skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minks have already been a problem leading to Denmark culling 17 million of them alone, with the problem being present in several other countries[0].

The virus is tearing through the farms[1]:

> In Denmark, the world’s largest producer of mink pelts, authorities are struggling to control farm outbreaks, despite extensive control measures. In many affected farms, almost all animals have antibodies against the virus.

It's mutating and jumping back to people[1]:

> Fonager says researchers in Denmark have sequenced viral samples from 40 mink farms and identified some 170 coronavirus variants. He adds that in viral samples from people — representing about one-fifth of the country’s total COVID confirmed cases — they’ve found some 300 people with variants that contain mutations thought to have first emerged in mink.

> [...]

> One mink-associated mutation has spread more widely in people. The mutation, Y453F, also encodes an amino acid change in the spike protein and has been found in about 300 sequences from people in Denmark, as well as sequences from mink and people in the Netherlands. An experimental study suggests that virus variants with the Y453F mutation partially escaped detection by a commercial monoclonal antibody.

Like most things SARS-CoV-2 right now, we don't exactly have a rigorous academic study. Just rumblings. But so far there's some evidence pointing this direction.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/here-s-why-denmark-...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03218-z
Currently a 45 degree view zone with 23 separate view zone images, so about every 2 degrees. Very little crosstalk.
Ironically they won the tablet wars due to Google not being able to move Android beyond phone apps in bigger screens.

Outside iPads, almost everyone doing serious work on the go is using Windows tablets in some form, either proper tablets, or hybrid laptops with turnable screens or detachable keyboards.
I'd say the timing was just right!

A lot of media was already trying to frame all of this into a political problem, fueling conspiracy theories, and trying to destroy the credibility of European independent regulators.

It's disgusting what happened in the past few days, casting doubt over regulators, doctors and scientists that were dealing directly with these cases and had hands-on data, thankfully there's transparency in these countries, and regulators are doing what they're supposed to be doing.
This is a risk less trade
Have zero faith in the current generations that are adults. It will have to be future generations that can think clearly without judgement.
berlin is a wannabe startup hub. germans investors have fear of risk. imho
I’ve been using redmine for project management for a decade. It is reliably excellent.
He didn’t present any evidence of his conspiracy theory though.

I would be willing to bet actual money that his imagined conspiracy theory didn’t exist, and that two things happened simultaneously, but without relation: scam apps existed, and Apple tried to buy him.

The notion that Apple would engage in widespread conspiracy to save a million bucks strikes me as bizarre.
I couldn't care less about Rust. The fact that this project used it is irrelevant to me and I have no desire to setup a Rust build env.
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Goldman Sachs analysts complain on “inhumane” working conditions
"See, look, they knew it was dangerous but the MSM suppressed it."

If you don't publish you feed conspiracy theorists. Better to transparently publish the information that you have.
I think this article is a bit more nuanced based on what they are seeing on the ground. Derek brings up good points about background rates, but papers over some things. It's a complex picture and the below article paints it well.

Also scientists in Norway claim they found the mechanism that causes it.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/it-s-very-special-pi...

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/KyGv2G/professor-says-...
People even pay for it.

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/
Are you saying such a plugin exists that only works with named colors?

That would seem like a... usability disaster.

Any accessibility tool for vision should operate at an OS level to map colors across everything. And even if you wanted a web-only tool, it would need to similarly operate across all colors -- whether hex codes or in images or SVG's. Very few sites use any named CSS colors at all except for "white" or "black".

There are lots of areas where it's important to keep accessibility in mind... but named CSS colors would not seem to be one of them.
Context switching: why it hurts code review and how we fix it
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Not that I would ever want to do it, but I alway wonder how the outcomes would be if engineering teams worked as hard as IB/HF folks. I've produced some of my best code on the weeks where I manage to code 70+ hours, but its very unsustainable.

The obvious answer is that it wouldn't work, but some of these organizations with long hours are some of the best performing organizations, so there is definitely more to the story.
I think on Sunday the BBC will show a TopGear Sabine special
I was commenting based on the HSL values of the mentioned colors. At the time of creating this tool I really didn't care too much about using a more perception-aware color space. Doing it just based on HSL already seemed like a huge win. But I received similar feedback in the past, too. So thanks for pointing out. I'll maybe think about making it even better in this sense.
They are quite alive,

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/

http://teavm.org/
> That's...not at all accurate.

Tell me how. My recollection is that Dodge was scanned from a frozen brain. Later in the book, folks were full-body-scanned.

And conceding that we need to simulate a full digital universe in order to simulate one person gives away the argument entirely — there’s still no coherent way to say that it’s the same person, a digital afterlife of the same soul. Stephenson blithely writes as if this is true.
Most of the color names come from X11 rgb.txt which was not exactly "designed" to be anything and also many entries assume RGB color space of some particular Unix workstation which was decidedly non-sRGB (eg. using significantly different gamma curve).
I think the EMA press release is a better source: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene...

Specifically it doesn't say "safe and effective", it says "benefits outweight risks" (BBC says that at well, but they removed that bit from the headline).
High pressure air can be produced on-board small autonomous vehicles that travel along the solar installations for weeks at a time, themselves powered by solar energy, without any need to refuel or pick up resources like water.
It sounds way too slow too.
Well, we are already at roughly .04% worldwide deaths, and that with quite some doing to contain the disease in most of the world. I would suggest that letting COVID-19 run it's course, the numbers would be quite a bit higher, and even with current measures in place and vaccinations underway, we will certainly exceed .06% by the end of the year.
What time periods are long enough to warrant significant changes to how likely we think it is that the Dark Forest Model corresponds to reality? I would have thought very long, given the scale of astronomical observations.
Two suggestions for your site:

• Knock off the first 30 seconds of your 'interior shots' video where the machine is presumably registering itself. I don't much care about that :)

• Show the resultant printed film from the side on somewhere, so we can see how thin it is. From first glance, I got the impression the output was quite thick, whereas apparently it's only 16 microns (taken from your spec sheet). It might seem obvious to you, but it wasn't here and I think would be much more impressive.

Neat tech, I've forwarded it to someone who might have use for it.

Good luck!
How do you obtain 1 btc if you are poor? Doing work for well-off holders? Sounds identical to regular life and inequality is baked in
Genes can change behavior when you get into space. But you have to bet that, with millions of species getting to that point, not a single one will get any further. I don't know how anyone can have that level of certainty about such speculative things.
I mean you think that 30+ million people in the US will be medically ineligible? Every single vaccine in my state is being administered as fast as they can ship them out. And after a while kids will have to be vaccinated to go to school same as we do with other vaccines. There is no current prediction that the vaccine won't be safe for kids.

The biggest groups that are ineligible are people with vaccine allergies and people with some autoimmune diseases which is vanishingly small.
Colloquial definitions of monopoly do not matter when it comes to antitrust laws[1]:

> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors. That is how that term is used here: a "monopolist" is a firm with significant and durable market power.

The truth is that Apple and Google have a duopoly in the mobile OS market[2], and they're leveraging that duopoly in an anti-competitive manner to prevent competition in the mobile app distribution market.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
What you are doing here is not helpful. Yes, the Greenland ice sheet has been melting since before industrialization [1]. Yes, at current rates the ice will take 10,000 years to melt, as long as Jericho has been a city [2].

Productive responses to these claims include:
Greenland's rate of melting has dramatically accelerated since industrialization and will likely continue accelerating as atmospheric carbon rises further.

and

Even losing a small percentage of the ice sheet will have devastating consequences in some regions.

These responses have a remote shot at making someone think about their position and whether it makes sense. Snarky answers where you accuse someone of ignorance over their informed claims only make you and your side look bad. I'm on your side, and I don't care for it.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/greenland...

[2] A little more tricky, sources rightly refuse to assume constant melt rate for their models. We can eyeball this, though. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/greenlands-oldest-... gives amount of ocean rise in the last 8 years (as of 2019) as a quarter inch, and says 25 feet total ocean rise if the whole thing melted. 4 quarter in./in. * 12 in./ft * 25 ft * 8 years = ~9600 years
That wouldn't work as viruses don't compete for a limited resource (as long as they don't kill all infected). So unlike animals, where one species eats the food of the other and can drive it to extinction, this won't work.
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>seems the answer is to genetically engineer a weak variant with a bigger reproduction and let it rip?

A weaker varient of a disease often just is the vaccine.

As for letting her rip? I'd imagine the concern is future mutations that the vaccine can't surpress with it bouncing between people.
> The culling of the Mink Farms in Denmark should be evidence enough that it can travel through animals.

Not that I think you're wrong, but that's circular logic. "Minks were culled because it can travel through animals. Minks being culled is evidence it can travel through animals."
Does COVID vaccination prevent infection and transmission?
>It's not real until I think it's politically expedient for it to be real
Haas! I like it.

Tiling of the holograms (making smaller holograms that can be tiled to make a larger one) is something we've definitely thought about, and even contemplated for a Kickstarter stretch goal. Wall size holograms would be fun!
In the Netherlands, shopping carts and masks became mandatory in shops. The shopping cart is/was used as a way to keep track of the amount of people allowed in the store. This had the counter-productive effect of having to have someone disinfect shopping cart handles with alcohol or in worst case a do-it-yourself system where disinfectant is provided but only AFTER you've already had to touch the cart of physically prevent anyone from grabbing a cart by claiming the single disinfectant spray and paper before reaching the cart.

All of this could have been avoided if the handles were made of copper.
When I was a software/web developer, I never worked with any software developers that could agree on anything.

For example: variable names

So I like your idea... but execution is going to be an issue.
> We simply have no idea whether aliens are more like the predators of the dark forest or the lumberjack.

That is not entirely true, currently it is 1 to 0 for the dark forest theory, as we have at least one data point: Our selves (as to aliens, we are aliens), and you surely don't want to gain our attention.
See it’s solely for transactions. Without transactions or mutability mining wouldn’t be required. This division is fair game. The block reward subsidy is only required to reward the processing of blocks which wouldn’t need to happen if transactions weren’t a feature.

The method of facilitating transactions consumes all the power, so you can divide the average number of transactions per block to obtain the power expended per average transaction.

Trust me I’m not struggling here, except with pushing back on the koolaid consumption. Folks who pursue extensive mental gymnastics to justify their having obtained wealth through environmental destruction: it’s like if everyone holding Bitcoin woke up one day to realize they’d killed a gorilla in the process. They’d try really hard to convince themselves they didn’t or that it wasn’t their fault. Even to pretend it didn’t happen because the gorillas were simply transmuted to a better life in the sky.
I seem to remember this being done with the piezoelectric vibrator (stop that sniggering at the back) used to shake the dust off sensors.[1]

I think Haselblad had that as well as Olympus but I can't quite what the systems were called.

https://www.engadget.com/2018-01-18-hasselblad-h6d-400c-medi...
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> "I have a early-2009 “octo” Mac Pro [...]"
>
> OS: macOS

Does this make anyone else a bit uncomfortable?

I don't think MacOS is still receiving security updates on that hardware. I'm all for using old hardware for as long as it keeps working, but I would never browse the internet with a vulnerable OS on a vulnerable processor (spectre etc...)

Or am I missing something?
How are you going to get those future generations to think clearly without judgment? The same things that afflict the thinking of the current adults will afflict the next generations when they are adults.
To be crystal clear here, you said that one vaccine shot is enough to keep people safe and healthy because the second one made your arm sore?
Modern idolatry requires modern morals. Alexander also conquered a large swaths of land, did not read about him sacking cities or imposing rape and death on the subjugated populace.

If anything, Greek culture and armies gradually assimilated over the centuries into native cultures.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid19-is-surging-bu...

All the covid restrictions we've put in place have turned this flu season extremely mild. Meanwhile, we've seen far more COVID cases than flu cases.

I don't think it's a great leap to say "COVID is far more infectious than the flu" and it's not a great leap to say "The flu is a very infectious disease".

(I say all this knowing that the flu is several types of coronaviruses.)
Curious how that works? Parallel blockchain? But how do you “migrate”? Incremental migration?
> Protecting yourself and effectively killing your enemies is a central part of the human experience, [...] Selflessness and bravery to that end has always been celebrated

A lot of violence that went on in Sparta was fundamentally selfish. And quite often it had nothing to do with protecting yourself. And also, quite a lot of it was not brave at all - the treatment of helots or pretty much anyone who was lower in social standing then you was violent but not brave at all. It was violence simply against people with zero chance to defend themselves intended to keep things that way.

There is that odd thing where people kneed jerk assume that violence of the past must have been well reasoned, noble and form of self sacrifice. Pretty often, it is simply not a case.
Just speculation (I am not a physicist or astrobiologist), but this is my thinking also. If anything is traveling between the stars, it's either inorganic (an AI), or it has a natural lifespan several orders of magnitudes longer than humans. Without FTL travel, to conquer space you also have to conquer time.

Organic life is fragile and ill-suited for space travel, at least organic life as we know it. Perhaps the destiny of all sufficiently advanced organisms is either to die off or replace itself with AI.

Anyway, while I find it impossible to believe there's nothing out there, I find it nearly equally impossible to believe anything that's ever visited our rock resembled little green men.
Who is whining? OP even said they love the project. They're just asking a question.
it's a last resort, it's true... but with variants mutating, i think we have to ask ourselves how much of a existential threat does this thing pose to the species.

moreover, what's the difference if vaccines become mandatory anyhow? all the vaccines do is expose humans to the spike protein... if anything, hacking the virus seems safer than hacking the human body to produce the spike protein.

i suppose it's hard to stop, where you can halt a vax campaign. i don't believe it would be impossible to establish a safety profile for a modified virus that is on par with those of the vaccines.

or everyone could just stay home for a month...
Perhaps I can share a different perspective. I like unrestored ruins. I perceive a restoration as admixture of modern techniques and fresh touch onto an old and genuine core, and a recreation as a modern construction made to look old. When I explore those without having noticed or been forewarned about their true origins I feel cheated. When I do notice or someone tells me they really are new, I still feel they are inauthentic.

I suppose I expect to see not just how people lived in the past, but also to see the effect that time has had on what they made. I like looking at a fragment of a wall and contemplate the amount of time that separates me from the folks who put it up. Knowledge that the wall was built in my lifetime just completely ruins it for me (no pun intended).

That said, I did see some great recreations and I learnt much more about the past from them than I had from ruins. Some folks do impressive amount of research about what life used to be like and recreations are probably the best way for them to share what they learnt.
Jughandle is also apparently a type of ramp common in New Jersey where drivers who want to turn left have to take a ramp on the right. TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle
Jealous of how well you seem to be able to keep to KISS as a principle.
Is it possible however they are attributing death counts in 1890 are different than they are today? Maybe if they used the same standards for who dies today that they did in 1890 the n umbers back then could be higher?
AstraZeneca: Benefits outweigh the risks despite possible link to blood clots
Reminds of MOSIX and Condor, which used different mechanisms to remote commands.
More importantly - why do innovations by NASA not go into the public domain?

Our tax dollars paid for it, our homemade battlebots should be armored by it.
Lovely - you should make url reflect the slider state for easy sharing.
For a while early on allowing the virus to spread through the population, with limited distancing and lockdown measures to control the rate of spread, in order to achieve herd immunity was official British government policy.

I'm not knocking them to be honest. In the early months so little was known for sure that it was a matter of making best estimates, and as better data came in they quickly adapted their strategy.
Not saying I don't believe it. But a government doing something is not even close to proof.
I much prefer footnotes myself, where you can see directly what is being cited. Unfortunately there's a wide range of practices for online writing, but the norm I've found is usually just hyperlinks to digitized sources.

The Appendix, the online history journal I helped create back in the day, tried to experiment with a more detailed way of doing in-line citations, via small icons that you can click to see images, citations of primary source texts, even music or films on occasion. You can see it in action here:

http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/made-in-taiwan-an-eigh...
Interfaces don’t always have boxing penalty. Write generic code, use the interface as generic type constraint, and the interface will work without virtual calls, boxing, or any other runtime overhead.

Example of that approach: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/1.2/Vrmac/Draw/Main/I...
Ancient empires also regularly spawned friendly or unfriendly colonies on their periphery, and regularly lost control of them. Space colonization doesn't have to be useful for earthlings for somone to bother attempting it.

All of that said, we're probably less equiped to colonize space than the chimpanzees in Africa are to build boats and sail to Brazil.
> I don't think I ever heard anyone calling Prolog a Lisp though.

I guess we can agree that it's not a sufficient condition, but from my selection of languages you may consider that maybe I meant it as a necessary condition.

Another interesting separator is: does it include "Lisp" in its name? Scheme and Dylan don't. Maybe people don't use "Lisp" in the name to indicate that they intend the language to break away in some way from the Lisp tradition. In a similar way, Racket broke away from Scheme tradition, for example.

Kent Pitman, in his "Lambda the Ultimate Political Party" article, wrote that people have been writing programs to help transition code written in the older dialects to the new dialects. The fact that it's doable without expending too much energy also suggests close relationship. Some months ago I wrote some <100 lines of code, consisting mostly in a bunch of macros, to make a program using Flavors work on Common Lisp with CLOS. Are the people using Clojure, Janet, etc. doing this? Can they pick up an old program written in another Lisp dialect that's close to them and, with not too much fuss, make it run? Which dialect would that be?
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Wealthy people who use leverage actually are very likely to enjoy shrinking assets, there is no magic bullet to risk management
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The biggest change will be WFH or online learning when you feel like you might just be a little bit sick. That alone should put a huge dent in flu season.
Every language compiles to assembly so it must be as fast as assembly?
and they only lead in smartwatches because theirs were better because they control the hardware..

they made better cpu and radios for wearables then what was available to competition at the time..

that on my opinion would work more on their favor for not breaking the company then the other way around..
Thanks! The film plates are on 2mm thick glass, and the actual holographic recording layer is 16 microns, with a coversheet material over that.
They're possibly something like a dosdude patcher or modified bootloader to run an OS like Catalina on it.