skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“constantly tilting your head back”

Can you clarify what that means as in the ideal case the head is not tilted forward to begin with.
I would hope that they could add coverage for new variants to the mRNA vaccines without having to go completely back to square one. Do they have to do full 3 phase testing on the flu vaccine every year?
TWIW has kind of painted themselves into the corner by insisting that anything except biological evidence is irrelevant. The evidence for B.1.1.7 being more transmissive is quite solid, and seems to be getting more so as time goes on. But no matter how strong the statistical data is, it could never be good enough for them. So their policy recommendation ends up as "do nothing at all until there is 100% certain non-circumstantial evidence".

The problem is that action now is way more valuable than action in 1-2 months. Mass vaccination is right around the corner, we just need to buy time to get there. If there is a substantially more transmissive variant around, that will make it much harder to buy that time. You need to be able to act on the balance of probabilities, not wait for perfect information.

(And their claim that there's nothing we can do differently is just total bunk.)

And because they run a popular podcast, their view gets massively amplified by being parroted in internet discussion.
No need for mandates. Power and fuel are expensive so people already have a strong incentive to invest in renewable power and efficiency improvements.
Yes https://forum.ei2030.org/t/hisense-a7-5g-first-e-ink-smartph...
It's the snarky know-it-all types who talk down to you as if they were not, also, a noob once too.

We are all noobs, at something. It's better to be kind and feel good about helping and sharing knowledge.

Luckily, Q&A sites like Stackoverflow, force the question to be answered.
Very nice question about the state drift, we are working on it in a way to have a live sync with the existing infra and either suggest a remediation or generate an alarm.
We are working hard to make it work well and at the current stage (full support for GCP, Azure & AWS) we are having an amazing results.
Yeah so far I don’t think Apple has done anything equivalent in importance to the Enigma code breakers to warrant the comparison so when someone from Apple says they can’t tell me what they’re working on it just sounds like corporate arrogance or paranoia, smoke and mirrors to play up a carefully crafted and managed corporate image, not something I’m counting on for the future of society.
There's a project that does diffs on Javascript at the AST level rather than the line level. I haven't tried it though and it is only for resolving conflicts.
I have to fundamentally disagree, in that if "the concept of academic freedom is supposed to prevent individual researchers from having to in any way pay service, even lip service, to anything not directly related to their research" then we'd have even less teaching by professors in this country. Who the heck wants to teach linear algebra for the 47th time? or worse, precalculus? oh right, that's what pays the bills.

Please be accurate about academic freedom :)
You can check some youtube test videos. But it's actually really that fast, I own Dasung monitors myself.
This is obviously not working.

The alternative is to shrink government spending to the minimum possible and put everything into the economy, liberalise the economy so that we can start producing cheap products like China does.

But let's be honest, this is never going to happen. Politics keep idiots fighting between each other while our society gets slowly boiled alive by the Chinese Communist Party.

I wonder if it's because they already bought us and we don't know yet or if it's just sheer incompetence.
And there's always this kind of response. They didn't say the service was fine, they just provided a simple workaround which doesn't require forcing a change to Google's algorithm. Hoping they don't help with this seems odd.

So, to counter, I'm glad that they did say this as it regularly annoys me too.
You mean the hardware license keys for the MPEG-2 decoder? That was very stupid, but I bet it was something the Raspberry Pi people had to do to make the board cheaper (probably through cheaper SoC). So rather than paying (fake numbers here) $5 per processor IC, they paid $3 with the decoder option available.

It sucked at the time, but thankfully the later Raspberry Pi 3B was powerful enough that that wasn’t needed anymore (it was still available on the 3B, but IDK about the 4B).
> Lenovo doesn't bog down the image with their own software and it only had their firmware manager.

Even if they don't, the first thing I would do when buying a new computer is nuke the hard drive and do a fresh install.

For me nowadays, it's Linux (NixOS) with LUKS+LVM, but I would do it when I used Windows as well.
Based on your personal attacks and abrasive tone, it looks like you take the IAT’s falsity personally. Why?

> What kind of person haunts 4-day-old articles

What a strange attempt at an insult. Do you not read articles that are more than 3 days old?

Your own comment was 2 days old on a 5-day-old article, which makes this attempt at an insult even more comical.

> off-topic

> irrelevant interruption

Do you need to read your own comment again to refresh your memory? Do you know what Project Implicit is?

It’s exactly what I’m addressing, so what mental gymnastics are you doing to claim my comment is “off-topic” and “irrelevant”?

> And that cites Jesse Singal of all people as some sort of authority?

One of the authors of the article, who’s referencing the relevant studies? What’s the issue? Rather than making more cryptic ad hominem attacks, why not say something substantive?

> was helpful to me personally

It’s ironic that you’re willing to support horoscope-level pseudoscience (and personally attack anyone who points out it’s pseudoscience) because it supports your preconceived biases.
As it should be, consumers do what's best for them.

The problem is that we're not able to compete with China because of all our regulations and morals.

It may sound like the virtuous choice, until we all become part of China.
Thanks! If anyone has questions, I am here for them!
Tony Robbins claims he saved his employee from Covid – she says that’s a lie
AT&T service outage in TN/KY following Christmas-day bombing
Then again, paper that can be updated is an ancient sci-fi trope, so perhaps it's not so ironic.
I recently gave a tech talk internally about Terraform. I wanted to show how quickly a web service can get complicated by showing the SVG generated from `terraform graph` output.

It failed miserably:

$ tf graph|dot -Tpng > graph.png

dot: graph is too large for cairo-renderer bitmaps. Scaling by 0.420618 to fit

Trying to upload the genrated image to Google Slides and the error message: The image is too large. Images must be smaller than 25 megapixels.

$ tf state list|cut -d. -f3|grep ^google_|sort|uniq|wc -l

42 <-- different types of Google Cloud resources we use in our Terraform configs.

I'm very skeptical this config can be managed using a WYSIWYG tool.
I would say the creation of the iPhone was at least as impactful.
As a configuration, not per search.
I'm working with an Dasung 13" , it's actually in real time. You don't notice a lag between key press and display appearance.
Could you please post some examples of search queries (text or image) that are dominated by Pinterest?

I share the sentiment in other comments that search engines are (deliberately?) allowing SEO abusers to degrade the user's experience. I noticed that for some queries (Like "How to brush teeth"), there are more ads on the first page than results! They're marked, but not in an immediately-visible way; I'd be most people integrate them with search results mentally.

I started throwing together a search engine about a week ago to address these concerns, and put it online yesterday. (https://www.pageref.org). I'm deliberately penalizing SEO abusers, and promoting websites that have high-quality content. Running custom searches on these sites in some cases based on keyword.

In a lot of cases, I'm throwing in search queries, and going through each result one at a time, and categorizing them; eg penalizing sites that use clickbait or scammy ads, that are low-quality but show up high in results etc, or probably aren't relevant, but are highly SEO optimized, like Pinterest.
Windows Sandbox Overview
I would have preferred a zero measure approach.
No excuse is valid for infringing freedom.
If lots of people have spent time curating the Pinterest content, and searchers are likely to be looking for curated content, doesn't it make sense that Pinterest would rank highly in the search results?
first issue here is the differences in terminology regarding strains, vs variants.

strains are signifigantly different from each other, variants are a nuance on the same theme.

the virus strain that infects small mammals is separate from the trans specific strain that spilled over to humans.

the virus with small changes to the spike sequence altering spike structure or function is a variant.

under emergency conditions a 3phase trial is not mandatory , and would likely be a quick deliberation under normal conditions for small adjustments to the sequence, similar to seasonal influenza vaccines.
I'll have to check this one out. I vaguely remember coming across runas in the past and it not meeting my needs.
What could we be doing differently beyond what we already should be doing? Are you referring to things like border closing?
The word you want is aggregator and here's a starting point...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

Have found it's handy when the site allows you to record those feeds you want to access regularly.
Foe example... https://www.dailyrotation.com/
Simulated phishing is not so great
> do masks inhibit production of and exposure to aerosols carrying SARS-COV-2? This seems (to me) to me clearly established, and essentially irrefutable.

Aerosols? It's far from established. In fact, it's a dubious claim, unless you're far more specific about what you mean by "masks". The best laboratory studies show that properly fitted respirators (i.e. as used in hospitals), can reduce aerosol emissions. But few people are wearing respirators, and essentially nobody is fitting them correctly.

Cloth masks? Surgical masks? Cup masks? About the only claim you can make is that they might reduce heavy droplets and then, only by about 30% or so. There's no reason to believe they have any effect on aerosol emission.

Michael Osterholm covered this extensively:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/specia...

Anyone who has done a mask fitting -- where they put you in a room with vaporized stuff that you can taste to detect leaks -- will tell you how difficult it is to get an aerosol-resistant seal on a mask. The chances that the general public is doing it is 0%.
State of Mobile phone encryption research paper [pdf]
To even get more sci-fi: Eink x Crypto | The merge of two industries https://forum.ei2030.org/t/eink-x-crypto-the-merge-of-two-in...
We are still humans interacting with and representing science/mathematics. Sure, 2+2=4, unless you're working base 3 or something, in which case you just have to be careful about your definitions. An easy caveat in hindsight but too often people take the truth they know and insist it's the only one. Just look at the debate over irrational numbers in the time of the Greeks -- they can't exists, claims one side, and as evidence they note that they can't represent them. Or imaginary numbers: they too can't exist. Or parallel lines that cross (what?). Or breaking the rules of calculus to get generalized functions.

Basically one thing I love about math is you can take any statement/idea/construction, consider some opposite of it, and see if you can get something coherent out -- and often enough you do! I'm not saying that 2+2=4 or "you can't differentiate discontinuous functions" is subjective, per se, but it is in some sense a decision, a choice.
If it uses WiFi, it might just provide a foothold for an intruder to your protected network.
It depends on the nature of the infectious disease and how quickly vaccines and therapeutics are developed.

When vaccines are delivered - especially in places where supply chains are less developed - it's important to consider how to get them into the arms where they'll give the most benefit. Part of this is trying to focus vaccines on sub-populations that aren't already herd immune from acquired immunity.

This concept is called "overshoot" (ie, you don't want to "overshoot" immunity in some sub-populations, leaving others without enough vaccine supply). There are epidemiologists who specialize specifically on overshoot, as it is one of the key problems in infectious disease response in developing nations.
Well, to the best of my knowledge, these are nice additions to my list of recommendations :-)

1. I agree, that final scene in An American in Paris is just mindblowing (for the lack of a better word). I've seen it at least 20 times and it still amazes me. Vincente Minnelli was a one of a kind genius. Another highlight for me was Astair's Puttin' on the Ritz from Blue Skies. And as for Gershwin - I myself prefer his Piano concerto.

2. As far as I know, musicals were the most popular genre in 1930s-40s and a lot of talent was put in their creation (and it shows). That said, I just don't like the genre for two reasons:

- Astair/Rogers-style, where actors suddenly transition from dialog to dancing, just seem too weird and far fetched to me;

- Busby Berkeley-style extravaganzas are, indeed, better and, as a rule, visually stunning. But for me they fail as films simply because there is usually not enough plot/dialogues (that is, the whole plot is just a vehicle to show dancing sequences). These type of films are better enjoyed as short clips on youtube :-) Uncharacteristically, I've enjoyed much later Saturday Night Fever and Dirty Dancing, both made in this style. Although I think these two films could have been even better if their creators were more ambitious. There were a lot of unused potential in them.

3. I have no objections to the westerns as a genre. I've included both Destry Rides Again and Stagecoach. It's just that I've seen ~10 westerns from 50s and 60s, didn't like any of them and decided to skip the genre altogether. I might return to them some time in the future.
Original EEE Note came with such display. People still chose Eink despite the price, and slow refresh.
That is true. A Mac Mini is much more cost effective (for processing power per volume). But, if you’re getting a Mac Pro, it’s because you either (1) need a Mac Pro, or (2) have enough money to blow that much on the fancy new stuff.
Now make a color eInk display (it could be at least 256 colors) and you have my money.
Using tricks at the detriment of the user to the benefit of the service is blackhat. Pinterest is doing these tricks to their benefit at the extreme detriment to everyone but themselves.
For text it depends [1] but for images I find DDG to range from slightly to significantly better than Google. Also, I have direct access to the image file URL without having to rely on browser extensions.

[1] I wonder if the meme "DDG is not that good" is so prevalent on Hacker News because it sucks for programming stuff.
Apple has a no-bullshit work culture (you aren't infantilized like at many other Silicon Valley companies) and the employees really do value and care about their work and its impact in the grand scheme of things.

Unfortunately, this doesn't extend to upper-management, which is why we see things like Apple 'forgetting' to implement cloud-wide E2EE at the behest of the FBI, or turning over iCloud servers to the Chinese government, creating a massive corporate-sponsored state-surveillance network.
Searching for prime numbers is a really good CS problem actually, and one algorithm that is very easily coded by a 1st semester student is the Sieve of Eratosthenes:

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

Some other ideas of math + cs are things like visualizations, maybe doing visualizations of equations like fractals could be interesting.

I'm also reminded of a recent HN submission (though can't find it off hand) that the part of the brain that reads code isn't actually the same as the one that parses language! I just found that interesting.

Good luck and Merry Christmas!
The best way to verify that is to test it on Brainboard, I'm excited to know the results. We can do it together if you want, lemme know if you are interested.
See this thread

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/13417461712205373...

Not as secure as you might think

TLDR: turn off your phone before getting arrested
It would be more accurate to say that we don't know yet whether it should be considered a new strain or not.

Any adjective like "strain" implies a binary distinction, but that doesn't mean you should round off "don't know" to false.
Thank you that works, eliminated Pinterest results.
Related: in the last several years, there started appearing these StackOverflow mirrors. It's gotten to the point that you can't google a programming question without running into at least one. Some copy the questions and answers verbatim, some use machine translation to (crappily) translate them into my native language. Sometimes they even rank higher than the real StackOverflow.

I really wish there was a non-hacky way to ban sites from Google search results. I also feel like Google's ranking algorithm is utterly broken since it's amenable to this kind of exploitation.
Right, but if the conversation is about how this is going to change Broadway or anything, running just as fast means nothing changes (the case if you have to emulate)
Pinterest search results are so frustrating. There's a page that's close to what I want - but I can't get to the text ... I don't want a picture, I want to read a document. Seems like something is off, cuz it's crowding out sites with real content.
I had a pre-school teacher (in the 80s, in the south of England) named Mavis, and knew of several other older people with that name. It doesn't seem like an unreasonable name even in the UK.
15 fps and upwards
For me this is an instance of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." :) I very rarely see Pinterest in my search results.
Another Discourse forum in the wild.

Really have to hand it to Jeff Atwood, Sam Saffron, and the team. How many of us (incl myself) thought that the world wasn't looking for a refresh of forum software? Now I realize I haven't even seen phpbb used on a forum made since 2010—everyone just uses Discourse.
I didn't see anything unreasonable in the article. Turning off issues might be easier than ignoring them, but if they are useful for some other reason I don't see the controversy over ignoring them.
Imagine this device on eink: * DevTerm - An Open Source Portable Terminal 4
This sounds like the longstanding debate between weak / narrow vs strong AI. Can improving the former make progress toward the latter? I'm inclined to agree with Jordan that we shouldn't expect the two to enhance the other much less commingle. Just as advancement of one classical algorithm rarely enhances another, I think it's unlikely the next generation of object recognition is going to advance speech recognition or reading comprehension.

Probably more essentially, until AI escapes its current dependency on pattern matching driven solely by accumulation of probabilistic events, I see little chance that human-level general-purpose cognition will arise from our current bases for AI, namely observing innumerable games of chess or watching millions of cars wander city streets.
For coding, I'm not sure I could go back to greyscale IDE colours. I love syntax highlighting helping me quickly identify different parts of code at a glance. I would love to try though, might see what the price is first.
> Percentage of wealth or income type fines would never float as you would end up making a whole new process where the police would only target those who they think will have the biggest payoff. Let alone it would require way too much of an invasion in privacy

It's both possible, and already in place in some countries.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...

Turns out basing it on income isn't much of an invasion of privacy because the government already has that. Even in the US we submit an annual "here's how much I made" document to the feds.
Agreed, that's just called having a good friend. I've had friends at Apple that have no trouble telling me what they're working on.
Really good stuff! Would this work for a H4n Pro? Regardless, thanks for the effort!

Strange thing, your comment shows as 2 days old in this reply window, but the submission says "1 hour ago".
But no one said that there’s nothing wrong with the service. They merely offered a very simple workaround. I can’t imagine why you’d hope for that to stop happening.
It should violate the duplicate content guideline, since 100% of Pinterest content is not original and lifted from another website.

Then again G also ranks those Markov-generated "blogs" with nonsensical text, not sure what to call them but you've seen them. It seems SEO is still alive and well despite all the claims of its death.
Ask HN: What is a game that changed the way you look at the world?
Three for me are: Portal (changed my relationship to space), Braid (relationship to time), and a browser-based text game by Jens Bergensten which I can’t find right now (provided a poignant, emotional experience of emptiness which brought up a very zen Buddhist feel)

What are some of yours?
I can see very easily how Japan could be the first epicenter of this new Covid-19 mutation.
One way to check for real v fake ivory is to heat a pin in a lighter and then try and poke a little hole. Real ivory doesn't melt at all, and a lot of imitation ivory does, and that is a very easy and expedient test.
The Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus in ClojureScript
accessible link:

https://teddit.net/r/eink/comments/kjvsoj/dasung_just_releas...
Do any site operators actually block non-Google search engine crawlers because being listed DDG/Bing/etc isn't worth the extra cost of serving the crawler? It sound a bit ridiculous unless they actually don't want to be found. Maybe they only allow GoogleBot because that's all they thought of and the extra cost is in researching what all the other search engines call theirs.

Perhaps other search engines should spoof GoogleBot. Browsers have being doing that since forever spoofing Netscape (Mozilla), Safari, etc. for the same reason.

> Why don't we have Google share the results and we can use that money to do more productive things than recreating that work?

This sounds like a common fallacy of people criticizing the free market. Duplicated effort looks wasteful but turns out to be far more productive than the lack of incentive that comes with not being able to profit from your work/investment.
I think they can't do anything about it. Regulators and lawmakers in the US and EU would be very receptive to complaints from pinterest if google were to act somehow.
Have you seen Gerbil Scheme? https://cons.io/
There is mods and hacks to have syntax highlighting on b/w https://forum.ei2030.org/t/best-dasung-eink-monitor-setup/42...
"epistemology in pre-Socratic Greece." has a few results from Pinterest.
> If Nick is junior, this is entirely Gloria's fault: it should be possible to explicitly detail out exactly what is expected from a junior employee, with no room for ambiguity.

This should be screamed at every single manager to ever exist. If any entry level or junior level person is ever underperforming, management is 99% to blame. You cannot have high expectations from people who have no idea what they're supposed to be doing and are essentially just winging it.

In all, I feel like that happens way more than management is ever willing to admit. It's never the musician that's bad, it's always the instrument.
Ractor looks really nice. Does python have anything similar to it?