skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine-evading effect is not confirmed, just an speculation. From the article:

> The E484K mutation may reduce the ability of certain antibodies to neutralize, or inactivate, the virus before it can enter cells, Live Science previously reported.

> Still, seeing the E484K mutation pop up in the U.K. variant doesn't necessarily mean that this variant will become both more contagious and resistant to vaccines, according to The New York Times.
Well, I lived in asia for a few years and that is unfortunately not an uncommon attitude from americans.

Few are loudmouths on social media, but there are more in expat social gatherings, complaining about just about everything that is different in their new host country.

Canadians however, seem to really work to fit in. Almost all I met learned the language, participated in cultural events and made local friends.
> I find your hyper individualist mindset very depressing and isolating.

I’m not a hyper individualist, a lot of this seems to be interpretation you’re bringing.

> I think it would be foolish to claim that any success or talent of mine or my team is solely my own.

There’s definitely a way to consider a person’s individual productivity in the context of a team of people they work with. Its not easy to measure or quantify and its definitely got subjective elements but some people are more productive than others and in a team that shares work, someone has to do the work that other people don’t do or it doesn’t get done.

> I believe in social obligations, not just in the context of work, but in general.

I believe in the power of incentives to shape behavior and I think there is a soft social obligation to align incentives so that they encourage desired behavior.
you can challenge your world views and grow as a person without exposing yourself to toxicity or horrible people.
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Bezons didn't say "recently." He said he didn't know of another." That includes any/all. And it is bloviation.
Your definition of totalitarianism is weird.

Let's check Wikipedia:

> Totalitarian regimes are often characterized by extensive political repression, a complete lack of democracy, widespread personality cultism, absolute control over the economy, massive censorship, mass surveillance, limited freedom of movement (most notably freedom to leave the country) and widespread use of state terrorism. Other aspects of a totalitarian regime include the use of concentration camps, repressive secret police, religious persecution or state atheism, the common practice of executions, fraudulent elections (if they take place), possible possession of weapons of mass destruction and potentially state-sponsored mass murder and genocides. Historian Robert Conquest describes a totalitarian state as one which recognizes no limit on its authority in any sphere of public or private life and it extends that authority to whatever length is feasible.

Yep, the incumbent Indian government sounds, looks, feels, acts like totalitarian to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Having seen the horrible things my university's press department was able to do with my work when i was in academia... I'm not really inclined to get all hyped up over articles such as these.
For proper status lines, use SGR 53 for overlines.

https://twitter.com/0xDEADBEEFCAFE/status/125628536226093465...
First computer I used had 36 bit bytes (PDP-10)
I've also been using the net since the 90s, and I can confirm that it has been getting worse since then.
I could be wrong, but I think Diaspora went for their own thing from the start (and then later considered adding OStatus support for compatibility, and then fizzled out).

And then there was the pump.io initiative, which IMHO is the more direct predecessor of ActivityPub (e.g. one of the spec editors came from maintaining pump.io)

Mastodon was luckily with being in the right place at the right time with what people wanted (or thought they wanted), both for user interest and for adoption of ActivityPub, which was being finished at the same time, and cemented a "flavor" of ActivityPub. (ActivityPub somewhat suffers from leaving too many details open, because people can't agree what's the best way of doing them)
I have different opinion on both the issues you raised:

- The new farm bills is absolutely a disaster for indian agriculture as it it tilts the balance of negotiating power completely in favour of the corporates by dergulating the marketplace and making the laws on corporate farming in favour of the corporates.

- In a democratic country, even with an undemocratic government in power like the current one, social media platforms (especially foreign ones), should comply with indian rules and laws.
I really haven't received any non-emergency calls at midnight for years. App notifications, on the other hand..., uh.

I just set my phone to DnD with calls allowed and notifications silenced, and it works wonders. Maybe it should be the default?
Going through a bout of it right now. :(

I feel physically sick just thinking about joining the morning standup from home.

Working remotely has made it cutting off from work much easier.

I end up feeling anxious and guilty and sad all day.
This is a bit of a devil's advocate argument, but perhaps the reason engineering and UX didn't feel ownership was because you were the PM. Not you specifically of course, but if the role of PM exists, and the culture is such that the "business" outside of eng / design treats the PM as the owner, it's natural that the engineers and design folks won't feel empowered to take ownership themselves.
Or you could look at Facebook and Google's HQs. Facebook is ~1 meter, Google is ~2
The "by the end of this century" in these reports makes people not really care that much, for a few reasons...

(a) Who can tell what can happen "by the end of this century"? That's too far in the future.

(b) We have time, we can sort it out till then.

(c) I'll be dead, and more likely than not my kids will be too, 80 years from now.
Looks like the Tektronix mode some terminals had back then.

https://github.com/rbanffy/fun_with_tektronix
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> tourism dollars

I said dollars, not people.
I'm not quite sure about the timeline of which was first, but didn't ebay have heavy emphasis on seller/buyer reviews early on?
In general IP addresses are not personal data in themselves because the controller has no means to link them to individuals: If I operate a website I can log the IP addresses of visitors but I have no way of identifying those visitors (unless e.g. they are customers with accounts and can log in).

It is certainly good practice to treat logs as if they were personal data when it comes to handling and securing them but whether they are in fact personal data needs to be considered for each specific case.
How does it do differential updates if everything is encrypted?

It would mean the server needs to keep an eternal log of operations, and each client must replay the log to perform a full sync.

This works with lightweight data like contacts and calendars.
If you weren't in yahoo you weren't online

On the other hand if you were in yahoo you were online. Type "books" into yahoo though and you'd be more likely to find books.com than amazon.com as the top page, and clearly "books.com" would sell books, who knows what "amazon.com" sells, something about Brazilian rivers?
The landing propellant comes from very small header tanks (to reduce slosh), and those tank sizes constrain how long they can run a landing burn. Future iterations may end up with a bigger header: these are still early prototypes.
"On first reading, it seems magical and deep, but once you grok the proof, it feels like a relatively trivial observation. The whole thing is just about ____ composition!"

I think if you replace _____ with the right word almost every result I've seen in my (albeit somewhat limited) exposure to category theory can be described this way.

(not that that detracts from your answer!)
> It should be too-cold inside. If the heating can cope in winter, then the ventilation is inadequate.

Yeah, no thanks.
Who would do the buying? Fish that need a house?
Also in my model intelligence is a property of layers, defined by how well they can simulate other layers using an API available to them (think about brain simulating physical interaction - lower level or simulating how the society might develop in the future - higher level). The more intelligent, the better the understanding of the surrounding reality. (I use predictive power as a measure of effectiveness of a theory / software that is instantiated on the higher level API). But if we build up artificial layers starting at an arbitrarily selected level - creating a different (unnatural) kind of feedback loops (species), can they simulate as broad range of layers as humans can (be as intelligent / think as much out of the box)? At which level do we need to start, to get close to what natural species are capable of? How much more complicated does the (AI) software needs to be to have equivalent predictive power considering it runs on hardware that provides a very restrictive version of the set of instructions natural species utilize?

(hardware refers to to the lower API a layer uses, software are feedback loops of the layer)
The British Victorians who became Muslims (2019)
France found guilty in landmark lawsuit over climate inaction
NewPipe

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
> Jordan is a monarchy

OK, that’s two out of how many? NATO alone has 30 states, that’s 29 excluding the US. Claiming these two are “many of the US’s allies” is dishonest.

> was making the country into what Ukraine is today

Quality of life, and economy, of Russia started to decline before the transition to democracy. Two main reasons were international sanctions for the war in Afghanistan (like Ronald Reagan’s security directive 75 in 1983), and collapse of oil prices around 1986.

Transition to democracy was not making the country into anything. Causations is directed from earlier to later events, never the other way around.

> Look at the current state of Ukraine.

The economy ain’t great because since 2014 Ukraine is losing many lives and resources defending Russian military aggression. In terms of democratic freedoms the country is way ahead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
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The cheapest 2TB drive on SATA III could be bought for $149. But that is not a normal pricing, it will probably take another two year for that to be a norm.

On the other hand 2.5" HDD has been stuck at the same capacity for 2-3 years.
I use type guards as well. It's not criticism: I just stated the fact that you can write incorrect type guards and the compiler will believe you.

I elaborate on ways to use them effectively in the post.
> Might have been a good idea to just click on that, first?

Not really. That is, they declare that I would need to be able to to build management/configuration manually. So, either the FAQ is incorrect, or the build-from-source manager doesn't really cover everything. If it's the former, then that's good to know, but I wouldn't assume that is the case.
What is the best advice for a start up CEO?
That’s just a bit of wraparound suction flame, no big deal.
It's about Control
Here in Germany, besides the small neighborhood supermarkets, all the bigger chains somehow relate to the same conglomerates like Metro, even if they look like being unrelated to the common public.
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This is a very niche product. It also solves a quirky issue, so finding people who'd be willing to actually pay for it is going to be a very big challenge. Also, and to be blunt, it is not terribly slick looking, so the $99 sticker doesn't seem to be well-justified.

Basically, your target audience are people (1) with this particular issue, (2) motivated enough to do something about it, (3) willing to pay the price and (4) liking the design/aesthetics. I realize that this is a "don't care if this succeeds" thread, but I'd still encourage you to not get your hopes high for the KS campaign.
I don't understand why we have to "challenge our world views and grow as a person" when it comes to social media. What if I want to just join a server to talk about old cars, or gardening or some other hobby in a casual fashion? I don't always want to see or hear about social issues or politic... and that goes for issues I agree and disagree with.
TreeStyleTabs and an extension (yep) to that that lets you copy them to the clipboard as a markdown list - complete with indentation.

Then paste it into Joplin or something.
This kinda sucks, while functionally correct it really violates a lot of good programming practices. I mean for starters you're mixing application logic with presentation logic, which really sucks.
Now try using your same methods to create a flow that involves 5, 10, 50 states.
Yeah, not so nice is it.
You chose to be on-call. Presumably because the compensation made that worth it for you. But that's your doing.

I tried being on-call in my early 20s. Lasted a few months. Never. Again.
Generally no. But we had former presidents that tweet at 3am, does that count?
Apple's Terminal.app is one of the very few that can pass all tests.

Sadly, it doesn't do SGR 53 overlines. If anyone at Apple is listening, plese, do it.
Where's the fastest place to put my server? How much does it matter?
On generics, parroting many here already:

> This habit grew I guess because even the official docs use one-letter names. It is also quicker to type and requires less thinking to press T instead of writing a full name.

This habit grew because every language with generics uses such short generic type names and frankly, they are easier to read than MyFancyGenericTypeName.

Thanks for the rest of the article. Pretty good read.
That's true for missions beyond LEO, but for routine LEO missions there's no expectation to do refuels for every flight. Also vehicles returning from missions beyond LEO will not be able to refuel before re-entry and landing.
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"Zaraz" means "now" in Ukrainian. Awesome name to my Ukrainian ear!
You are absolutely right. Deregulation and corporate farming is the first step to allow corporates to get a foothold in the agri industry and then slowly takeover and control it.

In both the US and Europe, contract farming has seen the consolidation of farms under few corporates.

- 1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland...

- Contract farming as a means of ushering in corporatisation in agriculture: https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/fast-forward-to-co...
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Talking to Postgres Through Java 16 Unix-Domain Socket Channels
I'm never going to get tired of posting it this codec call from the end of MGS2:

"In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws, and selectively rewards development of half-truths."
"Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth." And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."

Not that it's 100% applicable. But it's interesting to see this from a game released in the year 2001.
Phones are _designed_ to be addictive and attention seeking.

Personally I have had email alerts turned off for the last decade and I dont sleep with my phone- its the ultimate DND.
I lived and worked in SEA for about 10 years. I’m pretty sure I never went to an expat social gathering. I never understood expat communities. Primarily socializing with an insular expat social groups seemed to defeat the purpose of moving abroad to a certain extent.
I obviously charge my phone outside of the bedroom.

I have a wifi connected tablet for listening to audiobooks, porno stuff like that.
Nitpick: they were called words.
Mobile websites pre 2008 tended to be WML over WAP. If they existed they were terrible, probably created by an intern once and not updated, because very few people used mobile phones for internet access (other than say linking their PDA or notebook to their phone via IRDA)
Exactly. I enable Airplane Mode by default on my iPad too, except when i need to lookup something (and Do Not Disturb is enabled permanently anyway.)
This sounds more like the implementation of the dnd timer

When you create a timer for a mode, the most straight forward implementation is to exit that mode when time is up, not to cache what the previous mode was and check if other systems have ownership of that mode.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you set a dnd timer for one hour at 8am, dnd will be turned off at 8:30am.

Keeping track of who owns this setting is more difficult than just having each service switch the setting when they are told to.
Even if can catch up to it, how will we find out where it is? Even with a high degree of accuracy in predicting its orbit, it's likely going to be a massive search radius for us at this point.
The introduction is more interesting than the conclusion:

>Following this, we therefore propose to linearize the relationship between average rate of sea level rise and temperature increase representing the entire preceding century. The slope of this relationship then expresses how sensitive sea level is to century-timescale warming, and we will refer to it as the transient sea level sensitivity (TSLS). The intercept – where the sea level rate of change is zero – we interpret as a balance temperature.

I'm not an expert on climate and am therefore not qualified to opine on the suitability of a simple linear model for this sort of system.
I disagree. Amazon has many times refunded my order in full with a simple call, and for orders internationally they do it entirely faith-based and will send you another version without having to even return the original.
The author is talking about a specific corner of the internet, and specific corners of the internet have died death after death.

Everyone knows the classic examples - MySpace, Digg, Slashdot.
They should have included an "Xbox 2" plush toy with the Xbox 3.
Hmm... It seems that I should finally stop using (good but too generic) DokuWiki engine in favour of this.

What interests me the most is an advertised ability to bridge self-hosted Wiki (did I get it right?) for taking any kind of notes with web-bookmarking and ability to perform a good-quality search over the _content_ of bookmarked pages. This is where I'm having a real pain. There are so much great useful stuff on the Internet, but it so hard to find some very specific thing that you know exists and you've even bookmarked it long ago... So if it'd solve that pain and also features a comparable to DokuWiki notes engine... I think, it'd be an absolutely great thing! I'll give it a try.

BTW: does it support importing existing bookmarks from Firefox?
You could color code chat messages and your name in Call of Duty 2 in the following way:

^1Red

Everything after the "^1" were red.

The game removed these color codes when it showed your name, but you could do ^^11Red to bypass that (it only removed color codes for one pass)
To be fair they selected it quite some time ago now. There's a lot of very promising research now though, so hopefully they will have better options available down the line.
I mean yes, but isn't that something quite rare?

At least I never feel the need to do it, the closet I came to something like that was when I switched from a 240 GiB SSD to a 1 TiB one and just mirrored the old disk to the new one with dd, increased the partition and run a resize2fs. While that required ~30 Minutes it was a once in a decade thing for me.
AWS support is pretty great in my experience. That’s with a paid plan, but I consider it great even for a paid plan. Typically instant chat with someone who can usually fix it is a game changer.

I think it’s a little unreasonable to expect free support for such a technical product to be as good as that for the retail site.
OpenPLI is one of the many open source set top box projects that relies heavily on vendor-provided kernels, because of the drivers that run the hardware.

Why is it that none of these seem to make an effort to get out from under the outdated-kernel, crappy vendor driver trap? They seem content to keep diddling UI stuff while the underlying technology remains so shoddy?
I don't know enough about this topic to asses the validity of what you've said... Can anyone else chime in?
Some of that just sounds like incompetent design, like how the designer didn't consider the UX of reverting to its previous DND schedule when your temporary DND mode turns off.

Though, perhaps you explained it poorly, what's wrong with it turning off DND mode when your 1hr DND timer expires? What else is the point of the timer?

Does that smartwatch not let you toggle DND off until you decide to toggle it back on? Is there no silent mode?

I keep my iPhone on silent-mode almost permanently. Maybe it's time to try any of the other brands with this elementary feature?

But to answer your question, people generally want to be disturbed by notifications. Just consider how many people don't keep their phone in silent mode. I don't think it's the ideal way to live, but people love running over to their phone to see if it's a new WhatsApp message that cause the ping. Certainly my girlfriend and roommates and all the people I hear day to day who have notification sounds turned on when there's a physical switch on the device to turn them off.

Still, a silent-mode switch already gives you your dream of "I want to opt-in to being disturbed". Apparently every smartwatch except your Xiaomi watch has it. Time to switch.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it that way.