skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia has a good summary of what we know: "there were insufficient data to reach any conclusion on underlying mechanism of increased transmissibility (e.g. increased viral load, tissue distribution of virus replication, serial interval etc.)" [1]

> is it more infectious through touch, by breathing it in, or when viral particles reach your eyes?

I think a better mental model of transmissibility is to think of what concentration of viral particles is needed to trigger the reproduction. It seems that there is some early indication that the new variant binds more easily to human cells (N501Y mutation) so a lower concentration of particles is needed, and also infected hosts distribute more particles (higher viral load).

An actual expert on viral transmission please chime in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_of_Concern_202012/01#T...
How does Google avoid clean builds?
Party Foo allows party Bar to release an app using Foo's trademark. Party Foo wishes to release their own app using their trademark, as they've rescinded the permission of party Bar. Google makes this not possible.

How is that not a problem? Yes, parties Foo and Bar probably used the wrong procedure when releasing the app, but can't fix that.

Google has no exception handling ability, and it's awful. You can't merge G suite organizations when there's a corporate merger. Clearly, you should have known five years ago, that you were going to be purchased by X. Same story, no exception handling.
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best is now.

In some years you’ll be 40. Time passes whether you use it or not. Try to use it.

The hard part is realizing when it’s time to become a beginner (because you’ve stopped growing) and try something new. Choosing the new thing is tough.
Thanks, this is really inspiring!
One of the problems is that, with some exceptions, if a restaurant offers take-out at all, they probably offer their whole menu. If I look at the menu for my local Greek pizza place, I can pretty much guarantee you that their pizzas, Veal Parmesan, and salads are going to stand up to take-out (AFAIK you can't get delivery) better than their burgers, meatball subs, or calzones.
There are areas like this in every company, from 8 person businesses to large corporates.

For those who find themselves in one, the biggest stress comes from the fact it’s hard to leave. The abusers know this, of course, and they know that the more abuse they pile on, the harder it gets to leave.

There is no easy answer, but I’ve seen it done to many people and those who’ve come out of it okay are those who just left. They had to get another job, yes, but in many cases the company where the abuse occurred is no longer having fun when the victim leaves, so they’ll just respond to a reference request with ‘yes they worked here from X to Y with this title’ and you’ll never have to deal with them again.
1 for 2. I'll take it!
Does anybody really want to be “the person who criticizes his or her managers,” in an official on-the-books capacity, in a context where your job is already being threatened?
That's just one article - it's not a unique point of view from Vox.

https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on...
https://ecrcommunity.plos.org/2019/11/18/living-in-the-repro...
Edit: looks like they're talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B

What I describe below is not related.

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Not the OP, but here's a stab at it...

In state machines commonly used in embedded C code, each state is represented either by a function or by a struct that contains a function pointer. The state machine calls the current state function in a loop or whenever relevant events happen, and that function returns a pointer to the next state, calculated based on inputs. If there is no state transition, then the function returns NULL or returns its own state.
Stored value cards are different from debit cards: Their value is physically stored on the chip, rather than the card just being a reference to some centrally maintained account.

As a consequence, they are usable completely offline and with very low latency.
Are there any performance benefits over MRI?
Imagine a .JavaScriptObjectNotation instead of .json. Or .firefox-extension instead of .xpi

There are only a few important extensions. just remember them.

> Computers are supposed to work for people, not the other way around.

Extensions are not for average computer users. They have icons and filenames. Windows also hides extensions by default.
I must try and understand my bias towards certain tech companies. When somebody says something bad about Facebook I instantly believe, but for some reason I had to really dig into this Apple engineer and it took me longer to believe them. Truth is harder to discern than I had thought.
This doesn’t sound like disagreement.
Party Like It's 1925 on Public Domain Day (Gatsby and Dalloway Are In)
Seems unlikely, doesn't it? I suspect it's not true. This guy clearly wasn't producing his 'best work'. The rest of the team, from his description, doesn't seem very competent.

Does your question presuppose that everyone is somehow magically doing their 'best work'? If so, do you have any evidence of that? Lots of companies get by with shitty cultures and low-productivity employees.
The Hapsburgs indeed tried to take over Switzerland. It didn’t go well. The Holy Roman Empire copied the tactics of the Swiss and incorporated it into the Landsknechts of Germany.
Treatment described is is just small step towards workspace equality. Apple lobbies against Uighur forced labor bill, so they should start treating employees in the US much worse, not better.
Some extra tidbits that didn't make it in because the edit timer ran out:

- Despite the big release and herculean efforts, both of us were paid a fraction of our target bonus. This was the day I decided to move jobs.

- I eventually grew some balls and told Apple to (a) pay me 2.5x during overtime (b) hire SREs for this critical service, or (c) go fuck themselves. They chose (c), which worked alright because our service was pretty stable.

- The primary lesson I learnt is that it doesn't matter if you work hard. Nobody notices, and even if they do you will likely not get anything out of it. Do your job, but don't kill yourself over it. Work-life balance is king.

- Only my first manager at Apple was an asshole. My last manager was a kind and genial person.
Anyone know how this compares to other daily hazards (living on a main road, being overweight etc)?

Edit

Looks like you can get a hepa filter for £70 that will fix the issue for the most part.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08G8JHGWH/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_fa...

And gas stoves (and so presumably fires?) are also a problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/gas-stov...

Thank god we mastered central heating decades back...
Looking forward to seeing where most tech companies land, as in-person and remote both have benefits. Face-to-face collaboration is easier, especially at fast-changing companies, but remote work is more cost-efficient and helps with hiring.

I could see many companies ending up with a hybrid model where core teams are geographically together and in a shared space most of the time (although less than the pre-pandemic M-F 10-6), and other teams are distributed.
You still need to open them to fuel them, and people do that fairly frequently, which floods the space with particulates.

> The results showed the burners were usually lit for about four hours at a time, and during this period the level of harmful particles in homes was three times higher than when stoves were not being used.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/18/wood-bur...
Thank you! your comment and interest are quite heartwarming!

My research is about household debt: I try to understand why some countries have more private indebtedness than others. Growing up during the American crisis of 2008, and the subsequent global crisis, made me realize that debt can be dangerous, and I wanted to understand what pushes people to borrow money.

For a website, I wrote a short introduction to my research: https://progressive.international/blueprint/3596cc12-0128-4f... - soon the full research will be published in a peer reviewed journal. :)
> > FM synthesis, as such, was not new. The Buchla synthesizer featured it in the 60's.

> But the critical feature of FM synthesis that made it usable as a musical element was linear FM. Early synthesizers (like, I presume Buchla's) sported "FM" but it was exponential due to volt/oct.

No; the first Buchla oscillator, the 158, did indeed have linear FM.

And that was intentional. Early Buchla synths didn't have much going on in the filter department, so instead he made the oscillators extra expressive.
> It's also bizarre to watch Silicon Valley engineers complain about taking a 10% salary cut with their 35% cost of living cut.

Greed is irrational. If you consider the time saved by not having to go to work and all the benefits of being able to work from any location, the difference is even bigger.
SolarWinds, GitHub leaks and the supply chain
I still clearly remember the Nickel-Cadmium days. Kids don't know they're born. ;)
Yes, Google doesn't use Leetcode per se for interviews. What the parent commenter was referring to was that Google interview questions are of the type for which Leetcode has become famous for.
Claims that he even read a single full book in the past few decades (with his name on the cover or otherwise) are not credible. They changed the briefing format to a few bullet points in a large font with lots of pictures, and he still doesn't bother to read them (Tillerson: he "doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into the details of a lot of things"). He stumbles and mispronounces words when slowly reading a few sentences on a teleprompter (also reportedly set to a much larger than usual font), commonly misreads a word or phrase and then ad libs a nonsensical embellishment to play the mistake off as intentional, and frequently goes entirely off script with visible relief to just speak off the top of his head. There is a deposition video where he flat refuses to read a few sentences of a contract out loud. When people ask him about what he is reading, he grimaces and deflects with an answer about being too busy.

The speculation that poor eyesight contributes to his functional illiteracy seems plausible.
Sure, but the people who are disinformed aren't the target here anyways: they don't believe anything needs to be "fixed" in the first place.
I know nVidia bought Arm, but what is about DeepMind being lost as domestic industry?

It raises to prominence after becoming a Google wholly owned subdiary. I have repeated multiple times in other comments that DeepMind's success is at least built on top of Google's tech and capital.

Interesringly, Google's tech infrastructure were blueprinted by a lot of pioneers and two of the most well known are Urs Hozle and Luiz André Barroso both are of Eu descentdent.

There is no evidence that whatever DeepMind did can be done with another EU partner. Or even anyone who is not Google, largely thanks to Larry and Sergey's personal tastes and experience. I doubt Msft or Amazon have the right culture for DeepMind.

The whole alphabet thing was engineered to allow independency. So that, among other things, a more pure research org can work without the ever encroaching of the profit driven hands inside Google. Mind you, DeepMind absolutely put itself above Google, or at least firmly distance itself from Google, GCP once proposed to use DeepMind brand in marketing materials, and was sharply rejected citing "conflicting brand images".
The same way. Resubmit until a reviwer reads the testing comments.
Are you aware that this statement cannot be true? It's like potheads holding marijuana up as a panacea. This will reduce income for some number of hospitals, and hospital administration gets a turn at the table too. If you make the business feel pain, they'll pass it on to their customers with some new policy of their own.
sleek aluminum curves hide so much sadness and abuse.
Orangetool 0.50 Released: Control Functions for Single Board Computers
This is something Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) has been talking about these past few years. Here’s an Atlantic article from Collison and Tyler Cowen called “We Need a New Science of Progress”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-...

And an EconTalk episode on the same subject (which goes into more detail than the article)

https://www.econtalk.org/patrick-collison-on-innovation-and-...
> I don't think its crazy - both my mum and sister are intimidated by gears and tend to go for a fixie every time we go on holiday and you need a bike (e.g. Centre Parcs) but struggle to keep up on the hills.

Aside from mechanical issues, shifting gears when you don't expect it is about one of the worst experiences you can have on a bike. Being in a lower gear than you expect and spinning out or being in a higher gear and having no traction is terrible. The Nexus is super easy to shift (and can shift when you are stopped) has a bigger gear range, and is predictable.

Also, when bikes were launched, these didn't exist. Now it's likely you can get an all around easier ebike for about the cost of one of these so it's a no-brainer.

> Your argument seems to be "advanced users don't want this"

No. My argument is nobody wants this you might think automatic shifting on a bike is a good idea, but every time it's been done people hate it. It doesn't work like an automatic in a car.

The fact that it's far more difficult to change a tire means users are even less likely to learn basic maintenance. It's nice to say "They'll take it to the shop!", but that doesn't help when they are on the bike trail 4 miles from their car. With a somewhat normal drive-train another rider can give them an assist. With this, it's unlikely anyone has the tools with them to help out.
This is removing to-go option. There are apps that claim to offer delivery from a restaurant not intending to provide it.
Who in the two ruling parties don’t sell out to big corporations? The Democrats have failed producing a decent health policy. And so have republicans. Do you remember “repeal and replace”? Repealing they did as much as they could but they forgot about replacing.
Well, one exception could be that some parts of the web need to be crawled more often than others.

But tbh, I think incremental updating of a matrix only makes sense if the other parts of your pipeline are also incrementalized.
My friends who work at Apple have definitely complained about bureaucracy and a not so great working environment.

However article is clearly written by someone who has been psychologically harmed and sees the world through that lens.

I did not get the sense that this person was pretending to have worked at Apple
But you can run Flash files outside of a browser. At least, you used to be able to. It’s been a long time since I last did that.
There are so many different aspects in life — you could be a leader in some, and a follower in the others.

For example, you could have a non-leadership position at your day job, but lead local neighborhood’s landscaping initiatives, or organize a hobby club, or lead a guild in an online game, or participate in local elections, or record and sell online paid math courses.

Literally everybody can be a leader, there’s no shortage of leadership positions.
Yeah that’s what I was kind of getting at ... great British success story, bought by SoftBank Japan coincidentally straight after Brexit. Would have been a good asset to have in trade negotiations. The sale to US based Nvidia 3 months ago is an interesting twist that would have gone against the EU had Trump won again.
Ruined vaccines: 60 people got shots with intentionally spoiled drugs
Lots of Apps have special log in system or even Apple Review User account just for the reviewers.

They will have the same hurdle. And resubmit again and again and possibly; again. That is why many developers are so frustrated. It isn't some one -off problems. It has been going on for years.

Just like the Butterfly Keyboard, it wasn't until a journalist wrote about it and mainstream media pick it up causing Apple PR damage before Apple acted on it. Just the same with App Store review. This time with DHH.
I know I plan to pick up sewing this year. It isn't something I've ever given any thought, but I've fallen down a rabbit hole in the last few weeks and am excited to start mending my own clothes and creating new outfits.
I am not sure this will hurt delivery apps as much as restaurants, seems to me like it would compel resturants to enter into contract with delivery services (giving them an upper-hand) else they lose business. Maybe pre-covid that might have been survivable.

Perhaps I am too narrow of a demographic but since covid hit I order pretty heavily from delivery services and I have completely ignored resturants I like simply because they don't offer delivery or are not listed with a delivery service.

Edit: typo
Why? Is there a single person in Universe that would ever be looking at these files and not know that txt is short for text?
Perhaps in some other cases it makes sense, and perhaps we don't even need extensions at all for many files, they can be misleading (not to mention that what 'text' means is just another convention). Microsoft even hides extensions from average users.

But the common extensions that we all know by heart, why change, what's the gain?
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Additionally, electricity, district heating, coal, gas and oil are getting more and more expensive due to carbon and renewable taxes. Renewables like photovoltaics and photothermics, along with heat pumps, are also increasing in price, because there is high demand on specialized workers for installation. The only thing that actually is getting cheaper is wood, a stove is comparatively cheap anyways (few hundred euros, compared to over 10k for anything renewable), and current climate plus tree pests cause a large amount of cheap firewood.

Also, there seems to be the dogma with professional renewable planners that room temperature should not rise above 18°C. I know people where their renewable heating was dimensioned too small, who then supplement by wood stove to at least get a cozy living room in winter.
The key issue around all of this is transparency. Itemize costs, be clear how much money goes to each party, and state up front if you’re not affiliated.
Just keep this in mind - Anon stories like this needs to be verified by a reputable journal, newspaper, etc. Medium or Twitter doesn’t do the due diligence. Nation states can fabricate this easily. Not saying that is indeed the case, I’m asking people to stop looking at places like Substack and Medium as a source of truth, especially Anon posters.

WSJ did so much diligence with the Theranos story. Years. They’ve also released a book explaining what went into their analysis and how they approached taking down a big dog like Theranos. Not saying Apple is same as Theronas, mind you; the point is that newspapers such as WSJ do thorough investigations compared to some random anon account on Medium.

I’ve just become increasingly aware of misinformation after this the US elections drama. I take everything with a grain of salt.
If the intention is to immediately turn the planet into a capitalist environment, how long will it take before a middle class is formed, and Martian poverty becomes a thing?

Personally I think they should be considering something completely different than any type of currency.
Man, I wish I too shared such optimism in EU or other massive multi government bureaucratic organizations to pull something off like this in 2021. But sorry I simply don’t.

From my experience with gov trying to do tech investment it’s going to go into the pockets of late career overpaid ‘executives’ with ‘industry experience’ and tons of (also overpaid and underqualified) contractors doing the same thing. Not the brilliant engineers you imagine are going to run it.

I mean I hope it goes to the engineers and smart dudes (who doesn’t want another successful semi competitor and 2nm?) and not the ones who know how to play the political game the best but I’m highly highly skeptical.

We’ll see in a few years I guess.

And I say that fully understanding ASML and the value they currently provide. But let’s hope who ever doles this out understands it as well as (maybe) half the people in this thread.

But even ignoring that giant elephant in the room, it adds the critical question why should ASML care to give special treatment to this one project? They are already killing it globally. Just because they operate in EU and this offers shit loads of money to potentially fleece?
Ha, glad you had fun! I'm definitely irony poisoned. I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if not for the inappropriateness of the content matter though.
A Redditor is squeezing entire movies onto a single floppy disk
It’s very important to understand the worst that can happen in a situation. If they fire you, ok that will suck and be painful, but important to maintain perspective. They can’t kill you.

These people and these companies and jobs aren’t worth all this. Stand up for yourself and look out for yourself because nobody else is going to.
Can you explain your business model more clearly? Including how you intend to compete with current news outlets, and with the human tendency to not really care about things that should be important to them? The web site was not clear.
A landing page with a check-out that redirects you to a new page after each step or has a long form on a single page.
Imagine how much the Maxwell Trust would own today... The biggest problem with a viral IP system is that there would be nothing left for applied scientists.
When it comes to geopolitics the EU has the impetuous
of Vanuatu.
Polls [1] and [2] are polls of the electorate on different sides of the border. Both need to approve for unification to happen.

In Northern Ireland identification primarily with the UK or with Ireland is a defining identity issue for Protestant and Catholic communities respectively. The 29% figure for near term unification can still rise but campaigners for a United Ireland there face two problems: firstly that many in their own community broadly sympathetic to the idea of a United Ireland are concerned that changing the status quo now would lead to a return to the sectarian violence of a generation ago, and secondly that the Protestant community is slightly larger and also less flexible on national identity.
A mixture of 1984 (e.g. the endless war) and Brave New World (e.g. hype and propaganda).
Many years ago I heard about someone who started learning the piano at 70 and was a concert pianist at 80. That's stuck in my head ever since as a counter argument to any time that I think it's too late for me to start learning something new.
Yes, all of the waveforms out of the waveshaper have a DC offset. The synthesizer removes that when mixing them and sending them through the filter.
By the look of it, this gives restaurants full control over how their product reaches the customer. It basically outlaws competition in the food delivery market, to the obvious benefit of restaurants and incumbents.

There is an obvious problem in how many of the food delivery companies represent the restaurants they deliver from, but this goes way beyond addressing that particular problem.

Glad this is just a CA thing.
When Microsoft closed their cloud-based ebook business in 2019, they refunded 100% of the money to the people who lost access to the books they bought. This was the correct response to shutting down servers.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a27021744/micros...