skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any indications yet that this makes masks less effective for controlling the spread indoors? And if so, by how much?

“Raises R number” could mean any number of things - is it more infectious through touch, by breathing it in, or when viral particles reach your eyes?
What I don’t understand is: Uber at least had a vision (self driving) that VC could look forward to. What’s the end goal of these delivery apps that just bleed money?
Why is there so much aversion to proving one's abilities? Programmers today feel they shouldn’t have to do whiteboards, hackerrank, or take-homes.

How does a prospective employer evaluate someone’s problem-solving and programming chops?
This version if I recall retains the horror aspect? What worries me is when they change the ending for some disturbing kind of happy ever after, the kind I can't imagine. Like what they did to the Little Mermaid. Next they'll be making a version of the Happy Prince (Hans Christian Anderson) where he remains a gold statue and keeps his jewels.
What does this say about commenters on HN?
so the remedy is to implement a law that will live forever, even as we expect covid to (hopefully) recede this year?
The 55-65 group will just use e-MTBs.
Orwell reviewed That Hideous Strength and said it had some good points. But it's definitely the weakest in the trilogy, and definitely did not influence 1984 in any obvious way. Still worth reading, though.
Hijacking the browser's default behavior is a dick move
LibreCAD 2.2.0-rc2
Which, if you read old english, you know is an unconscionable travesty. No doubt not as bad as the desecration by a nitwit young adult writer discussed above, but pretty bad.
It seemed less than 50/50 from discussing it with friends. I don’t know, maybe it’s still worth a shot.
I think being wealthy is the most effective parenting style to create leaders (in the US anyway).
I recently pimped an Orwell biography in a different thread¹, but I'll do so again. Dorian Lynskey's The Ministry of Truth is a really well written and thoroughly researched treatise on Orwell.

I found the passage of his life from Eton through Spain to his final books far more interesting than his actual writings(with the possible exception of Road to Wigan Pier).

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25474279
Easy now... let’s not bring facts into this discussion.
Can you provide citations for this (first sentence)? My understanding is that there were no deaths in the treatment arm of the trial. But deaths are much rarer than infections so naively our uncertainty on this effect should be much larger than uncertainty about 60% infection rate reduction. Secondly, even if true, does this mean full restrictions until all are vaccinated?
Blast! No I almost had it, but decided against my intuition.

Thank you.
Wouldn't be surprised. Taiwan only exists as an independent entity because of American actions in Asia.
> "my intake is content isn't based up on hate speech"

> admits to posting a thinly veiled death wish for a government official on a public message board in the previous paragraph

> is surprised when banned for it, finds it "a bit extreme"

I have no words. Have a happy new year, and please look into a mirror more often.
Oh my god – it turns out there never was an asbestos ban in the US...it was banned in the UK and 50 other countries in 1999 I think (although there was a dispensation until 2004 for repair of classic vehicles).
Well, as parent's parent demonstrates, it is common, just in a different way.
Franklin? Cuyahoga?
I’m interesting the research going into “excess death” statistics, which I think will be the only “true” death rate from the pandemic[1].

> So how do we get this bigger picture? That’s where what researchers call “excess death” data come in. Simply put, excess deaths are the difference between the number of deaths that were expected to occur during a given time period and the number of deaths that actually occurred.

I suspect some deaths are being mis-attributed to C19 (for example that gunshot story). While other things are probably being undercounted.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cdcresponse/accomp...
Plenty of startups crash and burn. It comes with the territory. What is your point?
What did I just wrote about leadership and it's importance?
How are you handling timeouts and forks? The following to snippets have different results:

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
while(1){
fork();
}
return 1;
}

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
while(1){
}
return 1;
}

The second snippet times out properly, but the first does not.
Ah, but there's already been a live action Animal Farm as well. Hmm, what other territory can be breached?
For longer distances you just get a gravel or touring bike. Works on singletrack most of the time as well.
Most small restaurants fail within a year of opening. It’s a very tough business.

Some app claiming that you are partnering with them for delivery when that is not the case is not necessarily positive for a business given potential reputational risk.
Assuming the respondents were not answering in jest, the odds of this ever happening round to 0.
I don’t know how much the EU spent, but over here EU money payed for a frankly crazy amount of fiber optic cable. Completely common for a house far from any urban centre to have fiber internet.
Admittedly, its not always apparent. I think a general rule of thumb for me is if I can effectively write the script in my mind ahead of time. Anything beyond that and I might regret choosing a shell script for the purpose.

Sometimes a shell script just proves a concept out and is then rewritten later in a production language.
The Roland TB-303--definitely unique--for a while there in the late 80's and through the 90's seemed like it was everywhere in any electronica/techno-based song.
Rewinding the biological clock: How to reverse ageing
> The kind reading of this comment is that 20 years after we started having this conversation, we still have failed to educate developers on how to use a button. That is something that's valid to be sad about, it reflects nothing on the developer in question. It's a failure of web education.

Thank you. I'm embarrassed at how melodramatic that part of my original comment was, but I'm glad someone gets it.
Mental disorders are by definition relative to the broader society and to other individuals, so they're not that off the mark.

That said, I would indeed rather describe people who spend their lives in specific minutiae as performance artists or zen monks rather than just calling them insane.

It's not like anything we do is particularly sane in any cultural context.
books of the same genre share motifs and themes
Do we know if this will expose physician fees? If not, I imagine physicians could charge the patients, then physicians and hospitals could settle the difference on the backend.

In other words, a potential downside of partial sunlight could come from the fact that providers may want to move costs/charges around to obscure prices therefore making the system even more inefficient.
I don't think most companies embraced remote work, they just didn't have any other choice. I'm pretty sure there's tons of managers out there that can't wait to get back to the office so they can keep having stupid meetings and micromanage their subordinates.
They were non-competitive businesses producing outdated junk and in majority of cases there was no other way to survive apart of being sold for scrap.

Some manufacturers that produced basic sellable goods survived (steel foundries, fertilizer makers)
As someone else has already pointed out, ACA imposes an 80% medical loss ratio on insurers. That means 80% of premiums have to go towards medical expenses.

Insurance is a financial product, and there will be winners and losers. I pay my auto insurance bill on time and without a complaint even though I haven’t had an accident in 20+ years.
H.G.Wells - The Sleeper Awakens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes
This is a ridiculous PR puff piece by her publisher, and even a vague perusal of the translation indicates it's an atrocity, which is exactly what you'd expect from a "young adult writer" of her physiognomy and smug disposition.

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/12/cartes-de-visite

"Maria Dahvana Headley’s new translation of Beowulf starts off like an exploding beer keg: “Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!”3 Generations of scholars have limped along, translating Hwaet! as “Listen!” or “Yes!” or “Lo!” or “Hail!” (Why not “Belay that!” or “Tut! Tut! I say!”?) Headley has had the wicked idea that what we’ve needed all along is Beowulf: The Frat-Boy Chronicles. If she had continued in this cheeky vein, Headley might have altered Beowulf Studies forever."

and lol

"Headley apparently knows little Old English, and it shows. In preparation, she read all the translations by women she could find."

Stunning and brave.

Do yourself a favor and put in the couple of hours it requires to just read it in the original language. Or if you can't be arsed to do the trivial work required, as apparently the author of this "translation," read Rebsamen.
I think this is the one covid fact far too many people haven't internalized yet.

This changes everything. It means in essence for everything we do to slow down covid from spreading, we need to add additional measures on top of that to achieve the same effect.
> a few of the series' villains are human or humanoid, but most tend to become a monstrous form before you actually kill them.

That's a good point. I can think of Zant (from Twilight Princess) at least dies in his humanoid form, although <spoiler>Ur'f abg xvyyrq ol gur cynlre, ohg ol Tnabaqbes</spoiler>. There's Ganondorf in Twilight Princess and Wind Waker. In the former, <spoiler>ur genafvgvbaf vagb n uhzna ng gur ynfg cunfr bs gur svtug</spoiler> and in the later <spoiler>ur bayl nccrnef nf n uhzna</spoiler>.

In the case of both Wind Waker and Twilight Princess however, it's already established in series canon that he is not entirely human.

All spoilers are rot13'd
Ignoring herd immunity, there is also a reduction in mortality rate as older people are vaccinated. Do you have any sense which of the two effects dominates, and any citation for the 70% number? Thanks for the response :)
Thanks, I didn't know that. Seems like Adobe took enormous effort to kill all software written with Flash. While I understand some security concerns I can not stop thinking it is just another way to cripple the web. Obviously propertiary app platforms gain a lots with this move.
Communication overhead is the enemy of these highly parallel machines. The Connection Machines had many CPUs, but the unsung hero was the hypercube of connections between them [the clue is in the name]. According to Wikipedia it was a 12 dimension hypercube so every node had 12 high speed point-to-point I/O channels to adjacent nodes, which must have been a nightmare to implement and a nightmare to design software for. The cost of a CM-5 (Wikipedia again says $25 million) must have mostly been for this very specialised network.

It's hard to imagine this could have been competitive with a $25 million pile of beige PC boxes from the same era, but the PCs would have been starved of I/O (10 Mbps shared thick ethernet anyone?) so only applications which don't need much I/O between the nodes would be possible.

A "modern" CM-5 would ironically look much more like the pile of beige PCs, because it will have much less I/O -- these cheap chips only seem to have at most one or two fast channels (eg. ethernet and SDIO). There's no way to build these into a hypercube. It will be constantly limited by bandwidth and contention addressing other nodes in the cluster.

So I'd only build it for fun, not for practicality :-)
I used to read editorials on Slate.com, the articles seemed interesting and discussed topics I didn't know much about. I did that until I read an article about something I did know something about, and I realized they were getting everything wrong. And I realized that they were just taking a devil's advocate position about everything and writing things that were contrary to how things are, presumably to get clicks.
I don't care about the tests, but I do care about my time. That's why I'm not taking anything home. They either take the time to look at my GitHub / StackOverflow / Whatever profile or make me do some test, but I'm not spending more time on these things than what's absolutely necessary.
Its named after coca leaves, the same thing cocaine is named after (and is obtained from), and used to contain cocaine.
Wouldn't the same intrinsic dismissal of "election officials" described I'm the article apply to the use of "experts" in the article's title?
Actually this theory comes from Raymond Mauny: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Mauny

See the original 1955 paper (in French) :
https://www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_1955_num_57_1_3523
One of the things that has made this particular virus so successful is that it does the larger part of its spreading before there are any major symptoms. In this case, the only thing about lethality that will reduce infection rate is the degree to which it makes everyone more careful (or makes more people at all careful).
Exactly, there's two ways to make sure hospitals aren't overrun. Decrease the number of patients or increase capacity. For some reason everyone is only focused on the former.
This is the article on which the video is based: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4

The topic of epigenetic clocks is extremely interesting for me. A clock called GrimAge [0] is already capable of predicting lifespan, time-to-cancer etc. better than normal chronological age. It even seems to work for other mammal species [1]. The big question is: is methylation of DNA only a marker, or does it play some functional role in aging.

This video contains a new bit of information: when they fixed methylation patterns in experimental mice, the therapy failed. That would hint on a functional role of DNA methylation in the process of aging.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30669119/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paiw4QSOtzg
There's no guarantee that what you describe as higher quality sites offer much better views of the world.
He wasn’t fired for following the review process.

He was fired for ignoring his supervisors to promote a far right app developed by a financer of Steve Bannon.
It is not plain false then, it is much worse; not just that folly but many.
I would expect we can finally release editions with new introductions that address important criticisms of Orwell's privileged perspective, written by people of historically underrepresented groups, use them as a tool for educators to teach young people about the arrogance of male protagonists clinging to ideals of individualism that were artifacts of colonial domination, and without all the problematic representations of institutions of global justice.

Surely.
> I occasionally have lucid dreams, where I realize I'm dreaming. When that happens, I can take control of the dream and do cool things

I experience lucid dreams I can control quite frequently. The thing I do most often is let the dream play out, but go back in (dream) time to replay certain scenes differently if I'm not happy with the outcome.

It's really pretty cool - like being in some kind of super-advanced VR simulation, or under the influence of some impossible drug. If anyone ever figures out tech to make this just happen (kind of like simulation VR goggles in scifi films), they are going to be very, very rich.
Yes well said - I'm not a Bitcoin hater or skeptic, but it does not seem any closer to being a currency to actually transact in. Happy to be proven wrong here - are there now a significant number of places to spend Bitcoin?
> I'm somewhat surprised nobody has packaged up an old version and wrapped it with "only run flash for these urls" and "don't update the ppapi plugin" type functionality. All the pieces seem to be available: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7084871?hl=en

This is likely to be of minimal use, since browsers will soon be removing Flash support entirely. Firefox in particular is carrying a significant amount of code to shim gtk2 in a gtk3 program.
Obviously, you are not a publisher.

They don't want you to leave their premises. That's why.
Apple Silicon M1: A Slow Death of Hackintosh
When I was a kid growing up in South Australia, there was a playground in Monash, a tiny town in the Riverland. This was no ordinary playground: it was enormous, and filled with dozens of very dangerous steel contraptions. Huge high-speed roundabouts (imagine something the size and shape of a radio telescope, but with a dish that spins), “roller coasters” you’d push up unenclosed tracks, 20-foot high slides (slippery dips) with potato sacks laying around to protect from the burning surface, and huge, high ziplines (flying foxes).

The whole thing was kid-powered (no motors or electronics) and free, the passion project of a local steelworker. It was closed down decades ago, due to the obvious safety handlers. But I suspect it holds the same mindspace for Australians that Action Park has for Americans. Sadly few photos of it are online, and no video I can find. I’d love to see a documentary for Monash Playground to relive those memories.
The state prosecutes crimes.
Having read both I can't speak for where Orwell drew inspiration, but I never noticed any similarities
By lying. In-N-Out is infamous for dealing with this. They sued one of the delivery sites for trademark infringement. “But why?” you might ask. Because customers are dumb sometimes and would blame In-N-Out when their food arrived cold of their milkshakes melted.[a]

Sure, In-N-Out was getting more money, but it was hurting their brand (which caused money loses). They never approved being on the site, but that didn’t stop the site from lying and pretending In-N-Out was a “partner”.

[a]: Think Amazon with the stupid 1-star reviews for being “late” or “shipping box damaged”. It hurts the brand of the product being sold.
Depends how you look at it. O'reilly sub is a good value even if it's 'rental' only. If only one could read/access them on kindle.. but that's another, yet related topic.
We are much closer the Brave New World than 1984.
Taiwan also claims the entire mainland as their territory, and KMT especially continuing to claim Taiwan as the "true" China.
Yeah you're right, I'm a week out of date. That is disturbing. Perhaps that means it is actually higher viral load but lower impact per amount of virus?
>The world needs (and want) better semiconductors

Does it really? What kind of exclusive capabilities would humanity meaningfully lose if we regressed back to 14nm? Ray tracing?

More realistic title is lack of foresight allowed Taiwan to monopolize leading fab production for next 5-10 years. A mistake every major party is rapidly correcting. TSMC is one US sanction or one Chinese glitterbomb away from being irrelevant. Long term money is on Samsung.
Isn’t that the kind of outcome you would expect from such a monopoly (/duopoly)? Even if a company could be more efficient it would not make sense for them to try to compete
We'd do well if we all lived by the immortal words of Arthur Seaton: "There's no peace between worker and management, only a truce over paychecks."
Computing diffs using the longest common subsequence
How InfluxDB IOx Manages the Data Lifecycle of Time Series Data
Also a perfect case study of where the free market worldview and the nation-state worldview bump heads. The free market tends towards a single global monopoly for these highly capital intensive industries in the name of economic efficiency, but this inevitably erodes the sovereignty and independent action of countries that have to depend of the good graces of wherever this monopoly has its HQ.
Until a startup with an innovation in fabrication itself comes along disrupting the industry and rendering all those incumbent investments suddenly obsolete.

Happened again and again. In free markets, of course. Even if they may trend to, only controlled markets reach monopoly.
I want Skyward Sword to be released on the Switch for exactly this reason.

Actually, it appears possible to use Switch controllers with Dolphin using this[1]. I may have to set this up in the near future.

[1] https://github.com/yuk27/BetterJoyForDolphin
The parent is alluding to the notion that govt investment made for sluggish state owned industries which aim to be second and suck the life out of any domestic competition.

There are a variety of ways to cultivate a domestic industry, govt committees directly investing doesn’t seem like the leading candidate can. Trade barriers and state sponsored industrial partnerships.
I’ve started to approach the remote/in-person discussion with the same thought process I use for planning/management, which is to say that it’s best to structure the process around the team, rather the team around the process.

What I mean by that is that for sufficiently large organizations, you can have options for folks. Some teams can be remote, hybrid, or in person. But make sure the teams understand what their structure is and have them build their processes and tools around that as appropriate. Then if you have an employee that wants to go remote, have them join one of the remote or hybrid teams. Have someone who wants to go to the office every day? Great, you can still be on a remote team, or here are the in person teams available to you as well (although realistically in person is preferred so you aren’t using up teleconference rooms unnecessarily).

For smaller companies, and as someone who started a remote first company in ‘17, it really needs to be an all or nothing. Being mixed creates weird dynamics on small teams, and it takes a lot of diligence to include the remote team members on off the cuff conversations.

I, for one, don’t plan on ever going back to an office full time. My wife and I just purchased our first home, and we bought a large enough place for two offices so we could both stay remote. We do multi generational living with my mom providing child care during the day, and a one year old running around like a banshee. It’s a really wonderful setup and I’m thankful to see so much of my son each day during these early years. No in person meetings come even remotely close to being as valuable as the time I get with him.

But, as with all things, these are just my $0.02. I get why there are varied opinions on this, and don’t begrudge companies that are going to ask everyone to go back in.
Hm, might do this for my next project, thanks! I always think about it but then forget as my brain immediately goes to amazon
Mostly the way in which moderation (doesn't) work giving birth of just toxic microcommunities
Yet it was American actions that handed over Taiwan's seat in UN and Security Council to PRC.
7 MB of RAM at idle, wow.

But what can it run on top of it? Dotnet? Python? Go?

AFAIK even the latter has a non- negligible runtime overhead.

In general I wonder if it's actually practically usable for common tasks one could imagine.

One advantage over micro-controllers is clear, though: Dynamic loading/execution of binaries, which no microcontroller OS seems to care about (why?).
> A GS-15 in a metro area like New York, DC, and San Francisco, with experience, can get over $170.

Agencies like USDS, 18F, etc. who are hiring at this level are atypical, and have to do so in order to attract talent away from private sector. GS-13+ slots are typically senior leadership positions and not entry level for anyone unless they have a PhD.
We took a different direction. No need for violent suppression of truth when it's easier to metaphorically bury it in bs