skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with every engineering project, there's always a point where you have to look at how few people are within a certain use case and decide it's not worth the effort to cater for them

As a vertical PC user, you're in the vast minority, and you can't really be surprised that people don't want to spend the extra time (and money) developing to support your edge case
> For example, we have “faith” that the laws of nature are uniform across time and space even though we don’t have nearly enough evidence to confirm that belief (see the problem of induction).

I stopped reading there because he doesn't understand that of which he speaks. This is actually a hotly debated topic among scientists in many fields, and it is definitely _not_ taken on faith.

These sort of arguments from the faithful really annoy me. It feels like they're protesting too much by insisting that I'm making the same mistake that deep down they know they're making.
Federal scientists are on the General Schedule payscale. As mentioned in another comment, they start out at about a GS-12 for PhD-level positions and move up to GS-15 from there (and then a small number of highly influential scientists can become 'super scientists' at the GS-16 level, and a very select few, i.e. Fauci, are on RF rather than GS scales). Then there is a locality adjustment.

This is the table with the DC locality adjustment: https://www.fedweek.com/pay-tables/2021-gs-pay-table-washing...

The rates are pretty similar to professor salaries at research universities; staff scientists at universities are often subordinate or soft-money positions.
91.6% is a good efficacy. Do they have plans to test it against other variants (E501Y mutation)?
Ideally this + the adenovirus based AZD122 seems to be the best combination of (efficacy, affordablility, and logistically feasibility) end for the pandemic.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/coronavirus-why-combining-... is another such article which talks about it.
Between 'pray for the pedophile priests' (catholic) and 'trump is our savior' (evangelicals) is seems the church is doing a better job of making athiests than anyone else could.
Working outdoors linked to lower risk of breast cancer among older women
Nowadays it goes like this: You buy your expensive Apple headphones. And even though Apple is probably supporting these longer than your average earbuds, after a while the bluetooth version will be obsolete and eventually the battery will have reached its end or inflate and become a safety risk.

I agree, they really are consumables. I had two pairs of regular AirPods. All of them barely last through a meeting now. It's not like I have used them intensively, some meetings every week, and for listening to podcasts when I am cycling.

Not only can a good wired headphone last you for many years, if you are not an audiophile, you can buy a reasonable Sennheiser for a fraction of the cost of the AirPods Max or even AirPods Pro.

The AirPods and AirPods Pro are great if you need something for on the go, but you have to factor in that you have to replace them every two years or so.

(I love the Pro's transparency mode for cycling. However, they are unusable for me when walking due to the 'thumping' sound that many others also suffer from.)
I love that Chrome on Android lets me zoom into any content on any site, regardless of how bad the devs borked the UX. (Yes, devs, if you don't allow me to zoom using the browser's built-in capabilities, you have borked the UX, and should be ashamed of yourselves.)
Standing as an outside observer, usually when someone posts about progress on Wayland they are immediately greeted by "Well, I don't like it." "That sucks" "just use X" etc.

I've seen that sometimes here, although it's more frequent on Reddit.
A lot of people don't have the hardware to make frequency response graphs and unless you are doing reviews full time it is very hard to justify buying that hardware.

Anyway, for the Airpods Max specifically I don't think the frequency response graph is useful because they change their tuning dynamically so what you measure is not going to be what gets played when you listen to them.
For this type of humidifier you actually want the fan to run after the tank is empty so that the wick dries out. Otherwise you have a wet lump of filter just sitting in an enclosure growing mold and bacteria and gross.
It came together as a unified blob.
I started watching it, but I gave up after a few episodes. It's not bad at all, but it somehow just feels 'small'. It's probably budget related. I may give it a try again in the future, or pick up the book on which it's based.

On the other hand, I enjoyed ZeroZeroZero [0], which is based on a book by the same author, Roberto Saviano [1].

Links:

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8332438/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Saviano
N95s are good but you also have to wear them correctly (and be clean shaven?) and frequently change them.
What if you trained it on tic-tac-toe though?
Agreed, local reporting culture (and how it's received elsewhere) probably has a big impact. Besides serious/entertaining news, there's also the fact some places/news cultures relish reporting on exotic stuff, while others feel belittled/offended and actively fight reporting with, say, a "Florida Man" or "UFO true believers in town" flavor.

The other side of the coin is exaggerating the exoticness of people's behavior, animal facts, etc., reported from obscure far away places, but for which very similar examples exist locally (and most likely wouldn't result in successful news articles).
In the past I'd respond: just because I have javascript disabled doesn’t mean I’m on a phone. But unfortunately developers have dropped supporting HTML completely for even older cell phones. There's no more mobile.twitter.com that serves HTML for example.
Recommend taking a look at this well-sourced Medium article for history on the Tartars:

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/tartary-tartaria-the...
What kind of shrooms?
A true believer masks every orifice.
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So you believe macroscopic quantum phenomena is possible in this reality? Can you explain how?

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These headphones have a DSP that continually reconfigures the response, I'm not sure that any synthetically generated frequency response curve would actually mean anything.
> I'm waiting for the J&J results after two-dose immunisation given this vaccine takes a similar (non mRNA) approach and appears to be very effective.

Given the J&J two dose trial (ENSEMBLE 2) only started just recently, and takes 60 days between two doses, this is going to take a while though. (I'm a volunteer. My second those is scheduled for mid-march.)
Yes, maybe it was a mistake of mine mentioning it so lightly - you're absolutely right!

Specially on protecting advertisers, it's very rare (sometimes even if advertiser pulls a tantrum and strips off budget).

But on the subject of attacking tech giants, if find that to be recurrent - and in the "old media" defense most of it is well deserved. Still, they pile up with some enjoyment.
Taviso is crazy, for sure :_).

I live rtv, but having NNTP integration it's more amazing.

BTW, gopher proxy to reddit: gopher://gopherddit.com
Really good film IMHO. Would have been better if they'd played off the Climate change angle. It would have added a dimension to the protagonist actually being the bad guy and the people in the future just people trying to save their reality.

It's hinted at in a monologue from the Russian villian, but it could've been more.
It's a narrow line you have to walk when relaying the science. Things are so polarized a nuanced/realistic view is hated by both "sides". But stick to the truth, eventually, and even if it's 3-6 months late, the press and eventually government will catch up to reality.
Amazing that the GP said Nova N 176 is almost certainly not a hoax, and you take this to mean Voynich is definitely a hoax.
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The large media conglomerates are only conservative to the extent that they love money and so share some values with fiscal conservatives.

But they're happy to push whatever cultural changes boost the bottom line, regardless of whether or not they're conservative.
>Someone who switches their monitor to portrait, or resizes a window to be taller than it is wide, is still going to get the desktop view.

My experience has been the exact opposite of what you're saying.

And the result is, 90% of the time, a site that goes from usable to unusable.
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A message board like HN is more difficult than you think to get right across a wide range of screen sizes, just because comments can nest many levels deep. HN arguably has problems of its own in that regard.
For more abstract representation, see https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM704.html
I’ve had my q15’s 7 years now. They use aaa batteries and I use rechargeable batteries. I used a set of two for 4 years, now on the second set. Replaced the cups for 50usd, but now the head band is going... I hope to replace them.
Google Stadia gives up making its own games, sells tech to rivals
It's 'just' a battery. From an engineering standpoint it's just a component that Apple also doesn't produce themselves.

If apple no longer sells the battery, it will be trivial to find a suitable replacement. As long as there is demand, there will be loads of shops able to replace the battery for you.

The real question is: will people who buy $500 branded headphones really have their 5+ year old headphones repaired, or will they but the latest-and-greates shiny new thing?
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If you have a windows 10 laptop, pinching on the touchpad seems to give you the same zoom functionality now. vastly superior than the one built into the browser
Elon Musk developing Neuralink mind-reading chip with monkeys
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Interested to hear you say KN95 masks are much worse than N95. Aren’t they the same specification? Assuming of course you can find a legitimate non-counterfeit one on the FDA/CDC list.
> It used to be like this: You spend A LOT of money for really nice headphones and use them (potentially) your lifetime. Or hand it down to your kids as your hearing gets worse.

I think this is a fantasy. How many decades have there been high-quality headphones for this to be a thing that you think is supposedly the traditional way to do it? Did your parents hand you down their headphones? Surely your grandparents didn't hand down theirs? So it maybe happened once? For a few people?
Yes, and webdevs have been trying for over 10 years now to figure out how to get this right. Has no one just stopped to consider having a browser send a `prefersMobileView` or `viewport:phone` or anything like that? I can remember back a few years ago, an iPhone 6+, turned sideways could get a desktop view on some sites... simply because it met the requirements set by the author. Now, the author's assumptions were wrong of course, but all we have to go on, is literally guesswork. We're told constantly NOT to use user-agent strings, but honestly, it's like we really need something to key off of. I know the A List Apart folks would have us create content that can be viewed on ANY viewport, but I consider that a tad bit unrealistic. I've been out of Front-end dev for a few years though, so perhaps things have changed.
Are you calling Maddow's program "news"?

Let's put her transcripts up against Hannity's and see who is more hysterical (and inaccurate).
Apple stops selling parts for old products 7 years after they are discontinued.
I will not use pale moon because its maintainer is a furry. Furryism denies the struggles of women and focuses attention elsewhere. Coraline Ada Ehmke has written about why bad maintainers are toxic and should be cancelled/removed from projects: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
Nobody can prove existence or non-existence of a god (except a god if a god would exist).

It is usually just a statement about likelihoods. Absence of evidence for existence of god(s) makes it seem very unlikely god(s) exist. Especially after millennia of people looking for evidence.

Not all beliefs are equal. You personally probably wouldn't put the likelihood of the existence of the great spaghetti monster in the sky to the same level as your belief in your personal god.
Even in Poorer Neighborhoods, the Wealthy Are Lining Up for Vaccines
I'm using my Airpod Max since late December and the clamping force definetly gets better. However, I still have some issues wearing them with my reading glasses. But since I wear contact lenses most of the time, it's not really a problem.
Interestingly, pip 21.0 is marked on pypi as Python 3.6 only:

https://pypi.org/project/pip/21.0/

So I wondered if there was an issue here where pip 8.1.1 is just so old that it doesn't know how to respect that constraint? As an experiment, I started with a new venv and upgraded just to the latest pip 20:

$ test/bin/pip install pip==20.3.4
Collecting pip==20.3.4
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/27/79/8a850fe3496446ff0d584327ae44e7500daf6764ca1a382d2d02789accf7/pip-20.3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5MB)
100% |################################| 1.5MB 695kB/s
Installing collected packages: pip
Found existing installation: pip 8.1.1
Uninstalling pip-8.1.1:
Successfully uninstalled pip-8.1.1
Successfully installed pip-20.3.4
You are using pip version 20.3.4, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Now interestingly I don't get any prompts after that, and it doesn't try to upgrade past 20.3, so I think that might have been the last gasp of pip 8.1.1:

$ test/bin/pip install -U pip
DEPRECATION: Python 3.5 reached the end of its life on September 13th, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 3.5 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 3.5 in January 2021. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./test/lib/python3.5/site-packages (20.3.4)
Collecting pip
Using cached pip-20.3.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
Using cached pip-20.3.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)

So yeah, basically the fix is just to hard-code the version you know works. But I think this demonstrates an issue with the PyPA being out of touch with real-world use-cases. No one is upgrading pip version by version— 99% of pip installations are either going to be get-pip.py or upgrading a venv directly from a distro-shipped version. IMO those use-cases should be carefully tested on each release and checked for the versions in popular distros, even at the tail end of the support windows.

The other side of this is Debian/Ubuntu, of course, and with sufficient coordination (knowing the a pip was coming which their "supported" pip would auto-upgrade to and break itself) they could have patched their `python3-pip` package to only upgrade as far as 20.3.4.
I totally agree with you in regards that Docker is overkill if your app is a Django app that connects to database.

I can't image a world where running python manage.py runserver is less productive than spinning up two containers.

But once you need stuff like Celery workers, message brokers, and multiple databases for sharding, Docker is a life-saver.
It's a difficult one though - say I have left menu, and a sidebar on the right, and a central column with my copy. Very roughly, at about ~1350px (so neatly displayed on a generic 1440 laptop) I have about 250*2 (500px) for my sidebars, about 800px for my central column, which at a decent font size will give me a 'right-ish' about of words per line, and a few more pixels for gutters.

As you start to make that smaller - 1200, 1100, something has to change. We can maybe adjust the font size in the main column, maybe there's some flexibility to shrink the sidebars (but maybe there isn't, because we need an ad in there, and that can't be resized). So we have to adjust - lose a sidebar to a hamburger menu, or change our horizontal menu at the top to include the most clicked links (and not the ten links we have before). Maybe the search bar becomes an icon, because it's more important we push the "Buy Now" button than give people an option to search, etc etc.

It's an art - what do people need the most? What will make them convert? What can we remove first? What resolutions are most used, and how do we optimise for that?
> I already am selective about what I install and most of those things aren't even desktop applications.

in X any application can turn into a keylogger, and you don't need a GUI for it, as long as the program can "speak X" it will be able to read the shared memory of all other programs the X server manages.
"author" of ledger-timetracking here, AMA, although I don't use it anymore...
Yeah when two parties fights, two are to blame. /s

Sorry, I'm picking sides here. :)
Well, I do credit this guy for doing an experiment that isn't in the cloud. So much of physics these days is about detecting a signal out of some giant noisy data set, or divining some truth out of a massive mathematical problem. This guy was looking for a measurable force. Spin a big diamond, throw some liquid helium on it, hit it with a magnetic hammer, and if your theory is correct it floats off the table. The yes/no answer is plain to see. That's a fundamentally physical experiment reminiscing of those done in centuries past.
I suppose, but "Deliver with Just Eat" is a pretty long, and an overall odd choice for a top menu item. Wasn't clear to me that it meant "drive for us". And that's what's eating the width.
> I am quite confused by the fact that apparently changing toolkits to set a new property (a one liner) is hard, and creating a program to do this change for these toolkits externally without changing them at all is a "hack"

Most issues could probably solved by a variety of hacks. Several issues that don't concern yourself couldn't. The problem is that X consists of 40 years of hacks piled up on each other. THe X.org devs actively chose to stop further development and continue their work on wayland.

You are on the same side as the people bemoaning IPv6 and asking why we couldn't just use one of the unused flags in IPv4 to solve the address depletion issue. It sometimes makes sense to make incompatible changes.
Can you clarify? This seems plainly untrue under any conventional definition of "very conservative". Archetypal "very conservative" positions might be opposition to minimum wage increases or support for unrestricted gun ownership, and it's pretty hard to argue that e.g. CNN and the New York Times embrace those positions.
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I dislike Trump and I'm not American, but is he "objectively" worse than the president who started a multi-decade war motivated by lies and false intelligence that killed thousands of US troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians?
I love the possibilities of custom display hardware. This makes me think hexagonal pixels, vector graphics, and input-to-photon latency so low it bends reality.
If you set your user agent to Googlebot, you can still access the legacy desktop site, but only when logged out.
California would ban bear hunting under new legislation wild population rebounds
Thanks! 60 days would still be very interesting to get results for if-only to understand the technology (mRNA vaccines) better for future viruses.

A lot of claims were made about how mRNA vaccination was revolutionizing how we approach these problems - but the Sputnik V results show similar gains with the traditional method.
I suppose the question then is why the Culture, and not one of the other myriad post-scarcity sci fi settings? Why pick a society that is explicitly anarchic rather than one with vestigial hierarchies?
Windows does it because the vast majority of functionality is not implemented in the kernel per se, but rather in user space by preference for stability. Even things like display drivers are often primarily implemented in userspace.

The main advantage of not having a stable kernel ABI is that you have the freedom to change it for security/performance reasons. This means the OS can change how they implement things over time without breaking things as easily. MS is notorious for this and for using this fact to allow them to 'emulate' older ways of doing things even when the real implementation has long since moved on.

The main advantage of having a stable kernel ABI is that the userspace can be whatever the developer wants it to be realistically. If they want it to be just a single GO program and literally nothing else they can do that (routers are a good example of devices that do this).
Why will it suck? Google would be pulling Search not their other products. Google Search isn’t that much better, and sometimes worse, than competitors.
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Tell that "fact" to a person not speaking English. Or to somebody who has never seen a laptop. Or to somebody, who doesn't know what "power" is. If you interpret "indefinitely" as in "within my lifetime", will that sentence still be true in the future?

Once we've stripped the contextual stuff from your sentence, your sentence is a fact in a similar way to "1 = 1" being a fact. These kinds of facts are not that terribly interesting, because they are context-free, and context is usually the entire point of a fact.

Oh, and I would argue that your laptop does not run indefinitely without power is a very personal experience, at least for me.
> I can imagine a large workforce just sort of slowly dissipating

Why imagine? The US working class is "slowly dissipating" in many ways:

* Homelessness

* Substance abuse, especially legal opiates

* Increase in mortality rates

etc.
Looking through the docs I'm seeing there will be (at some point) an API. Does this include ways to integrate data coming from non-Opstrace sources? My specific case is an in-house monitor that basically just generates data.