t even know what this refers to). I got outsmart in a real HackerNews fashion. Hope you won all the Christmas dinner debates this year.
The road to become a developer in 2021
There are normal engineers at Apple that can and do tell people about what they’re working on like anyone else would.

https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...
Block chain doesn't replace trust.
If you are strong enough, i.e. control enough mining activity, you pretty much can do whatever you want.
All it does, is formalize the same solutions for trust society has evolved.

The downside is that it naturalizes the abuses and make them morally justified.
I looked into them recently but found their tone a bit too partisan than, say, the economist.

Which is fine if you’re looking for that sort of commentary, but in terms of news it’s not what I was looking for.
CS degrees are generally not useful with system configuration, and they demonstrably do not cover the concepts associated with audio on computers.

I know dozens of people who've had experiences isomorphic to yours on OS X/macOS, so the truthfulness of this anecdote isn't particularly useful in establishing anything.

But yes, as a casual user who doesn't understand or want to understand the design decisions that led to the current state of audio on a typical Linux machine, macOS will provide a much smoother experience.

I wrote JACK. I know the guys who wrote SoundFlower. I asked them why they wrote SoundFlower when JACK already existed. They said it was because 90% of their user base never wanted 90% of what JACK made possible, so they cooked up a really simple version. "But it barely does anything!" I insisted, grumpily. "Precisely", they said.

If you don't understand the engineering mindset that says that you probably shouldn't do this, then certainly, macOS will look like a much better idea (along with SoundFlower).

That will likely remain true until you run into a situation involving one of the many things that JACK makes possible (note however that I generally advise most new/casual users against using JACK these days, not because it is broken but because as your comment demonstrates, it doesn't make sense to the mindset/workflow that they bring to the table).
Yes, there very much should be a 3rd dimension. If you're having issues I'd appreciate if you could file an issue on https://github.com/felixpalmer/procedural-gl-js mentioning what device you have along with the output from https://webglreport.com/

In the meantime, there are some video captures on my twitter: https://twitter.com/pheeelicks
1. Also 10.9 needs SHA1.

2. We've been able to input down to 10.7 and didn't see any issues. The issue is productsign/codesign linking Security.framework which I assume changed.
If you don't have the benefit of the EU, you need to deal with residence permits and taxes. If you are going for work, your employer will typically take care of that, but if not it's up to you.

I lived in a Middle Eastern country half a decade ago. I was working as a freelancer, so I was my own HR department. It cost me maybe $2500 to get all that sorted. What I saved in taxes made up for that though :-)
Docker Container GUI Display
great suggestion
Definitely, should’ve been included in the article and bears checking out:

http://fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20MIG%2037-B%20FERRETT%...

I’d always liked the Testors F-19 over the others, almost forgot about the stealth MiG even though I built that one as well.
FWIW I spent nearly two weeks marking "the great reset" on my twitter trends as "not interested", only for it to still show up, both in the forms I had already blocked and in new ones (#thegreatreset, "great reset", etc). You don't get that kind of trend persistence without some entity pushing hard for it via bots.

I don't know why DDG blocked that query, but I would bet it was due to bot spam.
Thanks for this, I want a unique design for my landing page https://makepostsell.com - would you suggest a custom design or using the free one?
Same. I'm on desktop Firefox 84
John's Python Blog has ended
Pulse Audio, the virulent gonorrhea of user-facing audio software!

Seriously, that drove me away from Linux last time. When basic stuff like that just won't work, there's a real problem.
Insert "not sure if trolling" GIF here, but you get that what the OP is saying is that when M1 Macs run x86 code in emulation they're often running it as fast as comparable x86 processors run it natively, right?
Disagree. The bulleted “I use arch btw” at the bottom of the frequently asked questions is even more hilarious if you ask me.
The problem with eytzinger representation is that it is infinitely less useful, and really can only be used as write-once read-many lookup or cache but not as primary storage that is also a cache because it is no longer contiguous.

eg Etyzinger is awesome, but in most real world usage something like this is far more practical and ultimately performant: Faster Lookups, Insertions, and In-Order Traversal Than a Red-Black or AVL Tree [0].

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/2019/sorted-list-vs-binary-search-...
Here is my guess:

45% of players don’t play well enough to win, even at even odds. Kind of mini-Dunning Krueger. They’re hoping for luck, and love to tell stories to their friends when they win.

30% are degenerate gamblers.

The balance play well enough that the loss rate is sufficiently slow so as to pay for the entertainment value.
building a PC with name brand parts does absolutely nothing to address the critical factor mentioned by the GP:

> Another aspect is that the audio stack on MacOS is truly outstanding, with a whole host of professional audio applications and utilities on the platform. Hardware drivers are up to date and also well supported. Connectivity is also well supported by audio hardware vendors.
What does the calm companies idea mean to you? I’m eager to hear more if it’s different.
The Economist leans status quo.

The NYRB leans marxism-aware global left, with a heavy dose of academic anaesthesia.

Neither is more "partisan" (I think ideological is likely a better word). You just don't notice it in the Economist because they rarely argue against what already is (since it suits them, mostly, just fine).
Minor quibble: It’s more efficient to use a heat pump water heater, and max out your PV solar instead of splitting PV solar with solar water heating.
Largest private collection of Apple artifacts has been stolen
To me this is solved for a lot of domains. The economist (and prob some other weekly’s) do a good job for general news, and I’m sure some newsletters do the job for other domains.

The key is finding slow news for the niche you care about.

Personally I think that a big gap is local news. Would love a site like wickedlocal but where I get things weekly and have no ads or superfluous stories. I’d pay for it.

I’m experimenting with some automated scraping of news sources (Twitter, Reddit, town websites, stores, restaurants, etc) for my town. Hoping to be able to get it do a point where I can produce something of value on 1hr a week.