skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccinations can bring us closer to herd immunity too. Or at least take the load of the hospital system by covering off the vulnerable population.
I switched from a long-time Linux user to a Windows user in 2020.
> To play devil’s advocate: addiction fills a void in an unfulfilling life.

Maybe so, but one would hope that even as far as self-destructive vices are concerned it's possible to pick something with more upside than Farmville addiction.
Followed by the "live action remake".
I've had exactly the same revelation about traditional media a few years back.

I listen to talk-only radio a lot, they have some of the best experts in the country supposedly, a lot of famous names.

And then they talk about some topic I am familiar with (like Polish army modernization or computer science) and they spew bullshit for 1 hour with 100% confidence and there's 10 people in the studio who I'm sure know it's bullshit but they say nothing.

It's surreal. It means they don't even spend 5 minutes on the most basic research before a 1 hour debate.
It might seem like Samsung is caught off balance by TSMC's recent progress, but they are still very much in this race.

I haven't worked for Samsung in ~7 years, but last I recall they were aggressively pursing all manner of value optimization angles. They also have an existing presence in the US, whereas TSMC is going to be about 5 years out on their US factory. Keeping American workers around to inject ideas into your manufacturing process can be invaluable if you have typically been operating the business like a Borg cube (i.e. relentless standardization throughout, potentially at the cost of more complex value-add proposals).
The culture changed, reddit just follows. I still miss the thoughtful discussion of difficult ontological questions in the popular culture around 2017-2018. Soon we will be discussing rhe expectional mechanical keyboards, and then some time after that the tasteful keyboards, and then some time after that the sexy keyboards. It goes on, consistency is not rewarded as the wave of cultural interest moves on.
This is actually the Postmates business model; they hire a delivery person to go to a restaurant, stand in line, and make the order. At no point does the restaurant know of the buyer’s existence.

Well, minus the clear disclaimer, and also minus tipping people at the restaurant (tip goes to courier)
An interesting thread here on this topic. That 0.7 increase can have devastating impacts. Also worth noting this variant is now spreading in SoCal, CO, and most recently found in FL too. So the post holiday surge that’s already underway could get compounded by this variant.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/13447745557185...
One thing I hope is obliterated into history after this presidency is the notion that “both parties are the same”.

I’m seriously getting a laugh out of these conservatives who are struggling to make ends meet but have voted Mitch McConnell into office for 35 years. The same guy who just laughed in their face regarding $2k relief checks for them.

I remember reading a comment by someone that went something along the lines “I’ve voted for Mitch my entire life mostly because he opposes the democrat agenda” and I can’t help but get a little bit of joy when they get what they deserve.
They could simply make a single pizza, and then deliver it to themselves N times.
So there's nothing wrong with takeout; during COVID you might buy it takeout, and eat it at a nearby table. Even outside of COVID, you might eat it in your car. This law is to ensure the restaurant has control over whether it's the customer taking it out (and it's then up to them how long they wait to eat it), or a third party (and the customer has no control over how long it waits before they eat it).

Because otherwise, there is nothing preventing Doordash or similar from adding the location to their app. The restaurant may not offer them favorable terms, or otherwise work with them, but even without official support, Doordash interopts with the restaurant's online ordering system for pickup (or even involves a human to call it in), sends a driver to pick it up ("Here to pick up an order for Steve"), and then delivers it. Nothing the restaurant can do to prevent it.
I think the tragedy of the internet is that it could be all at the same time: started by a troll, adapted by trolls... but also lunatics and those who make a living exploiting lunatics ("content creators", "influencers", ad biz,...), and destabilization campaigns by state players. I think by now "Q" is a complex creature, with its own incentives, beyond the control of any particular fraction.
The courier price (in the app) isn't the same price as the one when you physically go into the restaurant. IIRC its 25~35% higher.

Source - good friend is a restaurant owner.
It's all about monitization bro.
So, theoretically speaking - because I'm not from the EU - if I choose to not comply with that law, is it my responsibility to figure out a technical manner to block EU users from accessing my content, in this global Internet world?
The next Air Force One supposedly costs 4 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One#VC-25B .
Why 30 Is Not Too Old to Start Programming
Fabs seem like a classic example where the market will trend to a monopoly. Each generation makes fabs themselves more expensive along with the incremental R&D . As each generation largely obsoletes the previous, the price of being second goes up.
2021 resolution: Learn to fly in ACRO mode
someone writes a library of abstractions

You: "these abstractions are only useful if you don't know how to use the underlying primitives"

This is obviously nonsense. Abstractions are useful because they can simplify your code while providing good performance. Because certain things (eg optimizing, reasoning about locks, writing tests for a concept) are expensive and it's better to only do them once really well.

If a pattern is regularly repeated, it often makes sense to abstract it. Why would that be any different in code that deals with concurrency??
Yep! They just call it in and someone picks it up. I think even if its a loss, its a form of intimidation. "See, we're the gatekeeper to your customers now, so you better sign with us so we get 20-30% of your revenue. Also we'll list your menu in our app with $1 added per item that we pocket on top of that and charge the customer a service fee on top of that."

Its an ugly business model.
Meanwhile in the "hardest hit" county in Ohio. The county commissioner is explaining to everyone this morning why the official covid numbers don't actually matter don't make any sense. And that that little map they have is totally bogus.
The value something has for us relates to how much we paid for it. The thing we struggled to learn is knowledge more dear than that which came as obvious, elegant revelation.
Great to read something about tunneling after a long time. SSH Tunneling is very cool. It used to be my bread and butter while working on a file sharing product without a central data storage server. There was a service named pagekite that leveraged tunnels to help people host websites on the personal devices without compromising the security of the device. I guess they are still in business.
Those permissions are rather easily abused so I'm glad Google is protecting my privacy by restricting them.
Anyone else think this will never end? How many years will you stay home?
They has also put through a rule that drug companies were required to show the cost of a 30-day supply of the drug in their TV commercials. They did it for a few months before that pharmaceutical companies went to court and got a judge to rule in their favor.
Datenlord: An application-orientated, cloud-native distributed storage system
yikes... if it still spreads like crazy in commerce/public space shutdown conditions, i wonder if this variant is more conducive to fomite spread.

i also wonder what can and should be done now to prepare and lighten the load on frontline nurses and medical staff. maybe it's time to train up and bring in an army of techs to mind the machines?
Not being a smart ass:

Ditto Switzerland?

IIRC, Hitler didn't invade for similar reasons. A well armed citizenry. (And a convenient fence for all the spoils of war.)

Historically, was Switzerland it's own thing? Did Napoleon, the Hapsburgs, misc Papacies, Franks and Normans, etc, march around those mountains?
the posted thread is rather interesting and I would love to see more critical discussions like this on the issues of bitcoin. unlike the often seen circle jerk of bitcoin maxis, this could actually lead to solutions or issues getting addressed before they become bigger.
I think Nazis and the Alt Right don’t like it in the same way they don’t like Twitter.
They are good if they are in plain pdf format though.
I used a 486 66dx2 until 2001 when I went to college. FreeBSD was by far and away the winner on that thing. Had 20 megs of RAM and a 2.2 gig hard drive. Ran X and WordPerfect and Netscape in Linux compatibility better than natively in Slackware. Got me through high school with no problems (had to buy an external modem as the one it came with was a winmodem)
No clue the current state of things though.
Scope of Your First Game
Central banks and governments pretty much already committed to drive a planned economy. EU subsidises farmers (among others) to sell goods at cheap prices, which causes consumer prices to drop and in the end the ECB says inflation is too low, so let's print money to buy more gov bonds. Governments then use the money to subsidise something else distorting the markets and it loops back to disinflation and the central bank printing even more money.

It's a joke. Might as well just admit, semiconductors or not, the future of the economy is with the politically preselected winners who get the subsidies and the loans. Risk premiums, collateral, macroprudential regulation, insurance and so on is for the peasants.
Obama and Biden I was thinking the same things they golf so freaking much
The incentive structure falls apart once Bitcoin original runs out of blocks to mine. That’s the starting point for this discussion.

The only incentive to mine then is to earn the transaction fee. These fees ($8) are currently orders of magnitude smaller than the mining reward of 6.25 coins ($125,000 at $20,000/coin). Either fees have to dramatically compensate by rising stratospherically or miners will depart for greener pastures. Yes, difficulty level drops eventually, but by then a large number of users have also followed miners off the network, in which case the price will drop too. As the price collapses, there will be a selling frenzy, further reducing the price. In this scenario, Bitcoin may settle to something as low as $10 per token.

Once miners depart en masse, network resilience will drop precipitously. That makes it an attractive target for someone to stage a coordinated attack, which would destroy remaining residual trust in the network and bringing about the end of Bitcoin original.
Lithium ion batteries went through an incredible revolution the last 10 years, prices dropped by a factor of ~10.

https://twitter.com/ProfRayWills/status/1342632562477264896
Interesting, I hadn't heard that, do we know that definitively? (THS was the only one of the Space Trilogy I never read, I should correct that.)
This one is the best I have seen. It converts the swf very accurately: https://swf2js.com/en/
Mujahideen force was never near the level of the U.S. military in basic training, and they suffered heavy losses even against the conscript Soviet army. Still that gets you rather far if you are motivated and fighting a war of ambushes on home turf.

If the US training was all it is hyped to be, surely the US-trained ANA could have rooted the Taliban by now, even without American help.
One of them owns several places where you can golf the other one is married to a man
I don't think that herd immunity can be achieved without a vaccine. We never had herd immunity to smallpox, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, or any other virus until we had vaccines for those viral diseases.
Google and Facebook don't really sell personal data, and least not directly. They might buy some, and advertisers happily give them data, but I rarely hear about them actually selling it. They do let advertisers run ads that are targeted using this data, but that's not the same as "felling personal data." It's more like selling user attention.
Now they turn 1984 into an instruction pamphlet.
Well, it’s a week after x-mass so all countries see big increases because of family gatherings
There are around 45k authors/writers in the US, which means not even 0,001% of the US writes books.

Are these people insane? Well, you have to be bold to assume you could make a living of writing, I guess. But insane is probably a bit far fetched.
Opaque: Passwords That Never Leave Your Device
3.17 billion in 2019 dollars, or 1.11 if you exclude the sunk costs.
I think it IS a matter of expectation, yes.

If I go and pick up something that doesn't sit around at room temperature well (let's say a milkshake), and drive 20 minutes home before eating it, I'm not going to ding the restaurant for the fact it's melted.

If, however, milkshakes are offered for takeout (reasonable), but then a third delivery party gets involved and starts offering them for delivery, anyone ordering it will have the impression of "I ordered a milkshake. It arrived to my hand melted! 1-star, bad!" Since they clearly aren't thinking enough to -not order the milkshake in the first place-.

Milkshake is an extreme example to demonstrate the point, but applies to anything that doesn't sit well (previously mentioned burger included), with the added trouble that customers are less likely to know what will sit well.
Playing the devil's advocate, maybe detailed reporting to the boss is useful and worth doing. Probably the product owner's job and not yours, but not necessarily a bad (or, specifically, not agile enough) way to work.

I'm familiar with using Jira for enough customer support requests to require a full time ticket wrangler position, and closing tickets timely with accurate reports is often more important than the requested fix or support intervention: looking good with the IT managers that are, for all practical purposes, our customers has a higher priority, for everybody, than helping a random end user with a noncritical problem.
I hope this whole idea of game streaming and online only accounts for purchases has a permanent solution.

Perhaps an non-profit controlled entity can be set up to transfer assets and management of such digital assets.

Imagine losing all your Playstation games that are online only, because Sony went down the drain, or losing all your books because Amazon went belly up.
> Is there any theory or data that more the R or transmission rate less deadly the virus is in itself?

There's a vague evolutionary argument that the less deadly for the host a parasite is the more widely it can spread and thus the more evolutionarily successful it will become. But there is no mechanism that guarantees the inverse — that an increase in infectiousness will be accompanied by a decrease in lethality. From the molecular biological perspective, the molecules responsible for viral spread and the molecules responsible for the damage that the virus does to its host (or that the host does to itself when attacking the virus) are likely to be quite different, so there is no reason for a change in one to be accompanied by a change in the other.
How do you interview for any other job?
Sure, but my coin isn’t worth $20,000. Or even $2.
Sorry about the slow response. I can’t actually address your question because I work remotely from Canada. However, the four day week policy applies to everyone, including all US employees, so I guess in that respect at least things are pretty much the same for everyone.
Unfortunately all large tech companies are public and it does in fact seem that this is really all that shareholders care about.

We have no reason to believe that they will do anything other than attempt to maximize their share value.
This was my thought too. This law is a huge barrier to entry for any new delivery apps in California.
The current govt of Taiwan held the China seat on the UN Security Council until 1979. The history on this issue is complex.
I think "shall not arrange for the delivery of an order" in § 22599 pretty much bans taking orders.

But yes, it does not ban setting up fake websites, unfortunately. So a food delivery service can still put up a fake website only to tell a user on a landing page "we are sorry, Moms and Pops pizza does not take orders online, how about a slice of Jack and Jill's pizza instead?"
> So a) a newer variant will definitely have a higher viral load on average just because people are more likely to be at an earlier stage in the infection cycle, especially if it is more transmissible

Why would that be? The new variant is several months old already. See e.g. Figure 1A in the report [1]

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...
Can you explain how this has anything to do with tracking?
Oh I thought you were saying that ironically, but you know what, I can see it.
People are literally getting vaccinated as we speak.
Ask HN: What was your favorite comment in 2020?
Comments on Hacker News can be very well thought, I'm often impressed with the quality of discussion, although I don't participate much. I'm curious, what do you think was the most insightful comment of 2020?
Most popular regex engines use backtracking and support non-regular features. They aren't based on automata, so implementing AND is perhaps not as theoretically straight-forward in that context.

There are some popular finite automata based engines though. RE2 comes to mind. In theory, things like AND and complement could be implemented, but in practice, they blow up the size of the state machine.[1, 2] The current maintainer of RE2 did build a tool that permits intersection and complement though.[3]

[1] - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2071368.2071372

[2] - https://github.com/google/re2/issues/156#issuecomment-354068...

[3] - https://github.com/google/redgrep
The increase in viral load is a bit more substantial than 10%... The study [0] shows a 10-100x increase for the median case.

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.24.20248834v...
That’s an impossible question for any organization but it’s entirely irrelevant and that’s what you’re missing. The information they leaked was real and important. Where it came from is secondary matter. People only got worked up about it because the information was about their preferred politician. The information could not be disputed, it was correct and not fabricated. But they cared more that dirt was leaked than the fact their politician was dirty. They should examine their principals.
Somewhat related: There are now services that negotiate or shop around your local pharmacies for cheap prescriptions. They claim they often are able to find the prescription drugs that retail for less money than insurance co-pays.

I’m not sure if these services are a scam or not, but anecdotally, the one time I needed medical care without insurance (due to a short inadvertent coverage gap), the out of pocket price was significantly lower than my co-pay would have been.

In fairness to the insurance companies, the doctor made it clear she charges people without insurance less money. This bill will prevent hospitals from subsidizing uninsured people with money from the insured; that’s a potential downside. We really need universal single-payer health care in this country.
Arplisp Interpreter for Raspberry Pi in a Single ASM File, No Libraries Used
It gets into James Damore territory pretty quickly.
I raise you this bad-boy 'Apple Bandai Pippin;' made or designed by Apple Computers; for the Asian/Japanese market; it seems. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

Good post though! Amiga CD-32 was pretty great too.
For the love of god, I can never understand why this game became popular.

I understand the pull of games and I am a gamer myself. However, compared to games like minecraft, this game was boring and absurd for me.

Make digital farms, where's the fun in that?

And I know intelligent, high calibre friends of mine spending hours on the game and hours talking about it.

The sheer amount of lost productivity due to this game is astounding, and I say lost productivity because this damn game captured a whole lot of mindshare.
> I expect the government to do so.

I suspect many don't and many underestimate the effect inflation has on their savings.

> Conversely, I expect that when Bitcoin goes wrong and the 21 million unit limit is replaced (call it “Bitcoin Future Fork” or whatever)

Bitcoin is 10 years old, there are already numerous forks which changed several parameters of the original Bitcoin implementation. According to their market value, all of them failed in comparison. In fact, Bitcoin's hesitation to implement breaking changes (hard-forks) may be what the market finds valuable.
Do we really want everyone to be a leader?
This is not tricky in the slightest. All the points you make are distractions from the central concept of what people understand purchasing something to mean.

The computers these people played on with auto-updates disabled, would continue to support Flash for eternity.

Your points would be valid if Zynga said "the thing you bought isn't going to run on new devices". But what they're saying is "we're breaking the thing you bought because not very many people can still give us money."

Purchases without a "XX years' functionality" label should be required to be functional in perpetuity or refunded.
Yeah agreed. Never purchase those that needs a reader or something. Of course there are programs to extract the pdf files but it's always a bit too much for me. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY CHARGE ALMOST THE SAME AS A REAL BOOK.
Well if the issue is something you have to act on then you should know.

Let's say there's talk about a new vaccine - should you take it or not. Or about candidates for some political office. Or about global warming.

I guess you can ignore everything, but if everybody does it's not going to end well.
This is one of the few predictions on this thread which I feel 100% confident will never come to pass.
There will still be a brine problem though...https://unu.edu/media-relations/releases/un-warns-of-rising-....
Not the only one. As long as the battery and flash keeps, my 1020 will continue to be a good camera.
"Orwell's 1984... is not a fantasy of the future, but a parable of the present."

- Robert Anton Wilson
This will be overturned based on First Amendment and Free Speech Grounds.
Also Jack London's "The Iron Heel": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
There is a reason why so many people who have made their mark in history are deemed to be crazy kooks (at first anyways). When you start following your intuition and powers of observation (yourself, and others), you tend to diverge from mainstream views.

Not to be confused with delusions and other fantasy based models.
The difference here is that those 20-30% who resist public health measures to combat COVID have actual power to hurt the rest of us, by spreading the disease.
I've had many dreams featuring IRC or the chat of an old MMO. I also heard it's very uncommon to see text in dreams, though.
Krita in 2020
I imagine part of it is reducing the incentive for nation state actors to engage in counterfeiting.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
We already have electrical transport infrastructure everywhere to the last mile. Hydrogen, not so much.