skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't understand what exactly you're talking about.

I'm talking about exactly this: if a company holds patents on a technology, other companies can't improve the same technology (using parts of the patented tech and improving specific aspects with inventions of their own) without licensing it.

>This extraordinary claim requires evidence.

Nothing extraordinary, and it's not about E-ink being cheap or expensive, it's just an invariant where there are patents.
Well I worked at the Zanker Rd location, which shared a parking lot with their corporate HQ, so imagine the neglect elsewhere.
There is evidence that it reduces transmission somewhat: probably not a lot, but even a few percent will have an impact. The best thing to do, mask or not, is avoid close contact with other people. Avoid crowds; maintain 2m distance; and so on.

The advice has never been about protecting you or anyone else in particular, it is about reducing the transmission in the general population. With that goal in mind, small benefits can have a major impact overall.
I’m not in this field so... what alternatives are there? Write their own?
Pascal was the first language I learned. I don’t remember my ch of it but I always liked := for variable assignment
I put my stats here for the sake of reporting.

3.5 years old Samsung 970 evo 500GB

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 28 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 9,208,241 [4.71 TB]
Data Units Written: 21,345,634 [10.9 TB]
Host Read Commands: 132,245,782
Host Write Commands: 346,141,507
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> then it will automatically bring down cases, as people die.

This would be true if it killed people quickly. But if it kills people slowly, then it is not necessarily true. AFAIK, there is no indication that it kills people more quickly than the other variants.
Totally agree.

What is the value of micromanagement?

Just set expected result and output and when this should be met by.

It doesn't matter how the person has achieved it.

Isn't that a smarter approach?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE and https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/autonomy-mastery-pur...
This article is irresponsible nonsense. The number of inaccuracies and errors are staggering, and the language utterly inadequate. The entire narrative is in variance with all the evidence available in the public domain at this stage.
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https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13643786462371102...

Prof Francois Balloux, director of UCL Genetics institute

Edit: analysis of article by Jeffrey Barrett of the Sanger institute

https://twitter.com/jcbarret/status/1364294846853308432?s=19

[L452R has been seen] over 150 times in the UK between October and now: 7 are B.1.427 or B.1.429, with the rest spanning 19 different lineages. This is a boring picture that shows we have seen this mutation several times but it has not grown ... It may be that something about the combination of mutations in B.1.427 and B.1.429 have different properties, and it may be that the upcoming pre-print has compelling data, but I don't think any conclusions can be drawn at present about this lineage based on press reports. 10/10
Why Enterprise Software Development Is a Business Essential?
And what if the cost of not doing that is also "astronomical"? Billions of people need to eat, work, raise their families. Somewhere between mass starvation/war and environmental destruction is a cost less than "astronomical" which people are willing to pay. It has to be realistic or it won't happen.
This isn’t to dispute serif vs sans-serif.

I’m pointing the letter spacing. Doesn’t matter if it’s serif or sans-serif. If the fitting is bad, it’s going to be difficult to read. The vision system recognizes word shapes and it’s sensitive to how much space is between letters (kerning is a bit different, usually pairs of glyphs).

Orthogonally, can you cite the scientific source that claims sans serif is better on displays? Curious when it was published. I wonder if it still applies to retina displays and hidpi screens.
A lot of stuff is more or less illegal. Especially in employment, as long as nobody sues, nobody cares. And which freelancer would sue? Or which employee, as far as that's concerned?

And even if, worst case is a small fine for the employer. Unfortunately.
That's bad thinking: the public doesn't want to understand. The public is what on HN would be called a "bad manager", and says crazy shit like "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions!"

Curing the Flu is a solution. The public wants this, not a flu shot, no matter how impossible the task is. A flu shot every year is just band-aiding the problem, and redelivering said problem every year.
Agreed, the num pad was another reason I ended up with another Sculpt - ergonomically it feels much nicer without and I never need it
If nothing else, it's a constant reminder to people that there's a serious problem going on that we need everyone's help with to fix. Just another while longer, hopefully.
New Postal Service delivery vehicle unveiled. It's a pretty radical change
What a coincidence, as soon as some states are talking about reopening, a "new scary strain" appears.
Improve the news – News aggregator led by Max Tegmark
I have no problem with platform owners editorialising. Well I do in some sense, if it's done in a shitty way, but that's an opinion and shouldn't be legislated.

Editorialising on a publishing platform you own is a right I'd not like to see infringed on. It's a matter for free citizens to decide. If the public disagree with the editorialising, they can use another platform. It's freedom all round. It's not ideal, but the alternatives are worse.
I find the most common outcome of adopting microservices is a buggy system made of bug-free microservices, via misunderstood specifications or surprising interactions.
Jean-Marc Jancovici uses a funny analogy: the ISS cost about $100 billions. It provides a very limited environment for 6 humans. Therefore as a rule of thumb we can extrapolate the value of our existing environment that provides enough for several billions to live on it to $15 billion per person, give or take (actually, Earth is a much better environment than the ISS, which isn't really autonomous anyway). Destroying it for an annual GDP per capita of $12000 seems like a really terrible deal.
Yes, masks work. The evidence has always been consistent on that. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118

That we are still having this question raised after a year of the pandemic is embarrassing for humanity as a species.
My guess is that if FFmpeg didn't exist, they would still not try to develop the equivalent in-house. They might have licensed something commercial.
IMO this is a confused take on modularity. I think isolation and security are related concepts, but not what modules are for. Those things have to follow module boundaries, but they're not the goal of modules. For me, modules are about understanding; in order to use this code you don't need to read all of it, you just need to understand the interface. Modularity is for humans, not computers.

They do often follow Conway's law, but that's not a desirable thing. Most modules are outside of that kind of context -- they're in libraries written by people you don't communicate with at all!

I'm interested in people's opinion here. I'm also planning an article on the relationship between services and modularity.
So there is a minimum price? Or could i use and pay for a single credit a month if I want to get e.g. the monthly average temperature of my city.
16GB/1TB about a month old:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 32 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 16,603,470 [8.50 TB]
Data Units Written: 15,747,066 [8.06 TB]
Host Read Commands: 95,905,593
Host Write Commands: 62,087,286
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 93
Power On Hours: 52
Unsafe Shutdowns: 7
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

FWIW I've installed each incremental MacOS update the day it came out.
I wonder if he can improve on F-Zero?
Too many say that. iOS 14 in 6S. but can you use it like a daily driver and ditch your > 2019 iPhone? It is OK if you are using 6S for email + whatsapp? Any thing more? A typical user has atleast 20 apps - from banking to zoom.
Singularity Theme – Why did we change the colors of our console
The only randomized controlled trial for masks and Covid-19 found no statistically significant protective effect. Jeremy Howard didn't even bother citing it in the review you're linking:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817

The Howard review is, in general, of extremely low quality. The top-line conclusions of some of the cited articles are completely mis-interpreted, and the citations within are sloppy and misleading -- bold assertions are made without evidence, and the reader is led to assume that a leading/trailing citation provides support for the claim, when it does not. There are far better reviews of the available literature. Here is one:

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

The meta-study commissioned by the WHO is another:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

You'll note that they found a small positive effect for masks in the community, only when including and aggregating a large number of low-quality studies. They admit that the evidence base is weak.

In general, there's a great deal of uncertainty around the effectiveness of masks in the hands of the general public. There may be a small positive effect, but we simply don't know. One of the biggest mistakes of this pandemic has been the political weaponization of this issue, and the exaggeration of certainty -- on both sides of the debate.
Yes the calculation is hard but they ought to still be recognised
> and there isn’t enough charity in the world to pay them without advertising

And yet the KDE team was able to build the best browser in the world (Konqueror) while being funded only by charity and charity-like governmental development grants.
Redis Rate Limiter
A small USB-C rechargeable LED lantern. It has 3 modes: warm light, cool light and RGB. It has only one capacitive button to turn it off (double tap) or adjust intensity (tap and hold).

I bought it for my small balcony, but end up using it all the time. It's a great night light, reading light, ambiance light etc. It's also mobile.

I honestly haven't fell in love like this with a product in years.
I very much agree. It’s exceptional in so many ways.
After several thousand hours of work a car engine will have to have a lot of stuff replaced or serviced. Probably only the block, head, pistons and shafts will remain.
Laughs in Konqueror.
Couldnt read it, am i the only one annoyed by people posting links that is behind logins/paywalls?
I did not need any driver, macOS has a pretty descent support for keyboard.

Did you try switching your keyboard preference from Apple to PC Layout in keyboard preferences?

I did not try on M1, but this keyboard works pretty well with a MacBookPro early 2015 (and it was for a French Azerty Sculpt keyboard, not even the regular US Qwerty!).

Pro tip: on a Mac laptop, add a key shortcut to switch between the 2 layouts, so that you can quickly switch from one to the other layout.

Also add the keyboard icon / input source in the menu bar, for quick visual check : it shows the actual keyboard layout.
I have two major rules that address these:

The first is that code review comments are leaping off points for discussion, and filling in the space next to the comment with a justification is a valid fix. (And "I don't understand this" is a valid comment) This helps equalise the two roles, and makes it just as valid for a junior to review a senior's code, and avoids artificially limiting who can review any piece of code.

The second is that everybody reviews everybody else's code regularly. The source of people taking them personally (in my experience) are people who haven't had their code reviewed in a while or having the same people do all the reviewing.
Did afew, got all of the right. GPT2 generated code always seems to follow a pattern
Huge congrats to Bellard and other ffmpeg contributors. This is a testament to the maturity and stability of FFmpeg. If FFmpeg were not mature or stable enough, it would never have been selected for use on Perseverance, because any bug that manifests itself while on Mars would be catastrophic, as there is a minimum of 6-minute roundtrip for light to travel between Mars and Earth.
At first look, this seems to give much better results than e.g. Character Creator's Headshot, which to me has never yielded one recognizable result out of the box that didn't take hours and hours of refining.

The textures (except for the face) here are obviously very low-res and sort-of generic but that's not all that important - the head and face sure look great, at least in the demo video. The person is recognizable and that's pretty awesome.

I wonder if you could add a feature to export these models for productive use (such as .fbx files) so they can be creatively used in other software (like Adobe AE, Cinema 4d etc.). Having a one-touch solution to create rigged, realistic 3D models, export them and only maybe having to refine the textures on the hands a bit and adjust clothing would be such a time saver. To me, that would add much more value to this technology than the gimmicks displayed in the demo (though they are quite funny). I could also imagine that this is a much easier (or at least a strong second) path to generate revenue. If priced competitively (between $5 and $20 per created character, let's say; I'd differentiate between commercial and non-commercial use), a lot of (semi-)professional animators, graphic designers and marketing people might buy that.

I mean, apart from Character Creator I'm not really aware of a software that even claims to do this properly outside of academic PoCs. And as I said, CC doesn't really work that well, unfortunately.

So that would be my feedback. Disclaimer: I've only seen the demo video, as I'm unable to install the mobile app at the moment.
In case anyone reads this, also see Dileep George and Andy Clark.
As there are now several eReaders on the market which have a 10 inch eInk screen, it would be so great, if there was one which implements displaylink and could just be plugged via USB into any computer. This would immediately enable a lot of usages.
The Sorrows of Young Werther made suicide trendy among that generation (difficult as that is to believe). Not that these poets directly killed themselves, but there was definitely an appeal to living dangerously and not taking care of yourself. Somewhat like the "27 club" among musicians.
Yes, the have been peer-reviewed studies which demonstrate effectiveness: https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/info-for/The-effectiven...

All masks have some improvement over the absence of a mask.

High-end masks have been mandatory in Berlin supermarkets for a while now.
It wasn't for me.
Of course you need to supply it, you wouldn't use one in Antarctica . (I'm no refrigerant expert, but I assume there's nothing that would work well enough to be worthwhile.)

The only reason I can think of for 'or heat taken in' in that definition is exactly to stop people claiming >100% efficiency for heat pumps, which is a corollary for perpetual motion, and equal nonsense.

> so a heat pump can use the same heat again and again, without exhausting of ambient heat.

That's just not true, they are heat interfaces, thermal energy is transferred from outside to a refigerant, to inside (or inside water, or whatever).

If this were true, they would have a closed tank of hot air as well as a closed refigerant loop (as the vast majority do) so it would always be oprrating optimally in any environment, never running out of hot air.

The clue's in the name - pump! - they just move heat about, you wouldn't claim pumping water is >100% efficient because you're creating water out of nothing and you'll never run out of water in the infinitely massive lake you're pumping from, would you?

Put a box over it. Look at what goes into the box and what comes out, on all sides. Efficiency = Outs / Ins. It's a yield. A ratio of how much of what you put in you get back out in the form you want.
I recommend simply asking the question, "how should economists think?".
I am myself a contractor so I’m not trying to shield myself from anything. They are however not simple to spot at all. I mean, I can spot them quite easily (at least I think I can). But I tend to work for people who hire me because they lack the skills that I have (or at least the skills I convince them I have). Their ability to evaluate the quality of my work, or reason about the problems I report to have with their systems, is close to non-existent. If I did terrible work it could take them quite a long time to notice, and then they’d just get themselves stuck trying to figure out if it was my terrible work, or the terrible work of a different contractor, or the terrible work of some of their employees, or simply the consequence of some other terrible work somebody else did 20 years ago. All of whom have a rather clear incentive to point the finger at each other. But don’t worry, whenever projects like that fail to deliver their planned value, there’s always some middle manager near by to say that the problem “should have been easy” to avoid.
We do assign identifiers with the year of emergence to flu strains.

For example, the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic virus is called H1N1-pdm-09 (or just H1N1/09) in literature.
US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain
You can, however, live without cheese. You cannot without breathing.
Yep have had the same thing happen with one that someone left in the office after they left the company - no one could find the receiver and so it was useless. Seems like a bit of a wasteful design, you’d think they’d switch to Bluetooth.
I thought it was racist to refer to a virus by the location it was first spotted...
I really hope this is true.
I think it comes up whenever there's the opportunity because patents are legitimately bad. And I think it's the other way around - if prices were low and volumes were high lots of people would make cool marginal products with them.
If you open it in a private tab mediums free article limit goes away.
LA Times, which published the article, has been the worst about this. The headline ('"The Devil is Already Here"') is clickbait trash. Of course, this grave development is already off their front page: Tiger Woods was injured.
If we want to establish a legal framework to prevent companies to damage the environment and to require civil remediation in case of failure we probably need to perform this exercise.

Otherwise the required remediations are whimsical and the justice delivered at best a sham. Typically, the sum requested as is currently often the case for oil spills, are far inferior to the actual remediation cost.

Finally, as other comments mention, it would also be good to know when the cost would be infinite or near infinite, to have a clear understanding of our limits and in those cases privilege using a criminal justice framework over a civil one.
We Can’t Make Vaccine Doses Any Faster
It also depends on how the client wants to steer a freelancer. I had one freelancer charging less than I was expecting. So I asked him why and he said, that the monitoring makes his machine unstable so he wouldn't log all the time he worked on the project. I told him to log the hours manually. And the problem was solved.

Because, on Upwork, the client can decide whether or not the freelancer is allowed to put in hours manually. What I am trying to say is: it's an option that you don't have to use.
Some are medically exempt. This mask-or-else culture pushes those people out of society, totally unfairly.
Over yet last few years the WiFi daemon insists in writing content to the /var/log/wifi.log and friends, and there’s no way of turning it off.
The firehose of falsehood is propaganda sure, but it's principles were consciously and deliberately developed by the USSR as a particular propaganda technique. It's partly based on the rhetorical strategies used by Lenin. One of his (Russian) biographers called him the godfather of post-truth politics.
I wonder how the distances to the solar system objects were chosen? If it was the average distance from earth, shouldn't sun be closest? I guess it is maybe the shortest possible distance?
Wow. That feels like living in an O'Neill cylinder.
That assumes that the quality of your work is tied to the amount of time you're actively using your computer. Time making notes in a notepad, or thinking while you walk around, or having a work-based conversation with someone, or mapping something out on a whiteboard adds to the quality of an application.

Heck, I've often found that taking a break to read HN or make a cup of coffee or even watch a YT video results in me figuring out what's causing a bug in some code. Apparently my subconscious is great at debugging.

The converse is true too. I've worked with people who actively code for 8 hours and yet have produced very little usable code at the end of the day. They needed 8 hours to do what a better developer could do in a couple of hours.

You can't judge the quality of a developer's work by looking at how much time they spend in their IDE.
The Final Speech from the Great Dictator Movie
«The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish»
I'm sorry, but this makes no sense at all. The only difference between these two scenarios is who is in a position of power. If I use a prepaid card, it's not because I intend to ditch a service, but to control the costs.

A simple example of one of the services I use, Mailerlite. When the funds are depleted, I receive an email from them they were unable to charge me this month and they downgraded me to their free plan, and they will try again in two days. I then charge my card, they charge me and everything is fine. You don't want people like me - fine, you will have less customers. And I'm a very loyal customer, cases like failed payment happen maybe once 2-3 years.
Course urging workers to be 'less white' pulled from LinkedIn platform
On the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, saying it didn’t make it so for HIV and condoms.

Policy must account for people not all doing the correct thing; for people who think it’s overblown or a conspiracy; etc.
The US can't even keep Venezuela and Cuba in line.

What do you mean by “in line”? Those countries are little more than nuisances in global geopolitics. If either of them seriously threatened US interests or key allies they would be rolled over as quickly as Iraq was in GW1.
This is classic anti Microsoft rant I’m surprised the title doesn't include M$

The reason people use typescript is because it’s really great technology, not because bill gates hypnotized developers.
It's not about reducing people to nothing but their skin color, that's a strawman argument. It's about recognizing that because the way society is structured, people have likely had a markedly different experience of life based on their skin color, and in a systematic way. It's about recognizing that we need a systematic approach to undo the accumulation of 400 years of these systematized differences. To ignore skin color, or as some people say, "I don't see color" is to refuse to confront the structural racism that got us where we are.
ok, I get it. It could be centered on a cell of your own body!
> It also opens the door to a “nightmare scenario”: That the two viruses will meet in a single person, swap their mutations, and create an even more dangerous strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

How would that even work? This is an RNA virus: is there a meiosis-like mechanism for two different RNA viruses infecting the same cell to exchange genes?