skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copper helps, but it isn't magic. It takes about 1->2 hours to self disinfect.

You'd still need a step of disinfecting the handles.

That said, I'm not sure how often flu goes from cart handle to person, I've my doubts that it's a major disease vector. I'd think just being in a store with a bunch of idiots coughing on each other probably spreads the flu more readily.
Isn't 4000k far more "natural"? A full moon is 4000k.
I take it you think of yourself as cynical.

You don’t think that using sustainable energy sources is in the long term interests of business?
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I was going to post the same link, as I also feel that this article is more nuanced.

There is also a twitter thread by one of the article's authors summarizing the article and discussing some additional information.

https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1372315648894844940
It’s not nicotine. https://gwern.net/Nicotine
> I remember the messaging at the beginning of last year being to expect at least 18 months, possibly much longer.

I remember messaging about timelines of several years. The fact that science eventually arrived at a consistent and accurate message doesn't mean that there wasn't consensus around the wrong opinions when it was most critical.

> You just explained above that these institutions are not powerful, and that they have limititations. Which one of these are true?

Nowhere did I claim they are not powerful, I simply claimed that they made bad decisions.
I was living in South Korea 2015-2019, where use of face masks was already a normal fact of life seasonally (air pollution) and habitual when experiencing cold symptoms. It's not amazing, but also not a big deal. I did wonder about the trash/recycling factor.

Frankly - living as an immigrant in a very looks/appearance-conscious society, it had its practical perks. Quick late-day dash to the shop without having a shave? Masks takes care of that ...

OTOH, I enjoy how the lockdowns have been a sobering reset button to everyone's vanity and fashion proclivities, too. Hair styling fast fashion cycles seem like very silly preoccupations nowadays.
yes but we are unable to vaccinate fast enough.

virus is n^2, vaccine is n

you cannot beat exponential growth with linear growth
Or we could use that power for something a little more practical which we can’t do without.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPMI1uSrS8g here is a video of one of Slack's lead engineer discussing their migration from php --> hack
"Christie Aschwanden is a science journalist in Cedaredge, Colorado." This is not by an epidemiologist.

It looks like Israel will be the first country to hit a very high vaccination level. 55.4 percent of Israelis have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Over 70% of old people. The government is pushing hard on this.
Pfizer says they're seeing 97% vaccine effectiveness at preventing illness.

Israel cut a deal with Pfizer to get priority on vaccine shipments in exchange for sending extensive data on how it is working back to Pfizer.[1] So Israel has more than enough vaccine for their population.
Already, Israel's coronavirus death rate is down to 0.15 deaths/day/100K people. It was 0.72 back in January.

So watch Israel to see what happens when the vaccination percentage gets to a high level.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/3aae4345-46cc-4636-a3f9-a93a6762f...
Yes, this exists! [1]

[1]: https://wildcards.world/
I literally time-travel when context-switching, especially if it involves the browser.

*switches app*: "Well, better finish this huge task before proceeding."

*repeats in the next app*
Can the layers be side-illuminated? If so, could these be layered, with some compensation for angle employed to account for depth, allowing you do fake RGB?

ed - eg. each 16 micron sheet is side-illuminated with a specific colour, and then three or more holographic sheets are embedded in between the glass plate and cover?
Agreed. Not sure what to make of it. It's "cute" but who is the audience?
> i think we have to ask ourselves how much of a existential threat does this thing pose to the species.

I'd say not as great a threat as setting the dangerous precedent of experimenting on an unwitting populace.
just playing the devil's advocate. I don't support as well the idea of sacrificing the old and unfit and neither believe that "only the strong should survive", but isn't the old and unfit from today responsible for the status-quo and all the bad decisions that we took regarding research, environment and health in the last 30 years?
>> I would have thought very long, given the scale of astronomical observations.

Or not. The great thing about astronomical observations is that they can scan across millions of years in a few seconds. We look at thousands of other galaxies, some old and some ancient, but do not see massive extraterrestrial civilizations doing big things. That is pretty strong evidence that there aren't any lumberjacks chopping down stars for firewood.
From the way you're writing about dance, I assume that you mean couple dances like tango or waltz?

This study is not about a couple dance, where one has physical contact with one dance partner, but about synchronised movement to music in a group.
Definitely. PET studies have yielded something like 1/5 to 1/4 of brain MAO enzymes being inhibited in smokers.
I personally need to feel the progress on whatever my hobby is at the moment.

Currently, i've been working on a side project for months now, but i remember it took me years to get started. The essence of how i did start was to take a weekend, bang out a basic proof of concept that had occurred to me, then over time add to it, even in small ways. fix a bug here, add a view there, model data this way, etc.

It's less about energy and more about motivation. Some people would say discipline, but if you're exhausted, you're exhausted, and to push harder would only damage your resolve (IMO). It's an emotional energy thing more than physical energy, so in combination with other suggestions on here (like do it in the morning not the evening), take some time (off or the weekend, etc) to get momentum on a hobby or project (dev env setup takes at minimum a day in many cases), and then put in tiny steps or amounts of energy over time.

You'll be surprised how far you can go once you're moving.
Did you read the article? The claim is that Apple delayed and denied app approval while trying to acquire the app, while approving the scam apps and approving other apps that incorporated his tech.

ETA: I find the dismissive reference to “conspiracy theories” to be a little weird. It’s not as though there isn’t a rich history of abuse of monopoly power, including restricting access to market. It’s unclear why FAANG companies would be uniquely immune to such temptations.
I know I don't have the patience/dexterity/not knocking the table over to use the hologram kits, and the printer is not in my budget, but I would love to see some of the finished (developed?) holograms. You might consider selling some of those?
I apologize.

Authenticity != truthiness. They are orthogonal.

How do I rephrase my points to make this crystal clear?
Not sure I understand your argument, because there are externalities the network is not secured? All consumption of power created by fossil fuels has negative externalities. Also, there's no requirement that miners are on the grid (lots of mining operations use off-grid excess power that cannot be stored).

> You just traded one tgreat model for another, and boy it is a doozy.

What? I'm not sure what models you're referring to
> I’ve noticed a pattern of what I get downvoted for and it doesn’t reflect well on this community.

Please don't use moral grandstanding to try to emotionally manipulate others into changing their voting practices.
According to some interviews and sources, the Sinus blood clots are more likely to happen with AZ. I haven't seen any numbers, especially accounting for age and demographic groups, so I cannot tell.

That being said, every drug has side effects. A vaccine isn't any different.
Ask HN: How can AWS S3 guarantee 99.999999999% durability
Amazon S3 is designed to provide
99.999999999% durability of objects
over a given year. This durability level
corresponds to an average annual
expected loss of 0.000000001%
of objects. For example, if you store
10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3,
you can on average expect to incur
a loss of a single object once every
10,000 years.
All the policy since they source most of the ideas and especially political strategies. Since the early 2000s they ("they" now extending beyond just the think tanks listed previously) directly control the media by sourcing/compiling news for all major sources, so they basically control all political opinion. After a brief respite from their influence on social media, they seem to now do a pretty good job of influencing the influencers there as well.
I’ve seen this a lot. I think sometimes in my experience it comes down to what is work?

As a developer I would classify a lot of the meetings I’ve had at past companies where it takes up 40% of my time as not really working. Sometimes these meetings push over the hours for the week but weren’t really productive in any meaningful way.
Are you complaining about variables being shadowed or mutable? Your complaint seems to be about the first but the examples about the second.

Note that any good linter will warn you about shadowing even if it is technically allowed by the language.
I understand that it has to be OK for functions to invoke UB if their preconditions aren’t met. And I guess you could have a pointer to this function and thereby want it to exist without ever invoking UB. But to me a function that can’t be called without UB really should be a compile error. I’m trying to think of counterexamples...
It's also the English for ~"having, being in, or related to focus". So a meaning of "a board where important tasks are in focus" (or some such) seems at least as likely.
Easy, it takes less exposure to COVID to get you ill. Meaning, it's a more infectious disease.

And masks aren't ineffective against COVID-19. Everyone wearing a mask does a pretty good job at preventing the spread of disease. However, there are a lot of people that aren't as strict about following mask rules and guidelines.
It depends. NASA will file a notice of intent to grant an exclusive or partial license - you can see the notices here[1].

In this case it seems the patent is still available for anyone to license[2]. They have special licensing terms for startups that are pretty favorable[3].

1: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/search?conditions%...

2: https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LEW-TOPS-99

3: https://technology.nasa.gov/startup
It’s not sawdust per se, rather the smoke from it — more exactly, the pyrolysis products of certain amino acids: heating L-tryptophan, for example, produces various Harmala alkaloids.

The effects are also dependent on the type of wood, as some woods do naturally contain tannins which act as MAO inhibitors.

Harmala alkaloids, of course, are naturally present in Penganum harmala, one of the two traditional ingredients of Ayahuasca. The inherent psychoactivity of this family of compounds cannot be overstated.
I guess it is all about which questions you are trying to answer. Generally speaking at the OpenAI and Deepmind end of the scale the question is "(How) can we escape the diminishing returns of applying ever more data and compute to improve upon the SOTA?" rather than "(How) can we improve upon the SOTA without applying more data and compute?".
You would have been a better health minister than any working for any government.
I used to have a weird dog that wasn't food motivated (which made it really hard to train her), had a lot of separation anxiety, and pooped when we left the house. At least she was otherwise well potty-trained and didn't pee inside.

We got another dog to teach our first one how to be a normal dog and keep her company. Dog #2 was a rescue that had grown up on the streets. He was good about eating food but never learned to not pee inside.

We ended up with two weird-ass food-disinterested anxious dogs that pee and poop indoors.
This is a lot less depressing when you consider that vaccines have shown astounding results so far at preventing disease. COVID is a lot less scary if you’re extremely unlikely to get very sick from it. This article touches on that a bit, but it’s buried until the end.

There’s a lot of optimism to be had here, I think. Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good — maybe we can’t eradicate COVID, but we can make it a lot more tolerable to share this planet with it.
PhoneInfoga: Advanced info gathering and OSINT framework for phone numbers
The catalogue says "EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS will be delivered directly from Beeple to the buyer, accompanied by a unique NFT"

So presumably an image file and the NFT. Bit vague on copyright.
What do you want me to say? Because your organization is stuck in the past, that means .NET can't move forward?

If you've followed the .NET blogs at all, they have very good reasons they haven't prioritized support for these legacy systems. There isn't some cabal of platform designers in Redmond scheming on how to screw over developers at ossified orgs.

Not sure why I'm bothering. Everytime someone mentions .NET on here, someone comes out of the woodwork to complain about their pet features not being supported. Actually, come to think of it, it's often you in particular. We're going from .NET Framework being fundamentally tied to Windows to a new .NET that runs on everything. ASP.NET was built on HTTP.sys, a Windows driver for a web server. I don't know, is it terribly surprising that trying to migrate .NET off of Windows-only dependencies is going to break things downstream?

But if you still need this stuff that only runs on Windows, well, you got at least decade of support to look forward to.

I literally think you're asking for too much.
Unfortunately I don't have access to that paper, and the timeline isn't in the abstract. The abstract mentions it took a long time to be accepted.

Also. For clarity (you may know this, but others may not) I want to distinguish very clearly the difference between a silent prayer and meditation.

A silent prayer is verbalized intention within your head, sometimes mouthed. If you were to look up Judaism's silent prayer, it is repeating a ritual sequence of words - the meanings of which you should know. As traditionally conceived, it is addressing the Eternal as a Person.

The different meditation approaches I've encountered - conventional "Western mindfulness" and a more intense secular Hindu system - are focused on detaching awareness. Sometimes mantras are used/repeated. It is exceptionally variant from the early silent prayer approach, or even the nominal silent prayer approach of today.

Contemplative prayer did start with the desert fathers, I think.
A reminder:

Projects aren't able to do this (relicense a whole code base unilaterally) if you don't sign the CLA that assigns them your copyrights in the project.

Never sign a CLA to contribute to an open source project.
> [Microsoft] were even more obnoxious in their anti-competitive practices.

I'd love to hear why you think that. Microsoft never stopped consumers from installing Linux on a PC. Microsoft never stopped anyone from installing software on Windows. You could always buy a PC and do whatever you wanted to with it.

Meanwhile, Apple doesn't let you do anything on an iPhone if it isn't bought from their app store. The level of control that Apple has over iOS is ridiculous compared to what Microsoft had. Apple is 10 times worse towards consumers and developers than Microsoft ever was.

I can't even install my own apps on my iPhone without paying Apple $100 per year. Without a developer account, having to re-install the app every 7 days (only from a Mac) is nearly useless. How could I ever take a 2 week vacation and still use my apps?

> Apple doesn't have majority market share

Yes they do.

"Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet (iOS’s share of physical e-commerce transactions is likely somewhere in the middle of this range). And this dominance is also growing. Eighty percent of U.S. teenagers have iPhones and the device held 90% of smartphone activations in the week after Christmas 2020." [0] [1]

[0] https://www.matthewball.vc/all/applemetaverse

[1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/18/app-stores
Good idea! And I'm also expecting that some of the people who do get the 3D Hologram Printer will be selling holograms of their 3D holograms as art, portraits, etc.
"A free market just doesn't work in a world where there's no equality of the law, no liberty, and no consent of the governed."

So, according to your rigid criteria, Luisiana 1860 was NOT having a free market? Yet somehow Luisiana 1960 had MORE free market?
I mean, that could also just be a fact that worldwide everyone is masking up. One nation not participating doesn't matter as much because everyone else is. I'm guessing you've got far fewer visitors to Sweden due to all the travel restrictions.
Apart from the notion (heh) that we should compare a hello world app to determine real world performance, memory usage is really not that relevant to the discussion of speed, responsiveness etc.

There is a level of optimization where that is relevant and it's relevant in a bigger context of responsible resource usage but that's not what we're talking about here.

This was exactly my point as to the "memes" of Electron criticisms, your point is completely off topic but because someone mentioned "Notion" someone has to make your point nearly verbatim every time.

It does not add anything valuable to the discussion. Talking about caching strategies, offline/online functionality and layout thrashing is much, much more interesting here.
Not at that brightness. Moonlight is extremely dim.
Looks like it's on Github, you could submit a pull request to add those things :)
software engineering grads who are in the same prestige level as entry level goldman bankers make more money. banking really only pays off for the top few percent that make it
And I'm not even proposing anything new. Everything, literally everything I have written up has been known for many years, if not decades.
> 1 f1-micro node

That only has 600MB of memory and the minimum memory requirements for a master node is 2GB[1].

[1] https://docs.kublr.com/installation/hardware-recommendation/
Very nice guys. I like where you’re heading. When are you going live?
There's no good way to set env vars for GUI apps on macOS. I just run a private fork that patches out all of their hostnames.
Finally, reality catches up with spy movies and police-procedural TV shows.
R.I.P., Xgrid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid
“When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”
It isn't? I deal with it all the time in Kotlin and Swift. Look at the Wikipedia wage. Examples of how it's done in most mainstream languages there.
I don’t agree, I see a ton of discourse of the variety “if you eat hotdogs don’t worry what’s in the vaccine”, the point being it’s foolish to worry about the vaccine risks.

Besides that this particular clotting issue has been repeatedly denied, which is why the researchers here are saying emphatically that the vaccine is the cause. Some country, I think Germany, slowed deployment of this vaccine for this reason and got a lot of heat because again, there can’t be anything wrong with the vaccines. COVID will kill you, vaccines will save you, and if you think different you get to sit in the corner.
For many versions of MacOS you can just edit a plist file to get it to install on unsupported hardware. When I've done this there were no stability or performance issues, but YMMV depending on what OS and hardware versions you try.
If they keep vaccinating with this vaccine and it does turn out that the vaccine causes the deadly blood clots it will destroy the legitimacy of vaccines. "they pushed the vaccine despite knowing that it kills some people" is how it will be framed. Even though I agree that for health reasons continuing to use it is almost certainly correct, not considering the public opinion is madness and will cause massive issues. Do not increase vaccine skepticism beyond where it's already at.
You forgot the Creative Cloud, iOS (autoupdates on by default), and the Play Store.

Those are RCE vulnerabilities, as well. Platform vendors love being able to execute whatever they like on the advertising consumption devices that don't belong to them.

Just because it feels like a different thing because it's the vendor (only in theory - TAO would like to have a word with you) doesn't make it any less a vulnerability, or any less an RCE by the strict definition. Installing the client is equivalent to installing a RAT onto your machine: it can be remotely controlled to execute any code or tools the other end wants.
>The problem is if you don't use the vaccine, you won't find out what problems there are.

Is that true? It's not like the brain barrier defect injured by the nasal swab, which could be detected ahead of time?
Synthetic aperture radar [1][2] uses this principle. In that case the imaging system is fixed on a moving aircraft or satellite.

I think in general satellite imaging is a good place to look for such implementations, since they have a naturally and predictably moving imaging system.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic-aperture_radar

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bUKEi9It4
A simple layer 2 network topology only works in very narrow use cases (like this one). But a "dumb switch" means you also lose a lot of observability and it's very difficult to apply consistent network acls.
>> So a civilization would have to develop some way of going faster than light to realistically go to other solar systems

That is a very human mindset. "Civilization" would include machine civilizations. For a machine, a few thousand years of transit time would be irrelevant given the advantages a new star system might offer.
"White space" is two words, not one.
under normal circumstances, sure.
but iff this thing poses an existential threat, the ethics calculus changes.

i'd like to know if real virologists think that we're facing an existential threat.
Yeah! I actually do have some users learning Japanese together with a platonic friend with the app. It seems to work well. The use case for learning languages with friends and other family is wide open, just taking the baby steps!
In that vein this made me laugh out loud too:

Be perspicuous.

I had to look up perspicuous, it means ‘clear in communication’.
Everyone does. The cost of formal education (both time cost and financial outlay) in many countries doesn't make it workable for many.
Our LitiHolo hologram film is full-color sensitive, and the finished holograms are transparent, so layer is possible.

We've started with a printer that is single-color initially to get this off the ground, but eventually we would like to have a full-color version of the printer in the future with RGB recording directly in one layer.
I have trouble understanding why people go through these hoops.

Yeah, I get it, people love their Mac's... but the company that produces them actively undermines your ability to continue using perfectly good hardware past what they feel is "profitable". This leads to huge efforts to hack/reverse the updaters, or alter newer OS versions to trick them into installing, etc.

I'd personally jump over to some system that doesn't hate it's users nearly as much. But, that's just me.
This is very nicely done, but I still prefer the simplicity of <http://davidbau.com/colors/>. Despite being only 2-dimentional, I find that layout strangely more intuitive. I think the author manually tweaked the color positions, so that may be the reason.