skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can probably use the Ive/Jobs combination to describe evolution. Ive was the mutation source, Jobs was the selection filter. What makes evolution work is selection. Without selection you get crap. Mutation is just the noise you need to have something to apply (recombination and) selection to.

It is hard to say how much post-Jobs was really Ive. But it was clear that Apple got really lost. And it does suggest that Ive was rather mediocre all along. After all, he sinned against one of the most basic principles when you design something: it has to deserve to exist.

In the latter half of the 2010s it got really bad and dare I say: Apple didn't do very well in designing laptops. They really lost touch with reality.
I too have come to realize that I in many ways miss the office. The main thing is the clear separation between home and work both mentally and physically.

At work I had my work desk with my work computer and work files and my work stuff. At home I had my home desk and home computer. When at home I could not (easily) access my work computer or work files. When at work I could not access my home computer and home files. It made it easy to compartmentalize the two and stop one bleeding into the other. There was something definitive about walking out of the office for the day that I kind of miss.

I also liked my 'commute', which was either a 20 minute bus ride or a 50ish minute walk. It gave me a chance to clear my head, refocus and switch 'modes'.

Going forwards I'd like to see companies offer the choice

Obviously agree. As much as I really do miss the office, I hope to never again have a job where I am forced to be there 5 days a week.
I see where you're coming from but as a counterpoint the following point can be made. I hope you take it as a healthy steel-man argument:

My commute is 20 minutes each way. I get to see and play with my child everyday because I manage to finish my work in time. I also cook my healthy home-cooked food with my family and also eat it in the office. I use bicycle or public transport to commute making me healthier. I can always run errands during office time because my team is considerate and understand the needs of us. I interact with my colleagues and tasks that took 2-3 meetings are now resolved in 1 single chat over coffee. The upside is that I have a healthy interaction with my fellow humans, and I can learn a few things from these interactions. It's going to suck to throw it all away because some WFH zealots want to stay holed in their cute little corner.
Out of curiosity, what “title based” post manipulation?
Being open and making clear that you understood you goofed would be total opposite of the Streisand effect - where you'd try to _silence_ discourse with the unintended effect of amplifying it.

Right now, the issue is being downplayed, much to the chagrin of an increasingly knowledgeable set of computer users.
I'm pretty sure Google is rather quick to delete dead listings, but their is a twilight period where pages persist in results. This is especially annoying with forums hosting dead and un-archived links.
Improving your email response rate
You are right, it is 4 weeks vs. three months. Gt the numbers mixed up.
EU vaccine boss says will use all tools available over AstraZeneca shortfalls
New global ID format coming to Github GraphQL API
Not just quadrotor motion control, it applies to precision machinery as well. Eg. it's used in those big ASML wafer stepper machines that help power Moores Law for example, but also 3D printers etc. Low values for these derivatives help reduce vibrations in the machines IIRC.
I'm a physicist who spent seven years working at the LHC and I've never heard of a "purposeful" move away from the term beauty quark. It just fell out of favor but some, including myself, still like to use that name on occasion, personally I like it much better.

The particle does not have a name in the official (PDG) listing, only a symbol "b". The "bottom" quantum number is universally called as such so one talks of "bottom hadrons" and so on. On the other hand the general area of research is called "b-physics" or "beauty physics", LHCb is the LHC-beauty experiment and so on. It makes perfect sense that this article uses "beauty" throughout for consistency.

At the end of the day its just a name and this particle happens to have more than one (as does the J/psi and others) and neither is more whimsical than the other. Physicists tend to be quite whimsical anyway, particle physicists perhaps especially so.
3 Sigma seems like it is very much worthy of more research, though not necessarily cause to say this is the new truth.
But is it better than Teams'?
... with triple the cases. I didn't claim hospitals would just be empty, but for the same level of cases they will be a lot emptier. It gives more buffer.

Models (for BE) point to this current wave being the mildest one yet, with a peak well below the previous two. And remember the population has more and more immunity built up over time regardless of vaccines. Getting to triple the cases we had at the peak of the previous ones is not really in the cards.
Exactly, MS hasn't even gotten started on GitHub yet.
I agree. In England we've seen a lot of waste and harm caused by our weird markets, and we're moving away from them.
One simple manufacturing mistake can delay your launch by a huge amount. One technical software problem can do so too.

The fact is, Arianespace just had massive month long delays because of production issues.

While SpaceX has 5 flight proven booster ready in the pipeline if one fails, its next one up and very little delay.

Its not even comparable.
I have a new Law. Every application expands until it incorporates instant messaging.
Native (per-dataset) encryption. This has been a possibility since ZoL 0.8.0 [0] released two years ago.

This means that the stream created by zfs send is seamlessly encrypted. I waited until this feature was released/stable before I started uploading to AWS.

Practically you need to add the -w or --raw flag to zfs send to make it do this.

[0] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.0
Well, the resistance is a fixed variable here, so voltage and current are tied together. Can't increase the amps without increasing the volts.
Ask HN: Bootstrap Design Help for a Developer?
Hi HN, what are your goto tools and resources when using bootstrap. Specifically, to make bootstrap look less like bootstrap. I'm working on a side project and as with all my side projects, I really struggle with the design.

I've tried using pre-built templates and themes before but once I've finished modifying them to match my content, they don't look as good anymore. The thing that works great for me is to just use standard, unmodified bootstrap. It stops me worrying about the design and everything looks presentable. But now the project is nearly finished and I want to customize the design a bit.

https://bootswatch.com/ is great. Are there any others people can recommend?
I have found that they want the sale as quick as possible.

Generally, because this maximizes income per time/effort spent.
Well it can be users and/or features. A feature might give you an advantage in your bundle that you can't otherwise build.
> The smoking gun is that labs in Wuhan were studying different coronaviruses in bats at the time the virus emerged.

As far as I know, those labs always study coronaviruses in bats -- it's a large part of what they do. That makes it less of a suspicious coincidence than your way of putting it implies.

By which I don't mean it didn't happen. There's just not enough information one way or the other.
Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times in Defamation Action
Exactly. Instead of putting backdoor in only the computer going to China, why not just install back door in ALL the chips. Cheaper too. At this point, it won't surprise if all the computer has a hard ware level backdoor such as spectr/meldown. Not to mention encryption backdoor. Even state level player doesn't have the resources to take all that out. Remember when Snowden leak came out, Russian gov switched all internal memo to typewriters that shall give you an idea.
Yes, this seems highly dubious. Basically, what's going on is the code is taking a shortcut to properly figuring out how to locate its own page table mapping, and instead blindly searching the entire page table for all mappings from any process to the target pages, assuming it will be the owner. Then it's finding there's another one.

The other mapping is an identity mapping (PA==EA), as evidenced when the attempt to map EA 0 using that VSID found a PTE that mapped it to PA 0. This screams kernel-internal mapping. Lots of OSes map all RAM 1:1 to some extent.

The correct fix here is obviously to read the segment register instead of trying to do all this linear search heuristic. However, if that is not trivial for some reason, then the next best solution would be to assume that the only other possible mapping for the pages is indeed a 1:1 identity map (they should really investigate where this comes from), and filter out any PTEs found during the search that map 1:1, since no legitimate userspace process should have these freshly allocated pages mapped down there anyway. Of course, this then fails if SheepShaver ends up with EA==PA on the malloc out of sheer luck :-)

Why did this work with less RAM? Well, PPC uses hashed page tables, so they do not contain a full view of all MMU mappings. Instead, the mappings thrash on collisions. My guess is that boxes with lower RAM have enough page table churn that those fixed mappings often go away. Either that or the fixed mapping doesn't cover all RAM, and for whatever reason never collides with the allocated pages on lower-RAM systems.

When he launched SheepShaver after playing Doom for a while, either the game had caused enough page table churn to evict those identity mappings, or the allocation ended up somewhere else where it didn't collide with any identity mappings that had ever existed, and thus SheepShaver worked.

Here's the thing though: without knowing how the rest of the OS handles the HPT, this entire approach is unlikely to be stable. The author says "we will take over that memory mapping for the life of the process", but unless something guarantees those PTEs will never be evicted by the OS, it is well within its right to do that. Then when SheepShaver next tries to use those addresses, they will fault, the OS will know there is no real legitimate mapping for them, and things explode.

At least if my memory serves me right; last time I had to deal with hashed page tables was with PS3 Linux (and that was 64-bit PPC), and I've only ever used BAT mode on 32-bit (Wii) so I'm a bit rusty on this stuff :-)
D and Nim looks like competition here except for the Ruby look-alike syntax of course.
CERN: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/intriguing-new-result-lh...

LHCb article : https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#RK2021

VNR : https://videos.cern.ch/record/2758757

LHCb paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11769
I think I have to agree with OP here. To me, Teams is more of a failure of product management/design and corporate culture. It was more of a move to add value and subscribers to the Office365 platform than an attempt to build a world beating chat/conferencing platform. So many of its users simply use it because it's included in their Office365 subscription, whereas with Slack, Zoom, etc they'd be paying $8+ a month per user.

While the development effort, skill, and time, that goes into building something like Discord is certainly significant, I feel it's certainly something Microsoft could have built given their resources and technical aptitude. What you can't buy is the inspiration, ideas, and culture that make something like Discord happen.

If it follows the inspiration and ethos of tools like Github and VSCode, I'll be really happy. Given Microsoft's shift in attitude over the past few years, I really hope that's the case.
On the other hand, I had no trouble convincing people to buy me booze and smokes either, only I was a fat ugly boy
Suck dick, autist.
It doesn't sound like it. It's point two of the original complaint(https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...):

> Powell’s wild accusations are demonstrably false. Far from being created in Venezuela to rig elections for a now-deceased Venezuelan dictator, Dominion was founded in Toronto for the purpose of creating a fully auditable paper-based vote system that would empower people with disabilities to vote independently on verifiable paper ballots. As it grew, Dominion developed technology to solve many of the technical and voter intent issues that came to light as a result of the 2000 Presidential Election. Its systems are certified under standards promulgated by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”), reviewed and tested by independent testing laboratories accredited by the EAC, and were designed to be auditable and include a paper ballot backup to verify results.1 Since its founding, Dominion has been chosen by thousands of election officials throughout the United States to provide the technology to effectively administer transparent and fully auditable elections

I couldn't find Powell's exact statements, but they seem to be some convoluted link between Dominion and a different voting system manufacturer. Unfortunately this particular claim is very difficult to prove defamation on; Dominion's a public figure, so as long as Powell presented some sort of flimsy evidence, she can claim that her opinion was based on it. It would require a finding of "actual malice", that she absolutely knew the evidence was wrong, in order to claim defamation, and as you can imagine, that's a very high bar.

What's more likely to hurt her is number 4, where Dominion claims she used a forged document as evidence. If they can somehow prove that she was aware the document was a forgery, then they seem to have a reasonable chance of success there. Fortunately, in a motion to dismiss, the judge looks at all evidence as favorable to the plaintiff, so perhaps a few of their claims will survive. We'll see, and IANAL, but even if I was, this isn't legal advice :)
To quote the late Terry Pratchett:

>
Like a busy government which only passes expensive laws prohibiting some new and interesting thing when people have actually found a way of doing it, the universe relied a great deal on things not being tried at all.
When something is tried, Ponder found, it often does turn out to be impossible very quickly, but it takes a little while for this to really be the case* – in effect, for the overworked laws of causality to hurry to the scene and pretend it has been impossible all along.

* In the case of cold fusion, this was longer than usual.
Vaccines reduce but do not stop the spread, there is little evidence that vaccinating spreaders first would help much.

And median age of hospitalizations going down is a good thing lol. It means the vaccines are doing their job. Look at death rates and instances of severe illness per infection, those should be going down as well: the disease is less harmful if its highest risk groups are vaccinated.

(Are people here really having this hard of a time with basic statistics?)
CERN: https://home.cern/news/news/physics/intriguing-new-result-lh...

Video News release : : https://videos.cern.ch/record/2758757

LHCb article : https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#RK2021

LHCb paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11769
When MS bought Skype and finally merged the IDs with Hotmail and Windows, I was devestated. I had never once changed my password on Hotmail since probably 1996 and it was just a four letter word. So, one day, say 2014, I login to Skype after forever and reset the password but now it also resets the same Hotmail account I used for that Skype ID. I had that password for almost 20 years and bet it was uncrackable since they had stopped allowing less than 4+ digits ages ago. They even scrambled my hotmail's Outgoing user name in the process but whatever - it was just for spam accounts anyhow although I was hopping mad at the time.
> go party, hang out, get drunk, travel and socialize all the time

This is the 20-something version of being idle. Minus the travel, which isn't a given.

Being 20 doesn't mean you want to do something productive or meaningful with your life. There's plenty 20 yo that party, socialise, get drunk and never amount to anything. The reason it's just a phase is that it's not all trust fund kids and most need money (a job) to live.
Most older properties in the UK have walls made of solid stone - which is pretty resilient in a fire.

Also, at least where I live, it hardly ever gets above 25C and if your house has thick solid stone walls the inside doesn't get too warm so no real need for AC either.

Edit: I'm 55 - I've never lived in a property that wasn't at least 100 years old and some were closer to 300 years old.

Edit: I would agree that heating in some older properties can be a challenge, but my parents told my that having to chip ice out of the bath before getting washed was character building.... ;-)
Yep. The EU on the other hand spread the risk across multiple suppliers. One of which fell through so far, Sanofi if memory serves well. I for my part have no issue with the procurement strategy. The contracts, assuming they are all similar to the AZ one, are crap so.

And after contract signature, the EU basically took a step back. The EU did tell member states that logistics will be critical, and that logistics will be up to member states to sort out. Kind of right, but also kind of lazy. Even lazier are member states that failed to sort logistics out. Especially those that were fast to blame the EU for that.
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Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC) is 300 m from the market.

Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), with the more highly classified work, is 14 km away, but linked to the PLA Hospital, WHCDC and seafood market on Line 2 of the Wuhan metro:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-and-the-laboratorie...
(contains link to google maps)

https://zenodo.org/record/4119263

https://zenodo.org/record/4119263/files/COVID%20Pandemic%20B...
Indeed. I've worked remotely for more than a decade now. I'm not opposed to going back to the office, but the value would have to be extremely obvious and high.
The title of the submission no longer seems to refer directly to the content of the article. If the feeling is that the article is dumbed down too much (as some of the comments suggest), could the URL also be changed? Maybe the UKRI press release, or CERN update? https://www.ukri.org/news/result-from-lhcb-experiment-challe... https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#RK2021
PeopleSoft ? (Poephol-Soft in dutch/afrikaans) as we used to call it !
I thought this gives an interesting very legal focused impression on the news story.
By "fair" do you mean EU countries favoured over the rest of the world? How much have the EU exported? They only house 6% of the world's population, but are keeping something like 75% for themselves, no?

And how much would be the EU's "fair" share of vaccine manufactured in the UK? As they seem to be expecting far more than that 25% for themselves, from their retoric they wanted it "evenly" distributed, i.e. massively in their favour, directly from Ms Von der Leyen's mouth:

“That is the message to AstraZeneca, ‘You fulfil your contract with Europe before you start delivering to other countries’.”

There's nothing "fair" about the EU's distribution of the vaccine, claiming otherwise shows complete naivety or bare faced lying.
I think like everywhere. I mean there are and good big companies and small startups. It depends on purpose of your interest. But you always can initiate contacts with foreign outsourcing development companies which also provides remote jobs, like https://joinsoft.com/services/custom-software-development/
And ordered 100% more than needed for the EU in order to supply other nations with that. The UK did the same so.
I have used Crystal to make DLLs and it worked plenty fine.
I know it won’t work because some businesses work on high volume, really slim margins (such as grocery stores) but I really believe the solution is still to have a tax based on gross receipts with no credits, deductions, or anything like that. Call it like alternate minimum taxes for businesses maybe?

As for personal income tax, I strongly believe all credits, deductions, exemptions should be abolished/phased out completely. These are nothing but an extra tax on the lazy, the stupid, and the poorly educated like me. Whether you have zero dependents or a hundred, your tax obligation does not change. Whether you donated nothing or all your income, your tax obligation does not change. Why can’t we have that?
Yeah... it's a thread about the US's shitty broadband situation. What do you expect?
And thankfully confirming what was suspected prevented future outbreaks of similar diseases.
And the pair, in this case, is truth and beauty. Are you saying that strange and charm give you an intuitive feel for the charge number?
Even after you explain it, I can barely grasp the significance. Given the expected level of understanding of someone reading a BBC article about this topic, I don't think they are wrong at all in explaining it that way - that is, I don't think their intended audience would take the message differently to any extent whatsoever if they had explained the way you do.

To be more specific, to the average BBC reader, the phrases

The measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence.

and

The measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance to have seen this data even if the particle doesn't exist.

convey the exact same message, the first one just uses fewer words.
> In general, snap shows how smoothly the acceleration occurs.

That's third derivative of position and called jerk.
In any case, which authority told /u/reedf1 that studying the universe should be barred from being whimsical? Alan Watts would be laughing. So would the Joker. The universe is not meant to be taken so seriously. It is whimsical. And that is part of its beauty ;-)
How can we tell what actually drives Wolfram?
Honest Question: Why do you guys use PW and not just Chrome build-in pw ?
Assuming you neutral or not anti-google in the first place.
I’m torn.

I think it’s a great typing experience but they do break too easily.
I make no moral judgement about impartiality. Work out the implications yourself.

I make no comment about the content of the video linked in GGP's post.

That being said, the following is publicly known (but unverified by me) and quite apt to affect impartiality (whether under his control or not, whether consciously or not):

1. He was persecuted in China by the authorities and barely escaped with the posessions on his body.

2. He is currently under attack by brigades and agents of the persons he is critical of. The attacks follow standard psychological warfare patterns, including death threats to himself and the family.

Additionally, some speculation from me:

3. He has no journalistic training, both his business partner and his peers in the wider YT/Patreon business don't have either, and to me it seems both content producer and audience have come to a shared understanding that the shows are primarily entertainment and should not be held to the same rigour of journalistic integrity one would expect from e.g. a traditional print periodical. Adv Media's income entirely depends on YT/Patreon, and employing sensationalism – which results in uneven amplification of the reported reality – brings in more money. I haven't seen a completely sober/dry video.
Please be precise: are the JSON blob, the location of this blob, and the "website source" (as any other item that you used in order to reach the videos) "accessible before logging in"?

Can a non-registered user read all these?
I appreciate the thoughts, but I can assure you that your worries are misplaced. I get my work done just fine.