skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an 8 month old, my productivity has definitely increased working from home, granted there is the odd moment I am taken away from my work, on the whole though it is a net gain. Not to mention the lack of commuting having a positive effect on my wallet

Perhaps with toddlers things will be more difficult, but my spouse and I have an agreement to treat my work space as an office and only disturb when absolutely necessary.

I do miss the office environment though
>A Reddit competitor emerges and wins majority marketshare

So many have tried and failed already. I would really wish that to happen though.
We won’t even buy them office supplies. Teachers sometimes buy everything from Kleenex to stationery for use by students in the classroom out of pocket. I don’t think how demanding raises will work unless we somehow convince the public to pay (much) higher property taxes.
> Apple supervisors stated that the Guo Media App is critical of the Chinese government and, therefore, should be removed from the App Store. Plaintiff Pham responded stating the Guo Media App publishes valid claims of corruption against the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party and, therefore, should not be taken down.

> Apple became aware of plaintiff Pham’s criticism and defendant Apple’s managers responded by retaliating against plaintiff Pham and ultimately terminating plaintiff Pham.

Apple is a spineless piece of shit.

How anyone can defend these assholes and the horrible things they do to US software developers is beyond me. But to defend this - their kowtowing to a regime that conducts slavery, rape, and organ harvesting - that's appalling.

Anybody jumping to disagree - I strongly encourage you to think of all the suffering going on, and how this company would rather make gobs of dirty money than take the moral high ground.

We cancel people and companies for far less than this.

Cancel Apple.
> The focal length numbers printed on an EF or an EF-s lens are the same thing for consistency. The crop factor isn’t included. So if you take a photo on a full frame 5D and also an APS-C 7D and crop accordingly to account for the difference in sensor size you get the same thing.

No, that seems to be a misunderstanding. The focal lengths on the lenses are the real focal lengths, not the 35mm-equivalent ones. For example, have a look at the EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM [1] The name says it's focal length is 24mm; that 24mm is also printed on the lens. The description says "a 35mm equivalent focal length of 38mm". So clearly its 35mm-equivalent focal length is 35mm, and its real focal length is 24mm.

[1] https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/d...

> So what do the numbers printed on the lens correspond to? It’s hard to find but this canon page suggests it’s 35mm equivalent: https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART14...

What that page indicates is the crop factor for each camera (i.e. the ratio of its sensor size to a 35 mm sensor, equal to the factor you have to multiply the real focal length with to get the 35mm-equivalent focal length). For the 7D, the table says that the 35mm-Equivalent Focal Length is "Approximately equivalent to 1.6 x the lens focal length". Let's apply that to our 24mm-lens above. 1.6 x 24mm = 38.4mm, which is essentially the same as the 35mm in the description (focal length specifications are not very precise anyways).

So it checks out: the number on the lens is the real focal length; to get the 35-mm equivalent focal length you can either look it up in the specifications or simply multiply with the crop factor.

I'm not very familiar with Canon, but as I presume you can put EF lenses on APS-C cameras (I know the equivalent of that works in the Nikon world). If you compare an EF 50mm lens and an EF-S 50mm lens on the same APS-C camera, you'll notice both have the same field of view. Because the focal lengths are the real focal lengths, they behave the same when placed on the same camera.

But if you compare an EF lens on a APS-C camera with that same lens on a full frame camera, you'll see that it has a wider field of view on the full frame camera (because the full frame camera has a sensor that's 1.6x the size).

When reading about focal lengths, always make sure to understand what reference the author uses; it's often not explicitly mentioned. For example, people often say a "normal" lens (i.e. a lens with a field of view that appears natural for us humans) is a 50mm lens. But that's only true for full frame sensors. For other sensors (or films) you need the equivalent: for APS-C (or Nikon DX) it's around 35mm, for medium formats it's 75mm or larger depending.
I read predominantly fiction with some occasional non-fiction thrown in.
My two big recommendations from my 2020 reading are

(fiction): A Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine, 2020 Hugo Winner. It could be loosely described as a SF political thriller and contains some great characters, good ideas and genuine suspense. The future context of the story is based on the author's Ph.D research into the imperial tension between the intensely sophisticated Byzantine empire and its smaller neighbours in the 11th century.

(non-fiction): Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins. This is the autobiography of the astronaut who stayed in orbit around the Moon while Armstrong and Collins gained the kudos of the first lunar landing. I've read several accounts of the Apollo programme over the years, and this was by far and away the best written. Collin's account of his Gemini 10 mission is also gripping. This involved him spacewalking to an undocked Agena Target Vehicle while John Young was manually formation flying the Gemini spacecraft. Collins had to make sure he wasn't over any of the manoeuvring thrusters that Young might have needed to use to avoid a collision with the Target.
>PWA or similar web-based app / installer will rise, while having more opposition from apple and google.

Google is the one pushing it, actually. And wasn't there a recent post on HN that Firefox devs are planning to remove PWA support?
VR headset: how would this be different from what vuzix offers today?
What's a viable alternative then?
Echo the (young) kids & productivity penalty. I gave up all long-concentration work for short-cycle wins that fit in-between the kid's nervous energy / social interruptions. I have tremendous sympathy for parents that didn't have that flexibility.
Maybe "spur" might be putting it a bit strong, but I do think it will make it more likely in subtle, marginal ways. It will be an extra push factor in an already complicated dynamic. In any case, I think a referendum on unity is still decades rather than years away.
Sometimes things "can't be explained" with the current theories. We need new theories before we can explain things.

So, in this sense, I'd say it's correct to say that "things can't be explained".

I wholeheartedly agree that discoveries like these are fun. They challenge us to develop new theories, try to make new predictions and then prove these wrong. :D
While some sources agree with you: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/mediums

Both Media and Mediums are plural forms in common usage. Thus: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mediums has mediums variants: or media
plural of medium

ex: https://www.uspto.gov/kids/MiddleSchool-HowWellSoundTravels....

And really, English just evolves over time so these kind of rules don’t actually mean anything.
The point is that the stated reason for the law is impersonation, which is already illegal, but under the guise of cracking down on impersonation of restaurants, the law does much more.
Many, possibly the vast majority are probably reviews of minor updates to existing apps.
Most reviews are just for updates.

In which case they are simply checking copy, opening the app and clicking around a bit etc i.e. no more than a few minutes.

The longer reviews are reserved for new apps and edge cases.
FWIW: As a dev I've made both contact with Apple and with Google reps and it was like day and night. Apple actually offers support and tries to resolve my problems while Google feels like getting some bureaucracy done at a public office or worse. (Speaking of European bureaucracy, YMMV.)
I've gotten the question in ML eng interviews 3 times: implement sparse vector and the respective dot product op. I always go for the handy DOK method.
My Favourite Books of 2020
Finally, I can simulate 9P on worse browsers.
China are a god-awful totalitarian lying genocidal state and Apple are ruthless hypocrites but as another comment here also points out, there's real uncertainty around Guo Wengui (whose app it is) and whether he in fact was corrupt (it's just difficult to know given China's absolute lack of rule of law).

Xi JinPing did kick off a huge crackdown on corruption so everything's murky unfortunately.

Will be interesting to see the outcome of this!

EDIT: It is clear people are not actually reading what I said here or the article. 'At this meeting, defendant Apple supervisors stated that the Guo Media App is critical of the Chinese government and, therefore, should be removed from the App Store.' - this is what is claimed. I am pointing out that this claim is not necessarily true (or at least not as clear-cut as this) and if so it makes you question the whole thing somewhat.

For the record I DESPISE censorship and DESPISE the CCP and DESPISE apple's rank hypocrisy.

But I also care a great deal about accuracy and truth hence my pointing this inconsistency out.
Maybe future historians will grab his heads when they find out we consumed the energy of a mid sized country during a climate change global existential threat just to run a big speculation digital game. In some sense, bitcoin seems to be the epitome of human irrationality.
Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage
Personally I think uranium glassware looks very cool, you wouldn't want to shatter it or eat or drink from it, but it sure looks amazing.
Manager Tools have a forum. Not super active but if you’re patient there are some knowledgeable people there that will usually make some good contributions to the discussion.

https://manager-tools.com/forums
It's a delusion of grandeur to think that Islamic fundamentalism owes its existence to a transient American action.

American exceptionalism but from the Left.
That we allow naysayers to be fired, is on US.
What column type?
The majority of the population was actually willing to do this, as it was a referendum that captured 50.3% of the vote. But it also had to capture a majority of the cantons in the country, which it did not do. And so the initiative failed.
Thanks for thiis awesome feedback!

Definitely more colours are coming and health integration too. The difference between Everyday and most of the habit trackers ouut there is that it has a Public API. The problem is that I haven't had the time to document it yet but many devs are already using it by reverse engineering the requests of the Web app. I really hope I can work on this in the future!

You can follow the app on twitter: https://twitter.com/everydaycheckapp for updates. I normally send a couple updates a year via email but you need to have an account to receive them!
> The point is that the stated reason for the law is impersonation

Is it? I don't see anything in the text about impersonation.
Tech stocks could decline because they are way overvalued. The digitalization will stick with us. Online commerce will increase because traditional shops will accept that they have to adapt. Virtualization, remote work, and video conferencing will stay with us.
Did you see the flake crate?
Damn I never thought about indie chefs! I heard about ghost kitchens which I think is brilliant but building and promoting your individuality as a chef unlocks a whole new world of possibilities.
Because many restaurant owners don't even think about trademarks, or their names are too "generic" to be allowed to trademark.

The usual exception are the franchise operations (mcdonalds, BK, subway, kfc, ...) because these are thought from the start to be exclusive.
Slightly OT: I would really like an alt-tab command that cycled through my browser tabs as well as my app windows. Nowadays a single website is more like an app than the entire web browser is, so I think this metaphor would make sense.
> Bitcoiners' usual objection at this point is to claim that transactions per second is a bad measure, for some reason

You've probably been told before but I'll tell you the why again. Bitcoin's energy consumption is not proportional to the number of transactions it's processing.

The energy used is proportional to the block reward, the reward that miners get from mining a new block roughly every 10 minutes. They won't spend more money on energy than they get from mining, or they would go out of business. That mining reward goes up with price, (because it's paid out as a fixed amount of BTC) and goes down with each halving event (every ~4 years the block reward is cut in half in BTC terms).

The network can be doing 7tps or 7 million tps, doesn’t really matter for energy use, although higher usage can have indirect effects on price or other things.
Absolute History has some good documentaries on this called Hidden Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Jef7i7v1U
This in effect says that it is illegal to pay someone to collect your own food from a restaurant without the restaurant's agreement (only if the service is offered online, though)

This does not make much sense.

Legislators should not rush into kneejerk and populist reactions.
But when the government 'simply create more', they are not creating any more wealth. They are creating more units of currency to represent the same wealth as before, which eventually makes every unit of currency worth slightly less.

The people who have assets in cash end up paying for it. That includes the poor who have most of their net worth in cash as they live paycheck to paycheck, and whose purchasing power has been stagnant for decades.
Ok, so who do you go to that isn't? Even Fairphone is up to their eyeballs in Chinese suppliers and they say in their own literature they can't account for all their upstreams.

Apple are always the ones that get walloped publicly on issues like this, and actually I'm ok with that. It's good these issues get air time at all, if Apple didn't exist and it was all Microsoft, Samsung and such none of this would ever get out and if it did nobody would care. But pretending this is all about Apple, slagging them in a comment and then going and buying the next Chinese made gear from Amazon or whoever is just brushing this under the rug.
<sarcasm>You may be liable for stealing Apple's 30% by not participating in the App store. So please think again and rather write an app...</sarcasm>
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While its largely begin if properly sealed and left alone, keep in mind that it can take 10-40 years after exposure before bad things happen.
The Common Lisp Wiki: Person
Inflation will not end up being nearly as big of a problem as many have bet. Asset speculation and short bets against the dollar will start to fizzle out (including bitcoin). Potentially another economic shock will push foreign investors back to safe-haven currencies (i.e. the dollar).
Bon any a tothom! Feliz año a todos! Happy new year to everyone! =)
Apple fans act like this process is designed to protect them from malware, but it's so superficial that it couldn't be much better than automated detection methods.

In reality, Apple is looking for

1. Loopholes around its walled garden

2. Payments not being taxed

3. Apps not using the latest demanded framework, such as Apple sign in (they're not your users, they're Apple users on loan to you)

4. Political content its Chinese minders will be unhappy about
They have, but not if they pretend to be X or to be somehow contracted by X to do deliveries if that is not actually the case.
Hello, rational British resident here.

The thing is: five years of this process has worked to make me much more pissed off than I was. It might not have been clear from outside just how toxic this all was, and will have driven many of us away from our initial position of "this was merely a bad decision that we will work around".

It’s not specifically about the mechanics of the EU membership or "leaving a historically recent trade union". There are rational arguments to support doing these things, and there are ways to do them while not being dicks about it. But the UK's internal political environment has crumbled along with this process. It's become bound up in a "culture war", and many of us reasonably feel that this is just one of the manifestations of a country which is taking a negative and inward-looking approach to situations where we'd much rather take a positive and internationalist one.

It’s hard to maintain a dispassionate attitude sometimes when being deliberately provoked. So you’ll see people using the words “evil” and “racist” not to describe Brexit itself, but rather to some of the people it’s inseparable from. Although the campaign itself was explicitly racist, featuring cliché lies about an incoming horde of foreigners. Really grubby stuff that should shame the country, and it's getting worse.

I've spent the past five years watching a succession of (primarily government) politicians lying to my fucking face about the great opportunities that await us. Repeatedly compounding a bad decision with completely unjustified rhetoric about it.

What we could have seen was a sensible approach that appreciated that Brexit was a democratically-made decision and had to be respected, and then tried to build a national consensus about how best to deliver it. But we instead went for a take-no-prisoners approach and this has left many of us quite angry.

Even just from a purely practical level, I'm pretty pissed about this. After years of nonsense the final outcome is that it's going to be much more of a pain in the arse to do a bunch of stuff I did that was easy before. I've lost a set of rights that I had, used, and valued, and gained nothing in return. I could even deal with that a bit better if I didn't have to be constantly lied to about how great it is.

So yes. The country won't be destroyed – but it will be permanently weakened, and I think it's okay to be a bit emotionally invested in that.
The book Atlantic is where I came across it. Sand shoals force ships into the currents of the North Atlantic Gyre which the Portuguese mastered before tackling the Cape Bojador problem; see Volta do Mar [1] which has a great diagram.

The problem was solved with math.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta_do_mar
I don't know why you are being downvoted. It's a very reasonable way to think.

We should have a policy of reciprocity with China. This must be discussed urgently.
>Evangelion Rebuild movie will be released.

First screenings for press were held in December already, so there is no going back, fortunately.
One person is enough to change or make new facts about the company too.
I mean, 60,000 isn't all that long considering the history of the universe. The previous lyrics are still applicable.
Huh? This is about military training, equipment, and logistics, not religion.
Because civil laws only protect people rich enough to hire lawyers.
Ah, you're right. I did actually click that link but something about the way that article is written made scanning for the specific thing I was after while tired very difficult.

I'll re-evaluate this perception after I've slept, but it feels like key facts are buried in storytelling in a way I don't see often on Wikipedia. Could just be me, I'm not sure.

Edit: I think what I'm describing is a textbook example of a buried lede.
You are skipping quite a few steps here by jumping to "impersonating a business online", which I suspect is already illegal.

This bill says that it would be illegal to pick food on behalf of someone else without the restaurant's agreement (if you're an online platform). The is no question of dishonesty or impersonation, just of offering this service.

This is quite an extreme restriction, IMHO, and seems to be a kneejerk and simplistic response to a perceived problem.

On the other hand, the problem of online reviews is separate and should be addressed specifically, IMHO. At the moment it's the wild West and a breeding ground for defamation. Maybe regulating this should get more attention from lawmakers (though I realise that in the US the 1st Amendment may make this difficult).
You can find lots of stories about PayPal freezing accounts for random reasons. With well-known projects this usually resolves by public shaming, but I guess this can be impossible to solve for a small seller in a non-US/non-West-Europe country.

Example: https://neo900.org/news/paypal-trouble-delays-project
I totally agree with you. The business of Doordash should be legal while the exact practices you described above are illegal.
AMD's Smart Access Memory on Zen 2 CPUs – The Power of Resizable Bar
There’s a lot going on in that complaint. This US based employee approved the app in the Chinese App Store, and it was not the first screw up they had made.
I’m sympathic to a lousy job experience at any employer. While it sounds more like a DEI issue at heart, and possibly a training or hiring failure, I’m doubtful that the courts would not side with Apple here.
Intelligence have often less to do with rationality and objectivity, which can be used as facade to hide the biases.
NYSE to Delist Chinese Telco Giants on U.S. Executive Order
I love the article. I did electronic music myself in the past, and this is very very good and detailed explanation.

It motivates me to try it back.

I have to find a little time to do something interesting now that I have the resources that I had not in the past(if only I had the time I had then).
People have been integrating web services with excel for two decades. Previously you had to write a C XLL to do it properly, but COM add-ins have been supported for a long time, although have oddities, and now you can load .net assemblies into excel. You can use kerberos baked into windows for authentication, or just use http basic auth, and control access to data sets just like any other thing. So I guess, I'm confused by the article because a lot of the claims about how you have to do things in excel don't seem to be quite right.
More or less so. Roughly speaking, the effectiveness of the vaccine should be the same as long as the shape of the spike protein doesn’t change.

The most important mutation in the new VOC 202012/01 variant (N501T) translates to tighter binding to the ACE2 receptor, which should have no effect on its structure. However, that variant has also a double deletion (residues 69 and 70 are removed) that might induce slight conformational changes.

Another thing to keep in mind is that vaccines are polyclonal: the antibodies produced by them target several different regions of the spike protein. This implies that the virus would need to mutate several times in separate parts to be able to evade immunity effectively.
Does your app have sign in with google, Facebook?

If not, what's their rationale for forcing you to implement theirs?
Off-topic : I always wondered if serving one country also deserves the whole world.
Purism’s Librem 5 seems to be a worthy alternative. They publish[0] schematics and aim to allow users to verify that hardware hadn’t been altered by a supplier.

[0] https://puri.sm/posts/a-different-kind-of-transparency/
Like I already said, it could be better worded, but, to me, its intent seems to be quite clear. You make good points, but I still have a different interpretation.
Zynga shuts down FarmVille after 11 years